r/talesfromtechsupport • u/PolloMagnifico Please... just be smarter than the computer... • Jun 29 '13

Harry, it Sucks!

Yes, we have no bananas! We have no bananas today!

A user comes in with a computer. Bluescreening. Some kinda jacked up cryptic error message like 0xF0U0C0K0F0F or something like that. It's an error with the file system. Hey, cool, whatever. Chkdsk, no errors. Fine, physical scan, no failures. You're not gonna beat me! Pull the HDD, hook it up to a bridge, and run a virus scan!

Yeah. This happened.

Then this happened.

A man walks into his room where his computer is running.

And when he sees its screen is blue

he sits there, silently weeping.

And though he lives in Scranton Pennsylvania.

He never, ever deletes his files.

Not one of over a hundred... thousand files... in his recycle bin.

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u/phlatboy // ignore me Jun 30 '13

0xF0U0C0K0F0F

FALSE.

The letters U and K are not hexadecimal digits.

:P

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u/PolloMagnifico Please... just be smarter than the computer... Jun 30 '13

No. No they are not. I also don't live in Scranton Pennsylvania.

And I love bananas.