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New Computer Viruses

John Bobbit Virus--Removes a vital part of your hard disk and then re-attaches it. (But it will never work again.)

Oprah Winfrey Virus--Your 850 MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 200 MB, and then slowly expands back to 850 MB.

Politically Correct Virus--Never calls itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic micro-organism".

Right to Life Virus--Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives.

Government Economist Virus--Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

Federal Bureaucrat Virus--Divides your hard disk into thousands of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of your computer.

AT&T Virus--Every 3 minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.

MCI Virus-- Every 3 minutes it reminds you that you are paying too much for the AT&T Virus.

Sprint Virus--Every 3 minutes it tells you that it's better than the AT&T and MCI Virus.

PBS Virus--Your computer stops every few minutes to ask for money.

Health Care Virus--Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong with it, and sends you a bill for $4,500.

New York Jets Virus--Makes your Pentium II 266 MHz computer perform like a 12 MHz 286 computer.

LAPD Virus--It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases them in "self-defense".

O.J. Virus--Claims that it did not, could not, and would not delete two of your most important files and vows to find the virus that did it.

Ross Perot Virus--Activates every component in your system, just before the whole damn thing quits.

Ted Turner Virus--Colorizes your monochrome monitor.

Dan Quayle Virus--Their is sumthing rong wit your're komputer, we jsut can't figyour out watt.

Checking the Weather

- I use the internet to tell me what the weather's like.

- How do you do that?

- I carry my laptop outside and if it gets wet, I know it's raining!

Why Computers Are Male

Top 10 reasons computers must be male:

  1. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
  2. A better model is always just around the corner.
  3. They look nice and shiny until you bring them home.
  4. It is always necessary to have a backup.
  5. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.
  6. Big power surges knock them out for the night.
  7. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
  8. The lights are on but nobody's home.
  9. The best part of having either one is the games you can play.
  10. Size does matter.

Workplace Terminology

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a "cube farm" (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

TOURISTS - People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."

TREEWARE - Printed computer software/hardware documentation.

CLM (Career Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. (Also known as CEB - Career Ending Behavior)

OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (See CLM)

ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the admini-sphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the engineer in the job-from-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops on everything, and then leaves.

SALMON WEEK - The experience of spending an entire week swimming upstream only to die, and someone else get the benefit.

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking an electronic device just right to get it to work again.