jgm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (John Myers) (09/18/88)
The last line of one of my friend's plan file used to be: Segmentation fault (core dumped). -- _.John G. Myers Internet: John.Myers@cs.cmu.edu LoseNet: ...!seismo!inhp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up "The world is full of bozos. Some of them even have PhD's in Computer Science"
bms@beta.lanl.gov (Barbara M Sandoval) (09/20/88)
Most people who work in the PC-Help section here are students who don't have much, if any, PC experience. One woman not only knew nothing about them, but tried to bluff her way through some problems, causing some major problems for users who got stuck with her when they called. To illustrate to everyone, especially her, that it's important to know something about the machines, the resident PC guru loaded a copy of a graphic program called `fish', renamed autoexec.bat to fish, and fish to autoexec.bat. The next morning, after staring at a picture of a fish swimming across the screen for over an hour, she finally had to admit she didn't have a clue as to what to do to fix things. It'd didn't seem to faze her, though, she kept on messing up people's systems for the rest of the semester. Barbara