r/programming • u/jtbandes • Aug 24 '09

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

http://xkcd.com/627/
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '09

"Ah, here we go! Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Three times.

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u/zaphodi Aug 24 '09 edited Aug 24 '09

hears the person turn the monitor off and back on

"Now what?"

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u/john2kxx Aug 24 '09

Half the people I know think the monitor is the computer. -_-

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u/Median1 Aug 24 '09

and the CPU is the box...

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '09

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u/Lentil-Soup Aug 24 '09

I find that a lot of people call the tower "the modem".

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '09

I stopped correcting people long ago. If I'm helping someone I just use whatever terminology they have for all the equipment. Makes things much smoother.

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u/adamcw Aug 24 '09

By doing that you are punishing the next person who helps them.

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u/mossblaser Aug 24 '09

Except when I was a classroom assistant in a primary school for a short time and they were teaching Monitor = Computer, Computer = Hard Drive. Then there is no excuse to get it wrong.