AND I HATE

[parsley]

your attitude.
it's perfect.

of course you don't understand.

ROFL. Yeah Fishie, go do your nails or something and leave the computer stuff to clever people like Naughty Pussy here.

[Madmax]

the real BOFH simon did some work for Ihug
if he came in wearing his BOFH shirt someone
was not going to have a good day,
shit and to think i get payed to remove other peoples files
but i still hate the old mainframes with some of there stupid
commands
(when we retired an old DRS6000 i wanted to push it on to the railway
tracks until someone pointed out it might derail a train)

[parsley]

but i still hate the old mainframes with some of there stupid
commands

Yeah - change my tape, mount my drive, sacrifice another virgin. When will their whiney voices stop! And how come I'm the only one I can hear them?

[WINJA]

THATS WHAT YOU GUYS GET FOR BEING "NEEERRRRRDDDSSSS"

[pyrocam]

Nerd, as a stereotypical or archetypal designation, refers to people of above-average intelligence whose interests (often in science and mathematics) are not shared by mainstream society.

However, beginning in the late 1990s, many nerds on the Internet reclaimed the word nerd as a badge of pride and began using it as a positive description of a technically-competent person. Although traditionally used to describe men and boys, the terms "nerd" and "geek" have been adopted by many women interested in technology, science, mathematics and other typically male-dominated intellectual fields as badges of their accomplishments in these areas.

The term "nerd", meaning "square" goes back at least to 1951, when Newsweek reported the usage as relatively new in Detroit. By the 1960s, it took on conotations of bookishness as well as social ineptitude. The word itself first appeared in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, where it simply names one of Seuss's many comical imaginary animals. (The narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect "a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too" for his imaginary zoo.) Another theory of the word's origin sees it as a version of Mortimer Snerd, the name of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy. Yet another theory traces the term to Northern Electric Research and Development, suggesting images of employees wearing pocket protectors with the acronym N.E.R.D. printed on them.

The stereotypical nerd image as seen in the mass media and cartoons equates to a young man wearing thick black eyeglasses (preferably broken and taped up with electrical tape), pocket protectors, high-water pants and dress shirts or clothes generally too formal for the circumstances. Sometimes the stereotype lacks personal hygiene skills, and he will typically appear either very skinny or extremely fat. Stereotypical nerds usually lack social graces and the ability to perform social interaction, except on technical topics.

In association with their image in certain Western societies as a so-called Model Minority, some East Asians get stereotyped as studious and untalkative nerds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

[myvice]

Computers where ok up till they started putting them in cars and EVERY car maker wants to do it a different way, in every module, every year, and then hide the diagnostic port in dark inconvenient places!
We have just spent about $15k on a new diagnostic/code reader/scope/scanner for the workshop and it still can’t do all of the bloody things!
Back when I was an apprentice it took you 15 minutes to find the problem and 1-2 hours to fix it.
Now it takes you 1/2 an hour to locate the scanner port, another 1/2 an hour to find the correct make, module, year, chassis/engine configuration, transmission type, with or without ABS, SRS, Climate control or just AC, memory seating position and the radio is part of it too!
Then after you have gone through all this the machine wont talk to the car because the cars ECU is toast as the manufacture in there infinite wisdom installed it under the AC unit which blocked up the condensation drain and pored water over one of the most expensive components of the vehicle!
Or they thought that under the bonnet where it could have mud and crap thrown at it would be ok for a 4X4... Thanks Jeep, good thinking!
So you fit the new ECU and then go through it all again to find the Air flow Meter is also dead...
Or is it the air filter blocked?
Or is the plug faulty?
Or?
Maybe?
Could it even be?
Could this be an earth fault? Power feed? 12 or 5 volts?
Is the battery just a little low?
What about????????????????

[Ixion]

Come back Joseph Lucas, all is forgiven.

[James Deuce]

Geek is a 19th century term originally used to describe Carnies who bit the heads off live chickens.

[Badcat]

(shudder)... carnies, small hands, smell of cabbage......