"tech support 101" might just be a monkey. Almost literally.

If it's outsourced tech support, you're likely talking to somebody who was just hired away from Burger King, reading a script. They're literally given a "conversation flowchart" for every customer- they don't actually know anything about your network or your computers, but they do know what questions they're told to ask and what order to ask them in.

It's a callcenter job, more about customer service than technical skill.

You forgot the ceiling? o_0

You're assuming that I thought anyone wouldn't recognize its orgin?
Pot, meet kettle.

Well, this is the science of pizza cutting. And pizza is never a waste of time. ;)

My biggest pizza cutting dilemma happened just the other day. I wasn't sure I could eat six pieces, so I cut it into four.

The only reason they're going cross-platform is that the tools are written in Java, which is already cross-platform.

'Correct! Also why have OSes gotten so large they required DVDs! I remember being able to install 3.11 for workgroups off a series of floppies, why can't we go back to that?!' 3.11 wasn't an OS. It was a miserable excuse for a gui that required an OS to be installed first.

My Account ID is more non-low than yours. I must be geekier.

I install the Nvidia X server once on a box and leave it. If it has trouble, then I'll update it. Translation: very rarely. I install the Nvida drivers on my windows partition (on the same box) an average of once per month. Because I either just reinstalled windows (again) or I'm trying to fix a compatibility issue (again.) So yeah, that ratio surprises me.. well, none at all.

For the trauma caused by forcing a cat to wear that thing..?

I still have an old Sun pizzabox in the closet I can't bring myself to rename.. Sparky.

You've never received a letter from Nigeria in your postbox? There's a shock. ;)

$5.00 is a *very* cheap advertising investment to hit 500 potential customers. This won't keep spammers away, not by a long shot.