The seductive nature of the Internet [comic]

Laugh your butt off
Friend: "You know that antivirus program you installed on my computer for me? It keeps popping up some sort of message about a trojan or something while I'm surfing on the internet. It doesn't seem to be doing anything about it because I keep getting the message, so I uninstalled the antivirus program. And now I don't get that message any more."

I would want to rip hair out of my head if someone said that to me.

• Tech Support: "What version of Windows are you running?"
• Customer: "I got the computer in 2003, so I think it's a Windows 2003. Or maybe it's a Windows 2004? I got it late in the year."
• Tech Support: "Um, ok."
• Customer: "Is that wrong?"
• Tech Support: "No, no, that sounds about right. Tell me, would you know what service pack you have for that?"
• Customer: "Well, when I got to the register, the young man who rang me up said was about the 5th person to buy it. So it might be service pack 5."

That is funny stuff.

• Customer: "Do you know about this RAM stuff?"
• Tech Support: "Yes sir, I can help you with RAM."
• Customer: "Well, your program uses 12 grams of RAM, and this computer you gave me only has 10 grams of RAM, so you need to send me another 4 grams of RAM."

At this point I was speechless. I wasn't sure which was worse, that this guy couldn't do basic math or that he had the term so twisted. However, our calls were recorded so I couldn't say what I really wanted to.

• Tech Support: "Uh, sir, that computer has plenty of RAM to run the program."
• Customer: "Just send me the grams of RAM I've asked for!"

What are grams of RAM?

I don't know what grams of ram are. I simply googled "computer funnies" & thats was in one of the links

Sunaru, about your mini-clip in post # 43 check this out http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/attempted-prank-turns-karma-lesson

Someone told me his hard disk was full. His nephew had installed something that would make it larger and had muttered something confusing about slaves and jumpers. But the hard disk, it seemed, was "still full."
My first thought was that his nephew had installed an additional hard disk, and the guy got confused about drive letters. But it was worse. He had an 80 GB hard disk with 6 GB used, plus an additional 250 GB hard disk, which was completely empty.
I asked him why he thought his hard disk was full. He said, "But can't you see? There's no free space!" And, really, there was no free space -- not a single inch of free space -- on his desktop.
I gave him a higher screen resolution and put a handful of folders on his desktop. I told him I installed some "drawers" so he had more space. Now he's happy.
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• Tech Support: "All right...now double-click on the File Manager icon."
• Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows -- because of the icons -- I'm a Protestant, and I don't believe in icons."
• Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir. I don't believe it was meant to --"
• Customer: "I don't care about any 'Industry Terms'. I don't believe in icons."
• Tech Support: "Well...why don't you click on the 'little picture' of a file cabinet...is 'little picture' ok?"
• Customer: [click]

http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/cat-battled-dvd-player