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Keyboard Error: Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue.
    Posted by MrC on 7 Oct 2009. + (9) - (1) Permalink
Yeah, I've seen this one :)
    Posted by mike on 7 Oct 2009.
Actually, that does make sense, now that I think about it.
    Posted by CheddarBBQ on 2 Dec 2009.
That or: "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue." I got it once.
    Posted by Destrii on 9 Jan 2010.

"Why did William Seward Burroughs invent the calculator?"
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (2) - (1) Permalink
Because he needed something to water his plants with.
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009.

"Why was my dad so upset when I broke our computer to use the parts for school?"
    Posted by JT on 11 Jan 2010. + (5) - (0) Permalink
He was?! Talk about overreacting!
    Posted by Necropaxx on 13 Jan 2010.

Advert: "Dell Studio 17 Laptops are available in a range of different colours to suit the whole family..."
Small print: "Dell Studio 17 Laptop available in red or blue only."
    Posted by JT on 12 Dec 2009. + (6) - (0) Permalink
You can have any colour you like, as long as it's red. Or blue.
    Posted by mike on 12 Dec 2009.

Engineer: "Because the 386 tends to crash a lot, we built a watchdog for it."
Programmer: "and what does that do?"
Engineer: "it saves the state of the machine, reboots it, and then restores the state."
Programmer: "and then?"
Engineer: "and then it keeps on doing that because it keeps crashing and we have to manually force it off and on"
Programmer: "did you at any point consider what is happening when you restore the crashed state that you saved?"
Engineer: "Oh..."
    Posted by Olipro on 13 Sep 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

*Windows Vista Error Window* Error. An error has ocurred while creating an error report.
    Posted by Tiger on 4 Nov 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

Tech Support: "OK, let's try once more, but use lower case letters."
Customer: "Uh, I only have capital letters on my keyboard."
    Posted by JT on 3 Jan 2010. + (4) - (0) Permalink

"If the battery of your phone gets boken and you get a new battery will info from your old battery still be? Like will everything from your old battery still be on your phone? Like pics, text messages, contacts, ect.?" (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...)
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2010. + (3) - (1) Permalink

"Can my gameboy get the Swine Flu Virus? My game-boy keeps freezing, and my friend said that electronic devices can get the Swine Flu. What should I do?"
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Find smarter friends?
    Posted by mike on 2 Jan 2010.
Reminds me of all the people who went to the doctor's in 1999/2000, worried they'd caught the millennium bug.
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2010.

"Does anyone know if it's possible to use a background that would essentially turn my computer monitor into a mirror? Scanning a mirror doesn't work."
    Posted by JT on 31 Dec 2009. + (3) - (1) Permalink
Use magic!
    Posted by Socky on 31 Dec 2009.
Just turn it off. Idiot.
    Posted by Moosh on 31 Dec 2009.
I wonder if this came from the same idiot who came up with this one: http://www.whoinventedfoxes.com/submi...
    Posted by mike on 2 Jan 2010.
^ I did too :-)
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2010.