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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. + (4) - (0) Permalink

"Certainly sir, I can help you reset your password, can you just confirm your account number and password please?" - Uttered by some moron at Sky Customer Services (courtesy of UnderUser)
    Posted by JT on 15 Dec 2009. + (4) - (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

"Is all information on the world wide web checked by an editor for truth?" (Wikianswers)
    Posted by JT on 14 Oct 2010. + (4) - (0) Permalink

<wecell> new apples look fairly interesting, but i'd hate to buy into something that is going to CRASH all the time.
<DigDug> wecell : What are you using right now?
<wecell> i've always used windows machines.
    Posted by JT on 2 Oct 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

Q: "My computer is under virus attack, and I can't run the anti-virus software. What should I do?"

A: "Call in for backup."
    Posted by CheddarBBQ on 14 Dec 2009. + (3) - (0) 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 Wrongfellow 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.

"My computer is very very slow today, do you think it is clogged with volcanic ash?"

    (From http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/...)
    Posted by JT on 17 Apr 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Note for foreigners: hard-of-thinking people in the UK are currently blaming ash from an Icelandic volcano for all sorts of things.
    Posted by JT on 17 Apr 2010.

"Some video games only have one player character, others, especially two player games have two"
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jul 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink
From Wikipedia, fount of all wisdom that it is.
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jul 2010.

"...in a worrying report which suggests that children with internet access are more likely to be targeted by cyberbullies..." (heard on the radio)
    Posted by JT on 22 Oct 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink