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Jaden clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.

As he was walking away, I called after him, ‘So, what was wrong?’

He replied, ‘It was an ID Ten T error.’

I didn’t want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, ‘An, ID Ten T error? What’s that?  In case I need to fix it again.’

Jaden grinned.  ‘Haven’t you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?’

‘No,’ I replied.

‘Write it down,’ he said, ‘and I think you’ll figure it out.’

So I wrote down:       I D 1 0 T

I used to like the little shit.

How many Hard Drives can a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round could go through? Find out by watching the video below…

[Via: GAS]

Looking to get a new keyboard? This white chocolate keyboard looks delicious…

Yum!

This girl is trying to figure out how to put an obsolete floppy disk into a modern laptop. Is she a blonde in disguise?

This picture pretty much sums it up…

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Neat little music video from Yahoo! (as if you couldn’t tell). Music by Shitake Monkey.

Last week we posted a link to a website called Computer Tan, a fake website setup by a UK skin cancer charity called Skcin. This site promised people a suntan from nothing more than the heat rays from their PC monitors while they type. You can feel “tan-tastic!”

But the 30,000 people who were gullible enough to click on the link for more information were instead confronted with pictures of people with tumors and were given statistics and facts on the condition.

All in all, this is a pretty slick, savvy and humorous marketing campaign and since it managed to hit the news headlines in the UK, it seems to have done the trick.   It’s hard to believe though that anyone seriously thought that they were going to get a suntan from their PC monitor! (continue reading…)

Ever rang tech support? We hope you didn’t sound as stupid some of the people in the calls below. With time wasting calls like the ones below, no wonder companies are outsourcing their call centers to India.

• Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?
• Customer: A white one…

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