Humor Section!

[NYJimbo]

OS2 ?

OS/2 is a "Windows" O/S ?

 

[Mercenary Roadie]

If I remember correctly, OS/2 is what was left of a joint effort between IBM and MS to create the ultimate OS. MS Bailed and IBM release the project as OS/2. So in a roundabout way it was a never MS released OS

 

[frase]

Damn you sound card, Soundblaster - IRQ confilct heeh TORMENT OF DOS

 

[Kitten Kong]

640 k/1 MB
The "640 kB is enough" is a myth attributed to Gates. The blame for this should actually be placed at IBM's feet, because the 640 kB limit was an architectural limitation imposed by IBM, who decided to load drivers in high mem starting at those addresses, in effect imposing a hardware ceiling on the memory available for OS and apps.

From https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Bill_Gates

Apparently Bill Gates never said that 640k was enough.

 

[gadgetfixup]

 

[bertie40]

Visiting one of my old customers this morning. An old couple who appreciated a bit of banter.

Known them for years, more importantly,....they know me. [emoji3]

Jack and Jill (70's. Not their real names).

Jack complained loudly to Jill about my exorbitant fees (tongue in cheek)... Again.

I replied to Jill "does that mean I'm your Toy Boy?"

"No, no!" Jill said.

Me : "Damn, I always wanted to be a toy boy. Never mind"

Jack : "You need an inflatable woman"

Me : "I've had several, the guy at the bike shop got tired of me buying puncture repair kits all the time".

Jack : you should stick it in the bath, Ly on top and look for bubbles.

...... Short break here to cater for hysterical laughter all round.

God. I love this job, ..... given the right customers.

 

[Altster]

Visiting one of my old customers this morning. An old couple who appreciated a bit of banter.

Known them for years, more importantly,....they know me. [emoji3]

Jack and Jill (70's. Not their real names).

Jack complained loudly to Jill about my exorbitant fees (tongue in cheek)... Again.

I replied to Jill "does that mean I'm your Toy Boy?"

"No, no!" Jill said.

Me : "Damn, I always wanted to be a toy boy. Never mind"

Jack : "You need an inflatable woman"

Me : "I've had several, the guy at the bike shop got tired of me buying puncture repair kits all the time".

Jack : you should stick it in the bath, Ly on top and look for bubbles.

...... Short break here to cater for hysterical laughter all round.

God. I love this job, ..... given the right customers.

"toy boy?" Over here we refer to that as a "boy-toy!"

 

[oldtech]

I thought we already had a humor section - only it's mislabeled - it's under a heading called "Introductions"

 

[bertie40]

Badly in need of "a humour section" is the latest Fantastic Four movie.

I still can't believe what I just saw.
A masterclass in bad movie making.

It's not actually bad, just.... Wrong on every level.

I still have the 1970's Marvel comics so I consider myself a fan.
This movie is just an insult to them.

Utterly forgettable. No interest in any of the characters.
Dull,
Boring,
too dark (literally, bring a torch, oh, thanks Johnny), bad characterisation (where it exists), a story which doesn't work. Continuity errors. Scenes shown in trailers missing from the movie.
It goes on.....

The unforgivable "one year later" screen shot.

Poor Jamie bell.

Plot holes you could drive a British forum administrator through.

Just about every actor is stunningly miscast.

Having the main characters repeatedly referred to as "the kids" turns one of my stomachs.

The last five minutes have the team try to think of a name for themselves.
Really ?
Gosh, such hilarity.

On a plus note. Nice to see that "The Thing" has a little stone willy.

A sad event.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

And how about Windows 95 SR1, SR2 and Windows 98 Second Edition? (Can't believe I'm remembering these off the top of my head!)

Windows 95 a, Windows 95 b, Windows 95 c, and Windows 95 d. (Dells special version)

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Missing those days of config.sys tricks and cleaning up autoexec.bat files are we?

I loved massaging config.sys to get conventional memory up above 600KB....with a big grin above 610.
Files=, Buffers=, Setver, EMM386, HIGH, UMB, etc.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Humor, people! Windows 3.1 and 95 weren't funny! Not funny at all!

Stuff sure was pretty simple back then though. We deployed 'n supported some dang huge networks back then...and computer problems were fairly simple to fix. I miss those days.

 

[bertie40]

Ah, the "Cookie Monster" virus.

"MonsterMonsterMonsterMonster" etc. etc scrolling down the screen. Only stopped by typing "cookie"

Ah bless.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Ah, the "Cookie Monster" virus.

"MonsterMonsterMonsterMonster" etc. etc scrolling down the screen. Only stopped by typing "cookie"

Ah bless.

One of my favorite "viruses"...actually more of a joke. Remember Clippie? The animated paperclip "help" guy from Word '97 that would appear and walk out on your document you were typing if you paused for some period of time? There was one virus that was out, if you were typing a Word document and you paused...he would walk out and pee a yellow puddle on your document. LOL.

 

[allanc]

I loved massaging config.sys to get conventional memory up above 600KB....with a big grin above 610.
Files=, Buffers=, Setver, EMM386, HIGH, UMB, etc.

Ahhhhh.
QEMM.
Those were the days my friend.

 

[TechLady]

 

[Moltuae]

Fixed that for you.

This is what the error really means:

 

[PC Ops]

Thanks I needed a good laugh!

 

[bertie40]

Helluva place to lose your car keys. [emoji15]

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Helluva place to lose your cell phone.

***fixed***