I don't care if you're a Mac user.

[camwyn]

You've been using Wintel machines for what, three years now? Yeah, about that. Maybe more. I don't care that you normally use Macs. If you've had that much experience with Wintel machines, and your machine freezes so that you have to reboot it by physically powering it off, waiting, then powering it back on...

... and the message 'non-system disk or disk error, remove and strike any key when ready' comes on screen...

... then maybe you should consider removing the disk rather than hitting the space bar six times! And maybe you should consider MENTIONING this message repeating itself on the screen, rather than telling your sysadmin that your computer is 'in suspended animation'! Believe it or not, there is a difference...

I'm going to kill him. I'm going to rip off his nose and feed it to turtles. I can normally tune out this user's constant chatter - I have never had a tech support issue come up with him where he kept his mouth shut for longer than two seconds, he talks about either irrelevant issues or how 'it's not the same on my Macs' the whole time I'm trying to fix his machine - but seeing the message on screen six times indicates a level of persistence combined with Not Reading the Goddamn Screen that puts a person firmly into Turtle Fodder category.

(EDIT NOTE: Originally I accidentally left out a preposition. It sounded as if I was feeding turtles TO the nose. My mistake.)

Comments

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

You are going to feed a dis-embodied nose turtles?

[camwyn]

Eeegah. Fixed it. Thanks.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It gave me this very interesting mental picture before... ;)

[mtr1966.livejournal.com]

Here's a suggestion: go into the bonehead's BIOS settings and disable booting from floppy. Hell, given what a numbskull he seems to be it might be a great way to prevent virii from infecting your network seeing as leaving floppies in drives is a good way to catch MBR/BS virii.