Someone put this up on our bulletin board. It's silly enough to be true:
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| I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a smoking power supply. The service rep was having a bit of trouble convincing the guy that he had a hardware problem: |
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| Service Rep: |
Sir, something has burned within your power supply. |
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| Customer: |
I bet there is some command I can put onto the AUTOEXEC.BAT that would take care of this. |
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| Service Rep: |
There is nothing software can do to help you with this problem. |
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| Customer: |
I know there is something I can put in... some command ... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS |
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| [After a few minutes of going round and round] |
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| Service Rep: |
Ok, I am not supposed to tell anyone this, but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:\DOS\NOSMOKE and reboot your computer. |
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| [Customer does this] |
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| Customer: |
It's still smoking. |
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| Service Rep: |
I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE . |
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[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy, but NO ... he calls back four hours later] |
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| Service Rep: |
Hello sir, how is your computer? |
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| Customer: |
I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is
incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get
a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done, and
how much it will cost.... |
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