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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Dear $teacher,

If you're going to bring your laptop to me for repair panicking because it's not working and you need to do some work on it yesterday, make sure you've checked that the battery isn't dead first, otherwise you just end up looking more of a tit than usual.

Ta

Jo

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[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

And this kids, is why you never let your end-users have anything more involved than pen and paper. That's a standard MicroSoft USB mouse, with a piece of cat5e.

All taped together with packing tape. I haven't taken it apart yet to see if they crimped the wires, or just stuck them together.

+1 points for inventiveness.. -200 points for shorting out the USB controllers on their motherboard, along with other unknown damage, so I'll be swapping out about a year old motherboard for a new one now Oh, and the end users complaint? His mouse stopped working and he tried someone elses mouse on the system.. never mentioned the extension.

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

I propose a new error system - the only way to get it off your screen is to have to type it back in so we actually KNOW you've read it.