here's your sign...

[major-error.livejournal.com]

Since when did I become the Encyclopedia Britannica of error-codes?

You have an error code from a common application? Great!! Drop it into Google and learn a thing or 2!
Kinda sad when problems can be solved by Windows Update or a reboot...

[Sometimes it feels like I'm in some alternate universe as Indiana Jones, and all these helpless users are Small Round bursting into my room shouting "Docta' Jones!"]

Comments

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

Fellow Tech: Garrett, what does 32 bit error code 0f00-1342 mean?
Me: How the fuck should I know, it's a 32 bit error code, it can mean ANYTHING, look up the code yourself
Fellow Tech: You knew the last one...
Me: It was all ZEROS! That means hard drive failure, if the diagnostic partition won't even generate one, it means borked hard drive
FT: That seems complicated, so what does that code mean?
Me: I swear..... one day.

[sheryls.livejournal.com]

i used to be the company server-name-to-website-name dictionary.

"hey sheryl. what server is clientsite.com on?"
*sigh* *ping -a clientsite.com*
"Web host 1."

after a while my response became "ping it!"

then they all started acting like i was this huge asshole for it, and anytime i'd ask them a question (like, "hey what's for lunch" or "can i borrow your stapler" their answer to me was "PING IT." *sigh*)

[kalium.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. You could be the Wikipedia of error codes.

[theogrin.livejournal.com]

That would imply that the developers of said common software change those error codes randomly and often, for every single machine, in a display of obviously overused, paranoia-inducing power rivaling Friend Computer.

...wait...

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Short Round, actually. :p

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Having worked in a retail store, I used to get calls all the time that would start out like:

Customer: "I've got a Compuquack CPE1704TKS computer."

Me: "So?"

I'm supposed to know every model of every brand computer?