Humor und Satire
Microsoft
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 this guy that he had a hardware problem.Service Rep: Sir, something has burnt within your power supply.
Customer:
I bet that there is some command that I can put into the Autoexec.bat that
will take care of this.
Service Rep:
There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem.
Customer:
I know that there is something that I can put in... some command... maybe
it should go into the Config.sys.
[After a few minutes of going round and round]
Service Rep:
Okay, 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.
[Customer does this]
Customer:
It is still smoking.
Service Rep:
I guess you need to call MicroSoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.
[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy but NO... he calls back four hours later]
Service Rep:
Hello Sir, how is your computer?
Customer:
I call 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...
Moral: Remember those hidden DOS commands!