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Things Techies should know about Brand Names

created by PureDoxyk

(idea) by PureDoxyk (6.7 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Fri Dec 22 2000 at 20:12:49

1. If is says Compaq, pray like hell you will never have to take it apart.

2. If it says Microsoft, don't ask why it's broken. The answer is in the question.

3. If it says Jolt, don't let them take it away from you.

4. If it says Linux, your boss doesn't want to hear about it. No matter how cool it is.

and lastly,

5. If it says something vague about no-user-service something with parts but the words don't really make sense to you, take it apart and fuck with it until it makes sense.


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Once, everyone was a computer novice When sex hurts (Men) Capitalism urges you to define yourself through your purchases I'd already be a Buddhist if it weren't for all these damn spiders
Left-handed homosexuals Compaq Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it any more Jolt
It's better to have loved and lost Microsoft Questions I have had today I am afraid of permanence
On what's wrong with hip-hop The Skinny on Cool Man Eddie doting iptables
Tell me of the nature of love Question Lye left-handed
bisexual Mead Catharsis, or Living for the Cool IBM
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