17th June 2006, 6:34 PM
Something I'm missing? Last I heard, "disk read error" jokes were about as stale as... something... that stales...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)