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April 20, 2003

C’mon, just give me one little error!
Posted by Jess in Geek Humor

We’ve all done it. Sat through virus scans, those Norton remove utilities, disk scans, etc. I had to on Friday, and I see that Mike had a similar problem recently. I, however, had no luck.

Is it just me, or do you feel a little cheated when nothing is found?

I mean, c’mon. I take the time to run this program. Even on an old 4G hard drive, it still takes about a half and hour to run a thorough scan disk for errors. At least give me ONE error. Something to fix for my trouble? I’ll take one file fragment. Okay, fine, just PICK a file. Any file. Rename the extension to .000.

Just promise me you’ll tell me about after so I can rename it back and know that it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

And that virus removal tool? Don’t tell me you found no instances of the virus on the computer. You took the time to scan every single file on the computer, at least have the mercy to make up the fact that you found something and removed it.

Next thing you know, I’ll have to run through the entire disk defragmenter (we used to sit around watching the paint peel, now we watch the disk defragmenter) before it tells me that my disk doesn’t need defragmenting.

Maybe they could throw in some added bonuses for us. “We scanned your disk for errors. We didn’t find any. BUT, you’ll be happy to know, that over the past hour, we finished your thesis for you and solved Myst.”

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