Definitions

[tropicsgoddess]

PICNIC error: Problem In Chair Not In Computer. Synonymous to ID10T error and PEBCAK errors and End Luser.


Armchair Technician: This SC that spouts off claims that they're some big time network engineer or IT Guru and/or hold a degree in Computers, IT or have IT certifications but really are dumb as a sack of hammers with technology and 99.9% of the time are full of shit. They will argue with you till the cows come home about how wrong you are and how right they are about the prognosis of their computer if they feel it's not right.


King/Queen of Denial: This SC spouts off claims like "It's a new computer!111!!!" "It was working fiiiiiiiiiiiiine for <insert insane claim of amount of time it was working>!!!1111!!!" and continually deny that your prognosis is wrong and blame it on the company.

[RottenFruit]

Documents everything: "Wlcome to $company, you are talking to RottenFruit, how can I help you"
"What is your name?"
"RottenFruit"
"How do you spell that?"
"The first name Romeo-Oscar-Tango-Tango-Echo-November, the last one Foxtrott-Romeo-Uniform-India-Tango."

(very creepy when I encountered this for the first time, but generally harmless)

[BeeMused]

Layer 8 error - see PICNIC error, ID10T error, PEBCAK error and End Luser.

UTBE - User To Blind Error

[RottenFruit]

Layer 9 error: an error on the administrative layer.

ie: a user to stupid to click on the IE logo to open a website is a Layer 8 error, a user who cannot get online because the network was apparently designed by drunken monkeys on hallucigenic substances is a Layer 9 error.

[Chromatix]

High-End

In an end-user's vocabulary this refers to a $400 Walfart special. Laptop.

In marketing materials - especially a paid-for "review" - this means it has a reasonably fast CPU. Pay no attention to the 350W PSU, last year's bottom-rung graphics card, lack of spare RAM slots and minimum-capacity mechanical hard disk. Bonus points if this is supposed to be a gaming computer.

(And yes, I really have come across someone who bought one of these to run a game. I had to give him the choice between returning it to the shop citing the Trade Descriptions Act, or buying a new graphics card *and* PSU to being them in line with the CPU's capabilites.)

[Dreamstalker]

RAM: Not what we'd think. Apparently, the best way to install sensitive components so they "get the signals". If this results in something not working the part must be defective (if you mean the human 'part' that tried to install the other part, then yes).

If this results in bent pins on a CPU, I'm supposed to 'fix it, it's just wire you can bend it back right?' with pliers (I'm not touching that as I have never done it before and have no way of knowing what else you borked).