You know you're a geek when........

[crazyness003]

I especially enjoy it when they agree with what you told them, but suggesst a totally random solution.
ex:
me: the motherboard is fried.
ts: Are you sure?
me: yeah, im not getting a read on my wifi in any OS and when I tried the card in another mobo, it worked.
ts: I guess you're right. The motherboard is at fault. Unplug your computer and hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
me:....
ts: now, bust out your hoodoo hex bag, and say this incantation WORD FOR WORD.
me: <hang up>

[jenkinbr]

You have to help the 'technical support' figure out what they're doing

/me is guilty.

I especially enjoy it when they agree with what you told them, but suggesst a totally random solution.
ex:
me: the motherboard is fried.
ts: Are you sure?
me: yeah, im not getting a read on my wifi in any OS and when I tried the card in another mobo, it worked.
ts: I guess you're right. The motherboard is at fault. Unplug your computer and hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
me:....
ts: now, bust out your hoodoo hex bag, and say this incantation WORD FOR WORD.
me: <hang up>

[GepettoBR]

That's a classic! I've always wondered what monkeys sit on the other side (at MS or my ISP "tech support").
They probably deal (or they think they do) with dump people with trivial problems. But when a moderately smart person calls with actual problem... they're in trouble!

I love tech support, especially for my ISP.

"Okay, so what version of Windows are you running?"
"None. I run Linux."
"Well, that's your problem, our modems only support Windows."
"The modem is connected to a router. The LAN works. The problem is with your network or your modem, not with me."
"One moment please"
*talks to someone else for a few minutes*
"Yes, I'm sorry. Apparently our lines are down in your area for maitenance, they should be back in a few hours."

If I ever go on a murderous rampage, this will be one of the reasons.

[jenkinbr]

"Well, that's your problem, our [modems | other hardware] only support Windows."

I hate that line.

[GepettoBR]

I hate that line.

Especially since the only thing a broadband modem has to support is ethernet cables

[crazyness003]

I hate that line.

My warranty was "voided" because I got rid of Vista and installed Ubuntu.
Tech support even asked me to "install the vista" once. I laughed.
I wanna meet one of them tech support monkeys one day and say:

Hey, I appreciate what you do for all the non-geeks, but seriously, you're a disgrace to our kind. If you dont know something, and get cornered, at least say RTFM. You will just be ignored. But when you try all sorts of stuff you have written on the flowcharts, its just too hard to resist.

Anyway. I remembered something. In a country I frequently visit in Europe, they call geeks "Hakera", reffering to Hackers. I find that funneh.

[misterhead]

Ykyagw...

...you are reading through the posts on this thread and see one that starts with "Ykyagw" and don't even think twice about what it means.

or

...you are reading through the posts on this thread and think, "Well that's not really THAT geeky, is it?".

or

...you are reading through the posts on this thread... PERIOD

[crazyness003]

ykyakw you dream in binary.

[GepettoBR]

you are reading through the posts on this thread... PERIOD

Must there be one of these for every ten pages?

[Jay_Rock]

Your I geek when you can use the CLI for more then five minutes to get things done.

PS. I know you geeks have a photo of a server room or bad pc part on you phone. It got there when you were going to email it so tech support person.