From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 25 12:41:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04179 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04148 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I6BR0NGL6800AC8U@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:42:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Doc Update Needed? To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I6BR0NH4GI00AC8U@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Forwarded to me.... >>True story from a Novell NetWare SysOp: >> >> Caller: "Hello, is this Tech Support?" >> >> Tech Rep: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?" >> Caller: "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty >>period. How do I go about getting that fixed?" >> >> Tech Rep: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?" >> >> Caller: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer." >> >> Tech Rep: "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. >> Did you receive this as part of a promotional, at a trade show? How did >>you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?" >> >> Caller: "It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a >>promotional. It just has '4X' on it." >> >> At this point the Tech Rep had to mute the caller, because he could not >>stand it. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a >>cup holder, and snapped it off the drive. >> >>- >I think the fault here lies in the fact that the user failed to read >the manual, if he had done so he would have realised that a 4X cup >holder will only support paper cups no larger than 10 fl ozs. I guess >he had his coffee in a china mug and for that he would need at least a >6X cup holder. I have a Toshiba 8X cup holder and I can get it to >support a pint of lager quite easily. > >BTW does anyone out there know how to get a Bus Toaster card to toast >BOTH sides of the bread at the same time under Linux. Maybe the FreeBSD mug should come with a warning, "Not to be used with a 4X cup holder."