ibe98765 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Pointed to in the latest Mike's List:http://www.siliconvalleyslang.com/(click a letter when you get there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 PEBCAKStands for "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard". Acronym slang for idiot operator errors used by tech support people trying to make it sound sophisticated to the user-- Mark Ward have to remember that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Scarecrow Technology A hyped-up piece of technology that when examined and used, has no uniqueness nor value other than image. Example: "That so called secret object-oriented technology was only a bunch of database requests inside a button click and ended up being Scarecrow Technology during the buyout talks." -- Christina FreymarcGotta love this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryder Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Wow....Valley Girls have come a long way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 PEBCAKStands for "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard". Acronym slang for idiot operator errors used by tech support people trying to make it sound sophisticated to the user-- Mark Ward have to remember that one I've always preferred PICNIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer Although PEBCAK does sound more "sophisticated" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardFlak Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 I-d-10-t error (Otherwise known as the idiot error) When a 'puter illiterate whines that something isn't working because either A) It's not plugged in. or it's not "Exactly" the way it looked yesterday.-- dan@catamaran.netwave.netI had one of those earlier in the week. I had moved a user's files, last week, from My Documents on her desktop to a folder in her network drive in order to switch out her PC for a new one. She decided she wanted to just leave them there. Then, I got a call that she couldn't find a file she had previously had on her old PC. I thought I'd copied everything, but went to see. She called up the Open dialogue box, and said "See? It's not there." I went to the slider under the listing, clicked over, and there was her file. "It wasn't that way before." Well, that's because there were already items in the folder where I moved the files, and so there are more total files, pushing that file off the initial view. That was the whole problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicDragon Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Awsome site! Thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Screen-Saver FaceThe look one gets when they have been bored to the point of just shutting off their brain.-- Jim Van Dyke I've seen that one when I'm trying to explain things like computer security to folks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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