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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kudos_utopia" data-source="post: 6127071" data-attributes="member: 90660"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><u><span style="font-size: 18px">The Smoking Power Supply</span></u></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a smoking power supply. The service representative was having a bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Customer: I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will take care of this.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Service Rep: There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Customer: I know that there is something I can put in... some command... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">[After a few minutes of going round and round]</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />OSNOSMOKE and reboot your computer.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">[Customer does this]</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Customer: It is still smoking.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Service Rep: I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy. But NO; he calls back four hours later!]</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Service Rep: Hello, Sir, how is your computer?</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Customer: I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done and how much it will cost....</span></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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