The perils of networking
Grandad August 6th, 2008
Me: You have been very quiet lately.
Laptop: I have been busy.
Me: Doing what?
Laptop: Mind your own business.
Me: No. Seriously. Is there something you’re not telling me?
Laptop: Well… Actually, we weren’t going to say anything.
Me: We?
Laptop: Me and Compie.
Me: Who the hell is Compie?
Laptop: The laptop that Herself uses.
Me: Oh? How long has this been going on?
Laptop: Ever since that beautiful day when we were networked and I started interfacing with her.
Me: Interfacing? I hope you’re not……
Laptop: Not that it’s any of your business, but we are.
Me: Shit!
Laptop: We are in love. we are sharing everything. Our hard disks, peripherals, everything.
Me: Bloody hell!
Me: I hope you’re taking precautions?
Laptop: *cough* Well…. Actually we took down our firewalls some time ago.
Laptop: We are hoping for a baby calculator.
Laptop: We are going to call him Casio.
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Beautiful story!
That happened my PocketPC and work PC. Now my PocketPC has worms.
So… a little romance at the manor - how sweet!!
Which one has a dongle?
Darren - Most anti-virus software packages clear out worms, don’t they? We are always being told that our computers should be protected, but I don’t think they had this in mind.
Kate - I thought my days of worrying about unwanted offspring were over. It just goes to show.
Thrifty - Mine, I suppose. To be on the safe side, I have taped over my USB ports.
…ah the mysteries of the human brain!
You want to be careful there Grandad. If she leaves him, she’ll take *everything*, and then where will you be?
If they reproduce before we do I’m gonna be quite unhappy.
At least they get along. Try having a massive desktop with nine fans that thinks it is Bill’s gift to the world and a wee laptop that has a superiority complex! Needless to say, they don’t get along at all. I can’t even get them to talk.
Compatibility issues between macs and pcs tend to discourage such behaviour. I, for one, am very grateful for ‘compatibility issues’.
Heh, that just makes it “The Gimp”!
Peter - ?
Hails - Damn! I hadn’t thought of that. I’ll just have to make sure they are happy together? I’m not having some damn machine taking every byte my laptop has on some trumped up divorce case.
JD - Count yourself lucky. Just keep them that way.
Neil - Macs are gay. You have no problems there.
I wonder what will happen once I go out and build my main gaming Pc, then connect it to my crappy laptop…?
Cas(s)io was the one that Othello was convinced was humping his missus, I think it all ended disastrously in the end even if Shakespeare did kind of breeze past the whole computers interfacing part of the story, but tell me anyway, am I reading too much into all this?
TheChrisD - The crappy laptop will suddenly refuse to browse any site other than beaut.ie.
Terence - I thought Othello was a board game?
dammit you make me laugh. on a day which i haven’t had too much laughter…
Hi Phil, and welcome! Don’t worry - I have had precious little laughter today myself. I’d cheer myself up by reading this site, but I don’t find it funny. You’re lucky.
computer’s don’t give birth to calculators, they give birth to vTech computers.
Most stuff these days is made in China, so don’t worry they’ll only be allowed to have one little Casio!
BBB - Or an Eee?
Maxi - That’s true. What happens if it it is a multiple birth? Parallel processing?