From Planet Bizarre!

[Jeff Reynolds]

ROTGL!!!!!!

you guys have my phone tapped!

I thought the old "open a new window", "ok just a second the window  
is in the next room" was an urban myth till i had it said to me last  
year while trying to work out a problem on someone's windoz system  
via phone...

discussions to come to the solution of what is being called 'thingie'  
have often felt like the search for the holy grail or the source of  
the nile -- exploration can go on and on and on into uncharted  
territory, at times feeling like indiana jones!

cheers,

jeff reynolds



On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

>>> "It went away."
>>> "What went away?"
>>> "The thing."
>>> "What thing? What does it look like?"
>>> "It's...I don't know. There were words on it. Maybe if I click  
>>> this..."
>>> "Wait! Don't click yet! What do the words say?"
>>> "Oh no, now what do I do? It's all gone!"
>>> "What's gone? What happened?"
>>> "I don't know! It went away!"
>>>
>>> I never did identify the "thing".
>>
>> It crashed!
>> What crashed - the whole computer or just the program? Where you  
>> still
>> able to move the mouse pointer?
>> Well it gave an error.
>> OK, what was the error?
>> I don't know.
>
> "I got a box."
> "A box? With words in it? What does it say?"
> "It says, 'Enter your user name.'"
> "Okay. Type your name in there."
> "Oh. Okay." <typety typety typety> "Nothing happens."
> "What do you mean?"
> "I'm typing but nothing happens."
> "Did you click in the box before you typed?"
> "I have to click in the box? What box?"
> "The box where it says to enter your name."
> "Oh. Okay." <typety typety> "Nothing happens."
> "Where did you click?"
> "Where you said."
> "Where exactly?"
> "On one of the words, I think. Maybe it was 'name'."
> "No, you click in the empty space with the rectangle around it.
> Underneath the instructions."
> "Oh, I see what you mean. But when I do that, a little line starts
> blinking."
> "Right, that shows where your typing will go."
> "Oh. How do I get rid of the line so my typing will go in there?"