Dec. 10, 2000 - PEBKAC

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Bitch Wolf • 05/23/2011

I go nuts at spellcheckers, too. Probably my dumb luck that I haven't punched out a computer over it yet. ^^; ...I've developed a reflexive ctrl+s routine so ingrained in my spine that I keep trying to do it when writing on paper, too.

Dragontech64 • 04/25/2012

I think it great that Microsoft Word's spell checker always wants to change prosciutto to prostitute. Maybe the fact that one is great on melon and the other has great melons? (OK bad joke, sorry)

Ren Catarason • 06/06/2012

... I totally did this to my computer in high school... It was going slow, fist pounded it on the right side, aaaaaaand there goes the harddrive! This is also a very nice comic to read since I'm getting ready to go into college myself ^^

Razmoudah • 07/30/2012

@Bitch Wolf: I know what you mean, I have a challenging time writing things out by hand anymore, although I go ALT+F, S for the alternate keyboard shortcut (if you substitute A for S it gets you Save As... which -doesn't- have a CTRL+ shortcut, that and the shortcut I use also works on my Linux box, with Windows you can just tap ALT but Linux doesn't like that which is why I started doing the ALT+ bit).

@Dragontech64: Hmmm...sadly that makes more sense than anything else, especially when you start involving Microshit programming.

FuzzyDane • 07/31/2012

Never hit a laptop, they are vengeful little f***s...

I had spent months working on a custom OS for a project at tech-school, all I needed to do was compile, three days later at 97% the bloody thing tell me there's nothing to compile?!! Going caveman on the thing only resulted in me busting the harddrive and BSOD'ing it.

I had to start all over -.-

Protip: Have your laptop backup to a memory card every five minutes.

Dylan • 08/03/2012

I had a computer lose a report in junior high, and I got so frustrated that I typed all of my assignments with a typewriter until I graduated high school. If my college professors didn't require electronic submission, I'd STILL use a typewriter. No squiggly lines, no lost documents, no hassles.

I'm majoring in electrical engineering with a CS minor, and I hate typing on a computer. Go figure.

Karmakat • 09/18/2012

i feel his pain hehe

MOW • 10/11/2012

@Bitch Wolf: Careful with that, when you use notepad. Windows write cache doesn't actually flush to disk before the program quits or you do something else with the file, e.g. copy somewhere. I actually lost weeks of writing although I regularly saved the file, but when the computer crashed after reboot I only had a weeks-old version ... since then, not only save but also copy to network server or usb stick after each major edit. Then I have two current copies as opposed to none. WordPad and Word don't suffer from that particular problem, but I wouldn't be sure about other programs.

MOW

Jessica U. Ingmann • 10/30/2012

Aw geeze... XD Don't attack the laptop because it's bein' dumb! I also learned THAT the hard way one time. 9.9

eric b • 11/22/2012

reminds me of 2 old newspaper cartoons: 1) Foxtrot: Jason types in "merry hat hey lid tell lam, ids fleas woes wide as know" and spellcheck said "no errors found"! 2) "For better or for worse": a kid told his teacher "my computer ate my homework" after something similar to this cartoon happened to him.

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