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Another (alledgedly) true tech support story.  A friend of mine used to
work at Stream International in Beaverton, OR, which is a contractor which
provides tech support for Microsoft.  (They answer the phones "Microsoft",
not "Stream".)  According to him, this really heappened.


A luser calls tech support, obviously scared shitless, and apologizing
profusely to the technician--begging for Microsoft's mercy, stating his 
willingness to cooperate fully, and promising "not to do it again".

After some conversation, the situation became clear.

1)  The luser had a pirated copy of Windoze 95.
2)  An application had crashed, producing the all-to-familiar "Illegal
    Operation" dialog box.
3)  Luser apparently thought that this error meant that he had been caught
    red-handed in his knavery (rather than it being a processor
    exception) and that furthermore, his computer had NOTIFIED MICROSOFT,
    and that the police/a summons officer/somebody else nasty was likely
    on the way.
4)  By calling tech support and confessing his misdeed, he thought he
    could mitigate the situation.


Scott "I wonder if he had the Registration Wizard enabled" Johnson


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