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by Jack GrantWhat do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
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LOL Interesting way of phrasing the question.
By seawitch on 12.11.05 06:22
Personally I always use the phrase “It crashed.”. OTOH, the number of times that the non-technical people tell me that the computer crashed on them when what they mean is that some of the antique in-house software locked up is amazing. I take anything the end-users say with a salt mine and start asking questions to get them to specify what happened every time.
By Jim S on 12.11.05 20:44