So I am home alone today with nothing to do. I was upstairs reading Introducing the UNIX Sytem by Henry McGilton and Rachel Morgan and waiting for my new ebay Indy to arrive. The phone rings and I don't recognize the number so I answer it. It is a gentleman with an Indian sounding accent and he tells me that my computer has problems and is reporting errors to their web server. I think, oh this is going to be fun....
I switch to a noob idiot kind of voice and start answering his questions. I chum the line so he smells blood in the water. "Oh no, how can we get this fixed?" He asks me to go to my computer and then asks me to locate the ctrl key at the bottom left of my keyboard. He then asks what is the key to the right. I respond "da A L T key" (spelling out the letters). We go round and round for a minute and he starts to get agitated and thinking that I am an idiot and can't see the Window$ key. I then tell him "It is an older granite keyboard, I don't have a Windows key.". He then asks what kind of computer I have. I respond with "It is a Silicon Graphics Indy". I can hear him telling someone in the background and it seems like they are looking it up on the internet. He then tells me that he is transferring me to the senior technician. There wasn't any technology with the phone, the other guy just started talking to me. He said, "That is a nice computer you have!". I say "thanks!". He then asks me what I see on the screen. I say "I see my Indigo Magic Desktop, the ToolChest, the Dumpster, home directory, Photoshop, and Buttonfly icons.". This really confuses him. He asks me if I have a Windows laptop, I reply "No, I don't like Windows very much.". He asks what internet connection that I use. "I got one computer that is using an Integrated Services Digital Network line, OC3 on the WAN interface of my router and I also running a token ring and FDDI network with my six other computers.". He asks what other computers I have. "Onyx2, Indigo, Indigo2, Tezro, Octane, and an old azz O2." He then asks if I can go to Google and type in team viewer or something like that. I imagine that is some sort of remote control software. He has me click the download button and then asks me to double click it. My response " I am going to have to download that in SoftWindows, I won't be able to open a .exe file directly... It won't run on my RISC MIPS R5000...Probably cause it ain't got no branch prediction.". He then asks what operating system I am using. "IRIX 6.5.22m with Nekoware!", I enthusiastically reply! He then said that he would have their IRIX specialist give me a call back in about 30 minutes.
I have to hand it to them, they really did give it the old college try. I was kinda surprised that they didn't figure out I was messing with them. If they ever call back, I promise I will record it!
I switch to a noob idiot kind of voice and start answering his questions. I chum the line so he smells blood in the water. "Oh no, how can we get this fixed?" He asks me to go to my computer and then asks me to locate the ctrl key at the bottom left of my keyboard. He then asks what is the key to the right. I respond "da A L T key" (spelling out the letters). We go round and round for a minute and he starts to get agitated and thinking that I am an idiot and can't see the Window$ key. I then tell him "It is an older granite keyboard, I don't have a Windows key.". He then asks what kind of computer I have. I respond with "It is a Silicon Graphics Indy". I can hear him telling someone in the background and it seems like they are looking it up on the internet. He then tells me that he is transferring me to the senior technician. There wasn't any technology with the phone, the other guy just started talking to me. He said, "That is a nice computer you have!". I say "thanks!". He then asks me what I see on the screen. I say "I see my Indigo Magic Desktop, the ToolChest, the Dumpster, home directory, Photoshop, and Buttonfly icons.". This really confuses him. He asks me if I have a Windows laptop, I reply "No, I don't like Windows very much.". He asks what internet connection that I use. "I got one computer that is using an Integrated Services Digital Network line, OC3 on the WAN interface of my router and I also running a token ring and FDDI network with my six other computers.". He asks what other computers I have. "Onyx2, Indigo, Indigo2, Tezro, Octane, and an old azz O2." He then asks if I can go to Google and type in team viewer or something like that. I imagine that is some sort of remote control software. He has me click the download button and then asks me to double click it. My response " I am going to have to download that in SoftWindows, I won't be able to open a .exe file directly... It won't run on my RISC MIPS R5000...Probably cause it ain't got no branch prediction.". He then asks what operating system I am using. "IRIX 6.5.22m with Nekoware!", I enthusiastically reply! He then said that he would have their IRIX specialist give me a call back in about 30 minutes.
I have to hand it to them, they really did give it the old college try. I was kinda surprised that they didn't figure out I was messing with them. If they ever call back, I promise I will record it!
Stolen!
