Thank God It's Friday! Murphy's Laws of Computing

1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
2. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
3. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.
4. When the going gets tough, upgrade.
5. For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
6. To err is human.. to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it is downright natural.
7. He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
8. If at first you do not succeed, blame your computer.
9. A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
10. The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
11. A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.

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I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.

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Do you remember?

5 years ago

• Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
• Minecraft is released on Xbox Live Arcade
• Linux kernel 3.4 released

10 years ago

• Google releases Google Street View
• StarCraft II is announced by Blizzard Entertainment
• Mortal Kombat: Armageddon launched on WII.

20 years ago

• Intel releases the Pentium II processor (233, 266 and 300 MHz versions). The Pentium II features a larger on-chip cache as well as an expanded instruction set.
• Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in chess
• Blood game released for Windows

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Credits: unijokes, xkcd