SMOKING POWER SUPPLY JOKE
One day a gentleman called his local computer store because his PC had a smoking power supply. The service rep was having a bit of trouble convincing the guy that it was a hardware problem:

Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.

Customer: I bet there is some command I can put onto the AUTOEXEC.BAT that would take care of this.

Service Rep: There is nothing software can do to help you with this problem.

Customer: I know there is something I can put in - some command - maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS?

(After a several minutes of going round and round)

Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this, but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:\DOS\NOSMOKE and reboot your computer.

(Customer does this)

Customer: It's still smoking.

Service Rep: Then I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.

(The customer then hung up. The tech thought that he had heard the last of this guy. But, NO, he called back four hours later.)

Service Rep: Hello sir, how is your computer?

Customer: I called Microsoft, and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done, and how much it will cost?



Note: The Service Rep has since switched to the Mac department.