David G. Wiseman

Booted Where?

Part of our OA effort is to get the various legal and research staff
offices set up with Word Processing, Email etc. and so it came to pass
that in October our 'General Counsel' office was tied into a lan.

Attorneys tend to consider the literal meaning of text (as well as
imputed meaning and whatnot), and one attorney called to tell me that:
"My computer won't work."

"Does it give you an error message?"

"Yes, it comes up and says that I have been 'booted from the
fileserver', so I turn it off and try again.  It has done this all
morning."

Adding another definition of 'booted' to her lexicon solved the
problem.

	- J.D. McCown - RCSG Director - Senate of Pennsylvania  

Ha, ha, ha. Take me back to [ the alphabetic list ] [ the date-ordered list ].