I hope it wasn't a terribly expensive one! I doubt the insurance/warrenty covers that...

I do wish you wouldn't use the word "perp".

I live in Hull, and here "the perp" is what people call the head of the Catholic church, and it confuses me.

We all know its Bill's fault.. :)

He must have finally received his Vista upgrade disks from Dell.

to suggest that maybe it was a Spectrum with rubber keys? It used to really p*ss me off because I have large fingers. reminds me of the Simpsons joke where Homer cant press the keys.

Still, cant understand him throwing it out of the window....if it was an iPhone then yeah ok ;)

he opened a Window and it promptly crashed!

Where'd I leave my coat...

If you think your machine doesnt work, throw it out the window. Then you'll KNOW it doesnt work!!

That said, most the time for a Windows based PC is literally OUT the window (and no...im not a Mac user)

...my car against a dogs turd he was running M$ Vista! X-D

It was later revealed that it was actually his visiting mother in-law from Cybertron.

but I would be willing to bet good money it was running Vista

"zo, Amerikanischer computer schweinhund, for you ze Vindoze Genuine Advantage Tool ist over, ja?"

Hull?.... sounds fishy to me....

I actually *do* live in Hull and so I know that whilst "purple" would be pronounced locally as "perple".... Pope would be pronounces as "Purp".

As you were...

Ian

Did the person have burns on their arm?

"It was later revealed that it was actually his visiting mother in-law from Cybertron."

I think most people have been tempted to throw their mothers in law out of a window. At least he still has a PC.

"a Spectrum with rubber keys?"

It would have been too light to smash down to earth with a loud crash. Instead, it would have fluttered off into the night and landed several miles away, with a quiet clattering noise. Perhaps the machine was an ancient and heavy PS2, in which case it might still work.

I have an old Dilbert cartoon on my wall where such an incident is referred to by the investigating officer as '"code rage"...

Maybe he's the father for that "German kid" getting pissed off on Starcraft/Counterstrike/whatever that has been made famous in YouTube??

All he did was take his Linux friends advice of 'time to throw out Windows'.

Either that or he had porn on the screen when his mum walked in. What else could he do?

Actually, maybe he was trying to send an email.

Whats the betting this bloke used to work for Be Inc? They're well known for chucking electronic objects off of tall(ish) buildings ;D

and you would think the officers would have had the decency to boot it up for for him... Taxi!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA

Thank you for that. First good laugh I've had today.

"I'm sorry, the fingers you are using to dial this phone are too fat. To request a new phone with big buttons please repeatedly slam your palm against the keypad."

Classic.

A german getting pissed off and over-reacting. Heard that one before.

I worked pc repair, and I can firmly say if he's anything like your average user, his brower was probobly clogged with spyware, pop-ups (porn) and was more than likely locked up on something particularly nasty.

Or he just could be an idiot.

BOFH offered all the lusers in his company the joy of tossing eletronic equipment from the top of the building before this german boffin.

Here it is:

BOFH: Danger, Falling Computing Peripherals

Episode 6 It'll all end in tears

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/bofh_2005_episode_6/

P.S. Not to mention I loved reading it again.

I'd lay money it was Windows- prolly Vista

The funny thing is, I live in Oz and the radio just ran an add for a laptop running Vista but "easily modified to XP".

I kidd you not.

I've gotten frustrated with my Linux boxes before, as well as Windows. The only difference is that with Linux, I know it's probably something that I messed up. With Windows I know it's probably something someone else messed up.

Oh no don't try to make this out to be anything

Linux vs Windows at any particular time the damn

machine will make you mad as hell any OS, any time

he just had a self control problem it depends on how

mad it made him I have seriously considered this on

many occaisions instead I have learned to torture

computers not kill it force it to do what it hates over and

over crash OK reboot hahahahaha bastard suffer. Well

it beats losing your PC and going to jail anyway.

Of course if it had happened in England the chap would probably be locked up now awaiting investigation for terrorism - having caused an explosion- and the tabloids would be having a feild day describing the neighbourhood as in SHOCK, or PANICING, whilst living in TERROR at the HORROR they now feel regarding falling consumer electronics.

P.S. Was it just the computer case he threw out? I have visions of a real Blue-screen-of-death decending from the skies and landing on some hapless passerby.

Wow, almost top-quality stream-of-consciousness stuff, apart from the single comma.

@Steve McKinty:

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/humor/comics/computer/coderage.html

Perhaps? ;-)

That said, I bet it was a Mac. What a load of shite those things are.

A friend of mine did exactly the same with one of his pesky servers, it wasn't playing nicely so it got a biiig boot in the side and then left the house from an upstairs window into his garden.

Great stress reliever I expect.

"That said, I bet it was a Mac. What a load of shite those things are."

I get the urge to throw my Mac out the window daily.

Not that I'm flaming them...

It's actually, "The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."

Dear Lord, this guy is most certainly a saint!

This should become standard answer for "complicated" helpdesk-callers.

"Sir, I need you to open your window, please..."

of drag-and-drop functionality.

Just DRAG your computer over to the window and DROP it out.

QED