Acronym attack

29th September 2006, 1:00am

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Acronym attack

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Do you think your computer is misbehaving? Does it flash error messages you don’t understand?Have you done all the right things but the wretched machine keeps crashing? You could be a PEBCAK. This is neither a Russian dance nor a rare and ungainly bird but an acronym used by computer experts when summoned to help the technologically hopeless. It stands for Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

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