More from the humor department. This was just sent to me:

I was having trouble with my computer. So I called the 11-year old next door whose bedroom looks like Mission Control, and asked him to come over.

He clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.

As he was walking away, I called after him, ‘So, what was wrong?

He replied, ‘It was an ID ten T error.’

I didn’t want to appear stupid, but I had to ask, ‘An, ID ten T error? Can you explain that to me in case I need to fix it again?’

He smiled…. You haven’t heard of an ID ten T error before?’

‘No,’ I replied.

‘Write it down,’ he said, ‘and I think you’ll figure it out.’

So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T …

Har har. Wikipedia suggests this actually comes from adult Naval parlance.

I like the ID ten seven format better (ID107), or even ID hundred seven.

I remember those problems being termed layer 8 of the OSI model or PEBKAC errors — when a problem exists between keyboard and chair — both mentioned by Wikipedia.

Surely someone can come up with something new already, no?