Serious
by Jeff
Image text: Not to be confused with Serious PuTTY, the Windows terminal client where everything is in Impact.
This comic is a play on words with the child's putty known as "Silly Putty", which is "silly" because it likes to be played with. Whereas Serious Putty does not even liked to be touched.
As it says in the image text PuTTY is a Windows Terminal client. Impact is a font that is distributed with Windows that is used in all lolcat and other images of that type.
Trade Expert
by Jeff
Image text: I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.
This programmer sneaks on to the news show to tell the newscaster the different between backslash and forward slash. In a web address it is forward slash (or just simply "slash"). In a Windows folder structure, backslash is used.
A good way to tell the difference is the top of the slash. If the top is forward of the bottom, it is a forward slash. If the top is backwards from the bottom, it is a backwards slash.
Easy right?
In the image text, URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier.
Retro Virus
by Jeff
Image text: He says this is the year of Linux on the desktop! The world of Windows will fade any moment now!
The image text is a continuation of the comic and an excerpt from Howard Dean's Friendster from 2003.
In the comic, when he says that he is cleaning viruses, the other characters in the comic list off other things from 2003, including Kazaa a P2P filesharing app that was the number 1 source of viruses because of the questionable sources of all of the files on Kazaa. Additionally, Howard Dean, was popular in 2003 when he was running for president in the Democratic primary before his unfortunate screaming speech which drove him down in the poles and out of the race. Lastly, there is Friendster, which was extremely popular in 2003 and is still around today, but I'm not sure anyone uses it.
If viruses are so 2003, spyware is so 2010.
Surgery
by Jeff
Image text: Damn. Not only did he not install it, he sutured a 'Vista-Ready' sticker onto my arm.
This comic is a joke about the advances in Linux hardware/software support. "Eventually" there will be support for all sorts of hardware in Linux. As soon as an independent project picks up the case.
Unfortunately when he asked for a prescription for a free Windows 7 upgrade his insurance denied it.
Tech Support Cheat Sheet
by Jeff
Image meta text: 'Hey Megan, it's your father. How do I print out a flowchart?'
This one is actually pretty self explanatory, but they are giving away my secrets!
Anyone see any secret meanings in this one?
Estimation
by Jeff
Image meta tag: They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.
This comic is a hilarious reference to the inaccuracy of Windows to judge how long it will take to complete a task. It will vault from one extreme to another until it finally tells you that there is "less than a minute remaining" for about 20 minutes.