I took a university computer class a few years ago. I don't remember much about it, it had too much to do with one's and zero's and too little about real (non-geek) computer usage. I do remember one important concept -- "wetware". Hardware is the physical part of the computer, the stuff you can touch (and hit). Software is the intangible, it's the program, the algorithms that make the hardware do what you want it to (or something completly different from what you thought it would do). But, when there is a computer problem, but it isn't a software or a hardware problem (stuff is working the way it is suppose to work) it is a wetware problem.
So what is wetware? It's you (and me). When there is a wetware problem there is a problem with the operator. The computer is working exactly like it should, but the operator has no clue how to use it.
As soon as wetware problems can be solved, most other problems will disappear.
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The answer that we, in the computer industry (using that term rather loosely), use to describe a "wetware" error is PEBKAC... Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
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