I don’t know how many people here read the webcomic xkcd, but you should.  It is quite witty, and often has some good techno-jokes for those of us in the know.  A recent one, for example, poked fun at how the Windows copy dialog will swing wildly between estimates for how long it will take to copy some files; certainly we have all seen this:

After laughing at this with a friend, she ended up seeing the following from an install of some software (the package is blocked out to protect the guilty):

128070 minutes?  That’s three months for those who like long division 🙂