Words couldn’t begin to describe…
…how terrible our tech guy is at work. Perhaps he’s just phenominally unlucky, like losing a coin toss 100 consecutive times unlucky.
Computers are bitches. Especially “shared” computers where lots of people use the same computer. I know from first hand experience. Somebody visits a questionable website just once and BAM virus or spyware! They should know better, but they don’t care because it isn’t their machine. And when you have around 20 computers being used daily by a bunch of different people, eventually hard drives are going to fail, power supplies will go out. Those things just happen.
I’ll try to remember everything that’s gone wrong with our machines in the past year or two. This will be a conservative account, seeing as how I’m sure to forget an instance or two. You tell me if it’s just bad luck.
- 6 new motherboards
- At least 5 failed hard drives
- 1 defective LCD monitor
- 7 new power supplies
- Replaced entire system except hard drive because it wouldn’t connect to the network
- Replaced hard drive for above system
- 1 Non-Genuine copy of Windows XP
- Whatever I forgot
Unfortunately it’s not just an excessivly high failure rate in the products this guy sells that leads me to believe that he’s a total d-bag. It’s the ridiculious crap that he and his employees say to people around here that don’t know any better. For instance.
“I’m installing Double Density Ram, so after this it will be twice as fast.”
“You can’t use that router because it will take up too many IP addresses.”
“That Windows installation is so old, it’s probably started deleting system files.”
If the above statements don’t mean anything to you, good. It just makes it all the more clear what kind of person or persons we’re dealing with here. Every statement is completely false, and every one I’ve overheard these guys saying to someone around here that has no idea about computers. To me that’s just taking advantage of somebody, unless they truely are that naieve.
So there’s one of two possibilities here. ONE: That I am actually better versed in technology than this guy and his employees. Or TWO: That this guy runs a shady business selling cheap and/or second hand crap as new and bluffs his way around it when things get sticky.
Either way, given his track record, I don’t know how we’re still doing business with him. But since the people calling the shots don’t know any better, I’ll have to continue to tolorate it. Just don’t touch my laptop!
Stupid O’Reillys fools.
Well I’m getting ready to head out for Thanksgiving in the Toronado, and it’s been a hair over 3,000 miles since my last oil change. So I figure best change it before I put another 700 miles on. I go in and pick up some vacuum line to fix the cruse control so it works all the time, not just when it wants to. I forgot the filter number so they looked that up for me. I got a high milage filter for cars with over 75,000 miles. I think my car qualifies. 😉 I grab some STP oil treatment and 4 quarts of oil.
The guy asks me if that’s it, and I tell him to ring me up. He rings it up and asks if I have another quart of oil at home or something. I tell him no, that my car only takes 4 quarts. Heck I thought it was weird at first too. But one guy behind the counter gives me a funny look like I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, and the guy ringing me up says, “Well let’s look it up.” So he looks it up, and he says, “Oh. 3.8 quarts plus filter volume.” a.k.a. 4 QUARTS! I may not be able to overhaul an engine, but I at least know how much friggin oil my car needs.
By the way, oil isn’t that cheap at O’Reillys. Unless you want to mess with their mail in rebate. No thanks, it’s not worth 10 minutes of work and 2 months of waiting to get my $4.00 back. I’ll just get it at Wal-Mart next time.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s the auto parts store, Best Buy, or just about anywhere. Why is it a guy can’t just walk into a store, buy what he wants to buy and get out without being treated like an idiot that doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing. I want four quarts of oil. Maybe I just want to slather it all over myself and go sliding naked across a basketball court. Just give me four quarts!!!
Nasa lost…err…unfound moon tapes.
Apparently there are 13,000 reels of video tape from all the Apollo moon landings from liftoff to splash down. With Nasa hoping to go back to the moon sometime in the next 15 years, they wouldn’t mind taking a look at them, right? Well, somehow they’ve misplaced the 2,000 boxes that the tapes are in.
But according to Nasa, they’re not lost.
“The tapes aren’t lost, insists the NASA official put in charge of the search. But he doesn’t know where they are.”
Forbes.com
I always thought I knew what lost meant, but now I don’t know. I mean those Nasa guys are obviously smarter than I am.
04.25.06It’s quiet around here!
Fuzz and I are spending a lot of quality time together. Duane took off for school a few days ago. His first couple of weeks is just prep time for taking the CDL learner’s permit test. If they don’t pass that they can’t take the class. Today was their first quiz. All this makes me glad I have the job I have. I don’t think I could restart schooling this late in life.
Speaking of my job…I served my first (known) DUI last week. When the lady came in and told me she’d gotten a DUI after drinking all the beer I had served her the day before I felt really bad. But, I gotta admit the guilt didn’t last long. Seriously, is it my fault? I don’t think so. Heck, I wasn’t even around when she’d gotten her three previous DUIs. After three, the fourth DUI is her own flippin’ fault.
10.10.05WHY!?
click the image to see the full screen….but anyway this is from work we got in a laptop that wouldnt boot sure enough it didn’t. So we yanked the harddrive and connected to my work station since the cd-rom is fried on the laptop as well and we started to scan the dive for viruses yeah look at the detections…only question I have is how and why does this person even have one of our machines?: pics removed
once again …parents have to point the finger some where
Debate intensifies over Hot Coffee sex in GTA – PC News at GameSpot
ok this game is rated “M” for a reason, if parents dont want their children to view this content dont buy it for them! I understand that the code came from some where whether it was Rockstar or the modder iether way it shouldnt have been there.
07.5.05i nearly died today
ok here i am riding my bike on campus heading to work from my class im in the middle of the cross walk …clearly i have the right-of-way ..apparently not in hays. there is this girl (surprise surprise a woman driver is involved) driving toward me at a higher speed than is posted she is not stopping i hit my break on my bike the break cable breaks..(ill take pictures later of my broken cable)…I leap from my bike finally she comes to a screeching hault inches from my poor bike. and she sits in her car giving me this die and go to hell look and doesnt even get out and appologize for almost killing me! Today i confirmed there is someone watching over me and i do have a guardian angel.