Hmmm

[digitaldiscipline]

Okay, the boss' sister in law's machine has been un-fucked.

The boss is learning.

"Rafe, I was trying to set up N's machine with her new modem, and I fucked something up. I have the driver CD and the Windows CD - could you come over after work and fix it?"

Ten minutes - gotta love how windows doesn't think to look in such obscure places for necessary files as C:\Windows and C:\windows\system when it can't find them on the CD-rom it explicitly asked for [and annoying that I knew this was exactly what was happening, despite being out of the trenches for four-plus years now].

The best part. . . I get to invoice him my real, full, professional IT rate, plus house call.

The boss just sponsored my boozing this weekend, folks.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

I think that's my favorite thing about Windows installation wizards... Or about Redhat or Mandrake, or AIX for that matter. If the package manager/registry/whatever doesn't think a file is installed, it's Not Installed, even if it's already in the directory it was going to be installed into. Fucking things don't even BOTHER looking to see if the Real World matches what their little list says. And people wonder how their DirectX goes from version 8 to version 6 when they install a "new" game....

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

the institutional senility built into the installation registry boggles me. it got to the point, before i discovered that the copy of win98 i'd been using had a couple of bad spots on the cd, that not only did i have the windows key memorized, i'd whipped up a .bat file to bulk copy it to the hard drive, then run the setup locally. oif.

[the-tatyana.livejournal.com]

Rafe, wanna come over and put our 5 stupid dumb computers together into one that actually works right for us? We'll feed ya.
;>)

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

yanno. . . this is tempting. that many computers, full of hot goth babe photographs? if you weren't a thousand miles away. . . and if you can promise me that Cossack wouldn't toss me over his shoulder -too- much. . .

[i'd normally tell ya to ship 'em down, but that might be pricy. . . it'd work, though. . . either of you have a company fedex account you can take advantage of? *grin* (yes, i'm serious)]

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[the-tatyana.livejournal.com]

You are a nut!!!! Thank you for the offer. :>)
I was just being woeful and facetious! Knowing very little about hardware, I think we will break down and buy an off-the-shelf 'puter sometime this year. It absolutely needs to happen to bring our technology into this century!!!

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

nooooooooooooo!~!!!!

well, i guess you could do worse than a dell. . . but consult your local geek [ie: me] before making a purchase decision.

and, yeah, you probably have at least two or three good machines' worth of parts there

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[the-tatyana.livejournal.com]

heh...what good are parts if we don't know what to do with them?! (bookends? paper weights?)
hee hee