*palm*forehead*

[digitaldiscipline]

Y'all knew I was OOT all weekend. The boss knew [and I was dumb enough to give him my cel #].

So, after some very nice travel up to Buffalo and an afternoon spent doing this, that, and the other, I notice 2 missed items on my phone - one random call from the 770 area code [errrrr. . . . whoever the fuck you are, leave a message next time], and then a text message [i can get text messages?]. . . it's the boss' cell #.

"Rafe, I was working at your computer and it locked up. I killed [short list of utterly innocent processes], but it was still locked up, and now it won't reboot."

I should note that the _.same.fucking.thing._ happened the last time he sat at my desk, last august, and ended up requiring a complete teardown of the machine.

It's the main file server and print server for the office. We have a 70+ page report that has to be out the door tomorrow.

I -really- want to hear some good news from CO real friggin' soon.

Comments

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

arrrgh. :/

unplug it next time. he'll never figure out what's wrong.

sorry that happened.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i don't think it was his fault - C:/ was showing as "damaged or not partitioned" when I got around to reinstalling win2k this morning.

however, i've got another problem now - the half-dozen or so drive letters that were assigned to the pair of other hard disks in the machine are still assigned to those drives. . . . twice. and i can't figure out how to delete the "ghost" drive letters because they don't show up in the meaningful part of the windows management console. grrr.

Registry

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you have to monkey with the registry to get it straight. That's like open heart surgery on a CPU, good luck.

Re: Registry

[etcet.livejournal.com]

actually, about five minutes after posting this, i was describing the situation to the boss. . . and it ceased to exist.

i have -no- idea why it suddenly began behaving, but i'm not going to bitch, there's too much work to do

[whomajigi.livejournal.com]

Sounds like something my father would do...just end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and hit the wrong key, thus resulting in the computer imploding...poor you...

*resumes crossing everything for the CO job*