A long depressing day in the life of a computer nerd.
One bright thought was I was introduced to a puzzle game.
Manufactoria very interesting game to challenge your mind. Will let you know if I ever finish it.
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Monday 28 May 2012
Monday again
Recovering from a weekend of gardening and painting. Now I get to go back to work and deal with strange questions. At least I'm sitting down and not getting sore from all the work.
People who don't work in IT will not understand how frustrating it can be dealing with computer novices. Note is use nice terms here rather than the one I would really like to say, but I digress.
I was talking to a user who was having trouble getting his e-mail. Since I'm doing this all remotely and over the phone this leads to challenging situations. I could not access his network as the internet was down. For the next 5 minutes I tried to explain that since his internet was down he would not be able to get any e-mails. He keep saying that his computer was connected by wireless. I finally convinced him that he need internet to get his mail but was still confused as to why his wireless network could not get his mail.
I'm in the process of developing the serenity prayer of system administrators since we really need it some days. So here is my first stab at it.
People who don't work in IT will not understand how frustrating it can be dealing with computer novices. Note is use nice terms here rather than the one I would really like to say, but I digress.
I was talking to a user who was having trouble getting his e-mail. Since I'm doing this all remotely and over the phone this leads to challenging situations. I could not access his network as the internet was down. For the next 5 minutes I tried to explain that since his internet was down he would not be able to get any e-mails. He keep saying that his computer was connected by wireless. I finally convinced him that he need internet to get his mail but was still confused as to why his wireless network could not get his mail.
I'm in the process of developing the serenity prayer of system administrators since we really need it some days. So here is my first stab at it.
The Serenity Prayer for System Administrators
God grant me the serenity to accept the stupidity of users I cannot change; the courage to change my mind when I want to delete their access and files; and the wisdom to not actually kill them.Saturday 26 May 2012
Missed a day
Well it's the weekend and I missed a day in the life.
Got busy with work and traffic was a pain.
Thanks to Diablo 3 I'm keeping my sanity. Lucky for me I can kill stuff and not go to jail ;)
Will review the game in a later post once I have played more.
Will also post some games that are free to play for people like me who are cheap.
Got busy with work and traffic was a pain.
Thanks to Diablo 3 I'm keeping my sanity. Lucky for me I can kill stuff and not go to jail ;)
Will review the game in a later post once I have played more.
Will also post some games that are free to play for people like me who are cheap.
Thursday 24 May 2012
Installing Vista
Well I started doing an install on Vista, good thing I have the driver for the network card.
First round of updates 105, been going for a while. You think that Microsoft would do a roll up and let you install the latest service pack first.
Well a few more hours of updates then I should be finished.
First round of updates 105, been going for a while. You think that Microsoft would do a roll up and let you install the latest service pack first.
Well a few more hours of updates then I should be finished.
Just starting
Going to start creating a blog about general computer stuff i.e. a day in the life of a computer geek.
I hope to update this blog every day and include smart phone, computers, software etc.
I hope to update this blog every day and include smart phone, computers, software etc.
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