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22 05 09 - 21:03 I'll jump right in, rather then explaining myself. You don't care anyway... So my first "apainment" of the day (that's my little joke word substitution of "appointment" was to go see a local accountant because his printer had stopped working. Surprise-surprise, his switch was unplugged. I always get that, you know? Not enough to allow me to remember to ask, mind you, but often enough that I'm kicking myself for not explicitly asking while on the phone. Got that like two days ago too. Guy complaining firefox was the problem (not mentioning he can't get email too) and his Frontier stuff was turned off. Just totally "click" off. Ugg. While I was there, someone was working remotely on a problem they were having with their server. Seems they had installed a remote backup program which of course caused problems. So I'm talking to the guy and I tell him I go home to a Mac, so I don't have any of these crap problems, and turns out he does too! Weird, it was like, dude, you're my new best friend! Anyway.
Next up was my 1:00 to go see a man about a RAM. He had an old HP laptop that had 2GB of RAM, but one SO-DIMM went bad and was giving him BSODs. So I ordered a new one for him and figured, two minutes tops, in and out, right? No. See, after I left it seems he lost internet connectivity, but didn't mention that. Thanks. He would get an IP address, but I couldn't ping anything. So I change the cables, I boot into Ubuntu 9 to check and make sure he's getting a signal from RR, everything works. Back into Windows, no dice. Turns out I had removed a bunch of viruses from his machine while I was there, but missed half of one. It was in two parts, an ipfw.exe and an ipfw_helper.sys, something like that. I got the EXE but didn't get the "driver" that had installed itself. Thus, it wouldn't let him out. A quick boot into "Safe mode with Command Prompt" and deleting the file later, it was done. Thanks MS, for letting random crap install itself as a driver on your OS. Appreciate that. Not the end of the pain though, as I now try to install the RAM so I can finally GET OUT of there (it's now been an hour). No, not going to happen. It just hangs on the BIOS screen. So I look it up, and half the websites say it CAN take 2GB, half say it can only take 1GB. Thanks bunches guys. It took 2 before, why won't it now? The RAM wasn't bad, it would run fine with either one in. Just not both. AARRGGG... Was the other one some special PC2700 one? Can't be, right? But no workie, just hangs. I hate PCs. (Get used to that line, you'll be reading it a lot)

Reminds me of a brand new machine I set up a couple of weeks ago. The tech specs from the manufacturer said "Max 4 GB RAM". But when you actually put 4 in there, BSOD. I searched around and found other people complaining about that too. What, they never actually tested it, or what?

I called another lady about delivering a USB card for her laptop (as her three USB ports died) but she was going out of town so she said to call her next week. Went to visit my grandmother, etc. etc. Two apainments for tomorrow, a guy who needs his battery replaced (his clock keeps going back to 2004) and a system I just, like two weeks ago, totally reloaded XP on. I guess he's infected again or something. Big surprise. I guess even using firefox can't help if you're an idiot. We'll see what his problem is. Then the bright spot of the week, I get to go over to Sean's tomorrow night! Mizzy is away for the weekend, it'll be just us guys.

And there's an odd thing, where did she get the "online h4x0r alias" Mizzy from, anyway? Sean uses his real name online. So do I. But she goes by an alias. Weird. Well, I'll certainly respect her decision.

And that's First Post. Perhaps more will be forthcoming? Humm?