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Another Something Monday

29 06 09 - 21:35 Which illustrates, once again, dumbness. Grocery shopping in the morning, then left to get to my first apainment right on time. His problem in his words "When I open Internet Explorer the cursor goes back and forth between the hourglass and the arrow really fast and one time I had like twenty windows open and it doesn't do anything." His problem? A tape dispenser had gotten on his enter key. I didn't suspect that initially because usually a PC will tell you "stuck key" if you have a key held down at boot. But he didn't say that and neither did the PC when I booted it up. A wonderful 800mhz system, yippee. So I'm looking for virus activity, I reset IE to defaults, etc. in safe mode and reboot his machine again. The odd thing is it wanted to do a disk check, but then skipped it. "That's odd" I thought. "Why dost it do thusly?" That's when I noticed the tape thing. I hate my job. His problem stemmed from a combination of having (inadvertently) held the enter key down which to windows says "open this" and on the mac says "rename this" (which is better, humm, I wonder) and having a machine too slow to actually open things in a timely manner, so he told it to open a billion of whatever he clicked on, something his machine was never going to do.

It wouldn't be so bad if we wasn't 40 minutes away. 80 minutes of driving for a tape dispenser on a key. Yeah.

So I came home, did three comic write ups, and then went over to the mortgage place. They wanted some new machines set up to the creaky old copier/fax/printer they have. It's an industrial one, not a dinky thing, but it's still old. Of course, they don't know the passwords to get on their own wireless, so first we have to figure that out. Then it does some weird scanning thing where it'll scan to a pdf directly to a shared folder on the individual PCs. Interesting feature. If it worked with Vista, which it didn't. So I worked around that, then got the second one all going. Much smoother the second time, amazing how things go well when you know what you're doing. But man, trying to figure out crap I've never done before, on the fly? That bites. But hey, it did only take me two hours, and much of that was their fault for not having passwords and such. So at my rates, they can afford me figuring things out a little.

Came back home. Ate dinner. Did the other three comics I had ready to be typed in. Worked on a system with a failing? HD. It's been copying to my Mac like a champ, about 50GB now, but trying to copy it on the actual PC it was connected to onto another HD just wasn't working at all. Did I mention I hate windows?

Three for tomorrow. Oh goody.

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