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20 08 09 - 20:41 about a guy with 2GB worth of mail?

So I'm not really sure when I arrived at the first place this morning what I was walking into. Something about email the person told me. It's an office, so the person that called wasn't the person with the problem. That would be too logical. Of course, the person wasn't there.

But Outlook was giving a strange error message, which basically was nonsense. What it should have said was "outlook.pst file is too big." Which it was, like I said, 2GB. But no, again, that would be too logical. Outlook does this stupid thing (like all Microsoft products do stupid things) whereby it puts everything, and I mean everything, calendars, todos, mail, contacts in one big outlook.pst file. Which of course is dumb because hey look, if it gets corrupted you've lost everything. So I started going through his guy's email. He had sent mail from 2005. One of his mails, entitled "puppies" was 25 megabytes. Don't know how he thought that was going to get through, as many mail severs have limits on file attachments. So that, you know, people don't send messages entitled "puppies" that are 25 MB. I even found some naked lady pictures.

Now, back in my Xerox job, my boss getting even a hint of something like that would have grounds for immediate, instant, I mean really fast "bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out". And the funniest part? They were from someone else's corporate address. Bizarre.

Anyway, cleaned out what I could, left instructions for further action on his part, cursed Mikey a little more, and died a bit more inside.

Onward!

More cleanout. Fake antivirus programs, etc. Not too hard to get rid of ones, luckily.

Stopped at another office to see what I was dealing with. She wants to hook up "an older machine" to the wireless connection "for insurance purposes" whatever that means. It was a 500mhz celeron with 64 MB of RAM. Lady, that thing won't even run a browser and an anti-virus at the same time, don't even bother. But I did find a PCI card that said a minimum of 400Mhz so with a RAM upgrade it should be okay. If by "okay" you understand to mean "pokey", "curse this **** machine" and "why did I have this done". So I knew what to buy and bought it after this one:

No power to the unit. So I did the easiest thing and unplugged everything and plugged it back in. Worked like a champ. Even untangled her cords because I'm that kind of guy. Offered to only accept $10.00 as I was only there a few minutes but she wouldn't hear it and gave me a full hours rate. Thanks, every little bit helps.

Came home to 5 calls. Debated going back out to "insurance" lady but I'll be near there tomorrow when I visit grandma, so I did a different one. Her HD died, click-click-click. Of course, no backups. At least, recent ones, because her CD-RW stopped working awhile back. So why didn't you call about that, hum? Lent her my laptop as she had some online class thing due Sunday, the final online class thing, so I took pity on her and her remaining pIII machine with 128mb RAM, a pirated XP Pro (sp0) with no way to do anything useful. Honestly, you can get decent machines from people on craigslist- it's not a $15,000 car, it's a $200 PC. Why bother running it into the ground? Do you like waiting minutes for it to boot? To bring up web pages? You can't be that poor. I mean, really.

Got one comic penciled. Was going to do the second but Sean called, wanted to do Left 4 Dead tonight. Turns out I have nothing scheduled for tomorrow morning, so I'll do it then. Promise.

Put in a newegg order, finished up that laptop with the busted fan, phone calls, dinner.

Sean's tomorrow, so no blog. Probably Demon Gate High, hopefully a better one then last time.

Current Laughter: Xbox360 Failure Rate is 54.2%. Nice job, Mikey. Keep churning out those hits. *glances over at 360* Love you, don't die little one! Course, I have an external fan unit, which I think helps.

Anyway, Left 4 dead now, now, NOW!