New Computer User
- April 3rd, 2006
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Ok, I guess I’ll do one of those ‘here is what I did this weekend’ entries. Perhaps this will get Roger off my back…
First off, Biff’s little bit of news turned out to be an April Fools joke. I was suspicious but who the hell knows what happens to a person after 18 months in detox. My initial reaction was correct: a) you ain’t getting any and b) your boys can’t swim. My thoughts were mostly with Rachel and the thought of her still being subjected to Biff’s ‘advances’. Moving on…
My weekend can be summed up as such; I spent a small fortune of groceries, did my taxes and managed to bugger up two of my computers. Friday evening I decided to see if I could add a second drive to my Windows machine. Normally this would not a big deal but the box uses a [tag]SATA[/tag] disk and I was trying to add an [tag]ATA[/tag] disk. This did not go well. “Fine, whatever, I don’t really care, let’s just plug the SATA drive back in and wrap this up…” *swap drive and reboot* “Operating system not found” “What the hell?” I should probably mention that I had recently moved all my backups from my backup box to this machine. I was starting to feel SOL…
Needless to say I went off on a fun adventure where I managed to reset my [tag]BIOS[/tag] which conviently cleared my [tag]chipset[/tag] driver. Mental note 1: next time I buy a motherboard, buy one where the help documentation is written by people who speak English as their first language. Saturday morning I went back and attempted to re-install said driver. That went well and had absolutely zero impact on my situation. I was actually ready to add the box to my graveyard of machines I don’t use but I hate to admit defeat in situations such as these. After a few hours of digging around the BIOS, I finally was able to configure it properly. *Reboot* “Ah, all is right in the world again.”
Sunday I finally sat down and addressed my tax situation. I was in no rush as I was pretty sure that I was gonna be paying this year. Looks like I should have done it sooner as I think I have some bucks coming back. I really need to go over it again before I finally do a dance of joy.
Late Sunday, I notice my [tag]PowerBook[/tag] has an odd [tag]IP[/tag] address and I can’t hit my shares. Disreagarding everything that happened on Saturday as an omen of doom, I decided that I would ‘correct’ the situation. This too went rather poorly. Mental note 2: If you start to dick around with your network settings, do it over a wire. I released my address and then was confounded when I couldn’t re-connect to the router. Several hours passed as I worked to solve this fascinating turn of events… Hours later as I was trying to stop thinking about it and fall asleep, it came to me. I got up, plugged a cable in and renewed my address. *idiot* Everything was right in the world. Again…
I apologize for wasting the past 5 minutes of your life…
Sounds like a blast. I’m certain you are also rethinking your choice to point out what a complete n00b you are (waking up and plugging in the CAT5). Wow, looks like it’s true that you do your best work while you’re asleep.
Oh, and yes, I appreciate the post. Nice to see posts more regularily from you. Keep it up.
unless you are planning a sleep over little buddy, we’ll cancel the next family computer check-up…. just kidding (well….) apologies for “dropping a tab” the other day and I’m really sorry that it confused roger, no need to add to his stresses…… see you on Friday?
hello mark i was just looking at your blog (what the hell does that mean) and i saw that maybe you needed a little technical advice concerning the old computer and some of its features – as i told you on many occasions give me a call at any time if you are having a problem as i am always there to help you. the first thing that i learned was to unplug the unit and plug it back in – if this does not work there are a number of other things that we can do to get you up and running again – i do not like to state them all over the net as it is accessible to many not so creditable people as myself and they might be able to control a lot of decisions that should be left to more expert persons such as me (you used to be first here but since you have screwed up …. hey you are now behind me as noted) you and me. anyway mark i must go for now has i know that you will be watching the stomping tom dvd that you have recently purchased a long with the collection of hank snow’s greatest hits cd collection that you bought when you were out in kelowna last month to have a visit ( i was terribly embarrassed when you bought that but i told the clerk that you were from merritt) love you mark… uncle neal (from hooterville)
thank you neal. I stand corrected; my first mistake was that I didn’t call you first. I really should have known…
this will come as no surprise but when you buy shit like that in hooterville, everyone assumes you are ‘one of them’ so no one batted an eye…
you know, there is a reason that comments get moderated!