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A Comedy of PC Errors
May. 17th, 2013 01:18 pmEesh, what a week.
First Spare Oom PC begins its death throes. Then my coworkers' PCs are refusing to connect to the phone bank. Then a few work servers start going all wonky and we're disconnected from our Communicators for half a day.
And for a Friday? First my work laptop decides to lose its VPN connection and I waste a good forty-five minutes disconnecting and reconnecting everything so I can get back online.
And to top it all off? I suddenly realize that the desktop PC I ordered through Best Buy and picked up at the local store? The wrong model. I ordered a Gateway DX4870-UB318 (with 8GB processing memory among other things), and was given a DX4870-UB17 (with 6GB processing memory and without other things the UB318 has, and a difference of $100 in price). So now I have to waste another day I could be going to the gym (and writing in the evening) replacing it.
I'm more mad at myself than the store for not checking the tags in the first place and not noticing until a day later, but I'm at least happy that the Best Buy customer service people have all been "oops, that's TOTALLY our bad, we'll replace that for you right away."
So yeah...that's been my week. A comedy of technical errors.
Here's to hoping the weekend goes better!
First Spare Oom PC begins its death throes. Then my coworkers' PCs are refusing to connect to the phone bank. Then a few work servers start going all wonky and we're disconnected from our Communicators for half a day.
And for a Friday? First my work laptop decides to lose its VPN connection and I waste a good forty-five minutes disconnecting and reconnecting everything so I can get back online.
And to top it all off? I suddenly realize that the desktop PC I ordered through Best Buy and picked up at the local store? The wrong model. I ordered a Gateway DX4870-UB318 (with 8GB processing memory among other things), and was given a DX4870-UB17 (with 6GB processing memory and without other things the UB318 has, and a difference of $100 in price). So now I have to waste another day I could be going to the gym (and writing in the evening) replacing it.
I'm more mad at myself than the store for not checking the tags in the first place and not noticing until a day later, but I'm at least happy that the Best Buy customer service people have all been "oops, that's TOTALLY our bad, we'll replace that for you right away."
So yeah...that's been my week. A comedy of technical errors.
Here's to hoping the weekend goes better!
