GOD'S MERCY ON THIS SWINE
Sep. 24th, 2002 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedfleaI just typed an entry, but it got eaten somehow. Imagine that. Anyway, the gist of it was this:
I'm sure that y'all are tired of hearing about my computer woes, but I just want to get this down. My boy Hans just brought my computer back with a new, bigger hard drive (a whole three gigs, whoopee) and a freshly installed operating system. That's good. What's bad, however is: 1) he yanked out the video card that I'd installed, so I'm limited to 800x600 again; 2) the "new" hard drive started making funny noises as soon as he left for a minute; and 3) this machine is still a hunk of shit. When I told him about the noises, he said, "Yeah, we need to get some new drives. I had to try three before I got one to work." Great, thanks dude -- you're really inspiring confidence. And by the way, I don't care how many certifications you got from the Hamburg Trade School; my ATI video card did not cause the hard drive to fail. Fuck it, man -- I'm going to keep right on bringing my laptop, plugging it into this monitor and keyboard, and getting some work done.
Oh, and today he actually acknowledged that this is a slow machine. Um, yeah, tell me about it. Pentium 133, baby.
Pardon me, I seem to be lost. I thought I worked at one of the richest universities in the world. Oh yeah, but I still work in publishing. SNARL
I'm sure that y'all are tired of hearing about my computer woes, but I just want to get this down. My boy Hans just brought my computer back with a new, bigger hard drive (a whole three gigs, whoopee) and a freshly installed operating system. That's good. What's bad, however is: 1) he yanked out the video card that I'd installed, so I'm limited to 800x600 again; 2) the "new" hard drive started making funny noises as soon as he left for a minute; and 3) this machine is still a hunk of shit. When I told him about the noises, he said, "Yeah, we need to get some new drives. I had to try three before I got one to work." Great, thanks dude -- you're really inspiring confidence. And by the way, I don't care how many certifications you got from the Hamburg Trade School; my ATI video card did not cause the hard drive to fail. Fuck it, man -- I'm going to keep right on bringing my laptop, plugging it into this monitor and keyboard, and getting some work done.
Oh, and today he actually acknowledged that this is a slow machine. Um, yeah, tell me about it. Pentium 133, baby.
Pardon me, I seem to be lost. I thought I worked at one of the richest universities in the world. Oh yeah, but I still work in publishing. SNARL
