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Sorry guys, I didn't realize the post came out so long.
Lets see. I get home yesterday after the party to a threat from my dad, "Get that program working on the good laptop like I told you to before, or your not going anywhere else".
Background story time!
The program my dad is referring to is a kitchen design program. It's 2D, so it's faster to render/design than the 3D one my dad has, so he wants to use it to give clients a quick look at what their kitchen would look like without the hassle of having to position shit in 3D space. A good idea. The problem, however, is that the install is in five floppy disks. This wouldn't be a problem except A) the good laptop does not sport a floppy drive and B) We no longer even have the floppies. The program is loaded into the older laptop and by copy/pasting the actual program folder, I've been able to get it to work on other computers. Here ends the back story.
Now, the laptop I'm posting this from is new. It does not have the design program installed. A few months ago, when we first got it, my dad asked me to put the program in. I did. For some reason, however, the program runs fine but it doesn't have any cabinets to put on the walls. I didn't realize this, since if you don't know what the screen looks like, it looks the same with or without the options. So my dad, a few weeks later, tells me about this. He then tells me to fix it.
And bloody hell, I tried. I tried for hours. I did(do) not know what was wrong. After working for hours on end, I tell my dad this and, this is the good part, I get yelled at. I got yelled at because I don't know how to do something. Eventually though, he just leaves me alone. Now, weeks later, again, he says the above threat. So I've been working since 9 AM, since I got up, to try and get this thing to show some goddamn cabinets. I have transfered every .dll file in the older laptops hard drive over to this one. I've found programs that I didn't know existed that could tell you what files a program is accessing in an attempt to find what file has these cabinets. I've burned over 4 cd's worth of files to try to get this thing to work. I have gone through the folder and DELETED EVERY FILE in there, ONE BY ONE, restarting the program over and over with the missing file, to see which one is responsible for the cabinets. Know what? I found it.
And I still. Can't. Get. It. To. Work.
Everything is the same, except the program won't recognize the damned file on this laptop. I don't know why. I even checked the .ini files to see if it includes a file path to the cabinets file (it does). Nothing, though, has made the cabinets show up.
Now, when my dad gets home, I can expect to be yelled at for not knowing enough to get it to work. Because, you know, it's my fault I don't know most intimate details about how some random program that I never use, and would have never heard of otherwise, deals with different computers. Makes sense, really. If your the family computer whiz, your supposed to be able to pop fucking full working computers out of your ass on command!
Can't say I like video games or else I'm some smelly, anti social freak who doesn't know what a vagina is.
Can't say I like reading or else I'm some nerdy, boring bookworm who doesn't say a word to anyone.
Can't say I'm good at math or else I'm a school loving dork that reminds the teacher that we didn't get homework that day.
Can't say I'm good at computers or else I am fully expected to know how to fix everything in a matter of minutes, no matter how hard.
None of which are right. I swear to God I completely empathizes with the plight of every single in-the-closet gay out there.
Lets see. I get home yesterday after the party to a threat from my dad, "Get that program working on the good laptop like I told you to before, or your not going anywhere else".
Background story time!
The program my dad is referring to is a kitchen design program. It's 2D, so it's faster to render/design than the 3D one my dad has, so he wants to use it to give clients a quick look at what their kitchen would look like without the hassle of having to position shit in 3D space. A good idea. The problem, however, is that the install is in five floppy disks. This wouldn't be a problem except A) the good laptop does not sport a floppy drive and B) We no longer even have the floppies. The program is loaded into the older laptop and by copy/pasting the actual program folder, I've been able to get it to work on other computers. Here ends the back story.
Now, the laptop I'm posting this from is new. It does not have the design program installed. A few months ago, when we first got it, my dad asked me to put the program in. I did. For some reason, however, the program runs fine but it doesn't have any cabinets to put on the walls. I didn't realize this, since if you don't know what the screen looks like, it looks the same with or without the options. So my dad, a few weeks later, tells me about this. He then tells me to fix it.
And bloody hell, I tried. I tried for hours. I did(do) not know what was wrong. After working for hours on end, I tell my dad this and, this is the good part, I get yelled at. I got yelled at because I don't know how to do something. Eventually though, he just leaves me alone. Now, weeks later, again, he says the above threat. So I've been working since 9 AM, since I got up, to try and get this thing to show some goddamn cabinets. I have transfered every .dll file in the older laptops hard drive over to this one. I've found programs that I didn't know existed that could tell you what files a program is accessing in an attempt to find what file has these cabinets. I've burned over 4 cd's worth of files to try to get this thing to work. I have gone through the folder and DELETED EVERY FILE in there, ONE BY ONE, restarting the program over and over with the missing file, to see which one is responsible for the cabinets. Know what? I found it.
And I still. Can't. Get. It. To. Work.
Everything is the same, except the program won't recognize the damned file on this laptop. I don't know why. I even checked the .ini files to see if it includes a file path to the cabinets file (it does). Nothing, though, has made the cabinets show up.
Now, when my dad gets home, I can expect to be yelled at for not knowing enough to get it to work. Because, you know, it's my fault I don't know most intimate details about how some random program that I never use, and would have never heard of otherwise, deals with different computers. Makes sense, really. If your the family computer whiz, your supposed to be able to pop fucking full working computers out of your ass on command!
Can't say I like video games or else I'm some smelly, anti social freak who doesn't know what a vagina is.
Can't say I like reading or else I'm some nerdy, boring bookworm who doesn't say a word to anyone.
Can't say I'm good at math or else I'm a school loving dork that reminds the teacher that we didn't get homework that day.
Can't say I'm good at computers or else I am fully expected to know how to fix everything in a matter of minutes, no matter how hard.
None of which are right. I swear to God I completely empathizes with the plight of every single in-the-closet gay out there.