Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot: Episode 5
- Post about something that made you happy today.
- Repeat for eight days.
- Tag eight people to do the same.
Hi,Rebecca.I know you're a very busy child and you have better things to do than all of us unmotivated adults, but please do this, when you have the time.
Day Five: Fixing a Hole in the Ocean
Rebecca decided last year that she wanted a laptop, and after a lot of back and forth, managed to convince her parents to buy her a MacBook, upon which she would duel-boot Mac OS X and Windows. This arrived the other week, and she was immediately enchanted by its shiny...ness. She cradled it lovingly for a few hours, then booted it, only to find that... oh no! Jaws was broke! "What's a video intercept and how do I install it? Craaaap! What do I doooooo?"
I had a similar problem with my new desktop last year, so I sort of knew what was going on. She was not very happy when I told her that the only solution I found was a reformat, followed by a different order of operations, and that even after all that I still didn't figure out what the problem really had been.
She did, however, eventually give it to someone who, puzzled as he probably was by her quack-addled explanation of her issue, somehow managed to fix it. Due to the same quack, I have no idea what he did, but it seemed initially to have worked.
Then, she tried to turn her screen off, in order to save battery, and apparently went about it in a very strange way, because not ten minutes after she'd got it working, the video intercept was once again broke!
I spent ages thinking that it was just the same issue having repeated itself, but by the time I decided that it wasn't, she had already broken the screen entirely! There went any sighted assistance we might have got, not that it would have been that useful anyway.
Thankfully, after loads more mucking about, we worked out that she had somehow changed her display output to a virtual one that didn't really exist, though she also convinced her laptop that its own monitor was an external device, or some such thing. Obviously, all this confusion would have been very stressful for poor old Jaws, not to mention her and I. That being fixed, everything worked again, and I no longer had to endure the prospect of loads more attempts at tech support, followed by very confused and mostly quite untechnical responses. Wouldn't that please you too?