It's always a red-letter day when you can cause the software to generate a new, irrecoverable error -- one the administrator has never seen before ;-)

My sister and her husband are looking for a contractor. If you fit, let me know and I'll pass you along to them ( Read more... )

My new laptop is here! In a gigantic but very light box that the Fedex Man smiled a lot as he delivered.

And I've got no energy to open it and set it up. I'm going back to bed.

But I need a new laptop. Apparently the processor can't keep up, or else it's just collapsed of old age (it's 7 years old ( Read more... )

I'm computer-averse at the moment. After several nights this week working until late hours and having to think about how computers work and database logic works and ways to explain all those things to people who aren't literate in those things, I'm significantly uninterested in doing any, including writing or playing scrabble or even reading ( Read more... )

(Thanks to charles_midair )

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Is Yahoo dead in the water for anyone else? Can't ping, can't traceroute? Wonder if this means that SBCGlobal is down, too?

(Current music -- many people booting up XP !!!!!)

I can't hear anything from my computer at all. Either with or without headphones ( Read more... )

I had been using Thunderbird on the other computer for a very long time (before it failed) to access my email on hayseed. I moved to nithaus because it is more stable (only a few users, and the sysadmin is generally in the same room ;-) ), and I've been using the web interface for each of them. I finally figured out how to make Thunderbird talk ( Read more... )

Last night, about 9 PM Pacific Time, every fool in America and their duck must have been out holiday shopping. I present as evidence the fact that our computer network to the charge card network went down. Those East-Coasties were trying to check out, and Ker Blam, there went the network. And it continued until we were trying to close, and chase ( Read more... )