Mar 16, 2007 16:23
God
damn
it.
everything technological i touch fuckin tanks. The closed captioning turns on the tv with the lost remote this week when i turn it on; youtube streaming stalls for me; hell Windows Media Player stalls and thats built in, and when it doesn't stall streaming-video goes all acid trip funky coloured instead of looking normal; I can't sign into gmail all week because the sign-in keeps timing out; i can't even sign into messenger now because THATS timing out too.
and oh, yeah, I FUCKED MY COMPUTER.
me mother wants to set up the homestead router wirelessly so i'd finally get net back on MY machine instead of me using HERS. okay, fair enough. so we set everything up, install the shit on my computer, my comp takes a look and finds the router wirelessly ok but not the net? Yeahbuhwha?? okay, so just gotta do some troubleshooting. First things first, lets go over the router. Oh, thats why it can't find the internet....because its not plugged in to the internet jack. In fact, its never been!! Its been plugged into one of the ethernet ports and the whole fuckin things been run like a hub! never even checked out the router firmware cuz it can't load it on a mac. So instead of the router maintaining the connection to the net and everyone linking up to the router, its just been connecting directly as if its a home network and the internet's just another computer on the LAN. WTF. Double-you, tee, eff.
And all the while, i'm dealin with bickering and bitching and "call Bell.net, if you can't get online THEY need to fix it!!" Yes, they need to fix the router they didn't make so we can crank our monthly bandwidth with them up to the nines. Yeah, thats all well and good, but the first thing they're gonna ask is for you to unplug the router. "well, we'll just NOT tell them its plugged in." At this point, my forehead and the desk have fused together from me bangin them together.
Maybe this doesn't bug you, but this muthafuckin bugs me. *nnnnnnerd*
So fuck that, fix that, lets get this show on the road. Okay, workin. Well, you better believe not for long! Cuz less than an hour later, i got problems logging into my computer when i restart, its lookin for a password i haven't set up. Fine, fuggit, i find whats causing that, a GTGina.dll and the system says "uninstall this and the issue will go away" basically. WELL what the shit is wrong with me, thinkin listening to your computer is a good idea!? I didn't even uninstall it, i simply moved the dll to the desktop (WARNING WARNING, RETARD BEHAVIOR, i was stoned and tired and dealin with my mother at this point gimme a break)and restarted.
BANG, insta-fucked.
Now, its tellin me it CANNOT restart. WILL NOT restart. Contact system administrator to reinstall or replace the dll in question. Urgh.
Recovery console? asking for a password i sure as shit do not recall.
Repair? tried it, and after motherfuckin 3, count em 3 different WinXP cds, and infinite product keys, it finally finishes the repair/reinstall and BANG same problem.
is anything backed up?? hayyyle no. Now, its not like its an earth-shattering soul-crushing loss if i have to reformat, but come on. two years of photos with people i don't get to see anymore, innumerable mp3s of somewhat rare taste, and a fairly decent porn collection. not to mention about 5 gb of art. now, a pictures, what, 125k? maybe a full mb if its big & purty?? 1mb. hell, even 5mb if its a big photoshop file. FIVE GIGABYTES OF ART DOWN THE TUBES IF ALLS FUCKED.
as an artwhore, this vexes me greatly.
and look, after alls said and done i'm still on my moms computer. maybe it'll blow up, since i keep touching it.
like, actually detonate.
i'm holding out hope.
gruh.