I HAVE THE POWER!!!

... to use Facebook at a decent speed now.

Anyways, final (hopefully) update on my Interwebs situation.

I called IT today (as I mentioned in my last update) and as Jim said, he did meet me at my apartment at 1.

And he was actually SUPER nice about it. Flat out was like "I'm SO sorry about all this. The way we handled this was ( Read more... )

So I just called IT again, and spoke to Pam, who seems to be getting as frustrated as I am. The conversation went something like this:

*phone rings*
Pam: IT, this is Pam, how can I help you?
Me: Hey Pam, it Scarlet, we've been working on fixing my Ethernet port.
Pam: *sigh* Yeah?
Me: So I took my laptop to Res Tech yesterday...
Pam: And?
Me: They said it ( Read more... )

.... are finally solved.

Maybe.

In theory.

I took everything off Itachi (my laptop) and stuck it on my friend's external hard drive, which was pretty swanky. Then I wiped everything clean and reinstalled Vista. Hopefully whatever the bleep happened last time won't again, and I'll be able to install my printer, and all that jazz.

Side note: I have this ( Read more... )

I've been fighting with this problem for the past few weeks. Not too long ago, my computer got hit with the infamous "Desktop Defender" virus, and after doing a system restore, running my anti-virus (McAfee) and Windows Defender, everything appeared to go back to normal. I did a few subsequent scans just to make sure everything was alright, and I ( Read more... )