We don’t have any in-house IT personnel at my company, so tech issues generally land on my shoulders…which is kind of ironic since, a) in school, I majored in English Lit (though I did start out in the sciences) and b) we’re a company whose product LIVES on the Internet. A couple weeks ago, our [...]
Chrome doesn’t trust Chrome – off to a great day…
I frequently listen to a podcast called The Mike O’meara Show ( http://www.MIKEOMEARASHOW.com/ ) and one of the show producers get one of those ” you’ve got a virus ” telemarketers, and well he handles him with great ……poise ? You be the judge. -Nice, keep on trollin’ those jerks. -Rob
My poor dad is as computer illiterate as a 50-year old Mexican immigrant can get. Growing up poor in Mexico, he didn’t have access to much technology. When I started college I bought a PC and he was amazed at what we could do with it. Well, when I got married and moved out, I [...]
Square peg, round hole, part II for today! I had been working in a computer shop for almost a year when a client came to our service desk claiming she couldn’t get her USB drive out of the port. After a quick try she was right, the key was jammed. So I ended up forcing [...]
I had good story about a sales guys I used to work with. We had some slim 15 inch TFT screens that most of the sales guys had. One of them complains the screen is too small and it’s giving him headaches. I went and grabbed an old 15 inch TFT monitor that had a [...]
Okay, so working late last night on a server migration in a dungeon of a server room; nowhere to sit, just me on my todd. Thought you guys would appreciate the Ultimate Air cooled Admin Chair
(I’m working at my local electronics store as a technician. A customer in her mid-30s walks up with a laptop.) Customer: “There’s something wrong with my laptop screen. It’s all screwed up!” Me: “Screwed up like how? Can you please be more specific, ma’am?” Customer: “I don’t know how to describe it. The picture’s all [...]
You mean that having a 64-bit OS doesn’t mean I get 64-bit colors? Ripoff! – Rob — Sure thing. 64-Bit mode in this case might be misunderstood… Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_5328836_bit-color.html
My boss got himself an iPad and asked me to set it up. Of course, me being a great employee I do it. A few days later he comes to say that he can’t open some files and I should fix it. I check those files (xls/xlsx) via e-mail client and they work just fine. [...]