Daily Archives: December 26, 2012
Happy Boxing Day . . .
After our morning coffee, I headed out to a client’s home office to set up the new computer that I got for her before Christmas. But I quickly ran into a problem when I tried to hook up her older model Sony LCD monitor.
The monitor only has a VGA input and the computer didn’t have one. Only HDMI and DVI. Or rather, it had both a VGA and HDMI output on the motherboard, but there were stickers on both ports saying “This Port Has Been Disabled”.
Instead of the motherboard ports, there was a separate video card with an HDMI and a DVI port. And of course, no VGA ports.
So it was off to Fry’s Electronics to pick up a new monitor so I could get back to work. I also picked up an HDMI cable since most monitors don’t include HDMI cables, though it did include a VGA cable. Lot of good that did me.
Then it was back to the client’s, and back to work. I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning off all the junk that comes on new machines, and then started installing support programs like AVG, ZoneAlarm, SuperAntiSpyware, etc.
Finally, a little after 4pm, I wrapped up for the day and headed back to the rig, where I picked up Jan and we headed back out to have dinner at the Chili’s up in Kemah.
Then it was off to Wal-Mart for some groceries before heading back to the rig for the night.
Later I spent some time on the phone with my friend Nick Russell trying to fix his rig’s heat pump via remote control.
You’d think if he wanted it fixed for free, he’d at least bring it to me.
But, nooooo!
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Thought for the Day:
A Nation of Sheep will beget a Government of Wolves – Edward R. Murrow
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