Monthly Archives: December 2012
It’s Dead, Jim . . .
Jan and our granddaughter Piper had scheduled a Girl’s Day Out with lunch, a movie, mani/pedi’s, and shopping, so they headed out a little before 11, with me about 15 minutes behind.
As for me, I was heading over to a client’s to earn some money to pay for lunch, a movie, mani . . . you get the picture.
I was going to finish the setup of the new computer that I started yesterday. But I should have known this machine was snake-bit right out of the box. In fact it crashed pretty much right out of the box.
The first odd thing was that it tried to turn on as soon as I plugged it into power. But powering down and back on brought it right up. Then, further into the initial setup, as I was entering the Account Name and the PC Name, the machine blue-screened, rebooted, scanned for HD errors, found none, and then settled down and worked fine.
I should have given up then, but it worked fine the rest of the afternoon as I installed more software. But then this morning right before I left the rig, one of the office people called and said they had been installing MS Office 2010 on it, and when they rebooted at the end of the installation, the machine would not come up. The power light was on but that was it.
And when I got to the office I found the same thing. I did unplugged it for about 5 minutes, but after I plugged it back in, the power light came back on and that was it. So I packed it back in the box and off to Fry’s Electronics I went.
Of course, when they booted it up at the store, it worked fine. Of course.
But after I explained all the problems I’d had, they quickly gave me a replacement machine and then it was back to the office. Back at the client’s office, I started the setup over, and this time everything went fine, with no problems.
Finally finishing up for the day, I stopped by another client’s to check in before heading over to the house to wait for Jan and Piper.
And as soon as they showed up, we said our goodbyes to Piper and then Jan and I headed toward home with a stopover at Monterey’s Little Mexico for dinner.
Chicken Tortilla Soup on a cold, wet evening. YUMMM!
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Thought for the Day:
Officer: “Why did you shoot this man 6 times as he broke into your home?”
Home Owner: “’Cause the seventh time I pulled the trigger it went click.”
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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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