- Take one workstation.
- Replace failed hard drive. Add higher operating system.
- Poke hole in firewall to allow it to act as FTP server for Xerox network scanning.
- Test FTP server from your own workstation. Smile when everything looks good.
- Add all appropriate service packs and security updates to workstation.
- Swear when you go to to Xerox copier and all attempts at Network Scanning via ftp fail with annoying beeping sound.
- Spend 2 hours ensuring all settings on new workstation match those that you had written down about old workstaion.
- Curse some more.
- Sit quietly sobbing at your desk for a few minutes.
- Contemplate killing all your co-workers.
- Click random buttons on the workstaion to make it look like you are getting somewhere.
- Come to the realization that applying service packs and security updates in step 5 closed the hole you poked in the firewall in step 3.
- Vow to hunt down Microsoft Developers to make way for a better tomorrow.
Recipe For Disaster
August 5, 2008 by dave
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Dave you have to realize going after Microsoft’s software developers would be considered animal cruelty. After all that room of highly trained chimpanzees would not make it in the real world. We could not have that. PETA would be haunting you. Do you really want to see signs of” will write code for bananas”? Barring that take pictures of Bill Gates with an Apple as his personal computer. See how they respond to that
How about a similar experience? Buy a new tower that includes 2 gigs of ram and a wireless card. Included is a keyboard, speakers and mouse. Get it home and find that the antenna does not go with the wireless card. Computer guy takes wireless card with the wrong antenna back. Reconnects with USB wireless with extension. Load and play a few games. Load DVD player from CD that is also included in the package and watch a movie. Be dissatisfied with DVD player that came with package and uninstall and install the one that you have on another CD. Restart your computer and find that the system crashed…cry. Reconnect old tower and hook up wireless and send computer guy an email saying you now have a computer that is worth junk because you do not know that you did not give it enough time for the icons to come back. After a day and the computer guy coming over with the wireless card and the new tower reconnected, start configuring the wireless card…which won’t configure. Be thankful for other wireless connection until wireless card can be configured. Change the user account to your name and believe you lose all your data…cry. Find all the data…weep for joy and relief. Have everything just about perfect…except the wireless card.
Forgot one thing. Change mouse back to the old one because you don’t like the way the right handed mouse works when you are left handed.