Customer: “What’s the difference between Windows Vista and Windows 7?” Me: “Vista sucks and 7 doesn’t.”
Category: I.T.
Apr 27
Victory, pt. 2
As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. …
Apr 02
Walmart Product Replacement Plan, Pt.1
I don’t know how it’s going to all to work out at this point, but I’ve got to say–at least from my initial experience this afternoon trying to get a defective digital camera replaced–that Walmart’s product replacement plans have not been of any benefit.
Mar 31
World Backup Day
Today is World Backup Day, when we celebrate by backing up the data on our computers. In reality, you should be doing this regularly, but you probably aren’t. You probably have all kinds of lame excuses, like the cost of hard drives, you don’t have time, it’s too hard, whatever. Most people don’t take backups …
Feb 14
Victory
A couple of months ago at work one of the secretaries brought a Chinese user down for some assistance with her laptop on the wifi network. The laptop had an English keyboard, but the OS was entirely Chinese. “Ni hao,” I said, almost entirely exhausting the Chinese I learned at my old job. “Oh, you …
Sep 27
A fix for ‘no SIM card detected’ on iPhone
A couple of months ago I picked up a second-hand iPhone 3G and jailbroke it so I could run it on T-Mobile. The thing is amazing. It replaced my iPod Classic, Palm m515, and Motorola Razr, and does more than all three devices did. The only real issue I have had with it is that …
Jul 27
Amen, brother
Back in the old Mac OS 9 days, when an application wanted to get your attention, it would just sit quietly and blink without interrupting what you are doing (like Windows did). However, ever since Apple shipped Mac OS X ten years ago, this has not been the case. Now when an application wants to …
Mar 30
Drive on
Working in I.T., I hear a lot of figurative terms for USB flash memory drives: thumb drive, jump drive, zip drive*, flash stick, and memory stick**. My favorite term that I have heard, though, is ‘nerd stick.’ As I have mentioned before, my favorite nerd stick is the Victorinox USB Swiss Army Knife. Both asterisked terms …
Mar 29
WebEx
Here’s a tip: if you ever have to set up a login for webex.com, you had better be prepared to receive a lot of junk email from them. Jerks.
