Tag: Humor

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Cheap at twice the price

Well, I was performing the usual ‘tech geek’ duty this afternoon. I was fixing up a friend’s computer. It was a real mess. It had originally been split into 4 FAT partitions (that’s not FAT32), with a lot of wasted space on the disk. Using partition magic, I upgraded them to two partitions – one for the Windows 98, and the other for Windows 2000. Then I fixed the modem so it would work in Windows 2000 – it needed a driver download from the Gateway web site. Once that was completed I installed Zone Alarm (personal edition). That fixed an immediate problem – there was a computer somewhere on the Eircom network that was just barraging the machine with SMB packets – virus or hacker I don’t know, but it was causing 100% processor utilization and was killing the machine while it was connected to the internet. Mairt was of the impression that the fan was internet noise. That confirms my opinion – firewall first, the rest is just ornamentation.
What was my charge for all this work? An Indian meal, complete with a bottle of beer! I really am cheap tech support.
Internet noise… what next?

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Cat comment

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Yes, this is how cats do ackt when you encounter them after they do something utterly stupid.

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Network acting up

jayandbrett.pngWell, I always wondered what the story was with the network in college, and while nothing quite like this ever happened to us, it would not have been difficult to fulfill the computer’s wishes for us either.