so, my work computer is HOSED. when i try an boot it i just get dll not found errors right and left. help desk has opened a ticket for desktop support to contact me. they are supposed to do so and resolve the problem within 24 clock hours. that time frame translates into days in my world. especially at the beginning of the week wherein we pack two days worth of work into one monday thru wednesday.
as i sit here completely cut off from the collective i suddenly i find myself wondering what a borg with a bad transmitter feels like. glad? upset? maybe i feel a little of both.
i can do nothing of true value without it. sure i can get my meeting calendar from my boss (she can access my outlook), but without connectivity i cannot do anything but dial into calls and bungle around. see i am a project director, and thusly i plan every ones work. i do so by using work plans, time lines and agendas etc to remember everything for me. without that little HP box to connect me to the mother ship where all that info is stored i am reduced to a few handwritten notes i scratched on paper last week. GAH! technology – gotta love it – gotta hate it.
the worst part about it as i am sure it means i will have to physically present myself and the dead box to a satellite office here in town. more GAH! because i’ll have to shave and suit up to go in. not to mention the drive to the top end of the perimeter.
if there was ever a day i needed to win the lotto so i could just walk away from it today is surely it.
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June 9, 2009 at 1:21 am
Ah yes. Dead computers, they sucketh. What I do is file EVERYTHING on the server at work, as well as a server at home, (so I can work at the house if need be) that way if my computer dies, I just plug another one into the ethernet and away I go. All files are there waiting for me. A server that has a great back up system has become a must for me even at home. With 5 computers at the house we needed a central back up and repository for files, photos, music, etc. I don’t know how I lived without it now…
Hopefully you’ll get it back sooner rather than later.