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Daily Archives: Wednesday 31 August 2005

Hurricane Survivors Need Your Help

Hurricane Katrina is the most destructive storm to hit the U.S. mainland in years. It has displaced millions of families across the Gulf coast and wrought billions of dollars of damage. Trapped survivors in flooded and devastated areas are still being rescued from harm’s way. Recovery will take months.

Donate at Mercy Corps or the Catholic Charities, but be aware of Charity Scams You want the money to go to those who need it.

Via Michelle Malkin

Where is Amazon.com? And how about Yahoo!? Microsoft? Dell? Cisco? Countless readers and a few bloggers have wondered why these tech companies, which stepped up the plate to help raise millions of dollars for tsunami victims last year, have not yet set up fund-raising efforts.

Come on guys, get your finger out and step up to the plate.

Yea right ok

I’ve been setting up the pc’s at school for the last week and for the most part it’s been pretty straight forward. Until I hit 3rd grade that is, then 2nd, then 1st – they have new boe pc’s. I sign in as admin, but no admin privilege, which means I can’t assign the pc’s their own individual IP, or change the name of the pc’s so they’re easily recognizable on the network, or stick them on the correct workgroup so they can access the programs on the server and others pc’s.

6 phone calls later including tech support for the boe, and numerous calls made to a bunch of people listed on the “if you have a problem please call” list and I’m still no closer than I was 5 phone calls later. I keep getting passed onto the next department who are even more clueless than the last.

No one knows who’s responsible for giving me the password to access the administrator account so I can’t change anything.

Consequently I have half the pc’s assigned their own IP address, and the other half using DHCP. I wonder which grade will get the first ‘I’m sorry you can’t access the network at this time, there is an IP conflict with another machine blah blah blah” message.

Then I go outside to kick a tree and try and vent my frustration when the landscape gardener strikes up a conversation ignoring my ‘go away’ face and the steam coming out of my head and asks “so, you the secretary?”

Do I look like a secretary? Do I have secretary written on my forehead? I have 3 broken nails, my hair is a mess, I have a power cord slung over my shoulder, I’m tossing a technical manual up in the air for sport, I’m leaning on a cart containing pc parts and a couple of hubs and my tool box is wide open – WHAT PART OF ME SCREAMS SECRETARY?