Friday, August 12, 2005

 

wait...huh... but I was just trying to... grr..

waithuh
So, my boss got a new laptop. She got the sweet Toshiba Satellite M60. It's huge. So she thought she'd do me a favor with her old one and wipe it back to the default factory install. Good thought, except that it crapped out half way through and then would just show a blinky cursor at startup.

Well, I finally got into the bios of her old Satellite Pro 6100 and configured the boot priority so I could boot from the restore CDs again. Toshiba goes with the Esc key as apposed to F10, or the del key.

It crapped out an me during the second restore CD. So I took a quick look at the disk to see if it was scratched. Thankfully it wasn't, there was some nasty gunk stuck to it.

Anyway, I have now spent about 5 1/2 hours getting windows installed and installing Service pack 2. And all the other required security updates and Antivirus... yadda yadda. Then I happened to look at the clock in the system tray. It said it was 5:30 AM.

well, I gotta fix that wuick I thought. Opened up the clock preferences and sure enough, it was set to synch with Time.windows.com for kicks, I pinged it. Time.windows. com was not responding. No problem, I'll just use the Time.nist.gov address that is already in the system.

WTF? as you can see in the picture, I got the dumbest error message. I know my date and time are wrong, that's why I am synching?

Leave it to Microsoft to "Patch a hole" but not allow the true functionality to work.

"I am sorry, you can not save that document, because you need to save it first"

Oh , and by the way, it's just that we need to put cover sheets on all TPS reports from now on. I'll make sure yhou get another compy of that memo.

Comments:
sounds like somebody's got a case of the mondays... on friday.

why must computers always give us headaches?
 
I think we're stuck on office space quotes.

Ah but they make me smile. Now I am going to have to watch that movie again to remember all the quotes that I like.


Milton- "Well I said I don't care if they lay me off eather because, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time then I am quitting. And I told Dom too because they moved my desk 4 times already this year and I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirels and they were married, but then they switched from the swingline to the boston stapler but I kept my swingline because it didn't bind up as much and I kept the staples for the swingline stapler."
 
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