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@?&*^% Computers anyway
I know this is off topic, but I'm just happy to have my news reader
back fully operational again ( decided to drop thunderbird and go with Agent 4.x ) After 20 years of frontline computer support you'd think I'd learn by now. While doing some data backup from a clients HD ( VIA the USB port) to my computer something from his computer infected my computer, caused all sorts of problems with the operating system. I still haven't figured out what it was. Did the AV scan and cleaned up a lot of stuff prior to the backup. Thanksfully none of the other computers in my home were on at the time, that would have been a serious mess. Then the hardware mess started I added a 2nd drive to my system changed the fan location and added a 5.24 floppy drive. the 5.25 drive "pop"ed ( yes the noise was loud) upon startup, took out my entire computer....Oh I was not happy. So I'm slowly getting my system back to normal status. And changing e-mail clients and newsreading SW around again. and trying to clean up the mess. It's taken me a couple of weeks to do this. Word of advice for those who care to listen -- Do not have more than 2 harddrives "just laying aroung with "Archived Data" I found stuff that I wrote back in 1988 that I thought was lost forever, actually I forgot it was there.:-) The nicest thing is that just prior to everything taking a nose dive I made $350.00 in 3 days repairing 3 computers ( probably about 8 hrs total ) . XkatX, if I remember a post of yours long ago about no money being in computers, depending upon where you are and how good you are, there can be money made in this field. What I do is more listening to people then much of anything else. If you ever think about joing the ranks, drop me a note and I'll fill you in on 20 yrs of experience. Now back to the bench, my son's laptop and his GF's parents computers are waiting. It feels good to have an operational computer again :-) Now to catch up on everythings that been happening Alex |
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"Alex Nemeth" wrote in message ... snip The nicest thing is that just prior to everything taking a nose dive I made $350.00 in 3 days repairing 3 computers ( probably about 8 hrs total ) . XkatX, if I remember a post of yours long ago about no money being in computers, depending upon where you are and how good you are, there can be money made in this field. What I do is more listening to people then much of anything else. If you ever think about joing the ranks, drop me a note and I'll fill you in on 20 yrs of experience. snip Who? Me? I'm really not sure what post this was, buuut... I probably said something about it a looong while back - don't remember. IF I did say no money, although I'm not sure I did, but not saying I didn't, I would have meant that there's no real opportunity. EVERYONE is in the IT field, one way or another. I went to school for that and then quickly gave it up after not long. Everyone and their dog seem to be in school for something computer related. IIRC, I did, a little while back, make mention of a friend having a small computer fixing thing going on and how he wanted me to help out with that (then there was the issue of being paid under the table and all that - he offered me $60/computer I took on, and offered me whatever the rate was for the work needing to be done - be it something simple like hardware installation, virus removal, fixing this, fixing that, whatever) I guess I'm really not interested at all in that kinda stuff. My own personal computers have kinda slid down the drain just because at one point, I enjoyed doing this or that with my own computer, enjoyed lending a hand if someone had some issues, but now - meh. I think I'd much rather catch up on laundry than fix a small problem with a computer, build something, work on something. Why do I want to do that when it seems everyone else does as well? There was a guy that I had a few classes with who was bragging about this and that - school and education related. We got into some conversation and he asked how I was getting along with the (crappy and useless) microcomputer specialist, and was shocked when I said I was currently working at a salon - as in doing hair - and I asked him how his was going, and he said he worked at a shotty call centre doing tech support over the phone. I think, as far as that one friend's offer went, it wasn't so much the work or the money, it was getting paid under the table that kind of made me fear the 'what if...' I just haven't seen much option as far as that goes. I am, however, totally willing to open my ears and hear, though. Working and doing what I was doing a while back - fixing someone's computer day in and day out - was a headache. The *only* thing I came out with as far as that goes was great stories best saved for nights of drinking games lol |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:49:29 GMT, 'Kate wrote:
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:41:25 GMT, Alex Nemeth the following was posted in blue dry erase marker: I know this is off topic, but I'm just happy to have my news reader back fully operational again ( decided to drop thunderbird and go with Agent 4.x ) Good to see you post. I'm glad you got all that straightened out. Now if only I can get Outlook to import it's old settings maybe I can get e-mail up & operational 'Kate |
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:04:28 GMT, "xkatx" wrote:
"Alex Nemeth" wrote in message .. . snip The nicest thing is that just prior to everything taking a nose dive I made $350.00 in 3 days repairing 3 computers ( probably about 8 hrs total ) . XkatX, if I remember a post of yours long ago about no money being in computers, depending upon where you are and how good you are, there can be money made in this field. What I do is more listening to people then much of anything else. If you ever think about joing the ranks, drop me a note and I'll fill you in on 20 yrs of experience. snip Who? Me? I'm really not sure what post this was, buuut... I probably said something about it a looong while back - don't remember. yea...I think it was long ago..my memory isn't what it used to be :-), and with half the posts missing from google.groups I can't even check myself... Oh well topic for another day. IF I did say no money, although I'm not sure I did, but not saying I didn't, I would have meant that there's no real opportunity. EVERYONE is in the IT field, one way or another. I went to school for that and then quickly gave it up after not long. Everyone and their dog seem to be in school for something computer related. IIRC, I did, a little while back, make mention of a friend having a small computer fixing thing going on and how he wanted me to help out with that (then there was the issue of being paid under the table and all that - he offered me $60/computer I took on, and offered me whatever the rate was for the work needing to be done - be it something simple like hardware installation, virus removal, fixing this, fixing that, whatever) I guess I'm really not interested at all in that kinda stuff. My own personal computers have kinda slid down the drain just because at one point, I enjoyed doing this or that with my own computer, enjoyed lending a hand if someone had some issues, but now - meh. I think I'd much rather catch up on laundry than fix a small problem with a computer, build something, work on something. That's why it took me so long to getthis thing fixed. 8-10 hours a day looking at computers and the last thing I wanted to do was to fix my own. Why do I want to do that when it seems everyone else does as well? There was a guy that I had a few classes with who was bragging about this and that - school and education related. We got into some conversation and he asked how I was getting along with the (crappy and useless) microcomputer specialist, and was shocked when I said I was currently working at a salon - as in doing hair - and I asked him how his was going, and he said he worked at a shotty call centre doing tech support over the phone. I think, as far as that one friend's offer went, it wasn't so much the work or the money, it was getting paid under the table that kind of made me fear the 'what if...' I just haven't seen much option as far as that goes. I am, however, totally willing to open my ears and hear, though. Working and doing what I was doing a while back - fixing someone's computer day in and day out - was a headache. The *only* thing I came out with as far as that goes was great stories best saved for nights of drinking games lol chuckle I know the feeling and I have pictures too! ( seriously we really did do this last year about this time too :-) ) |
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"Alex Nemeth" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:49:29 GMT, 'Kate wrote: On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:41:25 GMT, Alex Nemeth the following was posted in blue dry erase marker: I know this is off topic, but I'm just happy to have my news reader back fully operational again ( decided to drop thunderbird and go with Agent 4.x ) Good to see you post. I'm glad you got all that straightened out. Now if only I can get Outlook to import it's old settings maybe I can get e-mail up & operational Ugh... I had this problem with OE a while back and it just made me angry. Good ol' Outlook never fails to have some sort of issues |
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"Alex Nemeth" wrote in message ... On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:04:28 GMT, "xkatx" wrote: "Alex Nemeth" wrote in message . .. snip The nicest thing is that just prior to everything taking a nose dive I made $350.00 in 3 days repairing 3 computers ( probably about 8 hrs total ) . XkatX, if I remember a post of yours long ago about no money being in computers, depending upon where you are and how good you are, there can be money made in this field. What I do is more listening to people then much of anything else. If you ever think about joing the ranks, drop me a note and I'll fill you in on 20 yrs of experience. snip Who? Me? I'm really not sure what post this was, buuut... I probably said something about it a looong while back - don't remember. yea...I think it was long ago..my memory isn't what it used to be :-), and with half the posts missing from google.groups I can't even check myself... Oh well topic for another day. My brain has just kind of disappeared or something... I think... IF I did say no money, although I'm not sure I did, but not saying I didn't, I would have meant that there's no real opportunity. EVERYONE is in the IT field, one way or another. I went to school for that and then quickly gave it up after not long. Everyone and their dog seem to be in school for something computer related. IIRC, I did, a little while back, make mention of a friend having a small computer fixing thing going on and how he wanted me to help out with that (then there was the issue of being paid under the table and all that - he offered me $60/computer I took on, and offered me whatever the rate was for the work needing to be done - be it something simple like hardware installation, virus removal, fixing this, fixing that, whatever) I guess I'm really not interested at all in that kinda stuff. My own personal computers have kinda slid down the drain just because at one point, I enjoyed doing this or that with my own computer, enjoyed lending a hand if someone had some issues, but now - meh. I think I'd much rather catch up on laundry than fix a small problem with a computer, build something, work on something. That's why it took me so long to getthis thing fixed. 8-10 hours a day looking at computers and the last thing I wanted to do was to fix my own. It actually, for some strange reason, makes me almost happy when this piece of junk goes wonky Actually, oddly enough, I got up this morning and when I made my way to the computer to check how my downloads were going, I was shocked to see the computer had restarted itself, but NOT in a good way... It was stuck forcing me into the bios saying that there's a potential of everything on the E drive being lost due to something or another. Hitting the restart button (which sometimes works to fix random problems) resulted in the same booting issue, so I skipped it, only to have the computer start up properly but then give me that stupid, 'YOU MAY BE A VICTIM OF SOFTWARE COUNTERFEITING!!! PLEASE PAY US MONEY FOR A REAL KEY AND DISC FOR WINDOWS!!!!! IT'S ONLY $149!!!' So, needless to say, I rebooted about a gazillion times (for the broken drive E issues and then for the 'I'm so victim' problems) and in the end, it said that the computer had recovered from a VERY SERIOUS crash problem - or something. I find it rather humorous Why do I want to do that when it seems everyone else does as well? There was a guy that I had a few classes with who was bragging about this and that - school and education related. We got into some conversation and he asked how I was getting along with the (crappy and useless) microcomputer specialist, and was shocked when I said I was currently working at a salon - as in doing hair - and I asked him how his was going, and he said he worked at a shotty call centre doing tech support over the phone. I think, as far as that one friend's offer went, it wasn't so much the work or the money, it was getting paid under the table that kind of made me fear the 'what if...' I just haven't seen much option as far as that goes. I am, however, totally willing to open my ears and hear, though. Working and doing what I was doing a while back - fixing someone's computer day in and day out - was a headache. The *only* thing I came out with as far as that goes was great stories best saved for nights of drinking games lol chuckle I know the feeling and I have pictures too! ( seriously we really did do this last year about this time too :-) ) Yea, sometimes, though, it's real scary... |
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