Archive for the 'technical difficulties' Category

Wireless irony

18Feb09

Dear library:
I spent countless hours here. Borrowed many books. And spent copious amounts of money on coffee in the cafe. However, there is a slight problem here.
The wireless signal sucks ass.
I don’t remember it being this bipolar until this semester started. The more ironic part is that the campus tech support is in the building [...]


Good-bye, ResNet/Cisco Clean Access Agent. I’m so happy for stable internet for three months while I’m home.
I like knowing that I don’t have something stalking me and kicking me off whenever it feels like it. Better yet, at the start of each semester, I just love having to reinstall it every time. When I had [...]


I usually keep my phone on vibrate whenever I’m walking to and from somewhere or someplace where it would be annoying for a ringtone to go off. I usually have my headphones in whenever I’m going somewhere and usually it would be difficult to hear if my cellphone has gone off when I’m outside anyways. [...]


If you have one of those photo printers that have five ink cartridges, then you’ll probably feel my pain. Such as if you run out of the magenta ink cartridge, it’ll refuse to print anything out until there is a new magenta cartridge. Despite the fact that you only want to print out in black [...]


Yesterday my internet died. Or rather the internet wouldn’t work for my laptop or my dad’s laptop, yet for some strange reason my dad’s desktop’s internet was still working. I called tech support for Vonage, RoadRunner, and IBM. All of them were of no use.

Vonage: Last time I called Vonage I was transferred to India, [...]


My laptop is having issues connecting to the internet. Strangely enough, my dad’s new laptop won’t connect via ethernet cable either. Still trying to fix this problem, and the only computer that is currently able to connect is the desktop.
Stay tuned for the next episode: Angry girl wants to smash things when they don’t work.
EDIT: [...]