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Mar. 9th, 2002 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellAnd then, upon trying to go home, I discovered that the door was now hung just a fraction of an inch higher, enough to prevent it from being locked.
I called Bosses again. One of them came to babysit so I could go home while the other went off to get the Dremel out of storage so that they could modify the little hole in the door frame and allow the thing to lock.
In addition to the door incident, we also had, of course, a Computer from Hell. Nothing all week, and then blargh.
This one wasn't so much a Computer from Hell as a...well, I don't know, but something was from Hell. Lady had a new machine she'd just had some data transferred to, and a DOS program that she desperately needed for business that she couldn't print from on the new machine.
The new machine ran XP. This, I thought, could only end in tears.
Her new printer talked to the computer via USB port, which DOS programs don't seem to like. Her old printer does not play nice with XP. So sayeth Canon's website.
And of course, this lady had had this program especially written for her business. The programmer was retired and had flown the coop. Great. But he left source. Clipper shit, I believe. I know fuckall about Clipper, but Boss #1 is a Clipper God. Lucky!
Boss #1 scowled at the code and determined that he might be able to wave a dead chicken over it and make it a Windows program. Failing that, he suggested waving a dead chicken over the computer and making it dual boot XP/98. Blaaargh ya.
Boss #1 and I both agreed today that XP sucks big floppy donkey dick.
And I determined that Red Hat can kiss my ass, as the install craps out before it even gets started on the display machine. I'll fart with it a little more on Monday, and then I'm going for Mandrake.
What a day.
I called Bosses again. One of them came to babysit so I could go home while the other went off to get the Dremel out of storage so that they could modify the little hole in the door frame and allow the thing to lock.
In addition to the door incident, we also had, of course, a Computer from Hell. Nothing all week, and then blargh.
This one wasn't so much a Computer from Hell as a...well, I don't know, but something was from Hell. Lady had a new machine she'd just had some data transferred to, and a DOS program that she desperately needed for business that she couldn't print from on the new machine.
The new machine ran XP. This, I thought, could only end in tears.
Her new printer talked to the computer via USB port, which DOS programs don't seem to like. Her old printer does not play nice with XP. So sayeth Canon's website.
And of course, this lady had had this program especially written for her business. The programmer was retired and had flown the coop. Great. But he left source. Clipper shit, I believe. I know fuckall about Clipper, but Boss #1 is a Clipper God. Lucky!
Boss #1 scowled at the code and determined that he might be able to wave a dead chicken over it and make it a Windows program. Failing that, he suggested waving a dead chicken over the computer and making it dual boot XP/98. Blaaargh ya.
Boss #1 and I both agreed today that XP sucks big floppy donkey dick.
And I determined that Red Hat can kiss my ass, as the install craps out before it even gets started on the display machine. I'll fart with it a little more on Monday, and then I'm going for Mandrake.
What a day.
