Today at work, the Vista machine started acting oddly. We hate Vista at work. It's system requirements are too high for our used hardware and the system is sluggish. Worst of all, we didn't install XP as a boot option with Vista, so we didn't really have an XP option to use at work, outside of our register.Well, we finally had it today. Vista had lost all it's network shares, connection to the internet, it's desktop background, and a few other minor things, along with the problems we have been having using the Vista operating system instead of XP. So, we backed up what was necessary and reinstalled Windows XP. Vista just wasn't cutting it, and we weren't about to spend hours running through the software to get it up and running the way we want.
So, we've got our new Techroom system, which Mitchell has dubbed "Milton" after the doofusy character from Office Space. A fitting title for our strange an unusual Tech Room system.
We'll probably just run Vista in an emulation mode, but more on that later, after it has been implemented.
BTW: the odd behaviour in Vista turned out to be more related to a bad network cable than a problem with the OS, including the desktop background, which was being loaded from one of our network drives. Ahh well.
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We got a new computer at work about a month back and soon as it was connected up, it wiped out the networking thing we had going... wasn't amusing in the slightest! And it took ages for us to figure out what had gone wrong - we had no idea that it was the new compy! Ah, the world of computers is too complicated for me. I like my mac - I just push things in, and somehow they work!
Ohh, that is such a pain. Little things like that can be very difficult to diagnose. Having a bunch of IT pros around at work does help out a lot. Although, we've got a "Dunce Cap" that goes around for the people that create problems that others have to fix... or worse, they create really embarrassing problems... Like unplugging ones own mouse, and then contacting support because the mouse isn't working!
Also, networking is a bit of a "black art" in the IT industry. It is a miracle that we were ever able to develop computer networks actually, it is quite complex for how simple it seems like it should be.
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