I'm Back, Baby
After almost a week without high-speed internet, after being spoiled with it for ... what, almost two months? As of last night, it's finally back!
After calling SBC. After some fancy cross-country trouble-shooting. After having Trixie ask, "Is it working now?" every day when she came home.
Know what the problem was? There's a little button on the front of my laptop. At some point I accidentally must have pressed it. Caused wireless to stop working. I purposely pressed it last night, and wireless came like a porn star making her debut.
I think the last time I was this happy was when my friend and I made the long trek out to the 'burbs for Lobsterfest.
In the end, it was all worth it. While going back to dial-up was a very bitter pill to swallow, it was only temporary, and I found out* about the coolest freaking thing EVER. It was the first time in my entire life that I got excited about something tech-related. I have geek potential.
*For those of you not down with clicking links, what I found out about is software that lets you ghost onto someone else's computer. Both parties download the software (on dial-up it took me less than four minutes), then you invite someone to hop onto your system, they accept, and then they can see everything you see on your screen. Law firms have a version of this - when you call your IT department they can ghost onto your screen. But this is cooler because ANYONE can do it.
After calling SBC. After some fancy cross-country trouble-shooting. After having Trixie ask, "Is it working now?" every day when she came home.
Know what the problem was? There's a little button on the front of my laptop. At some point I accidentally must have pressed it. Caused wireless to stop working. I purposely pressed it last night, and wireless came like a porn star making her debut.
I think the last time I was this happy was when my friend and I made the long trek out to the 'burbs for Lobsterfest.
In the end, it was all worth it. While going back to dial-up was a very bitter pill to swallow, it was only temporary, and I found out* about the coolest freaking thing EVER. It was the first time in my entire life that I got excited about something tech-related. I have geek potential.
*For those of you not down with clicking links, what I found out about is software that lets you ghost onto someone else's computer. Both parties download the software (on dial-up it took me less than four minutes), then you invite someone to hop onto your system, they accept, and then they can see everything you see on your screen. Law firms have a version of this - when you call your IT department they can ghost onto your screen. But this is cooler because ANYONE can do it.
posted by Green at 6/13/2007 06:31:00 AM
4 Comments:
my friend had his girlfriend ghost onto his computer. She didn't like him looking at porn or uh... e-mailing other online dating chicks.
I just had a virtual training session where we did something like that. Also, one of our software vendors does that whenever we have problems. They ask to be allowed to "take over," and then they can see exactly what problem we're talking about. It's pretty cool.
I didn't know just anybody could do it, though. Neat.
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fuckin' a, I ♥ lobsterfest.
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