So I know I told you all about the problems I had with the modem going out. It went out, I bought one from a well-known and nationally syndicated electronics chain store, but it came with the wrong drivers. The company could only e-mail me the drivers, which did no good whatsoever, since I couldn't get online to retrieve them. After a week of library trips and severely cut wages, I got this 98 box and got the drivers downloaded. I spent the better part of the weekend networking the two computers in order to get the drivers installed (long story involving CDR/W drives which either don't work or work only when they choose to) and when I finally do, the computer tells me the modem is disabled...
Oh, I nearly forgot: Sunday, while I'm working on The Wording, a maliciously-coded Comment deleted the whole thing - even the archives and backup files! - and replaced it with a saying, "Silence is golden." My tech support wasn't in until Monday, then the first guy I got tried giving me attitude, "Sir, you're the only person who has access to your account..." And I'm all like, "You don't need access to my account to send me an e-mail bomb," and he's all like, "What did you do?" Etc. Luckily, the comments are also forwarded to my e-mail box, so I got another tech on the phone later that afternoon and it did the same thing to him and he apologized profusely and said they would definitely look into the matter.
So I took the broken modem back, went to a local computer shoppe and paid $10.00 more for a different one. Get home, install it without problems, thankful to be back online at last! The minute I get online, someone IMs me and my entire computer promptly reboots. Shocking, nerve-wracking, but I chalked it up to whatever and forged ahead. I get back up and going, send an IM to someone and the computer reboots. I get back up and going, close all my IM programs, check my e-mail... it crashes and reboots.
Like I said, when it rains, it pours...
I know the drivers for this modem are what's causing the problems, but the company that manufactured it just sent me an e-booklet on Hayes command strings - which is fine and dandy, but doesn't solve the driver problem.
So, I've been screwing with modems that don't work - or barely work - blogs that got crashed (all day yesterday was devoted to surfing Google cache and copy-and-pasting past posts), networking computers, and going to the doctor's.
It's been a real nightmare, so I apologize for not having posted more in the past week or two. I do have some things to get to, but until I can actually get online and post without fear of crashing my computer and losing everything on it, I'm just taking it one post at a time, y'all... one post at a time. And that's really all I can ask of me at this juncture in my life.
Oh, I nearly forgot: Sunday, while I'm working on The Wording, a maliciously-coded Comment deleted the whole thing - even the archives and backup files! - and replaced it with a saying, "Silence is golden." My tech support wasn't in until Monday, then the first guy I got tried giving me attitude, "Sir, you're the only person who has access to your account..." And I'm all like, "You don't need access to my account to send me an e-mail bomb," and he's all like, "What did you do?" Etc. Luckily, the comments are also forwarded to my e-mail box, so I got another tech on the phone later that afternoon and it did the same thing to him and he apologized profusely and said they would definitely look into the matter.
So I took the broken modem back, went to a local computer shoppe and paid $10.00 more for a different one. Get home, install it without problems, thankful to be back online at last! The minute I get online, someone IMs me and my entire computer promptly reboots. Shocking, nerve-wracking, but I chalked it up to whatever and forged ahead. I get back up and going, send an IM to someone and the computer reboots. I get back up and going, close all my IM programs, check my e-mail... it crashes and reboots.
Like I said, when it rains, it pours...
I know the drivers for this modem are what's causing the problems, but the company that manufactured it just sent me an e-booklet on Hayes command strings - which is fine and dandy, but doesn't solve the driver problem.
So, I've been screwing with modems that don't work - or barely work - blogs that got crashed (all day yesterday was devoted to surfing Google cache and copy-and-pasting past posts), networking computers, and going to the doctor's.
It's been a real nightmare, so I apologize for not having posted more in the past week or two. I do have some things to get to, but until I can actually get online and post without fear of crashing my computer and losing everything on it, I'm just taking it one post at a time, y'all... one post at a time. And that's really all I can ask of me at this juncture in my life.
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