Continued Bloggings from the World of Leron
Just found a program called Outlook2Mac that looks like it simplifies all the problems I tried solving transferring from outlook to a mac entourage (as mentioned in the last post). It’s only 10 bucks, and of course requires a pc and mac (still no way to just translate a PST file, alas).
haven’t tried it, but if I run in to this problem again, I will…
Yesterday I helped transfer a client’s MS Outlook data from his PC to Entourage on his new Titanium PowerBook.
How’d I do it?
Continue reading ‘How To Switch’
There’s a butt long line at time warner cable… I’m here to upgrade my cable box to a dvr model… So i can record the shows I miss while standing in crazy long lines.
How many times have i sat through this:
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Man, it’s been a couple rough days on the computer repair front.
Today was some ram installation in the west village, and then an msblast casualty from Boerum Hill, the owner of which I convinced to bring in-store, instead of me traveling to him. I think we’re going to give up on service outside of Williamsburg; it’s just not worth it — too much time to travel, and no direct access to the supplies at the store.
Yesterday I spent about 7 hours on a compaq that had stopped accessing the internet. Damned if it didn’t escape every possible attempt I made at getting it back online, until finally I backed up and made way into a quick restore (using Compaq’s original disks to return the computer to it’s factory-new state) — which still didn’t work!
Continue reading ‘Tales from the Trenches: Rough Day’
Where were you when the Blackout of 2003 hit? I suspect it will be a question on everyone’s mind for, oh, let’s say the next week or so. I happened to be working at Mikey’s Hookup when the lights dimmed and our computers shuddered, and then finally gave up. For a good 10 minutes the lights just flickered before fully giving up the ghost, at which point everyone just sort of headed outside to see what was going on…
Continue reading ‘When The Lights Go Down In The City…’
UPDATED
In case you haven’t heard, the Blaster worm has made some serious headway. We’ve seen dozens of computers in the last few days affected, with a variety of symptoms, from email not being sent out to the common system restarts. Wild stuff…
Weird confluence of bugs (did I just say confluence?) today. Guy drops off his laptop; it persistently, while he’s online with RoadRunner cable, shuts down, alerting him with a message about some RPC service error needing to quit… I plug his computer into the network to run Windows update, and another computer gets the same shutdown message… 15 minutes later we get a call from someone with the SAME problem… God Bless You Microsoft.
Continue reading ‘Tales from the trenches: RPC exploit / worm!’
I had a client today who bought a new Compaq and wanted the old hard disk installed as a second drive. The machine had never even been turned on, and I was stunned by a couple of things:
Continue reading ‘Tales from the trenches: Brand New Computers’
What do you guys think?
