I’m Chugging Toward Giantdom, Despite the Internet Gnomes
My goal for lensbuilding right now is two a day in order to make the Giant deadline. Finished two yesterday, but today I got up and turned on the computer and……..NO CONNECTION! I fussed around trying to fix it for a while, then turned to Plan B: I took a nap.
Went to the public library to use their free wifi and managed to finish one lens, but other obligations cut my working time short. I got home to find my 13-year-old son ON THE INTERNET. While I had been taking my nap, he messed with it, because there was NO WAY that he could go without a connection for a whole weekend. He rebooted the router. That’s it. I had rebooted the modem, but have never had any trouble with the router. He had gone to a movie while I was still asleep, so hadn’t been able to tell me he’d fixed it. I had a very nice time at the library, thank you very much. Here are the new lenses for yesterday and today:
The Absolute Best Hummus Recipe
Easy Lowfat Banana Bread Recipe
The Absolute Best Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe
One Comment »
cleanerlife said :
September 7, 2008 at 8:12 am
Shh!
That a serviceman’s secret trick!
I find it incredible what even big time companies will pay for. Just this past year I went to a rather large company that was having trouble connecting their network to the Internet.
Because I was working for a company subcontracted to do local service for a national tech support company, I had to follow their procedure, and trouble shoot while talking to their tech over the phone.
After several hours of getting nowhere, I finally asked the support tech if I could try something, he gave me the OK — I shut down the entire network (after getting an OK from the on site contact), including the router and modem, then restarted everything one device at a time.
After everything restarted, everyone could connect to the Internet.
Left to my own design, I would have had this done in less than a hour, but because of how these tech support companies work, I spent about 5 hours there!
Amazingly enough, I can’t get a job working for these big companies because I have no technical degree!
Oh, well