http://www.davedarling.com Projects, Thoughts, Plans, and Ideas Thu, 07 May 2009 20:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95&cpage=1#comment-4 admin Thu, 07 May 2009 20:27:26 +0000 http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95#comment-4 Brandon, it wasn't my intent to disparage tech support - more of a commiseration at what you are up against! There's no way that you are getting paid enough to try to diagnose impossible problems like this.. Brandon, it wasn’t my intent to disparage tech support – more of a commiseration at what you are up against! There’s no way that you are getting paid enough to try to diagnose impossible problems like this..

]]> http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95&cpage=1#comment-3 Brandon Thu, 07 May 2009 20:15:13 +0000 http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95#comment-3 To be fair, tech support doesn't have the advantage of popping open the case and seeing that card isn't seated properly (or at all!) Our job is never easy, there's only so much we can do over the phone. To be fair, tech support doesn’t have the advantage of popping open the case and seeing that card isn’t seated properly (or at all!) Our job is never easy, there’s only so much we can do over the phone.

]]> http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95&cpage=1#comment-2 Garrett Thu, 07 May 2009 18:11:35 +0000 http://www.davedarling.com/?p=95#comment-2 You know, I've been playing with electronics since I was 5, and I remember the first time I made the brain connection that said "If there's a part, and a place where it looks like it should go, it usually goes there!" This was a huge epiphany, the realization that the square peg goes in the square hole. Now it is more than natural to us. To other people it still looks like rocket science and they are afraid of putting the square peg in the square hole, because it might start on fire, or turn into a transformer. You know, I’ve been playing with electronics since I was 5, and I remember the first time I made the brain connection that said “If there’s a part, and a place where it looks like it should go, it usually goes there!” This was a huge epiphany, the realization that the square peg goes in the square hole. Now it is more than natural to us. To other people it still looks like rocket science and they are afraid of putting the square peg in the square hole, because it might start on fire, or turn into a transformer.

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