Happy new computer day! or not.
Jan. 19th, 2023 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk(this is for work, not home. I suspect this desktop will run for ages.... or die tomorrow with no warning. I'm hoping for the former.)
the laptop they gave me at work worked fine under the admin's account. User? not so much. lots of CPU pegging, etc, and I never got to a desktop that worked. So IT took it back, and will be wiping the OS and starting over. (apparently, between the two of us we used the wrong set of chicken sacrifices/incantations. sigh.) But I have a network login now, so I can theoretically login to the network, and get started on training modules and getting email, etc. And while digging around to see if there was any not-in-current use hardware that we could commandeer, we found a lot of Very Old Computers (Windows 7, anyone?) that need to be cleared and then taken to the Happy Hunting Ground. (The guy doing IT for the township used to do IT for UMich. He's much more up to date on the incantations/chicken sacrifices needed than I am.)
the laptop they gave me at work worked fine under the admin's account. User? not so much. lots of CPU pegging, etc, and I never got to a desktop that worked. So IT took it back, and will be wiping the OS and starting over. (apparently, between the two of us we used the wrong set of chicken sacrifices/incantations. sigh.) But I have a network login now, so I can theoretically login to the network, and get started on training modules and getting email, etc. And while digging around to see if there was any not-in-current use hardware that we could commandeer, we found a lot of Very Old Computers (Windows 7, anyone?) that need to be cleared and then taken to the Happy Hunting Ground. (The guy doing IT for the township used to do IT for UMich. He's much more up to date on the incantations/chicken sacrifices needed than I am.)
