Archive for the ‘Techie’ Category

How to troubleshoot your computer speakers….   Leave a comment

These are the steps you should take ***BEFORE*** you submit a work order to your friendly neighborhood computer tech. Step 1: I find this first step to be VERY important…do a quick visual check and make sure you actually…physically…HAVE SPEAKERS!   – completing this step will help keep your local tech guru from walking down, looking, [...]

Posted November 3, 2009 by ulrichvb in Rant, Techie, Work

Silly Trouble Tickets 2/28/08   Leave a comment

Big Boss Lady : Mr. Overappreciated Underpaid Computer Tech Guy….my computer is locked up! I can’t log in, I turn it on and get the prompt to press ‘control alternate delete’, then I do, and nothing happens! I CAN’T LOG ON! me: Yes Ma’am, have you checked your keyboard connection is it loose or is [...]

Posted February 28, 2008 by ulrichvb in Techie, Work

Stay down Rock!   1 comment

Un-like Rocky Balboa in the famed Rocky series….. HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray was quite the bout….the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ of the video format world for the decade so far. (earlier versions being VHS vs Beta-max and DVD vs Video -CD)

Posted February 18, 2008 by ulrichvb in "Current" events, my opinion, Techie

Enjoyable Trouble Tickets III   2 comments

“Knock Knock” Who’s there? “It’s Broken” It’s Broken who? “No Its broken and I need a new one.” Ok…I’ts broken and I need a new one who? “No, Your leaveing its broken and I need a new one!” Yes, I’m leaving, what is broken, and you need a new one what? – you know this [...]

Posted January 4, 2008 by ulrichvb in geekness, Techie, Work

New enjoyable trouble tickets…   1 comment

Trouble call number one this morning… Mrs. Helpful Hilda: Mr. Computer-tech, the internet is down. me: MHH, really? the whole Internet? MHH: yes, it is. me: and how long has the internet been down? I would have thought I would have heard about it by now. MHH: its been down for about a week. me: [...]

Posted December 10, 2007 by ulrichvb in Stupid Users, Techie, Work

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