Tim Douglass wrote:

before I have you ship the monitor back for a replacement." Long
silence while he crawls behind the desk to "unplug" it. Suddenly he
comes back on the line "Never mind." click.



Dad's job, growing up, was similar. I remember those conversations at 2:00
AM. "Is it plugged in?" Pause. "Is it PLUGGED IN?" Longer pause. "Is
it turned on?"

The point is that there is usually a reason for the stupid questions.

Yeah, I know. That's why I humor them.

crummy software), but it *does* work a lot of the time. It frustrates
the heck out of me to reboot four times with nothing changing and have
it suddenly work on the fifth, but that's life in the MS world.

Right, which is why I don't run Windows at my house. I *can* do it, but
it's not worth the hassle.

Although, I guess I won't be saying that too much longer. I'm going to
throw Windows on my son's computer. I can't quite expect him to learn the
Linux way of programming his Lego Mindstorms, and he's on the team at
school. The trick is going to be making sure that pile of monkey guts
doesn't figure out how to get onto the internet even though it will be
plugged into a router. The last time I tried this, it said "Oh, I see you
have installed a router. Now Internet Exploder is ready to acquire viruses
for you." Maybe that would be friendly to some people, but I actually like
having complete control over every aspect of my system. I'm not used to
things happening without my express permission, and that annoys the hell
out of me.

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