2002 Story Set
| March 5, 2002 They came and took my NT at work. They had a new hard drive for it. 20Gigs. I had been running with 6. I can't add memory. I already have 256MB RAM. The limit. Egad! I asked for Microsoft Office 2000. They decided that I would have Windows 2000 opsys as well. Whether I wanted it or not. I didn't. I explained about my software. Lots of it. Dreamweaver. Flash. Freehand. PhotoShop. Acrobat. Illustrator. and so forth. I am considered a "super user". They said so. They said I needed a new laptop - bigger, faster, better. But the company is cutting expenses and people and so I must upgrade the old one. So off they ran. I had just received the system back after my FLASH class. During the FLASH class, the NT had bit the dust. Needed a new Mother Board. And then it needed a new docking station. Seems every time I unplug it from the dock, an annual and rare event since I prefer using the G4 Minitower at home, it kills the Mother Board and the Docking station. They commit suicide on separation. Suspicious. So much for Dell laptops. And while they were merrily repairing the mother board, they had merrily replaced the CD drive with a second floppy drive. And no one knew where the CD drive had gone. They promised to return the unit this time with a CD drive. It came back. It has the CD drive. It has a properly hooked up security cable. A shiny new black one since the other one had locked itself up and had been drilled off. I have Office 2000. And the 2000 operating system. And, Eudora 5.1. Which has been upgraded to death. Oh my! The Microsoft Operating System 2000 requires a minimum of 128MB - which minimum, as any sane person knows, must be doubled - taking it to 256MB. What I have. That doesn't leave much room for large programs. And thus it appears to be. I can only run 1-2 packages at a time. The system crashes once a day. The system hangs at will. Eudora suffers a nervous breakdown every other time I use it. The system, "Cannot be run continuously - it must be restarted daily." Cute. Very cute. The system is a pain in the butt to use. I won't miss it. |
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