Michael Wurtzberger

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How NOT to clean your printer…

Posted by Wurtzy on November 13, 2006

My wife told me the funniest damn thing on Saturday. We were discussing the fact that her boss bought a new laser printer and how her office needs a new fax maching and a color copier. Then she started to giggle about her boss’s new printer. I asked her what was so funny.

This should go down in those “I can’t believe that happenned” tech calls (you know, like the “I broke my cupholder – actually your CD drive” calls). Apparently, his old 4 in 1 printer scanner copier fax had some dirty print heads. Most printers have a utitlity which cleans this out just by printing. Apparently he didn’t know about this feature. Beth watched him walk across the room with some wet pieces of paper – dripping wet – and asked him what he as doing. “Cleaning my printer.”

“OK!” Beth replied.

So he proceeded to run the wet piece of paper through the 4 in 1 machine and in the process ruined the machine. Jammed wet paper in it so tight he couldnt’ do a thing with it. The best part is, Beth just let him do it.

I must have laughed for about an hour. I don’t know if I could watch someone do that, but then again, if you have someone that technologically inept “cleaning” their printer, I suppose it would make for really good humor!

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IE 7, Win2k Pro, XP Pro

Posted by Wurtzy on November 9, 2006

What the hell.

Microsoft rolls out Internet Explorer 7. I go to download it at work on my Win2k Pro machine. Guess again! Only works on XP SP2. Ok, fine. I have XP Pro discs for my work machines (for some reason, my boss bought 2 brand new Dell Precisions loaded with Win2K Pro. ??? Only 2 years ago! Anyway…). I’ll just upgrade Win2K Pro with the XP Pro disc. Wrong again! Can’t update! Now I have the joyful task of backing up all of my files (and my co-worker’s files because her machine needs to be updated as well), installing XP Pro (SP 1, I may add… download center, here I come.), re-installing ALL the FKN SOFTWARE. I bet I can’t renew Nort0n on this machine, plus I have to explain to another company that I’ll need two new activations for their software.

Oh well. Just more time that I love to friverously waste.

How ’bout a beer?

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