01/07/2002 Archived Entry: "Other peoples' desks..."

I'm conducting this update from the desk of one of my users, while copying files onto his new computer. Yes, folks, I'm back to doing lease rollovers. This project will probably take, oh, the rest of my life.

I hate Windows 95. We're still using it. In fact, we're deploying new machines with it installed. We take these new machines out of the box, fresh from the factory. We blow away the factory-installed Windows 2000 load and install our crappy Windows 95 load.

Soon, we will go to Windows 2000, but upgrading 200,000+ seats to Windows 2000 is not an easy proposition, considering that most of those 200,000+ seats are on very different hardware configurations with wildly different software requirements. There is a lot of testing still to be done. A lot.

My car is in the shop, too. My vehicle anti-theft system freaked out. I went to get gas last night and when I got back into the car after pumping, I tried to start it up and my THEFT light started blinking like crazy. I had my roomie bring me my spare key, just in case, but no joy.

I called Ford's 24-hour roadside assistance, and after absolutely no wait, I was connected to a friendly guy who gave me a procedure to reset my anti-theft system. It involved locking and unlocking the doors in a certain order, not touching the car for 15 minutes, then doing more door locking and unlocking, then trying to start the car. It didn't work, of course. The car is in the shop.

Have I mentioned that I'm on my second Mustang GT in one year? I'm never buying a Ford again. My next car will be a Honda Accord. My dad's Accord has gone ~80,000 miles and except for regular 15,000 mile checkups has never needed a visit to the shop.

My first Mustang went 15,000 miles before I decided I'd had enough of its break-every-month crap and got a replacement from Ford. My current Mustang, which I've had since June, has a tick over 7,000 miles on it, and it looks like my pain is about to start all over again.

Ugh.

[Previous entry: "Recycling old English papers"] [Return to archive...] [Next entry: "Laura"]