How To Drive A Geek Nuts
Okay, it's not fair. I start the new job today, which includes lots of nice perks; company car, credit card, company provided tools, good hotels, all the stuff you could want.
Included in the package is a very nice, brand new $2000 laptop which arrived on Friday. It would be great but for one thing. The company pre-configured it, set up all the accounts, and didn't include a password to log in.
So, if you want to drive a geek nuts, send them a P4M laptop, with DVD-R/RW, 2 gigs of RAM, 120 meg hard drive, and other bells and whistles.... Then lock it up so the can't play with it!
ARGHHH!!!
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Included in the package is a very nice, brand new $2000 laptop which arrived on Friday. It would be great but for one thing. The company pre-configured it, set up all the accounts, and didn't include a password to log in.
So, if you want to drive a geek nuts, send them a P4M laptop, with DVD-R/RW, 2 gigs of RAM, 120 meg hard drive, and other bells and whistles.... Then lock it up so the can't play with it!
ARGHHH!!!
Technorati Tags: geeks, computers, work, laptop
posted by Crazy Politico at 5:00 AM
9Comments:
Is that like putting him in a round room and telling him to piss in the corner?
Watch, you'll finally get the password and then find out you have no local admin rights...
LOL! Congrats on the new job. :)
Tim, No, you do that to blondes. Geeks pull out a slide rule, 2 legal pads, a pen and figure out how to make a corner in a circle.
Rachel. Got the password, and do have local rights, which is nice. However, they won't service the machine if you add any software to it. URGHHHH
Paula, thanks for the congrats, finally got the password, and the machine does work quite nicely.
Oooooo...does it have one of those cool little laser ports that you just aim at the printer and it prints???
Yes LP, it does have an IR port... Of course none of my printers are IR enabled, so it doesn't really matter.
I may check and see if I can get it to hook up to my PDA though.
However, they won't service the machine if you add any software to it.
My policy about that is a little different: if I find Weatherbug on a user's machine, I replace their computer with an Etch-A-Sketch.
Rachel, I love that idea! I think if the computer wasn't also the test equipment the company would probably do the same thing.
Congrats on the job! Hope you've "broken in" your new toy by now!
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