Tuesday 1 July 2008
Stoopid Technology
Sigh. Reto's been off killing people (or whatever it is they do in the army) for a good day and a half now, and I am apparently incapable of coping without him. Last night I had to phone him (just five minutes before his army-enforced bed time!) to find out how to turn up the volume on his computer when all the usual methods didn't work, and this morning I can't make the printer print. There's plenty of ink in it, it's just not coming out. Sigh. I disapprove of me being this pathetic, but I also have very little interest in finding out how all this boring technology works. What a dilemma.
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He's probably busy invading Liechtenstein...
There's plenty of ink in it, but is there any paper in it?
Paper galore! And it was even turned on, at the power point and on the printer itself! I even gave the machine a bit of a whack in the time-honoured tradition of fixing things by hitting them, but sadly our printer doesn't seem to respect tradition. Grr.
And Global Librarian: R and I were talking the other day about how long it would take him to get home from the army (ie. what time I might expect to see him on the weekend) and he said that there are some trains that people on their military service aren't allowed to catch because they go through other countries! Like ones in the south that pass through (but don't stop in) Italy! A wrong turn here and you've invaded Liechtenstein, a wrong train there and you've got Italy to answer to!
often the uni computer un-defaults itself to a different printer (which doesn't even exist), so i have to re-select the correct printer. could that be the problem?
nup, but that's a good idea. The printer goes through the motions of printing, just with magical invisible ink. And there really is ink in the ink cartridge. Stoopid printer.
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