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not my machine Earlier this week at work my PC decided to die. This was not something that I was expecting to happen. I was sitting there in front of my machine working on something or other when my machine suddenly rebooted itself. Then when it came back to semi life it said that it couldn't find the hard drive. The best part for me was that all of this excitement took place during my final hour at work, so I sent an email to the LAN group about my problem and went home. There was nothing else that I could do and it wasn't as though I had paid for the machine. It was no real loss to me. When I came back later in the week, I found out via an email that they had replaced the drive and the power supply. Both of those things were fine with me. What was annoying was seeing what they had deleted from the machine in the course of their repair work. Before the problem took place I had Yahoo Instant Messenger installed on my machine. Since this is not a company approved product I no longer have it. Even though it was nice to have around I can live without it, because my primary reason for having it at work was to chat with my sister in Iraq. It worked out that when I was at work she was free to chat with me. Now that she is coming home, there isn't much need for it at work anymore. Personally I am surprised that it took them that long to discover that I had it installed in the first place. Another non-company approved piece of software that I had installed was iTunes. The LAN department kindly removed that one as well. Sigh. Now I won't be able to see any more music videos when work gets slow. My final loss is QuickTime. What that means is that a large majority of movie trailers and interactive web sites are off limits to me again when I am work. Oh, well. I guess that I'll have to do more work when I am there. |