Good and bad in my office space

[vilakins]

The bad first. The hardware guy installed a new wireless keyboard and mouse on my office puter yesterday and things got progressively worse all day. First the mouse said its batteries were dangerously low, then it said it couldn't get a decent signal, so I moved the base station thingy closer. That seemed to work for a few hours, then the puter decided to reboot spontaneously. After that, the bloody mouse wouldn't work properly at all and the PC rebooted again, complaining about newly-installed hardware. I rang the guy and he said to unplug the new stuff and put my old keyboard and mouse back on. I did, and then the thing wouldn't boot at all. It baulked when Windows tried to load, then booted again. Sigh. Oh what fun today will be if he hasn't fixed it last night. There's little I can do without a PC and I also fear losing my work recent work. [worries]

And now the good. I've found it frustrating that I do 2-4 extra unpaid hours a week, and so I convinced them last week to let me do exercise classes next door during office hours. I start today--10 to 11am, yay!

Comments

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

If you're struggling with the OS, get a Knoppix live CD, mount the drive, get your recent work backed up, and then fix what you need to. (Or keep using Knoppix. It's remarkably fully-featured, and has GIMP.) :)

Excellent about the exercise classes!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I don't have the authority to change things, nor am I an administrator any more so I couldn't even download the latest version of AVG anti-virus which I used to do. Sigh.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

You don't need to be an admin to use a Knoppix live CD to back up your work, provided you can boot from CD and have a USB drive you can save work to. It overrides the Windows OS entirely and makes you the root user of the machine.

[kerravonsen]

What she said.
An Ubuntu live CD would work too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Apparently the machine is damaged and is being rebuilt. -( I've nicked the accountant's one since he's gone for the day.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

It's always fun with computers, isn't it (sigh). Hopefully it will get fixed soon...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Apparently the installation of the keyboard and mouse drivers screwed things up badly. I'm not going to hold my breath. I just hope they can get my files back as I haven't backed up since last week.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed that you don't lose your files...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what I'll do if I lose a week's work. Eep.