vassil3427
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Ignorant Tech People
Just thought maybe I'd give some of you a laugh.. For the last 4 days my schools network has been down(I attend a medium size Christian School) No one has been able to connect to networked drives and such. Also randomly one by one computers were losing access to the net. Normally the teachers will ask me for help, but they didnt even ask and just called a so-called "professional" network manager/tech guy from a computer shop across town. Well he spent 5 HOURS and supposedly couldnt get it to work, he felt that all the NIC cards had burnt out in all the PC's. He was going to order all new ones and replace them(at quite an expense to the school obviously)..he said he would have to charge 5 more hours to install and update the pc's....Well that was Friday, today(Monday) I go into the office and they were asking about backing up files onto disks..etc... And I said, "hey mind if I try something?, I dont think that guy knew what he was doing"...Principal said "Sure" I walk in, reset the router...bingo...all systems go...all access restored...hahahaha... The teachers are going to be giving me the check that they were going to pay the repairman for his 5+ hours he wasted...They plan on calling him tomorrow and letting him know how dissapointed they are... ...I love being able to work on computers....
Just thought maybe I'd give some of you a laugh.. For the last 4 days my schools network has been down(I attend a medium size Christian School) No one has been able to connect to networked drives and such. Also randomly one by one computers were losing access to the net. Normally the teachers will ask me for help, but they didnt even ask and just called a so-called "professional" network manager/tech guy from a computer shop across town. Well he spent 5 HOURS and supposedly couldnt get it to work, he felt that all the NIC cards had burnt out in all the PC's. He was going to order all new ones and replace them(at quite an expense to the school obviously)..he said he would have to charge 5 more hours to install and update the pc's....Well that was Friday, today(Monday) I go into the office and they were asking about backing up files onto disks..etc... And I said, "hey mind if I try something?, I dont think that guy knew what he was doing"...Principal said "Sure" I walk in, reset the router...bingo...all systems go...all access restored...hahahaha... The teachers are going to be giving me the check that they were going to pay the repairman for his 5+ hours he wasted...They plan on calling him tomorrow and letting him know how dissapointed they are... ...I love being able to work on computers....