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Entries Tagged as 'Technical Problems'

Momentary panic attack cured by proper spelling

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Not one of my more lucid moments this morning. Tried to log onto my blog and kept getting the dreaded
404 Not Found
We’ve either moved ‘ /dairy or deleted the page. Sorry.

Kind of made my blood run cold. I thought, Hmmm I paid my bill, I know I posted there…. damn what’s the problem. Logged onto [...]

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Tags: Blog Help · Blogging · Catpaw's Mad · Day in the Life · Illiterate · Technical Problems · Whines

Hurray for good tech support

May 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just a quick note while I’m waiting to see if a fix for this computer will work …
I’d like to give ACER computers a big pat on the back for their excellent tech support. Normally I do nothing but complain about the lack of support offered by companies but Acer seems to swim against the [...]

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Tech support redux

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

For those of you who are curious as to whether I solved the rather sticky computer problem from the begining of April, the answer is yes.  The instuctions sent were indeed, a rehash of everything I had tried, so they were as good as useless.
Know what solved the problem?
A missing step in the instructions.
Following the [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Computers · Rants · Technical Problems

Did I tell you I hate calling tech support?

April 7th, 2008 · 8 Comments

hate
• verb feel intense dislike for or a strong aversion towards.
• noun 1 intense dislike; strong aversion. 2 informal a disliked person or thing. 3 before a noun denoting hostile actions motivated by intense dislike or prejudice: a hate campaign.
— DERIVATIVES hatable (also hateable) adjective hater noun.
— ORIGIN Old English.
Oxford Concise Dictionary

computer tech support
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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Computers · Day in the Life · Rants · Technical Problems · Utter Stupidity