Stick to what you’re best at…
11:13 PM - February 20th, 2005
No, that’s not a quote. This post’s subject is something that I feel is above a silly quote. I have one simple question for one specific person. Most likely they’ll never read this, and even if they do, I frankly don’t care. Are you an I.T. professional? What’s that? No? Interesting. Then I have a suggestion for you. Don’t try to be one! After exhausting myself at work today (not to mention being up at 5:00AM) I was welcomed home with a note saying that our network’s security protocol has changed. Sure, sounds simple enough, right? Yeah, well no, it wasn’t. For those of you out there who might actually understand this, our wireless network was set up with WEP, but apparently that’s not secure enough! Cause god forbid someone wants to look at the computers of three college students (well, okay, maybe a couple of those hidden folders, but besides that). So he changed our security to some other secure thing that slips my mind at the moment.
Anyway, so I come home and find my computer has been frozen for a good long time. Alright, sure, computers freeze, no big deal. So I restart and find that I can’t get on the network. Whys that? Huh, well it seems that I need to completely change my settings in order to access my network now. Fine, I say, if it makes us more secure I guess it can’t be bad. Only thing is, it’s not working. It took a good hour of installing and uninstalling drivers, changing settings, and removing/installing hardware to get these computers back on the network, and I was pissed.
As soon as I saw him, I told him to change it back, immediately. There is no point in us having to go through so much trouble because of him changing something on a whim. So did he? Yeah, he changed it back. Did that help? Not in the slightest. So now, instead of having computers that barely connect to the network, I have three computers that have fatal errors and restart themselves anytime they try to access a network setting. wonderful…
So now, tired, exhausted, (and hungry, but thats not really related), I have to spend my whole afternoon fixing our computers. So solve this dilemma: I need to change the settings on my network drivers. however, every time I access the network drivers the computer freezes up so horribly that it resets itself! *sigh* Anyway, so 5 hours later it’s all over. So I’ve one thing to say. If you don’t know what your doing, don’t fucking do it.