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More tales from the repair shop...this place seriously reminds me of a bizarre Asian grocery store we used to have in town that was so junky-looking and devoid of customers we were all convinced it was a front for something (the dude has to be using this as a tax shelter, no sane person would run a repair outfit this way).
Boss chewed me out last week because I spent basically one-and-a-half workdays building the shop rig. Horrors! Never mind that I had customer rigs to work on, plus walk-in copy and fax requests...the fact that the heatsink and motherboard were completely different socket types didn't help either (rig was unusable until I got the heatsink on, no 775s to be had on the premises so I couldn't do anything). In my eyes, getting customer rigs fixed and out the door trumped the shop rig that day (especially since one of said machines had been there for the better part of two weeks). This led to my being told "this shows me you don't have enough experience to build a computer"...um, all the experience in the world is not going to transmute a 478 heatsink into a 775. Regardless, it takes longer than one hour to build, install an OS and get everything solid. There's a reason you don't see "PCs In An Hour" shops.
Now it is demanded that I must install XP Pro and only XP Pro, despite my arguments that Linux is better able to handle file-recovery from borked Windows drives (truth, I've done it a few times). The copy of XP Pro I was given is an opened OEM copy, no way to tell if it has already been activated. I'll probably slap a dual-boot on there tomorrow...I'm very tempted to request some Ubuntu CDs be sent to the shop and see what the reaction is ("We're here at Blah Systems, where we've secretly replaced the usual Windows OS they use with Ubuntu. let's see if anybody notices."...now that would make a good *nix ad)
After next week, my grandmother's house needs to go on the market so I'll be down there a lot helping to clean it up/out. Maybe I can use that as an excuse to not be there for awhile and look for something else.
Boss chewed me out last week because I spent basically one-and-a-half workdays building the shop rig. Horrors! Never mind that I had customer rigs to work on, plus walk-in copy and fax requests...the fact that the heatsink and motherboard were completely different socket types didn't help either (rig was unusable until I got the heatsink on, no 775s to be had on the premises so I couldn't do anything). In my eyes, getting customer rigs fixed and out the door trumped the shop rig that day (especially since one of said machines had been there for the better part of two weeks). This led to my being told "this shows me you don't have enough experience to build a computer"...um, all the experience in the world is not going to transmute a 478 heatsink into a 775. Regardless, it takes longer than one hour to build, install an OS and get everything solid. There's a reason you don't see "PCs In An Hour" shops.
Now it is demanded that I must install XP Pro and only XP Pro, despite my arguments that Linux is better able to handle file-recovery from borked Windows drives (truth, I've done it a few times). The copy of XP Pro I was given is an opened OEM copy, no way to tell if it has already been activated. I'll probably slap a dual-boot on there tomorrow...I'm very tempted to request some Ubuntu CDs be sent to the shop and see what the reaction is ("We're here at Blah Systems, where we've secretly replaced the usual Windows OS they use with Ubuntu. let's see if anybody notices."...now that would make a good *nix ad)
After next week, my grandmother's house needs to go on the market so I'll be down there a lot helping to clean it up/out. Maybe I can use that as an excuse to not be there for awhile and look for something else.
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