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Okay, by many, I am considered somewhat of a tech expert. I have found myself with the uncanny ability to hack into a school system (but not change grades), reprogram computers, take apart a hard drive, install a PCI chip, get past my mom's password on the Internet, and modify Microsoft Word so that it types in three languages at once.
Some of this is probably ridiculously simple to most, but then again, there is a limit to my abilities. Case in point: when I was working for my father, he blamed me for not having a backup of a certain HTML file that brought the whole web page down when the server crashed. I've never forgiven him for blaming me for something that is totally not my fault. What's more, he expected me to know three programming languages (I don't know ANY) so that his page could be in Korean! I don't KNOW Korean!
Everyone has his or her faults, yes? Well, this hacker-techie-wannabe has hers. My Windows Me computer at home has been acting more than a little fritzy lately, what with it booting up showing my old desktop, saying "Not enough memory" to run a non-existent program, and going into the Internet when there were messages on the phone line.
Not to mention all my HTML, DOC, and TXT files got turned into gibberish, I can't listen to anything besides WMA, RM, RAM, and WAV files (so much for those 316 MP3s) and, and... ;_; Waaah! Well, it all culminated into one big reboot last weekend, and I must have done *something* stupid in Setup, because now, I can't even get past the "VCI message" at the start-up-- rather, there's this thing about having an ATAPI BOOT CD, and not having any bootable media. I talked to Tech Support, and they said they would send the proper fix-it disk in two weeks. TWO WEEKS!? NOOOooooo!!
The only place I can use computers is school (here) so... yeah, that sucks. But I guess this is my just rewards for not turning in so much stuff to school, letting my grades slip and all... ;_; I have to learn my lesson, clean my room, Feng Shui my life... yeah.
Anyway, the newspaper has gone frooey again, since the tech teach increased the drive space to 30 MB (FINALLY). But until he de-networks these computers, we can't risk revising it again-- we can't save our works on floppies (incompatible) so we're stuck another week or more... waiting. Next year, a more energetic teacher is supposed to take over, but he wants to rename the paper "The Eagle's Post." WHAAAAT!? Hell, no! What's more, he wants to move the classroom (currently separated into a full class and a small office) to a non-secure bungalow (that ALWAYS gets wet when it rains)! It has taken me SOOO fu*king long to organize the archives in here, with old issues of the paper, yearbooks, textbooks, files, and computers. This room is my BABY, and even if I graduate next year, I want to do it with a BANG! and I'm not letting another airheaded teacher ruin it for me! YAH!
Some of this is probably ridiculously simple to most, but then again, there is a limit to my abilities. Case in point: when I was working for my father, he blamed me for not having a backup of a certain HTML file that brought the whole web page down when the server crashed. I've never forgiven him for blaming me for something that is totally not my fault. What's more, he expected me to know three programming languages (I don't know ANY) so that his page could be in Korean! I don't KNOW Korean!
Everyone has his or her faults, yes? Well, this hacker-techie-wannabe has hers. My Windows Me computer at home has been acting more than a little fritzy lately, what with it booting up showing my old desktop, saying "Not enough memory" to run a non-existent program, and going into the Internet when there were messages on the phone line.
Not to mention all my HTML, DOC, and TXT files got turned into gibberish, I can't listen to anything besides WMA, RM, RAM, and WAV files (so much for those 316 MP3s) and, and... ;_; Waaah! Well, it all culminated into one big reboot last weekend, and I must have done *something* stupid in Setup, because now, I can't even get past the "VCI message" at the start-up-- rather, there's this thing about having an ATAPI BOOT CD, and not having any bootable media. I talked to Tech Support, and they said they would send the proper fix-it disk in two weeks. TWO WEEKS!? NOOOooooo!!
The only place I can use computers is school (here) so... yeah, that sucks. But I guess this is my just rewards for not turning in so much stuff to school, letting my grades slip and all... ;_; I have to learn my lesson, clean my room, Feng Shui my life... yeah.
Anyway, the newspaper has gone frooey again, since the tech teach increased the drive space to 30 MB (FINALLY). But until he de-networks these computers, we can't risk revising it again-- we can't save our works on floppies (incompatible) so we're stuck another week or more... waiting. Next year, a more energetic teacher is supposed to take over, but he wants to rename the paper "The Eagle's Post." WHAAAAT!? Hell, no! What's more, he wants to move the classroom (currently separated into a full class and a small office) to a non-secure bungalow (that ALWAYS gets wet when it rains)! It has taken me SOOO fu*king long to organize the archives in here, with old issues of the paper, yearbooks, textbooks, files, and computers. This room is my BABY, and even if I graduate next year, I want to do it with a BANG! and I'm not letting another airheaded teacher ruin it for me! YAH!
