Random Rants

So here I am, sitting at home, trying to take a day off to rest and recover from a long week. I've been dealing with dimwits, misfits, fucktards, etc all week long, you know, customers. Just remember, the customer is always right. Even if in the case of last week I keep getting calls from Becky who needs me to setup a network printer on a print server for her because they need to be able to print and right now they can't print anything at all.

Let me explain this scenario for a minute, they just moved into an office, I setup a simple network for them, dsl for internet access, since cox said "three months at the earliest, and you'd have to pay for us to tear up the parking lot to run lines". They have 4 computers in their office, a copy machine, a fax machine, and 4 usb printers.

Now I know you all caught that last part about the printers. Well those are inkjet printers and they have to print forms, well apparently they are under the impression they can't print word documents on these printers so I "absolutely must get out there now and setup a print server so they can print". Okay so I get a network card for the copier from the guy they bought the copier from. Well I find out that network card is bad, great, here comes the wrath of Becky the bitch. So I decide to get creative, I setup a print server on a linux box using an old e-machine, and configure it to print using drivers from an Apple LaserWriter II. So now they can print to a "Network printer" and this is acceptable.

I had Becky call me so I could walk her through installing the printer on her computer, which basically means double-clicking on it. She gets this with no problem.

An hour passes....

My phone rings: This is Becky, we need these forms in color and this thing is only printing in black and white, I've tried it about a dozen times now and it only prints in black and white.

I'm on my way to the store to find a couple boxes of ammo.