Things I hate today.
Aug. 10th, 2006 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking#1: Pedestrians in la belle province
#2: Being a pedestrian in la belle province
#3: Windows XP issues that stump Microsoft[1]
#4: Laptops. All laptops, but specifically fucking Sony fucking Vaio fucking laptops with bad video chips, which is a perfectly clear known issue, that choose WHEN THEY ARE IN THE ONLY STORE IN THE FUCKING CITY THAT CARRIES OLD VAIO PARTS to work PERFECTLY, in such a way that we can't make it fail, and that it hasn't worked before IN A BLOODY MONTH.
#5: Laptop stores that, upon seeing that the thing is POSTing, flat-out refuse to give me a quote on replacement parts. "It's working, you don't need one." "I WILL need one shortly. Price?" "But it's working now!" "It wasn't working ten minutes ago, and it won't be working ten minutes from now. HOW MUCH DOES A NEW FUCKING MOTHERBOARD AND CHIP COST?"
#6: Laptops, redux, as I leave the store, the store closes, and the laptop STOPS WORKING AGAIN.
#7: Toyotas that break down literally an hour from anything that even looks like civilisation, with no warning, showing no signs in the regular maintenance checkups, after working perfectly for most of the previous decade.
#8: Toyota dealerships in the middle of nowhere who replace your transmission, badly[2], and aren't open at a civilised hour OR located in a civilised location so you can get them to fix the very expensive job that they did wrong the first time.
I'm going to go kill something and eat it raw.
[1]: XP pro machine in a workgroup. No domain. It cannot browse other machines through Network Neighbourhood, nor can it connect to them by name. By IP, everything works absolutely perfectly and it can see and connect to those machines without a problem. Other machines in the workgroup cannot see this machine by name, but by IP they work perfectly. Every other machine can see every other machine without a problem. The machines are a mix of XP pro, XP home, Debian running Samba, and Ubuntu. When attempting to browse the workgroup, the error message is that the workgroup is not available, you don't have permission, the server list is not available.
NetBIOS is enabled (both through DHCP and through TCP/IP at different times), and it's even been tried disabled.
Computer Browser service has been stopped, started, run, told it's the master, told there is no master, and told that it cannot be the master but should look for one, to no avail.
No firewall or blocking software except Windows Firewall, and that's been disabled to test, too. No effect.
I've done everything but stick a damn lmhosts file in. I COULD put in an lmhosts file, but only about *half* of the machines that this one needs to connect to are on static IPs, and so the file would be counterproductive after a very short time AND it wouldn't detect new machines.
I'm stumped.
MSKB is stumped.
The owner of the machine resists "Here's your XP CD, key's in the sticker on the case, enjoy your reinstall" as an option, or good reason.
Any suggestions?
[2]: While it's a great, great improvement over "bang crunch shimmy screech to a stop ha ha your car is fucked", which was the state BEFORE the transmission replacement, currently the engine races way, way too far in 2nd and 3rd gear before shifting up and the entire car jerks when those gears shift. Shifting down appears to work perfectly normally. No, this doesn't depend on how hard I'm pressing the pedal, although putting the pedal down will make it happen faster. Have I mentioned how much I hate automatic transmissions? No? Let's put that as #9, then. #9: Automatic transmissions.
#2: Being a pedestrian in la belle province
#3: Windows XP issues that stump Microsoft[1]
#4: Laptops. All laptops, but specifically fucking Sony fucking Vaio fucking laptops with bad video chips, which is a perfectly clear known issue, that choose WHEN THEY ARE IN THE ONLY STORE IN THE FUCKING CITY THAT CARRIES OLD VAIO PARTS to work PERFECTLY, in such a way that we can't make it fail, and that it hasn't worked before IN A BLOODY MONTH.
#5: Laptop stores that, upon seeing that the thing is POSTing, flat-out refuse to give me a quote on replacement parts. "It's working, you don't need one." "I WILL need one shortly. Price?" "But it's working now!" "It wasn't working ten minutes ago, and it won't be working ten minutes from now. HOW MUCH DOES A NEW FUCKING MOTHERBOARD AND CHIP COST?"
#6: Laptops, redux, as I leave the store, the store closes, and the laptop STOPS WORKING AGAIN.
#7: Toyotas that break down literally an hour from anything that even looks like civilisation, with no warning, showing no signs in the regular maintenance checkups, after working perfectly for most of the previous decade.
#8: Toyota dealerships in the middle of nowhere who replace your transmission, badly[2], and aren't open at a civilised hour OR located in a civilised location so you can get them to fix the very expensive job that they did wrong the first time.
I'm going to go kill something and eat it raw.
[1]: XP pro machine in a workgroup. No domain. It cannot browse other machines through Network Neighbourhood, nor can it connect to them by name. By IP, everything works absolutely perfectly and it can see and connect to those machines without a problem. Other machines in the workgroup cannot see this machine by name, but by IP they work perfectly. Every other machine can see every other machine without a problem. The machines are a mix of XP pro, XP home, Debian running Samba, and Ubuntu. When attempting to browse the workgroup, the error message is that the workgroup is not available, you don't have permission, the server list is not available.
NetBIOS is enabled (both through DHCP and through TCP/IP at different times), and it's even been tried disabled.
Computer Browser service has been stopped, started, run, told it's the master, told there is no master, and told that it cannot be the master but should look for one, to no avail.
No firewall or blocking software except Windows Firewall, and that's been disabled to test, too. No effect.
I've done everything but stick a damn lmhosts file in. I COULD put in an lmhosts file, but only about *half* of the machines that this one needs to connect to are on static IPs, and so the file would be counterproductive after a very short time AND it wouldn't detect new machines.
I'm stumped.
MSKB is stumped.
The owner of the machine resists "Here's your XP CD, key's in the sticker on the case, enjoy your reinstall" as an option, or good reason.
Any suggestions?
[2]: While it's a great, great improvement over "bang crunch shimmy screech to a stop ha ha your car is fucked", which was the state BEFORE the transmission replacement, currently the engine races way, way too far in 2nd and 3rd gear before shifting up and the entire car jerks when those gears shift. Shifting down appears to work perfectly normally. No, this doesn't depend on how hard I'm pressing the pedal, although putting the pedal down will make it happen faster. Have I mentioned how much I hate automatic transmissions? No? Let's put that as #9, then. #9: Automatic transmissions.