Technical support for the neighbours
A bed-time-story for me. This article sounds so very familiar. Indeed, most people get tempted into buying a computer, but when they have a problem, there’s noone qualified around to fix it. That’s one gap we’re trying to fill with our company, but alas, most computers are still sold with Microsoft Windows on there and we do only Open Source. So if people want our (quite affordable) help, they have to learn to use something new and that’s a hurdle few are willing to take.
Not that the neighbours are part of our target audience, but still, if you really want to help people, you need them to switch to the operating system you know best. And in my case, that’s Linux. And if you want technical support on a Microsoft machine, you’ll be paying them an arm and a leg, because not only do they need to travel to your house often, they also need to travel to your house often since Windows will do all sorts of strange stuff all the time…
But hey, that’s just my opinion.
Fluffy’s bottle is leaking!
Darn it! Fluffy’s water bottle is leaking. And it’s leaking hard. I refreshed the water this morning and already a third was gone from the bottle. Now, I don’t mind refreshing her water each day (actually, I plan on doing that anyway), but it also means she has a whole ‘wet spot’ in her cage. And we all hate to sleep on the wet spot, now don’t we?
So I removed the bottle and filled a soupbowl with her fodder and filled her stone fodderbowl with water. Hanneke was afraid she might not now how to drink from a bowl, but when I returned her the water, she started drinking from the bowl right away, so I’m not worried about that anymore. Dad will return the bottle tomorrow to see if we can get one that doesn’t leak.
I also started to housebreak her today and I thought her usual ‘relieve spot’ was on the spot where her water bowl was leaking. Now I know I was wrong, so I’ll have to replace the rodent litter tray on the spot where she does relieve herself. Not sure where that is, since she seems to poo around the whole cage. I’ll clean her cage tonight, so we can start anew with that question. Sometimes even real life needs a reboot…
Comments Off
Security no match for theater lovers
Sometimes you read something about security that just makes your hair stand on ends. As someone who thinks security is his job, I always get the jiffies when I read about these things. We invest so much time in technical security measures and even laws that try to protect those technical security measures, but the weakest link will always be the people with the passwords. Okay, this article talked about personal information, not really passwords, but still very sensitive. Especially the anecdote at the start of the article says a lot… Scary stuff, really.
