Computer fixed, I want to kill something, and my name is I.R. Dumb

[athenaltena]

Well, laptop's back in working order, and it turns out that the problem wasn't TCP or IP or anything else like that.

The school fucking blocked me because I accidentally left Bittorrent running because I forgot to disable it after coming back from home.

I mean, what? Would it have killed them to let me know that they'd done that rather than have me run around like a headless chicken wondering if something was wrong with my laptop while being horribly inconvenienced and wasting the time of their tech guys? I mean, how the hell was I supposed to know when I couldn't even connect to the damn network? For the last time I'm an empath, not a fucking telepath!

*breathes* So anyway, he got me back on it and admitted that the admins are rather block-happy, but they were horribly unspecific about what was block-worthy in the information they gave us at the beginning of the year. They mention LimeWire, but I don't use LimeWire, I don't even use iTunes! What were they thinking?! *headdesk*

So, once that was sorted out I finally got to get back to doing what I needed to do, and got a lesson in that yes, I am totally reliant on this thing. I also ordered a few more textbooks on Amazon while internally wincing at the prices, though they're better than the college bookstore. One book I need cost $80 new, to which I said hell no and got used online for half of that.

I also just realized when looking at my orders online that I accidentally bought in the bookstore the same book I ordered yesterday. God damn it! I'll have to return the one I bought in person tomorrow, since the online one cost a good half as much as the one I got at the store. *headdesk* My brain has really been frazzled these past few days, and not having the laptop so I could check really didn't help.

Comments

[squarked.livejournal.com]

The exact same thing happened to me last year- they blocked me a didn't let me know, and I had to find out from the tech guy when I called tech support what was up. Not impressed.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

It really doesn't make sense when you consider that it ends up wasting the time of their tech guys, when it would take them all of a few seconds to let us know. *sigh* Bureaucracy.

[janus-2.livejournal.com]

LOLOL..... >>smiles>> time management training .... the V8 way.... "I could've had...."

Of course the school's IT people did not bother to tell you anything... did they have to? No.. they run the school, you are simply there to learn that they are in control and to do as they say........




>>smiles>> teasing ya... sounds like you needed someone to needle ya about a bit.