posted by sooyup
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Daily trivia,
Grumpy old man
….. are sent to try us. We all know bad things come in threes. A couple of weeks ago I had to reboot my laptop from the recovery disk following a disastrous crash. Three hours wasted. A week ago, the said laptop suddenly announced it could not communicate with the scanner. The guys at Epson advised me to uninstall and reinstall their software. Two hours wasted - no joy. They suggested disenabling everything on my start-up menu, and re-enabling the items one item at a time. Another hour wasted - still no joy. Get the scanner checked, they said. No problem - apart from the five-hour round trip to the nearest computer store! In the meantime, I thought, I can use the scanner of the all-in-one connected to my desktop. Today an ominous grinding noise came from the all-in-one’s printer, and now it keeps telling me there’s a paper-jam when their isn’t. Never mind, I can take it to the store when I go to collect my scanner. Another five-hour trip. And yet another when I collect the all-in-one. At least my other equipment seems to be in working order.
….. are sent to try us. We all know bad things come in threes. A couple of weeks ago I had to reboot my laptop from the recovery disk following a disastrous crash. Three hours wasted. A week ago, the said laptop suddenly announced it could not communicate with the scanner. The guys at Epson advised me to uninstall and reinstall their software. Two hours wasted - no joy. They suggested disenabling everything on my start-up menu, and re-enabling the items one item at a time. Another hour wasted - still no joy. Get the scanner checked, they said. No problem - apart from the five-hour round trip to the nearest computer store! In the meantime, I thought, I can use the scanner of the all-in-one connected to my desktop. Today an ominous grinding noise came from the all-in-one’s printer, and now it keeps telling me there’s a paper-jam when their isn’t. Never mind, I can take it to the store when I go to collect my scanner. Another five-hour trip. And yet another when I collect the all-in-one. At least my other equipment seems to be in working order.
