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Topic Started: Sep 15 2012, 06:20 PM (14,396 Views)
Hatsune Candy
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The soul of a forgotten file
Silverpraetor
May 7 2014, 01:59 PM
I hate people in general.
Stole the words right out of my mouth.
Sorry to hear about your dog.
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Alteiriaa
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Remember when in the Good Things thread when I said I found out where my RoE was and thought everything was gonna be hunky dory and I could just collect my Employment Insurance and everything was gonna be ok?

What a load that was. >:/
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TL;DR: Don't adult. You'll go hungry and be unemployed because people are dumb and can't do a single sheet of paperwork properly.
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Speedy
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Fairly sure I've given up.
FUCKING. ISP.

FUCKING FUCK.

Yesterday, out of the fucking blue around 2 PM my time, aka 14:00, the internet just dropped. Big groan, but hey, it went fine for 49 days according to the router, it was about time shit hit the fan. So I went forth and reset the router, as usual.

Except this time, it wouldn't reconnect.

No matter fucking what, I couldn't get it to work. We thus called the ISP.

"Have you tried resetting it?" FUCKING$@#$%#$%#$! "Yes. We have."

So she sent it through to the second-line customer service who then promptly told us to factory reset the fucking thing (P.S. didnt work) and then said they'd remotely do shit and call us back around 14:45.

So finally, at 15:30, they called back. Didn't work? Oh, they'll send our case to their engineer or repairguy I dunno how to translate it. (Technician maybe, </care>.) And he was supposed to call us back later that day.

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Cue the fucking next morning.

He can't show up today, so he's going to show up MONDAY.

FUCKING MONDAY.



At least we were promised to get our money back for every day we didn't have internet. Well, it's been an entire day already.
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Speedy
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Fairly sure I've given up.
I think this might be the best place to state this.

I need a bit of.. space. It might be just for right now and that I wake up tomorrow feeling totally fine, but.. I can't guarantee me coming to VE for a bit.

If you wish to know the reason, here it is, in chronological order.
http://tmblr.co/ZZDtcw1K2hixp
http://tmblr.co/ZZDtcw1K3doFL
http://tmblr.co/ZZDtcw1K5OKwH

I'll be back. It shouldn't take too long.

For everyone reading this later, I'm back.
Edited by Speedy, Jul 3 2014, 06:48 AM.
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Shane the Corrupted
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You know, I go to school to learn. So when I don’t know something, the obvious solution is to ask a teacher to, well, teach me, right? Right? Or are high school students supposed to figure things out on their own these days?

So, confession time. I am currently studying IT in my second year of high school*, and I knew nothing coming into this – and as far as I can tell, this hasn’t changed since my admission. My classmates, all up to four years younger than myself, seem to have at least some prior knowledge and/or experience with IT, so I have always felt pressured to keep up. Now, I am way behind when it comes to our curriculum. Embarrassingly so. So, I’m taking extra classes so that I can at least make an attempt at catching up. I chose to work on Networking, because I missed pretty much all of it. So here I am, setting up a router, and everything seems fine except…I don’t have internet connection. So what do I do? I don’t know, so I ask my teacher. He comes over, glances at my router settings and says “I can see the problem here,” and then he falls silent. I break this awkward silence with an awkward question: “Okay, so… What’s the problem?” “You should see it,” he replies with a smirk and walks off. “No I don’t…” I mutter to myself as I turn back to my router settings. Still unable to figure things out, I call him over once more in hopes of squeezing out some information from him. “Draw a mind map and write your thoughts around it,” he exclaims with his typical, almost obsessive enthusiasm for mind maps and starts talking in an incredibly cryptic fashion before walking off again. (In case you’re wondering what a mind map is)

Fed up with this pattern, I call over my classmate to come take a look at my problem. “Yeah, I can see what the problem is here,” he says after a quick glance. “Okay… That being?” I ask, barely suppressing an exasperated tone. He turns to our teacher and asks, “Doesn’t the router use .1.1?” “Yes, it does.” Our teacher replies. And then it dawned on me. I had forgotten that I’m connecting through our lab’s router, meaning that a Local IP ending in .1.1, the same setting as the lab router, is going to cause a conflict. My classmate even went as far as to confirm that I realised this before I turned back to my router settings to rectify this error – by changing a single number value – and presto, I have internet.

So, why could my teacher just not have told me this in the first place? In the ten minutes I had spent wrestling with my teacher for an answer, my classmate helped me solve it within the minute. To be honest, I don’t think I’ll so much as even come close to catching up to what I’ve missed. Not with a teacher that doesn’t seem interested in doing his job. Or maybe I’m just plain stupid. Again, I know nothing – absolutely nothing – when it comes to IT. So either my teacher doesn’t do his job properly, or I’m supposed to be able to figure this out myself and am really dumb for asking. At this point, I don’t even know. I don’t think I ever knew in the first place. I’m just gonna sit here feeling dumb now because evidently I must be.

*To clarify, by "second year" I mean that I chose to study IT in my second year. IT classes are not available for first years (for whatever reason).
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