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March Of The IT Professionals

With all of the blog updates lately and the subject matter change that I’ve been writing about, you can probably guess that I’ve undergone a relatively recent life event associated with my drinking habits. But that’s not what this update is about.

I was out of the office on Short Term Disability for four weeks, as previously written. Because of the way I left the office, my computer was left untouched and would fall into a sleep/standby mode for most of those four weeks.

At some point during those four weeks, corporate-level IT harvested the license for my version of Adobe Professional. Unbeknownst to me at the time of my return, Adobe Professional was removed from my machine during one of the two Windows updates that were installed. 

I should have seen it coming. Once a year, I get an email from some remote, corporate-level IT dickhead in like fucking Guadalajara asking me if I *REALLY* need Adobe Professional because they want to harvest my license and save some money. Every time I get one of these emails, I respond that I *DO* need it and that it’s integral to execution of my work.

Buuuuut… I guess they decided to ignore me this time.

I re-requested access to be able to download Adobe Professional via the usual software management system, a request that was automatically granted. The software management system is supposed to auto-update to show that I can now install the program however… it doesn’t and still hasn’t. 

Technology is just fucking great when it works. The rest of the time? It’s a complete bite in the ass. 

Microsoft = FAIL

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It was about one year ago that I was in the same situation as I am now.  Yes, once again, the Royal XBox 360 is dead.

I was one of hundreds of thousands of poor saps who had purchased an XBox 360 that suffered the Red Ring Of Death and, just over a year ago, that console up and died a most inconvenient death.  Luckily for me, Microsoft was supporting this failure with a free repair.  Rather than repairing this particular console and sending it back to me, I was sent a refurbished console for my troubles.

This year, it’s another failure.  Of course, it couldn’t be another RROD which would be covered by Microsoft.  This year, I’ve got to deal with a disc drive that won’t read the disc.  The bill for this failure is going to be footed completely, 100% by the taxpayers of the NJLE.

I’m sure this comes as a shock for most people as Microsoft always provides quality products and genuinely cares about their customers.

Enter: the XBox 360S, Microsoft’s newest offering to the gaming world.  Supposedly, the heat and fan issues have been resolved with this newest console, making it quieter and increasing it’s life.  Well, one could hope that it would be longer than a year, anyway.

I’ve been seriously considering going out and buying myself one of these new consoles, transferring my data to it and then sending my old white, matte box off to Microsoft for repair before donating it to the youth of the NJLE.  That’s one of my current considerations, anyway.

What’s the other consideration?

The other thing that I’ve pondered is giving Bill Gates and his behemoth software empire a gigantic shove-off and buying a Sony Playstation 3.  Some of my favourite titles are available on the PS3 and it’s also got a Blu-Ray player embedded within it.  That’s basically putting gaming and HD movies into one package; a package that I don’t have yet.  I don’t necessarily want to buy a separate Blu-Ray DVD player.  It would be like killing two birds with one stone… or just killing Bill’s lame duck with a Sony slingshot.

I don’t know… I’ve got a few options, I guess.  Really, I just want to start playing Modern Warfare 2 again as quickly as possible.  That being said, I also don’t want to lose all of the progress I have built thus far on the XBox Live system.  So who knows.  There’s one thing that is for certain: I’m just pretty sick of funnelling money into the technological money-pit that is known as Microsoft.