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The Computer Saga. Two
May. 4th, 2003 07:25 pmYancy slid Cathy Turnbull over to make the repairs to the computer on Monday. The thing actually has connections of some kind in three countries, plus whatever happens at the inter-dimensional levels. (I'm not technically minded.)
Cathy had told me that this made it a WAN, rather than a LAN, but that this shouldn't add to the problems much. It'd added one difficulty right away when I needed to get it repaired, and had to ask Cathy to visit, until I asked Yancey to slide her over, as a favour. When they arrived they seemed to be getting on so well that I was afraid it might distract her from the work, but once she saw the computer Cathy was all business.
I'd thought that the major problem might have been the fact that the computer was delivered through a dimensional portal at all, but I wasn't sure if the software programmes really got along with each other and the interdimensional interfaces were bad from the start. This seemed to be why things had started out badly and very rapidly got worse. There's no way that I could give a technical explanation of the problems that had developed, so I just had to tell it my way...
Never Take a Computer Through a Dimensional Portal.
Since they sent the new computer through a portal to my base,
The dimensional flux is stopping it from making interface,
And the badly printed booklet says the help is all on-line,
But the modem that they've chosen's disconnecting all the time,
Now the data input's failing and the memory seems to jam,
Signals passing cross-dimensionally have randomised the RAM.
There's been no updates on the gigs and I do nothing rash,
But if I try to login this computer's going to crash.
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Cathy had told me that this made it a WAN, rather than a LAN, but that this shouldn't add to the problems much. It'd added one difficulty right away when I needed to get it repaired, and had to ask Cathy to visit, until I asked Yancey to slide her over, as a favour. When they arrived they seemed to be getting on so well that I was afraid it might distract her from the work, but once she saw the computer Cathy was all business.
I'd thought that the major problem might have been the fact that the computer was delivered through a dimensional portal at all, but I wasn't sure if the software programmes really got along with each other and the interdimensional interfaces were bad from the start. This seemed to be why things had started out badly and very rapidly got worse. There's no way that I could give a technical explanation of the problems that had developed, so I just had to tell it my way...
Never Take a Computer Through a Dimensional Portal.
Since they sent the new computer through a portal to my base,
The dimensional flux is stopping it from making interface,
And the badly printed booklet says the help is all on-line,
But the modem that they've chosen's disconnecting all the time,
Now the data input's failing and the memory seems to jam,
Signals passing cross-dimensionally have randomised the RAM.
There's been no updates on the gigs and I do nothing rash,
But if I try to login this computer's going to crash.
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