A new curse:

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

May you manually make repeated table edits to a twelve-thousand-record database. One at a time.

Fun with Dell Tech Support

[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

I've got a desktop with a bad memory chip. I tell tech support guy from country that shall rename nameless that I'm getting memory errors out the ying yang in the diagnostics (listing them in great gory detail), and I'm having problems with the cd and hard drive as a result. Dell tech decides I need a new CD and hard drive.

I email him back and say NO, replacing the MEMORY in the machine solves ALL the problems. It is NOT a hard drive or cd problem. I just need a new chip to replace the one in the 2nd slot that's bad. In the meantime, Dell Tech support calls to arrange the replacement of the CD and the hard drive.

*sigh* I can't win.