{"id":157,"date":"2004-09-26T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2004-09-26T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T16:49:03","slug":"argh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2004\/09\/argh\/","title":{"rendered":"Argh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inattentive, less than forthcoming, and contradictory technical support personnel are rapidly replacing taxi drivers as my least favorite group to do business with.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, either the system isn&#8217;t seeing my hard drive and I can fix this by reseating the actual physical drive and doing a system reset (tech #1) which has worked off and on for the two weeks since this problem started, or my hard drive is just dead and needs to be replaced (tech #2).<\/p>\n<p>So, I have a new hard drive coming, which I&#8217;ll have to pay for if I don&#8217;t send back my old hard drive (WTF?  If it&#8217;s dead, why do you need it?).<\/p>\n<p>I have a little bet going with myself:I think the problem is XP Service Pak 2.  Given that I didn&#8217;t start having these problems until after I installed it I think this is the case.   I think the new hard drive is going to show up and maybe it&#8217;ll work, and maybe it won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\">Occam<\/a> would tell us that the problem is that the hard drive is failing, but William of Occam never had to deal with Bill Gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inattentive, less than forthcoming, and contradictory technical support personnel are rapidly replacing taxi drivers as my least favorite group to do business with. Apparently, either the system isn&#8217;t seeing my hard drive and I can fix this by reseating the actual physical drive and doing a system reset (tech #1) which has worked off and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}