May 6, 2009

• Majorly stressed out, need to blog to calm myself down.  I'm all moved in at UoM Flint, I'm living in a 4-person suite with 2 other people, and it's a brand new dorm so it's really fucking nice.  I'll post pictures later, my room is the shit.  Only problem, no ethernet jacks, it's all wireless.  This isnt that big of a problem, except that UoM Flint's wireless internet is shitty, slow, and severely over-protected.  I had a hell of a time getting it set up, a guy like me with extensive computer knowledge should NOT have to go to an IT desk to get my shit fixed, EVER.  Everytime I went in there, they did shit that made absolutely zero since to me, and it certainly isnt helped by the fact that they dont automatically email you instructions of what they did after they did it incase you run into the problem again.  Example, I had to set up my proxy to connect to the internet.  I wasnt sure how I was supposed to do that since Flint's wireless is so fucked up, so I go in and have someone else do it.  He opens up Firefox, does some shit, and it works so I'm happy with it and I leave.  About half an hour ago, I felt like clearing out my browser's cache, and after that I had a problem where it kept authenticating and requesting my username and password constantly.  It was pure hell.  I went in to get it fixed, that same guy wasnt there, so I had to explain what he did to someone else who worked there.  The guy kept insisting that it was one of my Firefox Add-Ons interfering.  That's bullshit, the two things arent related at all, no person working at a help desk should ever make such a stupid guess and feel confident about his answer.  He was pissing me off, so I left, came back to my place, braved through the annoying-as-hell continuous pop-ups and figured this shit out myself.  I set my proxy to automatically configure in IE, and Firefox automatically detected this and started working like normal again.  I couldnt have known this since I expect the world, including Flint's wireless, to be compatible with Firefox, one of the most popular webbrowsers out there.  But NOOOO.  Flint expects you to do that in IE, and that's something that that guy SHOULD have known, and that should have been the very first thing he did.
  

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