Elgin Computer Guy

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Darn!  I just couldn’t live with that theme that has the google ads in the layout.  It gives me problems placing images where I want them and I really don’t care too much for the placement of the google ads either.

One of these days I’ll take the time to figure out how to manually add my adsense info and design a custom template.  In the meantime, I’m back to the old WP standard Kubrick.

I used this Wordpress theme some time ago and can’t really remember why I stopped.  I’d like to learn a little more about customizing themes or even developing them from scratch.  Right now I struggle with it.  I’ll probably mess with this one a bit and see what happens.

Do you mind seeing ads on this blog?  It looks like their mostly local ads (at least right now).

Let me know what you think.

“Of course, a true Cisco stud would just do it all from the command line.”

Well, not a REAL hero.  I went to a long time client who had 3 annoying problems that have caused him endless frustration for weeks.  Within 30 minutes all problems were history.  I charged a fair price and went on my way.  From my point of view, I didn’t even have to be awake to solve those problems… from his point of view it was just shy of a magic.

I like it when it works out like that - What a great way to start the day!  If every service call could go so smoothly and have such an affect on the client, I’d never again complain about working so many hours.

Celebrate the small victories.    Happy Thursday, everyone!

I cancelled the Apps4Rent trial because it was crippled.  On my dashboard page, I got an ERROR 500 where the ticketing information should be.  When I click on the “TICKET” tab, I get an ERROR 500.   I called tech support and they said I shouldn’t even be seeing the ticket tab because they don’t offer that.  What the hell?!  What good is RMM software that can’t generate a ticket?  It’s like having a word processor that can’t print.

So after I cancelled, I signed up for a trial with Virtual Administrator and get back a form letter saying they’re waiting on Kaseya to release pricing and they’ll let me know when they’re accepting new customers again.  So I get in touch with Kaseya again and now they won’t deal with me because I’m on the waiting list with one of their partners… Virtual Administrator.   AARGH!!!

What a bunch of  crap!  I finally made a difficult decision.  I decided to go with a hosted Kaseya.  I’m sitting here with credit card in hand, but nobody will take my money.

OK, now what?  I got a call from N-Able this morning before all this happened.  Maybe it’s time to reconsider my decision to go with Kaseya.  N-Able?  LPI?  Packet Trap?  I’m right back where I frickin’ started.  I feel like I just wasted 3 days making a decision only to be told that I’m not qualified to buy the product I want.  WTF?

I swear I’m gonna move to the country and open a bait shop!  I can see it now…..   Would you like redworms or night crawlers?  Minnows?  No, sorry.  I can’t sell you minnows.  That’s an upgrade and we’re still waiting for an answer from our supplier to let us know how much they cost.  Look at ‘em though - they’re beauties, huh?  Gonna catch some big fish with those little guys, but not today.  Come back next week and we’ll talk.  What?!  You talked to Joe’s Bait Shop a few minutes ago?!  Get out of my store, you can’t buy from me after you talked to Joe!  What the hell is wrong with you, anyway?!  You should know better than that.

This is so embarrassing - I promised to be more active on the social networks and my blogs several months ago then just promptly disappeared again.

Hello world - do you think I should start over or just pick up where I left off on these blogs?

bad picture - good day

Robin as Sgt. Sellmore