Woe is me!!!!
If there was one thing that i would have done if i was given a second chance at life, it would be to murder turing. He's the one who did it all .. he invented it ..
Damn the computer . and damn all those people who bother to try and understand this bloody contraption. Well most of you would be pondering about why the hell i would be detesting this one eyed menace.
Well lets say after a gruelling ug in trichy , i just came here(sharjah) to get some good shut-eye, relax, and the likes . So my bro said there was something wrong with the sound card .. "aint no sound coming outta that thing" .
Hah ..a menial job for a guy who's been around comps for four years but has "NO IDEA OF HARDWARE". The truth of the matter is that i have never opened a comp in my 21 years of existence .
Remebering all those lovely conversations that left me starry eyed.
Comp nerd:"Well u see the thingamajig goes in to the third port and then you configure the modem . set your dns values.....
Me: " Ok ..that's it huh.So simple"
And well coz my inexperience led me to believe that a sound card was infact a card that goes in to some slot in the comp.
So i set out to open the comp.I had to establish my credibility as an engineer who could understand the box.So i spent 2 weeks inserting and removing the so called "CARD". Finding drivers ..changing the slot...etc etc till i finally did get fed up and decided it was time to get some professional help ( that's right im a computer engineer. So much for credibility ).
There after i approached this charming young man that i met in the basketball court coz word was around that he used to assemble comps.
Me: "Hey i was just wondering if you know how to check out the FCC identification number." ( I was just trying to make conversation )
I told him about the problem at hand and he offered to help . So i gave him the "CARD". And he gave me this look .
And i thought. "He already knows the solution. He knows what to do . Finally here's one person who understands the damn box"
And he said " This is a vgi card . it's for ur display "
Well the should write that on the card.
The truth is that they did have MATROX DISPLAY on the chip.Woe is me .. well then i found out that the sound card was built in and then i tried upgrading to xp and the comp became so slow , i could see the electrons moving on the circuit (i guess that's too much of an exaggeration ).
and then we called my uncle who was computer in charge at his company and he rectified the whole thing.
Moral of the story:We shud have been born in the stone age where there was no comp , women were public property, dinosaurs were pets.......and the better things in life like beer and burgers were yet to be discovered....
Damn you comp ....(111000101010101010101010101010101010)
love sandy
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Hey this is a good piece man! you took a vgi card and told him its a sound card! man.... dunno what to say. I thought you found that out! you didn't tell me a professional had to tell ya that! hahaha.. yeah i know; i would like to also go back to the stone age, only for the women ;-)
Take care
KK
az thilakan said at the asianet onam interview..
"i always wanted to be a singer. but my singing wuz atrocious. so i took to acting. n' i've made a mark. therez just one thing i wanna say to all u viewers out there.. pattaattha panikku poyi veruthe CHALAmaakkaathe.."
well sandy dude, i guess he stole the very words from my mouth. n' btw its not vgi, its vga. [video graphic array].
btw its no less than i expected. infy always manages to take ppl like u. as i once said, the IT industry is less abt comps than u think. don't worry, u'll do really well in infy.. jus like arjun [hez my bro-in-law]. he wuz a proj lead when he left infy 7 yrs ago. he once came home then, to meet my sis.
i wuz in 10th std. then.. n' transferring mortal kombat to my friend's hard drive.. n he came to me to make conversation..
i wuz changing the jumper settings on the hard drive. "what is that?" he asked, pointin at the hard drive.
i resolved that day, that i wudn't join INFOSYS.
but then.. why shud infoscions know about hardware anyway? ur a software company right? u do diff. stuff n' i have reason to believe u know ur stuff very well. i think infy takes "specialists".. n' is not a place for generalists like me. i didn't mean any offence. if u felt insulted, i'm sorry.
Post a Comment