My computer is on the brink of.... No, it's me who is on the brink of something because my lovely laptop was damaged for £75. Is it fair that I paid for it one grand two years ago in the hope that it would last several years because of sufficiently advanced features and some provincial IT 'wizards' couldn't manage to screw in its bottom cover without disconnecting the DVD drive and making the Wi-Fi button stuck in one place? Is it fair that I paid a lot of hard earned money for them to open and ruin it for yet more of my hard earned money? Is it fair for this to happen after I actually asked one of them to please be careful because I'd had bad experiences with IT shops before?
My user account got corrupted so I could not log in to both of OSs installed and I spent hours trying to figure out how to get into my own computer. Now, I don't know for sure whether the password issue was caused by their mediocre screwing or by me not using the laptop for several months but somehow the absence of the DVD drive in my Computer, the Device Manager, and its IDE controller makes me reasonably well-positioned to argue that the sleepless night I had was their fault as well! I am taking it back to them tomorrow morning and I cannot decide how I should act: should I be sweetly polite with sheepish sounds or cause some lightning and thunder in their dusty nest with a sign 'no unauthorised persons in the static electricity control zone'??????(!!!!) Thank goodness this Saturday will be filled with other better things to do or otherwise I would feel like organising a hunger strike with signs 'no to arrogant computer repair shops!', 'give me your tools and I can fix it myself better than you!', 'it's not IT it's IS (information stupidity)!' and so on and so forth right at their doorstep.
On the other, more positive note: I've been amazed to discover that it's a matter of seconds to restore one's login password in Ubuntu (any Lynux system I suppose): just write a command line in recovery mode and c'est tout! I suppose now I can say that it's a matter of minutes to gain access to Windows account if you've forgotten your password or the user account got corrupted, but it took me so much longer to get to this point! Even when I had a programme installed in Ubuntu to perform a hacker task of gaining access to a so-called 'SAM' file in Windows I still couldn't make it work for about an hour. I typed all command lines I could find on the net and none of them worked. First, there were lines that might have been good for the older Lynux versions and they were useless for my Ubuntu; then, when I'd finally discovered somebody's beautiful blog with everything laid out step by step about the beautiful chntpw programme and I still couldn't make it work I felt like diying and taking with me some of the local IT 'wizards'.... After further deliberation and a lot of to and fro I'd noticed people's comments at the end of that blog post and in particular one short comment by not less than an Einstein's re-incarnation that the command line should have 'sam' instead of 'SAM'.... And how well that worked!
Lynux systems are quite frustrating to be honest as they require a lot of 'soul searching'. The amount of time one need to spend to fix it and things in it prevents me from using it except on these rare special occasions when there is no other choice.
My user account got corrupted so I could not log in to both of OSs installed and I spent hours trying to figure out how to get into my own computer. Now, I don't know for sure whether the password issue was caused by their mediocre screwing or by me not using the laptop for several months but somehow the absence of the DVD drive in my Computer, the Device Manager, and its IDE controller makes me reasonably well-positioned to argue that the sleepless night I had was their fault as well! I am taking it back to them tomorrow morning and I cannot decide how I should act: should I be sweetly polite with sheepish sounds or cause some lightning and thunder in their dusty nest with a sign 'no unauthorised persons in the static electricity control zone'??????(!!!!) Thank goodness this Saturday will be filled with other better things to do or otherwise I would feel like organising a hunger strike with signs 'no to arrogant computer repair shops!', 'give me your tools and I can fix it myself better than you!', 'it's not IT it's IS (information stupidity)!' and so on and so forth right at their doorstep.
On the other, more positive note: I've been amazed to discover that it's a matter of seconds to restore one's login password in Ubuntu (any Lynux system I suppose): just write a command line in recovery mode and c'est tout! I suppose now I can say that it's a matter of minutes to gain access to Windows account if you've forgotten your password or the user account got corrupted, but it took me so much longer to get to this point! Even when I had a programme installed in Ubuntu to perform a hacker task of gaining access to a so-called 'SAM' file in Windows I still couldn't make it work for about an hour. I typed all command lines I could find on the net and none of them worked. First, there were lines that might have been good for the older Lynux versions and they were useless for my Ubuntu; then, when I'd finally discovered somebody's beautiful blog with everything laid out step by step about the beautiful chntpw programme and I still couldn't make it work I felt like diying and taking with me some of the local IT 'wizards'.... After further deliberation and a lot of to and fro I'd noticed people's comments at the end of that blog post and in particular one short comment by not less than an Einstein's re-incarnation that the command line should have 'sam' instead of 'SAM'.... And how well that worked!
Lynux systems are quite frustrating to be honest as they require a lot of 'soul searching'. The amount of time one need to spend to fix it and things in it prevents me from using it except on these rare special occasions when there is no other choice.
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