This is pretty much going to be a rant about all the problems I had while trying to submit my assignment. So be forewarned.
Well after staying up for nearly 48 hours getting my assignment finished. I went to school at about 3:30 pm since it way due by 5 pm. I figured this way if there was a problem with printing or anything I would have ample time to remedy the situation. First I had to install the wireless printers on my Mac. This sounds like it would be a simple ordeal, but since I have one of the new intel Macs, it turns out that I'm not technically supported yet. With a bit of tinkering I got that going. So I send my documents over to the printers. I had two pages that were colour and the rest were black and white. Turns out that you have to go to different print stations for each so I get my black and white pages first, no problem. I go to the colour printer and tell it to go ahead an print my queue, the printer starts beeping and asking for some huge paper size. The only way to fix it is to restart it, which deletes the queue. There goes two bucks. So I now need more money on my account for printing so I go wait in the big line to get that done. I also buy corollated stuff to bind my pages when I'm done. I send my documents over and tell it to print. Same thing happens! So now I go back into the line to ask the reasons. The guy asks if I am using a PDF document to print, which I was. He informs me that there is something wrong with my PDF, which is ridiculous as I was using Adobe products which invented the damn thing :). So he says to try with the wired computers instead of sending it wirlessly. So, I wait in another huge line for the computers. Once I do that I come back to the printer and it already has the same error with someone else over it. The guy comes again and say if it's prudent the we should go to the technology lab, on the other side of campus. At this point I have about 45 min to hand this in. So I run across campus to get to these other printers. I open my queue and try to tell it to print, but it doesn't like that idea, it says that my print jobs are being held by the other printer. So I delete all my jobs and once again open my laptop to send to the printers. I tell it to print one of the pages, SUCESS! Alright, now I need the other page. Oh wait not enough money! So, I have to run back across campus and stand in line again to add money to my account. After that I run back across yet again to print my final page. When I get there a girl is standing over the printer with an error. Luckily I reset in and away it goes my last page is done, but I notice that I left my correlating stuff back at the library. At least that's where I have to correlate everything so at least I'm heading to the right direction. I run back to the library, and luckily my stuff is still sitting on the counter. I go stand in line for the correlating machines. Finally get on one and the one I pick had one of the hole punches missing so i have to flip it back over and re-corolate it. Finally get everything over with with about 10 minutes to spare. Get to where I need to hand it in and yet another line. I just couldn't believe how many problems with such an easy thing to do. All I needed to do is just print and and hand in. Shouldn't have taken me that long, but it was Friday the 13th and that's my excuse.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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