necessity is a mother.

[rmd]

nothing like a power outage to get me to unlame enough to put my computer and network gear on a small UPS.

also: peeve! a few months ago, i ordered a memory upgrade from dell for my desktop machine. and, since they know the service tag, they should've been able to determine correctly what type of memory i could take, RIGHT? wrong. they apparently sent me a totally wrong item. not like "gee, there's a timing mismatch" kind of wrong. we're talking DOESN'T EVEN FIT IN THE FUCKING SLOT type of wrong.

fuckers.

i'll see if it fits anything else i own before calling them up and bitching them out.

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[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

The following is a stupid question. I am just compelled to ask it.

You turned the memory around both ways, right? It's not a case of trying to put it into the slot backwards?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah. i tried rotating it a few times before it occurred to me "hey, maybe they sent me entirely the wrong piece" and then i pulled the existing one and realized, yeah, slightly different form factor, different notch location. wrong part.