Caution: Venting Ahead.

The amount of memory on my Mac G3 isn’t nearly enough. I’ve had about all that I can take from the constant crashes every time I go from Photoshop to QuarkXPress or from Internet Explorer to Outlook. Particularly frustrating are those instances when I realize that the computer has frozen again — after I’ve made numerous changes in a 12-page, four-color document… and I hadn’t even saved it yet.

Yesterday was a special kind of hell; not only was my own computer acting up, but other computers with which I have to work were acting up as well. I had some updates to make to the company web server, and every time I uploaded a file or two (either by FTP or by remote access and file transfer — it didn’t seem to matter), the whole server would freeze. On the Mac, I’d get that increasingly annoying little dog-shaped cursor running nonstop, hell-bent for nowhere, at which point I’d blame the makers of Fetch for my having to restart the whole thing. On the PC, I’d get unceremoniously dumped by the server, leaving me with nothing to do but curse and reload PCAnywhere to start all over again.

There are days when my frustration empties my head of all calm reason, and I have to resort to calling tech support for the littlest things.

“Ah… I seem to have lost my internet connection.”

“Okay. You might want to try shutting the power off to the cable modem for a minute, and then restarting it and your computer again.”

“Um… is that all?!”

“Yep.”

“I’ll be darned.” It worked, of course. I only wish my other tech frustrations were as easy (and as cheap) to solve.

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