More Tech Support For The Dead
Nov. 15th, 2008 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotMy neighbor asked me overday to look at the computer of her late son. As I previously blogged, he was a disabled man who ran a business out of their home. When he died earlier in the year, she had me come up and go through the data in his computer in a futile search for a will or trust document.
This time, one of the relatives had done some modifications to the computer and it wasn't operating. I checked it out: all the pieces inside were plugged where they ought to be and all...but I did a trial run of my own and the thing wasn't booting up at all. Neighbor is an elderly lady with no use for a computer anyway, so when I suggested taking it into the shop in Knoxville for a professional opinion she demurred.
Even so, I doubt it's over. I expect I'll have to go through all his cybernetic hardware one way or another.
I never met the man. My parents wanted me to go to work for him but either I had another job or other reasons to forgo the prospect. Now I'm wondering if he's a ghost in the machine. Ereiamjh.
This time, one of the relatives had done some modifications to the computer and it wasn't operating. I checked it out: all the pieces inside were plugged where they ought to be and all...but I did a trial run of my own and the thing wasn't booting up at all. Neighbor is an elderly lady with no use for a computer anyway, so when I suggested taking it into the shop in Knoxville for a professional opinion she demurred.
Even so, I doubt it's over. I expect I'll have to go through all his cybernetic hardware one way or another.
I never met the man. My parents wanted me to go to work for him but either I had another job or other reasons to forgo the prospect. Now I'm wondering if he's a ghost in the machine. Ereiamjh.
