The joys of holiday technical support!

1: Number of flawless hard drive replacements on the Dimension 4100

3: Trips to Dell’s support site for drivers and manuals

21: Viruses detected on the old hard drive

15: Different kinds of viruses

More than 20: installations of America Online, ranging from the 5.x to the 9.x series.

0: Ethernet cards installed in the computer

Around 750: Doo-wop songs saved from the bit bucket

3,000 songs x 4MB song x 1 Hour per MB / 24 hours per day: Someone is either very committed or is finding people to bootleg MP3 cd’s from.

About 12: Off-color pictures saved

But the most important number is

2: Non-administrator accounts created

Wait! I mean…

2: Happy future in-laws.

Happy holidays, everybody. I have some good posts left this year, so don’t hold this one against me.