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No good deed goes unpunished
Aug. 11th, 2015 08:50 pmIt's been one of those days today. Went to the church office to do my volunteer work answering phones at 10 am. Around 1 pm the gentleman who looks after the church grounds came over to trim the bushes. As our back garden had several bushes that needed desperate attention, I managed to get him for 2 hours this afternoon. Win!
He came over, trimmed two bushes and removed lots of ivy that was slowly strangling the lavender bush. He brought waste bags for the cuttings, and took everything away. He only charged me £20 for the two hours and wouldn't take a tip. Win!
I will post a picture at some point, as it looks SO much better. Win!
Then, after he left, I was looking at emails and generally decompressing and the doorbell rang. It was my neighbour in Flat 5, whom I will call "C" as that's his initial. He brought his iPad with him, and showed me the message it was giving him "Your iPad is disabled". Apparently he had entered an incorrect passphrase 6 times, which disabled the iPad. Lose!
"No worries" I said, "You've backed it up to your computer, haven't you?" "Er, no" was his response. So, I got him to bring his laptop down so we could try to sort it out. When his laptop arrived downstairs, his Ethernet cable had lost the latches at both ends. Lose!
I gave him one of my spares, and we managed to hook it up to my network. We looked up how to restore the iPad, and tried to follow those instructions. However, his iTunes was woefully out of date, and wouldn't open. Lose!
We updated his iTunes, which took a shedload of time, and finally got it to open. He entered his Apple ID, but had forgotten his password. Lose!
He tried to reset his password, but every password he tried was either too easy or he had used it before. Lose!
I finally took over, asked him for a phrase he would remember. He took a couple of minutes and finally thought of one. Win!
I made a complex password out of it and printed it out for him so that he would have it somewhere, and we reset his password successfully. Win!
We connected up his iPad, but it wouldn't open. Lose!
We tried to restore it, but it would not restore. So we had to reset it. Poor C kept moaning that he would lose all his downloaded StarTrek videos. I had to keep stressing that from this time forward he had to backup and sync his iPad to his laptop in order to avoid this. Lose!
When we had reset it, we found we had to enter his Apple ID. Unfortunately he has TWO Apple IDs, and the one that he had signed into iTunes with wasn't the one that his iPad required for a full reset. Lose!
We entered the other ID, and, you guessed it, he couldn't remember the password. Lose!
I made another complex password for him; we entered it and reset the iPad. Win!
He lost all his videos, his pictures, and his downloads that were on the iPad, however. A real Loss!
The moral of the story: sync your iGadgets with iTunes regularly. AND for pity's sake, REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORDS!
For me, the moral of the story: if you let your neighbours know that you work or had worked in computing, they will never give you a moment's peace. Lose, lose, and more lose.
He came over, trimmed two bushes and removed lots of ivy that was slowly strangling the lavender bush. He brought waste bags for the cuttings, and took everything away. He only charged me £20 for the two hours and wouldn't take a tip. Win!
I will post a picture at some point, as it looks SO much better. Win!
Then, after he left, I was looking at emails and generally decompressing and the doorbell rang. It was my neighbour in Flat 5, whom I will call "C" as that's his initial. He brought his iPad with him, and showed me the message it was giving him "Your iPad is disabled". Apparently he had entered an incorrect passphrase 6 times, which disabled the iPad. Lose!
"No worries" I said, "You've backed it up to your computer, haven't you?" "Er, no" was his response. So, I got him to bring his laptop down so we could try to sort it out. When his laptop arrived downstairs, his Ethernet cable had lost the latches at both ends. Lose!
I gave him one of my spares, and we managed to hook it up to my network. We looked up how to restore the iPad, and tried to follow those instructions. However, his iTunes was woefully out of date, and wouldn't open. Lose!
We updated his iTunes, which took a shedload of time, and finally got it to open. He entered his Apple ID, but had forgotten his password. Lose!
He tried to reset his password, but every password he tried was either too easy or he had used it before. Lose!
I finally took over, asked him for a phrase he would remember. He took a couple of minutes and finally thought of one. Win!
I made a complex password out of it and printed it out for him so that he would have it somewhere, and we reset his password successfully. Win!
We connected up his iPad, but it wouldn't open. Lose!
We tried to restore it, but it would not restore. So we had to reset it. Poor C kept moaning that he would lose all his downloaded StarTrek videos. I had to keep stressing that from this time forward he had to backup and sync his iPad to his laptop in order to avoid this. Lose!
When we had reset it, we found we had to enter his Apple ID. Unfortunately he has TWO Apple IDs, and the one that he had signed into iTunes with wasn't the one that his iPad required for a full reset. Lose!
We entered the other ID, and, you guessed it, he couldn't remember the password. Lose!
I made another complex password for him; we entered it and reset the iPad. Win!
He lost all his videos, his pictures, and his downloads that were on the iPad, however. A real Loss!
The moral of the story: sync your iGadgets with iTunes regularly. AND for pity's sake, REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORDS!
For me, the moral of the story: if you let your neighbours know that you work or had worked in computing, they will never give you a moment's peace. Lose, lose, and more lose.
