I'm back

[kathryn]

You may or may not have noticed my absence the last couple of days. I've been going through internet withdrawl since Tuesday, the last time the server I connect to was functioning! No forums! NO e-mail! No internet shopping! EGAD! It's amazing how dependant I have become on my connection!

I connect from home via my university server (which is what my office computer is connected to), and the whole system crashed of old age! We're due for an upgrade in about a year, and technicians have been trying to keep it running until then. It's finally back up again..at least for now. And it seems to be running at about 70%: I often get a "web page not found" message and have to refresh.

School starts tomorrow, so students aren't even using the system that much yet. Wonder what will happen then?

We've been pushed to use technology more at school (on-line classes, multimedia classrooms, most info that was formerly on paper is now stored in the system), so a "dead network" gums up a lot of things. My department chair was kvetching that he had to actually walk certain forms over to different building on campus, and manually add new students to classes, without knowing if the class was technically full or not!

 

[Runcrazy]

Welcome back Kathryn! See it goes to show how dependent we've become on technology. I'm in the software business and if we lose servers or connections it incapacitates everyone! Not to mentioned communicating with clients. You don't realize how much you use the internet, email etc. until it disappears!

 

[cathe4me2]

Hi Kathryn,
Glad you are back on line. Speaking of being computer dependent, my DH and I farm. It wasn't too long ago we did all the bookwork and checking by hand. Now if the computer shuts down, I can't write payroll checks or get farm data my DH wants.
When the computer is out in la la land, I wish we were back to the old way of doing things. The exception is the internet. I go crazy and have withdrawal pangs when the internet is down. LOL