"I don't know."
"Several days later, I got a call from an unfamiliar young woman who wanted to come to my room in fifteen minutes. My lucky day! Then I realized that this visit must be related to my "exhaustive" conversation with the user consultant at HASCS (no young woman would ever offer to come to my room for any other reason).
The young woman sat at my computer and fiddled with my system files while I sat and read voraciously for my classes (right!). Twenty minutes later, she rose from a cloud of dust and electrons to announce that my computer was fixed. The solution? Disconnect my sound card.
So now my computer no longer has a sound card, but at least I'm back on the Infobahn.
Next time...FAS Computing Services and the meaning of life.
Eugene Koh '96-'97 writes about technology issues for the Crimson. He may be contacted online as ekoh@fas.harvard.edu. The above article was derived from the real experience of two Harvard undergraduates. No significans details were distorted