Kadiera's Playground Cute but Evil - it averages out

Interestingly, MS Powerpoint 2003 does not allow strike-through of text.

would you believe that the quote for the replacement system board for my work laptop is 50% more expensive than I can buy the same computer for online?

That's crap, pure and simple.

When we moved, my Unix workstation wouldn't come up.

The tech who came out to set up my workstation on Friday put in a support ticket, because it kept saying "no boot devices found."

Monday, a hardware tech came out with a big locking metal briefcase full of parts. When it was all said and done he put in a new hard drive, called the tech and said they'd need a boot helper (whatever that is) and the software guys would be back.

This morning, the first guy stopped in again. After poking at my machine a bit, he wrote down the error messages and told me he'd send someone back to look at it.

The other guy who came to look at it poked at it a bit, blinked, and said, "well, they needed a boot helper so they could load the operating system onto the disk"

Never mind.

It turns out that I didn't realize there are two parts to how the lock works - yes, it spins, but if you push on it just right, the t-shaped bit in the middle lines up with the two pins on the sides instead of just spinning around them.

So, I have to lock my laptop at work. They gave me a Kensington cable lock for this purpose.

There must be some trick to it though - I have to get it pushed "all the way" in, which I just can't seem to do without 20-30 minutes of fiddling with the damn lock.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I've never had a lock be this difficult before.