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Shah says he phoned his ex-wife's father and asked, "Would you please call Ellen and tell her not to panic? I know how she feels because I know how I felt when it happened to me." Dever, according to her Swiss attorney, Joerg Blum, "is O.K., but of course very upset and anxious...
Installation was straightforward, Blum says. It took him about two hours to link up the two computers and a laser printer in his home office. The necessary power cords, adapters and software all came in one box. He plugged power cords into the backs of each computer and the printer, attached the sandwich-size adapters to the opposing ends and plugged them into regular electrical outlets. (The $150 kit also came with extra power strips.) He then installed the software, provided on one CD-ROM, into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says...
...pretty soon Blum's network suffered a major communication breakdown. The computers would crash every time Blum or his employee tried to print a document, and customer service's advice--to uninstall and then reinstall the networking software on both machines--didn't do the trick. Frustrated and falling behind on his professional work, Blum finally disassembled everything and put things back the way they were before he tried networking. "I had been jerking around with it all day," he says, "and I needed to get back to work...
Intelogis told Blum he might download their latest software upgrade from their website and try again, and Blum says he's game. "I haven't given up yet," he says...
...Blum, whose 12 year-old store is now widely considered one of the best costume shops in the country, said customers have even been asking for cigar costumes...