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Nov. 3rd, 2005 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI was at work last night until 8:30 because Dynamic Setup royally fscked up an attempt to upgrade Win 2000 to Win XP Pro. Nothin' wrong with the machine's hardware no matter what the boys in Chennai said; a fresh install went just fine, and swap-outs revealed nothing. The only thing I did differently in this upgrade from the other upgrades I did yesterday was download the goddamned dynamic setup files from Microsoft's web site.
NO MORE.
*froth, rant, hiss, spit*
Okay, better now, esp. since that was yesterday and this is today. We'll see how it goes from here.
NO MORE.
*froth, rant, hiss, spit*
Okay, better now, esp. since that was yesterday and this is today. We'll see how it goes from here.
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:07 pm (UTC)I always think it makes it much more personal to cuss out Bill personally rather than Microsoft.
I haven't had to install an OS lately but I get very peeved that Windows XP has such a difficult time shutting down Windows Explorer. What's up with that?
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Date: 2005-11-03 04:06 pm (UTC)workin' on a laptop close to the end
of a job I been doin' since half past ten
I don't believe that it's frozen again
the system has gone down-oh
down-oh
down-oh, I don't believe that it's frozen again
the system has gone down-oh
so I took it down to the help desk guy
I said 'make it better or I'm gonna cry'
he said 'I’m sorry, your computer has died
the data can no longer be found-oh
found-oh
found-oh', he said 'I'm sorry, your computer has died
the data can no longer be found-oh'
to the roof with the laptop I did go
over to the edge and I gave it a throw
and when it arrived seven stories below
it really made a mighty fine sound-oh
sound-oh
sound-oh, when it arrived seven stories below
it really made a mighty fine sound-oh
wel, that didn't do enough to ease my pain
so I went down to Dulles and I got on a plane
sayin' 'this is all Billy Gates' fault
I'm gonna be trackin' him down-oh
down-oh
down-oh, this is all Billy Gates' fault
I'm gonna be trackin' him down-oh'
touched down in Seattle and got off the plane
hit Starbucks to get out of the rain
paid all of my dough for a thimble of joe
full of foam and a cinnamon brown-oh
brown-oh
brown-oh, all of my dough for a thimble of joe
full of foam and a cinnamon brown-oh
when the Gates found out about my plan
he packed up a bag, turned tail, and ran
megalo-man took it out on the lam
and hid way underground-oh,
ground-oh
ground-oh, megalo-man took it out on the lam
and hid way underground-oh
well the Gates' been a-runnin' ever since that day
thinks he can hide, but he can't get away
whenI finally find his little skinny behind
gonna kick it all over this town-oh
town-oh
town-oh, finally find his little skinny behind
gonna kick it all over this town-oh. . .
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Date: 2005-11-03 04:16 pm (UTC)Oh, that hack group hit you, eh?
Date: 2005-11-03 05:50 pm (UTC)The tablet PC I got.... oh, a couple years ago, now... had one of those thingies that automatically goes to the internet and gets files, and a couple months after I got it it did that and then suddenly it was running at 100% processor cpaacity all the time, for weeks. I finally got it fixed, and they said it was some files from a group of... hacks? Hackers? Something like that... calling themselves "MSFT" - it claimed to add a file indexing featue to the built in search function, but scanned the hard disk over and over all the time, eating all my processor and adding wear to the disk.
(/itlal)
Seriously, as the 'computer literate relative' I tell all my 'mechanicaly declined' relatives not to install any autoupdates except the security fixes, because if it's working now, it's better not to mess with it.
(Oh, totally offtopic right now, but I know you're a bikie - I bought a bike, to better get from off-campus parking to classes - one of those Schwinn Stingrays with the wide rear tire to support my wide rear. Since it's intended as a teen bike, I did have to put the seat all the way up and flip the handlebar around, but the main problem was adding a rack to it somehow for my book bag - I eventually ended up using one of those fold-up luggage trolleys mounted over the front wheel with hose clamps. Voiks? Loik a chom, it voiks! My bag is a hard-side 'carry on' type one anyway, and a couple of bungee cords suffice to to hold it quite securely, without being anywhere near high enoguh to block my sightlines. The only problem is that I haven't ridden a bike in over ten years, and the muscles used are very much out of condition... well, that and wishing I still had the ~$200 I spent on the project when the flooding hit, a few days after I bought it.)
- ClassicDrogn lives in Alstead, NH
http://users.adelphia.net/~merrynh/flood/drv.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~merrynh/flood/hse.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~merrynh/flood/rd.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~merrynh/flood/crnr.jpg
Re: Oh, that hack group hit you, eh?
Date: 2005-11-04 02:04 pm (UTC)And I"m not going to say any of that bullcrap about never forgetting the riding, because I, for one, did. Learned to ride my bike when I was... I dunno, seven?... late in the fall. Winter came. Spring came and I could not ride the bike no matter what I tried. My friends had to reteach me.
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Date: 2005-11-04 01:15 pm (UTC)Let me know if you want to go hunting for some intestines.
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Date: 2005-11-04 02:04 pm (UTC)