has arrived!
Posted on 01/12/2006 8:39:35 AM PST by dhls
Goodnight everyone!!
G'Night, Irish!
Anyone still around?
Not entirely.
I think I need to get some sleep. It's been a long day.
We'll see what tomorrow has in store ... at Warp Speed.
(By Zonking out!) -- Good Night, Dr. Ms. Tulip!
Good night, Bob.
Looks like I'm behind the times.
Actually, I did check out your profile page.
Congratulations on the newest little FReeper!
;0)
has arrived!
"That's cool. I'm not sure what I'll be doing tomorrow."
Let me guess. You're either going to dissertate or go take a walk to the park with Winston, or both.
It's too cold out to go for a walk, so I'll just be dissertating.
Walking can help cold feet, you know.
My feet are toasty warm in my slippers. :-)
Some mighty fine names there. I'm honoured to be part of the fray. Cheers!
closing the lid...
Good morning.
I'm back in the saddle, again.
Out where a FRiend is a FRiend.
Where stray DU dunderheads, meet with ZOT thunderheads.
Back in the saddle again.
It's been two weeks ago Thursday night since my old 120G drive expired permanently. It gave in to "The Death Rattle" after it managed to keep spinning just long enough for me to rescue the 30MB of photos that had been uploaded since the previous back-up. I replaced it with the 160G drive I'd used for by back-up and...my computer wouldn't boot up.
My backup was pristine. What could possibly be wrong?
After a couple of false starts on my part, my IT guru finally hit it with an XP Pro upgrade trick. You load all 984 bazillion MB of the XP/SP2 source files onto the hard drive, in specific folders then, when you reboot, XP will give you the otion to 'SETUP'. So, you tell XP to 'SETUP' and it starts to 'SETUP'. On the way to dong a complete 'SETUP', though, it finds "Oh, wow, XP is already installed on this system" and most graciously inquires as to whether you might possibly like it to REPAIR the existing installation. You smile, press "R", and pray. If the progress timer counts down past "36 minutes" you're in like Flynn. Let it finish. Reboot. Welcome back to your system. No ugly wiping the hard drive and reinstalling abso-flippin-loutely everything. Just, pick right up where you left off when the hard drive gave out.
Thank God for hackers, 'cuz you know Bill Gates would never want this kind of stuff to become general knowledge. He wants you to buy it all over again, not just put particular files in particular places and run particular executables that you already have. Oh no, can't have THAT! THAT would actually be -- gag -- 'user friendly', eeewww!
Apple's about ready with their Tiger O/S (the new one that runs on PC's, too) and this recent misery has me just about ready to go with it. We'll see.
I hvae aslo dsvcioeerd taht it ins't ncereassy to wrory mcuh aoubt slelpnig busceae te hmaun mnid dones't crae. All yuor barin ndees is for the frsit and lsat lttrees to be in the rhgit pacels and for msot of the oehtr leretts to be ilndcued. The most hrenodrus of actiiretots may be tuhs pretapterd uopn the radeer whit naer-cmoleept iupmitny. So, dno't ayonne gvie me any rbinibg aoubt my afuewl slepnlig.
Got it?
Thanks! I've had no success in getting Der Prinz to load pictures from the digital camera, but I have some prints now, so I'll get Anoreth to scan and store some today. Then everyone can see little Vlad at last!
If your older kids are anything to go by, I'm sure your latest lil' addition to the family is just gorgeous! I look forward to seeing those pictures, too. Is there a photo ping-list for this?
I see you're a cat-lover, too. What a sweet-looking puss :)
Thanks! Agnes was a fine old girl, lived with us almost 20 years. I told my kids we'll get another cat once we have all the little brothers out of diapers!
Of course, if we had mice and bats in the house, like Alice does, we'd probably get the cat sooner :-).
Awwww... rest in peace, Agnes.
Yes, having vermin in the house does make having cats more of a necessity than the luxury they'd be for you, with all those youngsters underfoot!
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