A great singer, and he could laugh at himself. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, then what are we?
BTW, didn’t feel the earthquake. We’re too far away, plus we were in class at Sierra.
I think I’ve got an idea as to what’s going on with why I can’t take system restore checkpoints. Still working on it…
Now I can’t take a system restore checkpoint. I have no idea why, other than the aborted automagic update of last week screwed up something.
And Kristin has just IMed me saying that her application doesn’t work in IE 7…it’s losing track of a cookie and it requests authentication again when it shouldn’t.
I hate Microsoft.
So, I sorta shot myself in the foot, but I’m not sure how, because there may have been another piece of software involved.
In the Start Menu->Programs, some folders are known as Shell Folders. Included with these are Administrative Tools and Startup. These have registry entries, so if you do silly things like rename them, the registry is updated to point to the new name. However, if you delete them, Windows updates the registry entries to point to the All Users version.
If you accidentally delete the folder, you need to recreate it, then go into regedit and update the entries. Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders. On the right are registry entries, most of which have %USERPROFILE% as the leading entry. You’ll need to recreate any that have %ALLUSERSPROFILE%. In Vista, note that the path for %USERPROFILE% and %ALLUSERSPROFILE% are very different, while in XP they have the same roots. You don’t need to change anything in the Shell Folders tree, but you can look there to see what they’re like.
In fact, I’ve probably only spent 60 days total there.
16-18 correct – You’re a true Bay Area native – and you even got some of the EXTRA CREDIT questions! Impressive. Feel free to look down on Los Angeles with pride. (You probably already do.)
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Gmail now supports an IMAP interface, for those of you with Outhouse 2K3/7, Mulberry, T-Bird and others.
I’ve added my 6 Gmail accounts already to my Outhouse 2K7.
My mother-in-law celebrated her birthday yesterday by being able to get back to her house and be reunited with her husband.
Lots of dust, but surprisingly not much smoke smell. Her husband had dumped the contents of the refrigerator last week.
One of those occipital lobe ones. Ow.
Good news from down south; the Grass fire is mostly contained, and the danger appears to be passing. No idea when my mother-in-law can return home, though.
Luckily, all of our main data was on RAID devices, which wasn’t affected by yesterday’s disk crash. But my laptop is doing weird stuff. I can’t take a System Restore checkpoint because I get an error saying there is a device I/O error. (Well, that’s what’s actually in the event log; the code it reports implies that the Volume Shadow Service isn’t running; I started that but no change.) Yet yesterday I ran CHKDSK. So I’m going to do one more CHKDSK. I don’t like having any restore points.
And all this started because Winblows Microsoft Update messed up and thinks I need to install updates that are already installed.
Vista SUCKS mightily.
We have a Wootoff killer up.
I just found a lizard on the floor of the bedroom.
I have no idea how it got into the house.
He/she is now safely outside.
First, our work computer has a disk failure that appears to be some sort of corruption. It’s Windows XP. So I’ve got nothing to do. And during this time. on my computer, Windoze Automagic Updates decides that I need to reinstall drivers – and totally screwed up my machine. (It also showed me all the Ultimate Extras that I’d told it to hide…so it’s really fscked.) I had to power off, which caused corruption problems, but I knew that was coming. Even Safe Mode wouldn’t boot up…although I think it was runnking CHKDSK and not telling me. I finally was able to boot the recovery partition. I went to do a System Restore to roll back before the Automagic updates and it told me that I had to run CHKDSK. The one it started to run was the GUI version with no reall progess feedback. Luckily, there is a command prompt option (yay for REAL COMPUTER INTERFACES, NONE OF THIS GUI CRAP), so I am running CHKDSK from the command prompt so I can see that it is actually doing something.
It’s slower than (insert colorful analogy here).
I got CHKDSK running with the not-so-intensive index scanning parameter, because that is where it was hanging. After this is done, I’ll then rerun it with full-blown index repair. It did correct a bad sector in the page file (which is a bit scary).
And, dear Microsoft: What’s wrong with this statement?
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5) 100 percent complete (105003 of 485680 files processed)
Shades of the latest Excel bug, n’est-ce pas?
I’ll run a backup once this is done.
I so need a NAS with RAID. That’s gonna be my Xmas gift.
the rantings of a mainframe assembler programmer 