Windoze Crash
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When I turned on my laptop at work yesterday, it took a very long time
to get to the login screen, and then neither the mouse nor the
keyboard worked. I booted with a Knoppix CD, and everything was
hunky-dory, so I concluded that I had an operating system
problem. Fortunately, file sharing was turned on and it worked, so I
was able to snarf the bits from my machine (8 gigs and 100,000 files
worth). I wiped the disk, reinstalled Windows XP, restored my bits,
and reinstalled most of the programs I use. Groan...
One nice thing about my new installation is that I configured my
machine as a member of a workgroup instead of connecting it to the
office domain. This means that multiple people can be logged on at the
same time using XP's Fast User Switching. I'll get to the office
network via VPN, even in the office. Unfortunately, I've discovered a
flaw in the K-Meleon browser. It stores all its configuration data,
including password-containing cookies, in the application directory
instead of in each user's "Application Data" directory. Bummer.
For the past few days, my car's trunk has been difficult to close, and
the front end, near the back window, stuck up about a half an inch when
it was closed. Yesterday morning, in the office parking lot, in -10
degrees fahrenheit, I figured it out. The trunk is held up by two
posts connected to air cylinders. There was ice in the slot in the
sheet metal in which the air cylinders sit when the trunk is closed. I
had cleaned everything out with my gloved hand, multiple times, but I
hadn't noticed that there was a quarter inch of hard ice there. I
attacked it with the awl from the combination shovel / saw / awl that
I reported on a while back. Now the trunk closes properly.
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