Category: legacy
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reload step 6 – oh no!
reload step 6 – oh no! Ok. I’m an idiot. The Norton System Works 2001 disk is at Tatsumi‘s, as is my DreamWeaver Ultradev disk, Fortunately she was still awake so she zipped the files up and is sending them to our web server at Rackspace. That will allow me to download them myself later…
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reload step 5 – userland
reload step 5 – userland Offfice 2000 Service Pack 1 installing now .. the loading continues!
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reload step 4 – userland
reload step 4 – userland Installing Offfice 2000 now, and then I will put in some other utility stuff. More later!
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reload step 3 – update update update
reload step 3 – update update update Ok… Service Pack 1 is installed and looks good. I am doing all the other critical updates needed so I will be all happy soon. I’ll take a moment here to mention how smoothly this sort of thing goes with Windows 2000, it would have been a bit…
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reload step 2 – look, it’s alive!
reload step 2 – look, it’s alive! Well, that went as well as could be expected. The system booted just fine and I blew away the C: drive. There is currently 7.45 GB left on my C: drive out of the 8.78 GB I started with. I am currently grabbing the windows Service Pack 1…
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reload step 1 – do I have everything safe?
reload step 1 – do I have everything safe? Ok… fortunately I am prepared for this sort of thing. All of my data ALWAYS lives on a seperate drive from my C: drive. This allows me to do this sort of thing without upsetting my data. All I had to do was copy the following….…
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well, this is gonna suck – reload time @ the OK corral
well, this is gonna suck – reload time @ the OK corral I am getting ready to reload my personal workstation. Not because I really want to – but because it makes lot’s of sense to do it. My personal box is a development platform, and as such it makes complete sense to a set…
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take my wife, please! – look on the bright side…
Paula Abdul: Cold Hearted He’s a cold-hearted snake Look into his eyes Oh oh oh He’s been tellin’ lies He’s a lover boy at play He don’t play by rules Oh oh oh Girl don’t play the fool–no As some of you might know, I frequent a number of mailing lists… though I don’t…
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flame on! – bless me, for I have cinder
Every now and then, you just relax and let your hair down. You look at someone who desperately deserves to be called an asshole and you just do it. Why? Because dammit it has to be done. Now, on some of the lists I really care about I go out of my way to resist…