DarkWolf filling in yet again...

I don't really have much to say today. I'm pissed off. It's 5:45 am, and I've been working on my computer since 9:00 pm. Not doing what I'd like to do, mind you... but swapping hard drives, reloading operating systems, resetting up Internet connections, e-mail accounts... it sucks! Yup. 2 hard drives, and 2 operating system reinstalls later, and here I am.

Now, excuse me as I go shove needles in my eyes. I'm sure that would be a joy compared to the past 8 hours...

- DW

Yup, you guessed it...

So yesterday sucked. My hard drive has been going out for a while now... on a pretty regular basis I'd have to boot to the recovery console and run a check disk to get the data moved off of the ever growing bad sectors that were plaguing the drive. So I decided... "Screw it! I'll just swap my secondary hard drive to the primary slot, and put the primary on the secondary slot. Problem solved." Except that meant reinstalling the OS. Well, I got Windows XP Pro when it came out so I figured I'd just go ahead and install it. And it would have been perfect, if I could have used my modem.

I don't get it. It detected the modem and installed the drivers just fine. I could even querey the modem and get a good log on it. But when I set up my dial-up account, it'd fail without even initializing the modem. Hardware failure, every time. Here's where it gets stupid... I pull up Hyperterminal, and I have it dial my cellphone. Works like a charm. Then, to see how it's doing with the tcp/ip stack, I have it dial my service provider. Works like a mother fugg'n charm. Still can't dial-up through dial-up networking though.

So I dicked with it for a few hours before finally giving up on the idea of running XP until I can afford to just upgrade my system all at once... and reinstalled Windows 2000. You know, I was even hoping there was something wrong with my modem... then I'd at least have some answers as to why XP wouldn't use it... but got my account set up, and connected on the first try with Windows 2000. This is probably one of the top 10 "Huh?!" moments in my experience working on computers. Got any ideas? Send 'em my way... 'cause damnit! I want to use XP.

- DW

Ummm... yeah.

I'm thinking that getting home before 3am is a good thing. No time for talky, must sleepy.

- DW

It's a strange feeling, falling asleep at 5am and waking up at 10am. I don't think I've done this since college. And two nights/days in a row... I mean. A guy could decide he doesn't like that so much. Such is life though, eh?

- DW

Just as I was beginning to not like my previous schedule... I get to learn to not like a new schedule. Yay. I love my job, can't you tell? Hmmmm... the Dreamcast VMU is calling me. It's beckoning me to play some more Shenmue. Must resist ... must ...

Damn.

- DW (Booting up his Dreamcast)

I think I may take a different approach to this "thought of the day thing". More info as it develops. I think I may have figured out my little Windows XP problem, as I set up another system today ... or yesterday, with Windows XP. And I noticed a slight difference in how Windows XP and Windows 2000 handle dial-up connections. So... whenever I feel insane enough to start over... AGAIN... I'll put XP back on my system, and see if my theory is correct.

- DW

Commercials before movies.

What godless, soulless, child-raping pigfucking commie thought up this concept? By the time you make it into the actual theater, you've already been raped (at least once, maybe two or three times) in the wallet. First, your tickets cost the GNP of an African nation. Then, if you opt to stuff your face during the feature, you sign over your firstborn for a vat of coke and popcorn slathered in a substance that looks disturbingly like orgasmic discharge from a jaundiced cow. So what's with this bullshit about advertising before the movie? Not only do we have ten to fifteen minutes of previews (good), we now have ten to fifteen minutes of commercials (eye-gougingly bad). Hey, you guys GOT our money. Stop badgering us for more, okay? Bad enough we have to look at the same stupid slides over and over before the commercials and previews even START.

That is all. You are dismissed.

- Crimson,
will step on a kitten if he ever sees that fucking Fandango commercial again.