Thursday, October 28, 2004

Unbelievable

It's like it's not enough that I'm the guy who brings home food for my children to eat, and the guy who somehow manages to keep two vehicles going, and tries to keep a house in good repair, and be a husband and dad, but I have to be an IT person too????


It's day three of being up past 1am, working on getting this XP demon spawn up and running. We use it for most everything round here, and so there are 6 unique users who all have their own emails and setups to re-set up.


I  think I'm nearly there. But I'm hosed.


Things will get better.


I hope.


 

7 comments:

  1. Welcome to the wondeful world of XP.



    Was that SP2 or just the latest 'patch' that trashed things?

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  2. I dunno what did it, but it wouldn't complete it's boot up. Then it wouldn't let me into the "Recover to another time" recovery mode. After two hours online with help, even the guy didn't know what to do.



    I was thinking of going into SP2, but now I'm nervous...



    Oh, and that Kopix (sp?) disk you sent me helped me get into the opersting system, without windows. Very cool. I wish I knew unix etc. better.

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  3. i share your pain (tho the cause was different). Our laptop at work had to get a new hard drive, so now i'm in the process of reinstalling XP, re-creating the accounts for 10 users, and getting all of the software back on the machine.



    but at least i'm getting paid to do it...

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  4. Hey Randall:

    So your hating this evil that is XP... funny what it means in Latin. Anyhow I do hope your running XP-Pro because home... lets not get into that. What I have found for having multiple users as well as just plain overall user freindlyness is Windows 2000. It is the "industrial" windows so it tends to fair better then the rest. But when your really getting sick of it i would reccomend going with a nice OSX. Thats just my opinion though. Less peblems and plus it isnt based on technology that is over 18 years old.

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  5. :-)



    Thanks Logan.



    I do wish I knew more Linux stuff.

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  6. Randall, I installed SP2 and didn't have any problems that I didn't have already (which I think were hard drive issues). People seem to be knocking SP2 but it hasn't given me any trouble.

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  7. SP2 produced subtle glitches and changes on my work PC (I run '98 at home - stable, simple, reliable, and I can rebuild the OS from scratch in an hour). It also turned up it's toes within an hour of the first boot after applying that patch, but has been stable ever since.



    The 'patch' that went out last week killed quite a lot of PCs though. I've heard of 4 or 5 that went belly up immediately after installing. I wonder if it was dependant on SP2 being installed for complete stability?

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