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Dec. 26th, 2003 11:58 amAnother month damned near shot to hell.
Story on MPR this morning, also in the Stribune. What to do to get into a science fiction bookstore when Santa didn't bring you the right book...
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How I spent my Xmas.
Dec. 26th, 2003
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Dec. 26th, 2003 10:06 pmI burned my first DVD. Small excitement, but I've had the burner for quite some time and only used it for CDs.
I've moved my CDs to targus binders. They look impressive sitting in the desk. Unfortunately, once you open them, you see the same odd number of unsorted CDs that I had stashed in every corner of this room.
I've moved my CDs to targus binders. They look impressive sitting in the desk. Unfortunately, once you open them, you see the same odd number of unsorted CDs that I had stashed in every corner of this room.
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Dec. 26th, 2003 10:29 pmStill hacking. Pretending I'm cleaning for the NYD. I've got to shovel out the office somehow. I've parked the vacuum downstairs in the hopes that I'll actually plug it in and run it over the floors. I'd consider investing in a Roomba, but the damned things won't do tasseled carpets, and the only two carpets in the place have tassels on the edges.
I did fix the connectivity problem in Thong's computer. I changed it from one case into an Antec case with temperature controlled fans. After I put it back together, the network card would not connect either to the internet or to the network. Information on Microsoft suggested deleting a couple of registry entries and renewing the IP components of XP. I did this several times with no great luck. I finally saved the reg entries from this computer to a floppy and added them to the register on the other computer. That seemed to fix the problem, or at least for a while. Then, looking at my CDs, I noticed that I own two copies of Norton anti-virus, and so I went in and yanked all of McAfee off the computer. The problems seem to have vanished. Grr.
I did fix the connectivity problem in Thong's computer. I changed it from one case into an Antec case with temperature controlled fans. After I put it back together, the network card would not connect either to the internet or to the network. Information on Microsoft suggested deleting a couple of registry entries and renewing the IP components of XP. I did this several times with no great luck. I finally saved the reg entries from this computer to a floppy and added them to the register on the other computer. That seemed to fix the problem, or at least for a while. Then, looking at my CDs, I noticed that I own two copies of Norton anti-virus, and so I went in and yanked all of McAfee off the computer. The problems seem to have vanished. Grr.