Re: [Rosegarden-user] O Irony: Michael's Laptop

[D. M. M. <mic...@ro...>]

On Sunday 31 December 2006 10:12 pm, Dave Serls wrote:
>   Repent, Michael, repent!!!

OK, I'm repenting now.

My anti-virus thingie spent three days of runtime scanning x00,000 files.  I 
left it on A/C, but it wouldn't run but so long before hibernating, so while 
I thought it was chugging away, it was actually just waiting to waste CPU 
cycles on the virus scan while I was actively using the thing.  Huzzah.

It finally finished, and then the virus scanner thingie said I had to install 
some critical updates NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW before the world 
ended or something.

So I aborted what I turned the computer on to do and hit the button to make it 
go get the stuff.  The update failed.  The instructions say I need to remove 
the virus thingie and reinstall it.  But of course I don't have any CDs.  The 
DVD I burned when I got the computer is probably similar to that odd 3 GB 
partition that I booted by accident the first time I rebooted to Windows 
after installing Kubuntu.  Booting that partition and clicking the yes button 
reverted all the updates I had made to the damn thing since buying it, erased 
all my users, but left the third party software installed.  I wasn't 
expecting THAT.

So anyway, I'm not running Winderz without the virus thingie, and the virus 
thingie broke itself.  So this is more like what I expected to see.  Because 
I am practical and paranoid, I will plod through whatever gantlet I have to 
endure to fix this stupid problem, but most normal people would have just 
clicked the damn cancel button 12 hours of this ago, and that is why every XP 
box I ever get asked to look at has 5,000 viruses on it, and is no longer 
usable.

Bleck.

Windows SUCKS.

This laptop still doesn't run Linux worth a damn either though.  I can't even 
get Java working anymore, even though I had it working yesterday, and sound 
is a completely lost cause, so between those two things basically every 
conceivable use I have for the Linux partition on that thing is null and 
void.

I don't know what I'm going to do with it.  Looks like this is the most 
useless expensive present I ever got so far.

I wonder if I can trade it for a baritone or a flugelhorn or something?  :)

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre 

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre