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no guarantees for tomorrow
Sep. 15th, 2009 05:21 pmMy laptop is roughly 3 years old. Still trucking along despite the loss of a shift key and that thing that sticks out the side of it and I don't know what that's for, but it doesn't seem to cause the poor thing any pain and it doesn't inconvenience me, so I don't give it much thought.
Well, it has started to act a little weird and links from AIM freeze the poor darlin' up tight, and the occasional pop-up about clicking here for a free antivirus scan has started showing up, which all adds up things being amiss down deep in 'Puterland. So I tried to update my security program, which went all kinds of crazy on me and called me names and made me mad, so I went straight out and bought a new program and loaded it all up.
Burned straight through all that junk, and restarted itself, and when it came back on... It wanted me to log back in. I have never logged on in the three years that I've had this computer. But I knew what password I usually use so I tried it. And every variation of it with no success and no hint.
So I dragged out my work laptop and made it find out what to do for me. The solution seemed to be to restart and punch F8 until it opened in safe mode and then go tinkering from there. So I did. And it worked, which means there will be no reports of madness and cruelty towards technology for at least one more day.
And in other news, I have to stop watching Planet Earth so late at night. Did you know there were meter-wide spider crabs at the bottom of the ocean? Feasting on the bones of whatever sinks to the bottom? Growing even huger and wider on a steady diet of death down in the black depths of the sea, where everything that horrifies me seems to come from. Ol' H.P. may have been on to something.
Well, it has started to act a little weird and links from AIM freeze the poor darlin' up tight, and the occasional pop-up about clicking here for a free antivirus scan has started showing up, which all adds up things being amiss down deep in 'Puterland. So I tried to update my security program, which went all kinds of crazy on me and called me names and made me mad, so I went straight out and bought a new program and loaded it all up.
Burned straight through all that junk, and restarted itself, and when it came back on... It wanted me to log back in. I have never logged on in the three years that I've had this computer. But I knew what password I usually use so I tried it. And every variation of it with no success and no hint.
So I dragged out my work laptop and made it find out what to do for me. The solution seemed to be to restart and punch F8 until it opened in safe mode and then go tinkering from there. So I did. And it worked, which means there will be no reports of madness and cruelty towards technology for at least one more day.
And in other news, I have to stop watching Planet Earth so late at night. Did you know there were meter-wide spider crabs at the bottom of the ocean? Feasting on the bones of whatever sinks to the bottom? Growing even huger and wider on a steady diet of death down in the black depths of the sea, where everything that horrifies me seems to come from. Ol' H.P. may have been on to something.
