My PC crapped out again — same BSoD, etc., undocumented online (and we’re looking for the WinNT DDK to see if it gives us any clues), same endless cycle of reboots.
On the up side, my PC’s data is fully backed up.
On the bad side, you can’t back up aps, only image the whole frelling thing.
So while I could be handed a loaner whilst my still-under-warranty notebook went back to IBM, there to disappear for several weeks of diagnostics, I’d still be the equivalent of living in a rented motel while my house was being rebuilt. And then having to rebuild it.
So … they’re imaging the HDD, then they’ll see if they can push the image to a different model notebook, to serve as a loaner in the interim. And a few other glitches have delayed that until … well, it’s been 5 hrs, and nothing yet, so I finally asked them to hand me a notebook loaner and (mutter mutter mutter mutter …)
Looks like Margie and I will be sharing a machine at home tonight. (And, again, mutter …)
P.S. I miss tabbed browsing. I miss password managers. I miss ad blocking. Damn it …
P.P.S. I miss my RSS feeds. I miss my link bar. I miss …
P.P.P.S. I miss my popup blockers, dammit!
Quit surfing while you’re supposed to be working!! *ducking*
🙂
Heh.
Although a number of those things mentioned above have valid business uses, too.
And I miss my RoboForm, and my SplashID, and …