What I done on Thursday [Archive]

jrandom

28th January 2005, 12:36

My laptop broke. Again. AGAIN. Gaaah.

Upon discovering that it was not likely to be going any time soon, I decided that blowing off work for a bit of a ride would be in order. Since I'd never ridden SH23 to Raglan, I tootled down SH1 and did it, sat on the beach for a bit, then came back again. (Fanatic members of the Holy Church of 22 should note that I didn't have enough time to go that way.)

The weather was hot and perfect, the roads were melty, and traffic on SH1 was utterly mental. 23 was lovely, though.

And it's a small world. I popped by Candyland to pick up a bag of kiddie tooth-rotters on the way back, and who should ride in as I'm leaving but ajturbo and son, up on a similar mission from Tauranga.

Put KB stickers on your bikes, people. If ajturbo hadn't stickered up his bike the previous day, I wouldn't have gone over and introduced myself.

I didn't get back into town until 4:15, so I didn't make it to the 'Free Willy' lecture, in case anyone went and wondered where I was.

My laptop is fixed now. The moral of THAT story is, don't use Firefox with XP SP2.

vifferman

28th January 2005, 12:42

You coulda tole us you wuz goin. :Pokey:

I coulda come, coz worked sucked but I had no reason to be anywear else.

Glad you had a good time though. :yes:

I bet them lollies weren't for the kiddies...

bugjuice

28th January 2005, 12:46

Put KB stickers on your bikes, people. If ajturbo hadn't stickered up his bike the previous day, I wouldn't have gone over and introduced myself.
every rider should be sent one in the post :2thumbsup
where do you stick yours? I was going to put one on the number plate.. may be on the front guard..
and put bugjuice on it too, but not totally sure about that yet..

jrandom

28th January 2005, 12:50

You coulda tole us you wuz goin. :Pokey:

Yeah, sorry. I probably should have.

I felt like some time on my own, though. I don't get enough of that.

I bet them lollies weren't for the kiddies...

Were *too*. I delivered them intact (well, minus one bag of coconut ice, but that doesn't count) on the kitchen bench at 6:00pm.

I'm not sure when I'm going to feed the kids their enormous, obscene looking kiwifruit lollipops. They're about six inches in diameter, an inch thick, and bright green. I HAD to buy them.

where do you stick yours?

I don't have any! I shall be remedying that forthwith.

Posh Tourer :P

28th January 2005, 13:06

This "ride" business is good fun huh..... :bleh:

Good on ya for getting out....

riffer

28th January 2005, 13:07

The moral of THAT story is, don't use Firefox with XP SP2.

All right. I'll bite. What's the issue with Firefox with XPSP2?

That's my setup on the wife's PC at home. Its a Compaq DPENS P3/500.

What happened?

Mr Skid

28th January 2005, 13:10

I didn't get back into town until 4:15, so I didn't make it to the 'Free Willy' lecture, in case anyone went and wondered where I was.

T'was nothing to write home about - he dazzled us with big words that the lay person couldn't understand regarding some paradoxes of quantum mechanics.

He then concluded that as particles had 'free will' we had 'free will'.

Someone from the philosophy department (I think) started asking awkward questions about when it is in fact free will, or whether it is just randomness.

He seemed disinterested in the semantical differences between free will and randomness, which I think pissed off the Philosophers even more.

I'd recommend waiting until the movie comes out.

jrandom

28th January 2005, 13:54

All right. I'll bite. What's the issue with Firefox with XPSP2?

What *happened* was, my laptop churned the HDD for a while, bluescreened, then on restart said that it couldn't find /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ summat or other and refused to boot.

This was all within a day of getting a complete fresh default HP install image (it's a compaq nx7010) ghosted onto the disk. Brand new hardware, too (I dropped it off the back of my bike and stuffed the old HDD that had vanilla SP1 XP on it, which sparked all these problems after the replacement came with SP2). It all happened twice in a row. Two re-ghosted images, two crashes with the same modus operandi. This is third time lucky, I hope.

I have no idea exactly what was going on, but upon figuring out that the first thing I was doing after getting a new image going each time was installing Firefox, one of our IT guys rolled his eyes and said "don't do that, it screws XP up".

So I'm running IE now. So far so good.

I am forming the provisional opinion that Microsoft are bastards.

Biff

28th January 2005, 14:02

All right. I'll bite. What's the issue with Firefox with XPSP2?

Nothing. I run Firefox with XP SP2 at home all the time. I've never had any problems. IE on the other hand f$$$$in heap of crap, crashing etc.

There is a known bug with having IE and Firefox on your PC at the same time though, apparently. According to the IT geek forums it's all IE's fault.

Anybody have anyideas how to completely get rid of IE without screwing up your registry?

jrandom

28th January 2005, 14:06

There is a known bug with having IE and Firefox on your PC at the same time though, apparently. According to the IT geek forums it's all IE's fault.

Anybody have anyideas how to completely get rid of IE without screwing up your registry?

YES! That sounds suspiciously like what I could have been experiencing.

I don't keep up with the M$-related IT bits and pieces these days. I just close my eyes and hope that the box in front of me works well enough to run my text editor, compiler and browser.

Heaven forbid I should ever have to actually write software FOR a Windows platform, instead of just using one to run tools...

Cajun

28th January 2005, 14:33

What *happened* was, my laptop churned the HDD for a while, bluescreened, then on restart said that it couldn't find /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ summat or other and refused to boot.

This was all within a day of getting a complete fresh default HP install image (it's a compaq nx7010) ghosted onto the disk. Brand new hardware, too (I dropped it off the back of my bike and stuffed the old HDD that had vanilla SP1 XP on it, which sparked all these problems after the replacement came with SP2). It all happened twice in a row. Two re-ghosted images, two crashes with the same modus operandi. This is third time lucky, I hope.

I have no idea exactly what was going on, but upon figuring out that the first thing I was doing after getting a new image going each time was installing Firefox, one of our IT guys rolled his eyes and said "don't do that, it screws XP up".

So I'm running IE now. So far so good.

I am forming the provisional opinion that Microsoft are bastards.

windows xp sp2 on my nx5000 and firefox works fine,
windows xp sp2 on an nw8000 and firefox works no problems, must be something you doing or it just does not like you being rough with it and dropping it in the first place

Blakamin

28th January 2005, 14:34

What *happened* was, my laptop churned the HDD for a while, bluescreened, then on restart said that it couldn't find /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ summat or other and refused to boot.
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did that to me too... just gave up on SP2.... would rather use firefox.... my lappy is HP... :shit:

I actually thought it was something to do with my radeon drivers....

Hitcher

28th January 2005, 14:40

My laptop is fixed now. The moral of THAT story is, don't use Firefox with XP SP2.

Gahhhh! Jim2, what have you done to me??

Hitcher

28th January 2005, 14:45

As an aside, I just marvel in awe at all this geek-speak...

"XP3 popped blahde blahde blah hydrocillator fried goobledee goobledee gooble Bill Gates is a cunt yada yada yada my one works just fine you egg nya nya nya nya nya whatthefuckdoyouknow?"

SPORK

28th January 2005, 15:48

I'm running Firefox and SP2 fine. If you absolutely have to use IE, just download Crazy Browser, an IE based browser, similar to FF.

White trash

28th January 2005, 16:09

SPman

28th January 2005, 17:51

I actually thought it was something to do with my radeon drivers....

So did I! Just rebuilt XP with a.........legal....(shudder)...copy of XPSP2Pro, which I had ..to.....pay for! After 6 weeks of crash and burn!
Seems OK now though - may have been a faulty 512 Ram

Barstards - time to try Linux!

Antallica

28th January 2005, 18:08

Apparently if you install the MS spyware app they have just put out recently, it finds IE as dangerous and proceeds to remove it.

I'm not game on trying it as it will most probably implode my hdd's.

SPORK

28th January 2005, 18:11

So did I! Just rebuilt XP with a.........legal....(shudder)...copy of XPSP2Pro, which I had ..to.....pay for! After 6 weeks of crash and burn!
Seems OK now though - may have been a faulty 512 Ram

Barstards - time to try Linux!
Eww! You PAID for a Microsoft product!? I feel for ya!

On the linux note, I've been meaning to install it on a partition for a long time, but my silly SATA drive is holding me back.

And about the Radeon Drivers, does anyone get their ATI folder open up on startup? I've got a 9600pro 256mb with the latest Catalyst drivers... Hmmm...

jrandom

29th January 2005, 08:55

Interesting people should mention Radeon drivers.

As of 8pm last night, my laptop is now incapable of booting without hanging and restarting every time it tries to load agp440.sys (the... ATI Radeon driver!)

Googling reveals this is a common XPSP2 problem. I give up.

I'm going back to SP1 on Tuesday. It worked fine for the last few months, not a single crash.

SP2 has just eaten my entire working week.

k14

29th January 2005, 09:34

In regards to a firefox alternate if it doesnt work, try avant. It gives explorer tabbed browsing etc, but still has a few annoyances. Just a thought.

Or have you tried mozilla?

Sounds like some other hardware could have got stuffed when you dropped it?

toads

29th January 2005, 10:46

Eww! You PAID for a Microsoft product!? I feel for ya!

On the linux note, I've been meaning to install it on a partition for a long time, but my silly SATA drive is holding me back.

And about the Radeon Drivers, does anyone get their ATI folder open up on startup? I've got a 9600pro 256mb with the latest Catalyst drivers... Hmmm...

edit your startup , got the latest ati drivers for 9600 etc with catalyst, no problems, a long download on dialup I might mention, damn I want broadband!!!
On the linux note, the copy of mandrake I had partioned itself without screwing up my current partitions, although it's a weighty beast in terms of space consumption, and I'm too dumb to know how to use it, should really make more of an effort I spose cos windows can be a pain sometimes.

toads

29th January 2005, 10:48

Jamezo

29th January 2005, 12:53

it's official, I hate microsoft. when I first got this PC, I installed Cryhavoc's copy of XP Home, then I installed SP2 from a disk he got in the mail. it wouldn't let me disable product activation, so I had to format. lesson: avoid SP2.

things were going well, then WMP 9 thought it was due for an update to version 10, so I let it. upon rebooting (mandatory, which is strange for XP), I found that I had to activate windows or else I couldn't log in. I thought &$*&$*@$#&@$, because I couldn't even log in to recover my documents I had on C:. fortunately, it still let me log in on safe mode, so I averted disaster, and formatted once again. lesson: avoid anything even tangentially related to SP2.

that was just below the belt as I saw it, so I thought, "fuck em". I will continue never to buy a microsoft product as long as they are still being hacked. same goes for RIAA music. fuck them too; sueing users, they can die.

ajturbo

29th January 2005, 13:24

i put my KB stickers on that morning!!! on my tail light... it's so fuckin big i could put a couple of them on and still blind ppl when i stop!.....
and one of the front.... of the fairing.

good to have met Jrandom... lollies for the kids.... no a good look for a bikie to have there matey......they were in your pocket......???

about the computer.. i find that i don't know anything about it, and when it shit's it self i buy a new one... seams like one every 18 month so far.... :mad: :mad:

ajturbo

29th January 2005, 13:31

ok just a question here for the computer guy/girls..
how do i delet stuff out of my "favorites" ?

andy

SPORK

29th January 2005, 13:43

ok just a question here for the computer guy/girls..
how do i delet stuff out of my "favorites" ?

andy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/madcat_/ajturbo.jpg

Havn't used IE for months, can't be bothered.

I love the "Brain injury Lawyer", I'm too lazy to clean it up though :lol: