What I done on Thursday

**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.

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

Glad you had a good time though.

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

**bugjuice** · 28th January 2005, 12:46

Originally Posted by jrandom

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

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

Originally Posted by vifferman

You coulda tole us you wuz goin.

Yeah, sorry. I probably should have.

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

Originally Posted by vifferman

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.

Originally Posted by bugjuice

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.....

Good on ya for getting out....

**riffer** · 28th January 2005, 13:07

Originally Posted by jrandom

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

Originally Posted by jrandom

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

Originally Posted by celticno6

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

Originally Posted by celticno6

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

Originally Posted by Biff Baff

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

Originally Posted by jrandom

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

Originally Posted by jrandom

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.
.

did that to me too... just gave up on SP2.... would rather use firefox.... my lappy is HP...

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

**Hitcher** · 28th January 2005, 14:40

Originally Posted by jrandom

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?"