The moral of the story? Back ups are your friend.

[corilannam]

<Pacifier trailer> INTERNET!!! </Pacifier trailer>

What a long weekend it was without you!

So Saturday morning I went to install that new bittorrent-like program exeem on my old desktop, which (unlike Starbuck, whom you may remember from previous films such as The Day Cori Had to Reinstall XP) is the only computer hooked up to the internet.   The install got stuck right at the very end and froze up, so I decided in my wisdom to reboot.

Whereupon my computer (which I have decided to retroactively name "Adama") became very, very fracked.  Windows 98 refuses to start.  At all.  I just get "Invalid Vxd Dynamic Call" errors and then it shuts down.  From what I've gathered from the support forums and a call to Dell this morning, it's not looking good unless I can figure out how to reinstall drivers without actually being able to get either to Windows or to the CD drive.

Last night I finally gave in and went to install the DSL software on Starbuck.  Starbuck was not having any of that (If I were a computer, I would so be Colonel Tigh at this point), but I wore her down and managed to glimpse the sweet, sweet internet just in time for bed.

So I had lots of thoughts about Stargate and Battlestart Galactica that I wanted to post (well, a couple of thoughts, anyway), and I was so excited to read everyone else's posts, too, but at this point, I have no idea when I'll catch up.  It all depends on whether the people at work have the sense to stay the hell out of my way today.

Oh, and I saw that Michael Shanks guy yesterday.

Comments

[mrshamill.livejournal.com]

Ewwww... the dreaded Vxd crap. Virtual device drivers suck. I think it's time to upgrade, chicka, 'cos 98 will eventually turn on you and go plooey.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Alas, this computer doesn't have the memory to upgrade, and upgrading the memory would cost too much to be worth it. I just want it to boot up long enough to get a few things off it. But you were definitely right about upgrading from XP Home to Pro on the other computer. That's going to be inevitable, as soon as I can spend the money on it -- especially now that that's going to be my primary computer. *g*

Virtual device drivers suck a lot.

[mrshamill.livejournal.com]

Well, if I can help, please let me know. I have suppliers who can get me volume discounts, in software as well as in hardware, if it'd help.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm going to take you up on that, definitely. Though in the meantime, I wanted to ask if you can recommend a good firewall program. I was using Norton, but the computer hadn't been online for two hours total before it slowed to a crawl because of all the spyware that got through. Ick.

[kris4n6.livejournal.com]

I knew something had to be up when I didn't see you online all weekend!

And darn it, I was in your neck of the woods (superbowl party at J&A's) and could have dropped off the shower gel. I figured you were probably out of town or something. :(

Ah well, we'll meet up eventually!!!

Good luck with the comp.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Ah well. That's okay -- I was in Virginia for most of yesterday anyway, and then I spent the night going crazy over the computer, so it's probably for the best anyway. *g*

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

sending you good thoughts and hoping the computers are all cooperating today. {{{hugs}}}

those small zine story edits...

[gloriana.livejournal.com]

Hey Cori, I'll assume from your tale of computer woe that you are unlikely to have sent me any mail over the weekend - and what a tale of woe! I wish you all the luck getting it sorted :(

I'd love those few corrections, because I'm about ready to print you up. But, assuming you don't have your own text available at the moment, would it help if I posted up the last version of your story friendslocked to you and Emu on my own lj? Then you could stick any changes as a comment in there.

Hey, not to put on the pressure, or anything... :)