Today I sit in front of my computer listening to Herb Alpert remembering an old friend and mentor whom I haven't seen in a long time. I used to spend hours at his little house on Center Road playing games on his new 286, 386, and 486 computers as the years ticked by. His wonderful wife always had a smiling face and cheerful greeting. We would spend hours watching his collection of James Bond movies and listening to his music collection. I miss those days this time of year, when memories swell. I can only hope that I find a wife as lovely and caring as his was some day. Wherever you are, George, here's to you.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I stumbled upon this thing today. If it works as advertised it should be a great little tool to help unclog all those $400 dell junk boxes.
Web Site for the PC De-Crapifier
You scored as
Engineer. Military Engineer. Your job is usually overlooked, but without you nothing gets done. While you sometimes annoyed at this, and you know the only time people come to you is when there's something wrong. You understand that you are the heart and soul of any organization with honesty and nice work ethic to boot. "I need more Duct Tape!!!"
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Artillery/Armor
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Engineer
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Combat Infantry
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| 69%
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Special Ops
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Officer
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Support Gunner
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Medic
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Civilian
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Which soldier type are you?
Well after a bit of tracking things down and booting to safe mode a few times I figured out that the combination of mozy.com's backup service and windows onecare is what caused the problem. Looks like mozy was trying to backup my registry file while onecare tried to scan it and poof... windows couldn't access it when i logged in... or something like that anyway. I disabled mozy and logged in, then reconfigured it to not backup that file. Then everything went back to normal. Geesh...
Well, after a little while running Vista I've had a weird thing happen. My user profile fails to load on a fairly new install... Luckily I do most of my work in a VPC image or I'd have been rebuilding my stuff for a week. As it is I'm not sure exactly what the cause is but the event log gives me the awesome error message: The file is in use so we loaded a temporary profile that will get deleted when you log out. Thanks for playing, goodbye. Needless to say I'm a little pissed so I tracked down all the stuff I installed in the last week and removed it. Then I resorted to a file monitor and it looks like it's either Microsoft Search or Windows OneCare. Guess I get to play with it until it comes back to life.
Anyway, last week was crazy... I'm not the only one who had issues... I had 3 clients' servers bomb in one way or another and 2 others' workstations crashed. Luckily nobody lost their data so far, it's just a huge inconvenience. Hopefully this week will turn out better. Also, there was another LAN party this weekend... Photos to be posted shortly (as soon as I fix this thing enough to get my flash reader working).
