II'm blogging in "Save Mode" because it works and regular Windows won't. I think iit's hopelessly corrupted after Windows "System Restored" three different dates, rreporting that none of them could complete, but then when I started up it rreported,three times that I had successfully restored. Then went into cconvulsions, puked, and blue screened. God, I love the challenge of it all! |
Friday, June 22, 2012
Catastrophical Failure
22 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Sounds like a job for msconfig. Tedious, but it should work.
JLW III -
6/22/12, 4:05 PM
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James Hooker, Nipple Whisperer said...
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Squeezing. My. Eyes. Shut. Tight. Trying. To. Resist. Mac. Crack.
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6/22/12, 4:07 PM
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Anonymous said...
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LET HIM HAVE IT MR. HOOKER , NIPPLE WHISPERER ! HE WON'T LISTEN ! TIME FOR TOUGH LOVE ! smibsid ; ) >
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6/22/12, 4:11 PM
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Louisiana Steve said...
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Time for a new computer and, most of all, a fresh install on Windows, preferably Windows 7. Over the years since Windows version 3.1, I've found windows to work well for about 2 - 3 years. After that, the clutter is so bad, the system is unstable.
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6/22/12, 4:29 PM
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TimO said...
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Whenever you get a good running Windows system drive, clone it so you can just wipe over the crap and start again fresh. Clonezilla is FREE.
I recently switched over to an iMac and my plan is to put Windows on here with Parallels so I can just wipe it and restore it anytime it gets hammered. -
6/22/12, 4:45 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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I had a Drive Image clone and a IOBit clone - neither would install. I'm going to beat this machine, or beat it to death. And I'm to far along to be learning Aplle or anything rlse for that matter. Yippe Kai Ay motherpluckers!
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6/22/12, 5:28 PM
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BlogDog said...
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I may be a Mac guy but I wish you all the best in your efforts. It sucks eggs to be without a reliable masheen.
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6/22/12, 5:38 PM
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vanderleun said...
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Ah safe mode, windows crapola, registry rebuilds, and a thousand other time sinks I used to wallow in for so long.... now a distant fading memory from the early 1990s.... long gone... Gone Mac, won't look back.... yes not as many games but then again I don't spend hours every month maintaining it and hours more fixing and consulting with relatives and friends like I used to. After two years of saying to all, "Sorry, don't do Windows" they remembered and just let me be. Bliss now for almost 20 years. Twenty good years.
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6/22/12, 5:59 PM
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vanderleun said...
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"I'm to far along to be learning Aplle "
There is no learning Aplle, grasshopper. There is only do -- run with no problems. -
6/22/12, 6:00 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Not sure what they're looking for, but it's possible the NSA Flamed or Stuxed your PC.
righty gomez -
6/22/12, 6:15 PM
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James Hooker, Nipple Whisperer said...
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Sorry Rodger,but, the other day, someone here wanted to know what ¨taking the piss¨ meant. This is a fine example.
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6/22/12, 6:16 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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You apple guys would never have taken Omaha Beach. I'm taking no prisoners.
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6/22/12, 6:42 PM
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James Hooker, Nipple Whisperer said...
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Pfffft!!....we apple guys would have ended it 1932 or thereabouts....
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6/22/12, 6:51 PM
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pdwalker said...
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I'm perverse. Due to the nature of my work, I have my foot in both worlds.
I got to go with the mac fanatics here, it's a much easier system to run and keep running, and it's purty too. -
6/23/12, 2:00 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Pdwalker:" and it's purty too."
Yup, purty expensive for a PC hiding behind its mommy's skirts.
Can't learn Aplle ... Are you sure that is not Apple IIe ?? Poke 54363,52 and so on to get the printer driver activated or make the turbo floppy driver link up?
Get Puppy Linux, boot in 30 seconds and run from CD for all browsing, save 'state' to the hard drive. .sfs file. Wipe if it breaks.
Youse guys with the hi-speed tubes can download Puppy in minutes, 'bout 120M. Get your toes wet without jumping in...
Ninety-nine percent of my PC time is running Netscape descendants, and Puppy does that fast.
tomw -
6/23/12, 7:58 AM
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pdwalker said...
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tomw,
It all depends on how much your time is worth. For me, windows problems and knowing how to solve them are bread and butter work. I get paid to make sure that people don't have problems. So when I want something that works, and need something that works, I want it to work and I don't want to spend time making sure it keeps working.
My sister would buy a new computer every 6 months for the kids to use rather than trying to reinstall the OS. The PCs were so cheap, and the cost to "fix" it so high, it only made sense.
I, on the other hand, spend it on work. The last thing I want to do is to other another computer because of something the kids did, or spend hours removing the latest trojan because of something the kids clicked on. So yes, I paid more for that second computer, but it's paid for itself in term of my time, even valued cheaply, for every year that I've had it.
To each their own.
And Rodger? If you're stuck in safe more, bite the bullet and reinstall everything. It's the only way to be sure. -
6/23/12, 8:26 AM
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leelu said...
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...pretty much like "...nuke 'em from orbit..."
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6/23/12, 6:20 PM
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Anonymous said...
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pdwalker, no argument from me. I've been doing computer 'stuff' since 1966, when I took a Fortran course I feared, and learned how mesmerizing they could be.
I just felt for years Apple charged a very high premium for their product, viewed from my perch.
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6/23/12, 11:20 PM
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pdwalker said...
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leelu: and almost as satisfying. i'd still rather nuke it from orbit though.
tom: they certainly did/do! it wasn't until OS X 10.5 that it became worth it for me. and the unibody laptop? shiny...
( crap, I think my rationalization hamster just over spun his wheel ) -
6/24/12, 9:02 AM
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Desert Cat said...
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6/24/12, 3:23 PM
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Desert Cat said...
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Like this:
Turbo Hamster -
6/24/12, 3:24 PM
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Anonymous said...
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PD said:
"it wasn't until OS X 10.5 that it became worth it"
and OS X 10.5 is running on ...
wait for it...
unix.
Back to square one... hahahaha Apple is doing what ATT did in 1985, they just have more horsepower & memory than the UnixPC. {which I really didn't like} But I did do unix for ~30 years..
On an old machine, with 192M, puppy does a lot, and you can boot from CD if you don't want to mash your original stuff. *I* was impressed with how well it worked w/o me tweaking anything.
tomw -
6/25/12, 9:09 AM
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