"Damn"

Today wasn't such a good day at work. Of course, I won't be going into details at all. Lets just say it was really hard to do stuff and answer questions. An Irrate customer doesn’t much help the situation. Tip for those people calling tech support: screaming out your name extremely quickly along with the serial number of an unnamed product will not make the tech support experience go any faster. You must work with the person on the other phone, not against them. Is that really such a terribly complicated concept? Yeah? That's what I thought.

Other-wise I have purchased a new USB thumb-drive-sized WiFi card. This I have hooked up to my computer that is now in living room hooked up to a TV. Unfortunately the XP software keeps losing the connection with my network and hooking up to my neighbor’s router, making networking of any sort virtually impossible. The blurriness of the test on the screen doesn't help any. I've been using the "magnifier" utility from the accessibility tools to help with the blurriness (and it does help) but it's still too frustrating to figure out. At least I have internet access from the computer hooked up to the TV if nothing else.

I have also tried playing games on it and the games actually look quite good. Why do I suddenly get the feeling I've written aboot this before? Anyway I'm surprised how well this thing works.

The only other thing I've tried to do is install Windows 2000 on this computer I just purchased from a friend of mine (for $300). The Win2k CD I have isn't bootable to I had to be creative (or make a series of 5 floppies -- doesn't sound like fun). So I booted into Bart's PE via one CD-ROM and inserted the Win2k install disk in the other tray and tried to run the installation from Bart's. And it actually did work albeit asking me if I wanted to upgrade or merely "fresh install" (at least I think that's Windows terminology...stupid macs). So obviously it either saw the existing Win9x installation or it saw Bart's PE as an earlier version of Windows. Neither of those makes a lot of sense. The installation program was acting as if I had run setup from files sitting on the same HDD I was trying to install to: obviously meaning I couldn't re-partition or format those partitions.

So I do have Win2k installed now I just still have all the existing files intact which is not what I wanted. So my next step will be to format those partitions from within Bart's and try the setup again to see what will happen.

  ¶ 6:37 PM