But I'm running WinXP right now. I know. I'm going to jinx it just by saying something. But....we got the 40gig harddrive to format. Got WinXP to install. Got it hooked up in my case. Downloaded Netscape. Found my profile with all my mail on my old harddrive (which is now my secondary). Took awhile, but even got my email moved over. Also downloaded Firefox since it's 1.0 now. Also was able to install my mouse drivers - the thing which crashed out the system last time I got this far along.
And so far, so good.
I have a shitload of programs I need to find, download and re-install to get things working again, but at least my email is all there as are my bookmarks, settings and cookies. Which is a major start. Had to undo my cd burner because we think it might have been part of the problem, but I can live without it. (I still have a dvd-rom drive in here so it's no massive loss. Didn't burn a lot anyway.)
Missed West Wing tonight because we were over at our friend Rand's house eating dinner, watching a movie and then working on the pc, but I did dvr it so Love and I will watch it tomorrow.
All in all, it's been an oddly positive week. Things have been going pretty well. Which actually worries me. Heh. Now I need to get a USB 2.0 port so when my iPod shows up (soon....aw....so excited...) I can actually transfer the mp3s off my old harddrive over to it.
Anyway, that's it. Just testing things out on the net and seems like it's all working. Which is great because I wasn't on my pc at all today. It kept crashing. Very frustrating. (Especially when you write out a huge reply email to someone and you lose it in a freeze-up. Sorry Bruce, if you read this, I'll reply and give you more WDW info tomorrow!) Hopefully, with all this room to stretch, a nice clean install of the new OS things will be a little more stable again.
Whoo fucking hoo. ;)
~ castles of sand by Memory and Dream
at 11/11/2004 03:22:15 AM ~
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