Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Has anyone else noticed the way that windows update will update itself and then decide that you want to reboot the machine, and does it for you?
That's the third time it's happened while I have work open. And the best bit is there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off - you can tell it to prompt you to upgrade, but as soon as it's done it will say 'Do you want to reboot now?', and ask it every 5 minutes. And if you're working on another computer when that message pops ...
Today, I have found some bugs in things that people assume will be bug free.
First I found a link on the recently-publicised google.org that linked to one of those annoying domain-squatting search sites, as opposed to the real site for the Acumen Fund.
And now I have found a bug in the babelfish. German to english 'igelburger' (hedgehog burger) returns 'more igelburger'. Sure, ok, igelburger isn't a mainstream word, so they're forgiven for not knowing that, but where did the 'more' come from? So English to German 'more igelburger' returns 'mehr igelburger'. Which, when translated back ...
Ok, ok, that last entry was clearly a bit fishy. It was tempting, but then I remembered I was violently opposed to sport in all forms, so that was that.
In the end I went over to PC World and bought a 450W PSU (an extra 100W), and after much googling found Microsoft's Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility, ran it and now everything's back to normal. It's been running for about 15 hours now without any hangs, I haven't seen any "unknown hard error"s, and the fans have been humming away solidly. So I think ...
Well, I am now going to make a living from competition fishing. Most of my computers are now outside on the side of the road waiting for the dustman on Thursday, and this one will join them shortly. This will therefore be my last diary entry. So long, it's been fun.
So I wake up this morning and turn on my computer. Blue screen. Corrupt registry.
This isn't the first problem with this machine recently either. I've been getting "Unknown hard error"s for quite a few days, the computer has been hanging randomly - I've felt that the hard drive was on the way out. But what the hell? This one only just lasted 6 months, and for most of those months I haven't even turned the machine on, on account of me being on the other side of the country.
I don't do abnormal disk ...