Ramblings

Today was kind of weird. I had nothing but problems at work, at least when it came to my program. Then just when things were beginning to look up and my luck change …. BAM! My computer freaks out when I tried to install a Remote Desktop program. It almost was acting like it had been hit by that RPC worm flying around, but the symptoms didn’t match that well. After trying to install the program, Windows asked to be restarted. Nothing new in the Windows world (and the one biggest gripes I’ve ever had about the OS), but upon restart things just came apart.

The computer (running Win2000Pro) booted normally up to just shy of the point where I would hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in. At that point, it shut itself off and proceeded to restart. I let it cycle like that twice before I got worried. I have run into a few cases where an install can’t finish till it reboots, then wants to restart again, so I let it go. After restart number three I got annoyed. After restart number four, I went and talked to the guys that gave me the program … he’s in IT too and in charge of that stuff. By the time I got back, it was working on reboot number six. I decided to manually power it off and let it sit for a minute. Again, I’ve had cases where a restart is messed up, but a hard power off and back on fixes it. No luck … off to the shop (in IT) for repairs. Used a dumb laptop that was even worse than my P350 desktop the rest of the day . Oh and the laptop had a touch network card … bump the cable and it drops the connection. Errr.

Anyways, the work day is over and guys start returning to the dorm tomorrow. I’ve spent the last few hours watching episodes of “Dead Like Me”. A really interesting series, but the only drawback is that it is only on Showtime. So I have to get it “other ways”. Well … later people.