Shout Your Frustrations to the World! (You know you want to.(READ FIRST POST))

[Perpetual Man]

What operating system are you using Interference?

[Interference]

XP, SP2 - prior to this, only the soundcard worked while the mother-board sound never installed. Now both are showing ready, but I suspect a clash of interrupts somewhere. Could be wrong, tho'.

[Perpetual Man]

I'm not 100% certain but I think XP has System Restore - you could try using that to restore your computer to a time before the mouse stopped working. It might be something downloaded recently (updates etc) might be interfering with the mouse.

[Interference]

The thing about so-called System Restore on XP is that you have to keep topping it up, or else your "functioning version" vanishes off the map. I don't know if it's a calendar thing the Mighty Minds at Microsoft have inserted or if it's just a random "you won't need this anymore, will you?" thing that goes on in the nanny-nanoverse, but my pristine installation of last October (or thereabouts) no longer exists. In fact, October no longer exists, according to it!

It does create a new restore point every time you install something, but as I have long-since settled for my ideal suite of programs, some of which don't actually need to go through the "install" process to get 'em working (I keep separate partitions for everything), I can go quite a few months without invoking that particular activity.

Today I thought that the best housekeeping method is probably to manually create a Restore point every day before starting work, giving you something to revert to should things go horribly wrong -- or just annoyingly badly, like the mouse thing I was getting.

[hopewrites]

Originally Posted by Interference

The thing about so-called System Restore on XP is that you have to keep topping it up, or else your "functioning version" vanishes off the map. I don't know if it's a calendar thing the Mighty Minds at Microsoft have inserted or if it's just a random "you won't need this anymore, will you?" thing that goes on in the nanny-nanoverse, but my pristine installation of last October (or thereabouts) no longer exists. In fact, October no longer exists, according to it!

It does create a new restore point every time you install something, but as I have long-since settled for my ideal suite of programs, some of which don't actually need to go through the "install" process to get 'em working (I keep separate partitions for everything), I can go quite a few months without invoking that particular activity.

Today I thought that the best housekeeping method is probably to manually create a Restore point every day before starting work, giving you something to revert to should things go horribly wrong -- or just annoyingly badly, like the mouse thing I was getting.

oh like saving before you go around the corner to be killed by the boss you didnt know was there. yeah I go through bouts of parodied saving and over-confidant-non-saving when I play RPG's. there is always a thrill of satisfaction when I realize my paranoid saving has paid off and a pang of disappointment when I realize just a little more paranoia could have saved me from repeating 4hours of questing.
not that I had to redo 4 hours of questing because the guy who was supposed to kill the mark that I had been sent to take care of had died before he could report that I took care of the mark he had been sent after because the stupid town guard went chasing after him for the murder I had staged so that the mark could get off. just the 30mins from the auto-save, but if it wasnt for the auto-save it would have been all 6-10 hours of that days questing.... in retrospect I should maybe spend less time gaming, but i'm more packed then I should be with 6 days before I move with not much else to do. besides, its my friend's friend's copy of the game and I wont get to play it at all after the move.

I am frustratingly efficient at packing since this is the 5th time I will have moved within the last 9 months, and I managed to get completely unpacked this time *sigh*

[Interference]

You make life sound - what's the word? - dull! Yes, that's the word. And perhaps the apt description of life, as well


Short interlude while I quote myself for a second:

Originally Posted by Interference

3: I am seriously worried and concerned about my very best Chrons buddy......And that's frustrating

(Gosh, I'm good )

Update on the Happiness Thread - in a few minutes....

[hopewrites]

well its all about perspective as they say. and since I'm kindof a writer I can make my dull life seem action packed and exciting. I suggest if your life feels, I believe "un-exciting" was the word you were after, just rewrite the perspective till its as exciting as you could wish.
instead of; I did some dishes. think; I braved the perils of watermarked fingers and that skim of grease that doesnt wash off for days to save the kitchen from the rampages of bacterial mold and to prevent the wrath of the vicious "what do you mean there are no clean bowls!!? I want cereal NOW" monster. And after much toil and tribulation have emerged victorious only to face the same fate in a few hours when the "oh clean kitchen!? I should cook something" beast realizes what I have done.
never mind that you are the monster, beast, and hero in this story. its still much better then the alternative.

[Interference]

Er... isn't changing POV like that kinda frowned on around these parts?

[hopewrites]

same POV, just different perspective within the characters perspective. *level up sound* gah! every time i work on my core skills that things goes off, now I'll have to sleep again so i can get more health points, whatever I'll do it later. point is changing personal perspective is what leads to character growth, which is what the story is all about isnt it?

[Interference]

Life is like a well-written novel, but much more accidental

[hopewrites]

honestly I think Life is more like a rough-draft. full of mistakes and plot holes, but overall full of fantastic ideas that can be worked and reworked until one is ready to share them with the world.

[Interference]

Can't edit life, I'm afeard

[hopewrites]

that was my point exactly, all we get is the rough draft. They say that Mozart wrote his music in one draft, but I figure that was from spending his early years practicing.
I would be frustrated indeed if i tried to hold myself to those standards, so I just hold to that old music maxim of "practice makes permanent" and keep trying to write my rough draft of a life as best I can.

[pyan]

Attacking a piece of Christmas cake with enthusiasm, I found out too late that there was a date-stone in the middle. Broke off a front tooth at the gum-line, and now bear a remarkable resemblance to Alfred E Neuman...

[springs]

Oh, ow Pyan, good luck.