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skyringInstalled XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1 Build onto my workstation. Memories of SP1 when it stuffed up my Internet connection, but this one seems to work OK. Took the best part of the afternoon to load, but admittedly a lot of that was me having a nap while the process completed except that it didn't because a dialogue box popped up a few minutes after I left the room. Not much of a nap, anyway - I spent most of the time reading John Glenn's memoirs.
Read some more after I came back, punched the default on the dialogue and made myself a cuppa. Still look another hour or so to install, and then rebooting was slow.
Semagic has stopped working. Went through the help file and the FAQ, tried the solutions, tried listing Semagic as an exception in the firewall, tried turning off the firewall entirely, but no joy. Filed a support request.
At least I can still use the web interface. Hope they fix this soon - XP SP2 is going RTM at the end of July and there will be a flood of complaints if it's still buggered.
Pulled my finger out and got the Luftwaffe airfields listed. A bit of confusion over the two fighter fields on Guernsey, shown as Rennes and Dinan, which are the names of French towns well out of fighter range. Sorted.
Laptop will be delivered in around ten working days, Dell tells me. This could be a pain, as I'm leaving in ten working days and if it arrives while I'm up north it will be no help at all to me.
Leighton went up another 16 cents. I could have held on and made another $500. At least my remaining Leighton position increased in value, and the way these things go, it could just as well have dropped 16c and then I'd be kicking myself even harder.
Didn't take a walk this morning after a largely sleepless night. Had one before dinner. Dumped a frozen corn-fed chook in the crockpot with a quartered onion, a couple of cubed carrots and spuds and a bit of water and by dinner time it was a fragrant melting mass. What's left of the mixture will be the basis for a great soup tomorrow once I peel off the fat, fish out the bones and any gloopy bits. mmmm.
Read some more after I came back, punched the default on the dialogue and made myself a cuppa. Still look another hour or so to install, and then rebooting was slow.
Semagic has stopped working. Went through the help file and the FAQ, tried the solutions, tried listing Semagic as an exception in the firewall, tried turning off the firewall entirely, but no joy. Filed a support request.
At least I can still use the web interface. Hope they fix this soon - XP SP2 is going RTM at the end of July and there will be a flood of complaints if it's still buggered.
Pulled my finger out and got the Luftwaffe airfields listed. A bit of confusion over the two fighter fields on Guernsey, shown as Rennes and Dinan, which are the names of French towns well out of fighter range. Sorted.
Laptop will be delivered in around ten working days, Dell tells me. This could be a pain, as I'm leaving in ten working days and if it arrives while I'm up north it will be no help at all to me.
Leighton went up another 16 cents. I could have held on and made another $500. At least my remaining Leighton position increased in value, and the way these things go, it could just as well have dropped 16c and then I'd be kicking myself even harder.
Didn't take a walk this morning after a largely sleepless night. Had one before dinner. Dumped a frozen corn-fed chook in the crockpot with a quartered onion, a couple of cubed carrots and spuds and a bit of water and by dinner time it was a fragrant melting mass. What's left of the mixture will be the basis for a great soup tomorrow once I peel off the fat, fish out the bones and any gloopy bits. mmmm.
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Date: 2004-06-23 08:29 pm (UTC)