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This does not compute
Feb. 28th, 2007 12:44 amI've been having a weird problem with my Internet connection. When I logged on to MSN, it went through the normal authentication and sign-on routine. Then it opened its Start page (using Internet Explorer). However, when I clicked a link on the Start page, I got a "This page cannot be displayed" error. When I opened a second IE window. it also displayed a "This page cannot be displayed" error. When I opened a Firefox window, it said that either start.mozilla.org or www.google.com could not be found.
I called MSN Support, and we mucked around with the networking settings. When I rebooted, the Firefox window worked, although IE did not. The service rep told me to reinstall IE and closed the problem. However, when I shut down MSN and started it again, Firefox was no longer working.
Then for several days, the connection worked after midnight and only after midnight. (That is to say, Firefox worked, and sometimes IE worked and sometimes it didn't.)
Now for the last 24 hours, I've been able to log on and use either IE or Firefox. Great, but I don't trust the machine.
When I had a similar problem in the past, I reinstalled Windows and it fixed the problem. A little like striking a fly with a mallet, but I've also been having problems with AdWare on my machine, so arguably I should reinstall Windows, reinstall software, copy backed-up data, install a firewall, and capture an image of the machine on my external hard drive. However, my Windows 2000 CD is not a recovery CD, so I need to find out what drivers to copy and how to register them with Device Manager, or I need to get CompUSA to do it.
It's a bad time for my machine to be out of commission. I need it for job search stuff plus I'm taking an online class in documenting Java APIs, which will require me to use Javadoc and such. So I'm in a dilemma: do I reinstall now, or do I wait, hope that the machine will keep working, and reinstall after my class is over?
In other news, I had my first meeting with my new psychiatrist, and I really like him. He's looking at my symptoms as a case of schizoaffective disorder (mixed schizophrenic and bipolar symptoms), which is what I've been saying for a long time. He wants to wean me off of lithium and see if the lithium has been causing some of the cognitive problems I've been having. I think that I'll like working with him; when I questioned some of the medication choices, he just explained why he decided what he did without getting on his high horse.
And on the kitty front, Harlee has been roaming around the entire place more, and Random has been ignoring her (instead of running at her) much of the time. There might be light at the end of the tunnel....
I called MSN Support, and we mucked around with the networking settings. When I rebooted, the Firefox window worked, although IE did not. The service rep told me to reinstall IE and closed the problem. However, when I shut down MSN and started it again, Firefox was no longer working.
Then for several days, the connection worked after midnight and only after midnight. (That is to say, Firefox worked, and sometimes IE worked and sometimes it didn't.)
Now for the last 24 hours, I've been able to log on and use either IE or Firefox. Great, but I don't trust the machine.
When I had a similar problem in the past, I reinstalled Windows and it fixed the problem. A little like striking a fly with a mallet, but I've also been having problems with AdWare on my machine, so arguably I should reinstall Windows, reinstall software, copy backed-up data, install a firewall, and capture an image of the machine on my external hard drive. However, my Windows 2000 CD is not a recovery CD, so I need to find out what drivers to copy and how to register them with Device Manager, or I need to get CompUSA to do it.
It's a bad time for my machine to be out of commission. I need it for job search stuff plus I'm taking an online class in documenting Java APIs, which will require me to use Javadoc and such. So I'm in a dilemma: do I reinstall now, or do I wait, hope that the machine will keep working, and reinstall after my class is over?
In other news, I had my first meeting with my new psychiatrist, and I really like him. He's looking at my symptoms as a case of schizoaffective disorder (mixed schizophrenic and bipolar symptoms), which is what I've been saying for a long time. He wants to wean me off of lithium and see if the lithium has been causing some of the cognitive problems I've been having. I think that I'll like working with him; when I questioned some of the medication choices, he just explained why he decided what he did without getting on his high horse.
And on the kitty front, Harlee has been roaming around the entire place more, and Random has been ignoring her (instead of running at her) much of the time. There might be light at the end of the tunnel....
