Have you ever received an email claiming to give you money when you forward that email to people, and then those emails give you money too? I've received it several times, from a couple of my friends. Eventually it pushed me over the edge, so I whipped out my Calculus skills and showed that the exchange of money was so astronomical that there isn't enough money in the United States, let alone Microsoft, to pay all those people. Then I realized I could have just added, but that wouldn't have been as much fun.
What about the claim that tapping the side of a soda can will prevent its contents from foaming over when you open it?
've got this baby bookmarked, because not only is it funny, but it will totally blow that loudmouth know-it-all out of the water (Hmm, that guy sounds familiar). It's called snopes.com, the first line for defense for urban legend stuffs.
Wow. The reason I haven't posted anything the past three days is because I installed a new modem, and for whatever reason it decided to be lazy and not connect to the internet. After going through blah blah blah (boring technical information left out, boring stuff), I gave up, and went back to the old modem, but for some odd reason, installing its old drivers results in the blue screen of death, every time I tried to use the internet, or even just to view the modem in the device manager.
So there I was. 28 to 24, seven seconds left on the clock, 4th and long on the enemy's 30 yard line. My Hail Mary play was the System Restore feature that Microsoft implemented in every version of Windows since the infamous Windows Me. I shunned it ever since it came along, because it just took up too much hard drive space. Luckily, the compy gods were merciful that night (er, tonight), and I restored my computer to the time before I installed the new modem. The receiver caught the ball in a dazzling display of... catching-the-ballness, just inside the end zone for the TD. Everything works just like I had before. I'm back on the internet, baby. I walked away with the win, although with my pride hurt and a bit humbled.
System Restore has my support now, and I guess it will have to be that way for every other digerati (digital literati: One learned in the computer arts) out there to find out for themselves. I'm still going over the aftermath of all my computer troubles, but the likely culprit is most likely the driver I downloaded, and it just doesn't play nice with... anything. (More technical stuff left out. You'll notice I left a fair amount in, but this is my post, so I'll say what I want).
Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur
Friday, July 16, 2004
Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur
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I have my system restore turned off because I figure if I do something that totally ruined windows, I should just format and start over again, losing everything! I deserve it for screwing up the computer so bad! Buahahahaha, take that myself!
You know more about computers than I thought. So now you're better than me at computers AND Tetris? But there is one thing that you'll never be better at than me: Anime. Yessir, you can call me Encyclopedia Animatica, becau... oh, wait, nevermind. I meant math. Yeah. Hold on, that's not right either. I meant speaking Japanese... err, playing guitar... Oh forget it. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, who knew three-legged chickens would explode like that? I guess that extra leg causes too much friction, and then BAM! I guess that's why men shouldn't play god. Except in Black and White, that's the whole point. Man, that was such a good game. And then it got boring.
Hahahaha. I don't think I know more about computers than you....yet. But watch out, soon I'll catch up, then who knows! Also, I think we're pretty even in Tetris (regular tetris for gameboy).
Hear with all of my love
retsel
Oh yeah, I'm right there with you on that. I have the software that can read from it and can destory the info. In fact, I have that hard-drive information destroyer on a floppy that automatically detects the hard drive and deletes information... which would be a VERY nasty trick to play on someone, to insert the floppy when they aren't looking, then, when they turn on the computer, be amazed that Windows isn't starting, but rather that ALL of their files are becoming irrecoverably erased. And when I say "Nasty trick" I mean vandalism and illegal.
As for your formating-does't-solve-all-problems, I have experienced this firsthand, with my first computer, back when I had little idea of what I was doing, back in the year 1999. For some odd reason, I could no longer use my USB ports. After formating and reinstalling everything, my USB ports didn't work. So I gave up for 3 months, and then after researching my hypothesis and asking the local computer dealer, it was a conflicting IRQ thingy, with my sound card, I think. Then everything worked perfectly.
Wow, I have the most amusing anecdotes, I should become a successful actor just so I can retell this to the popular late night talk shows.
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