Finally got Quicken 2006 to install correctly and get my unlock code to work under Windows Vista. I have had some issues with getting it to run properly, and with the system crashes I was having my most recent backup is a couple of months old. Damn, have some updating of the old check book to do.
Now if I could only get my hotsync to work properly, I prefer to use my iPaq as my register rather than having to write it down and transfer to my PC later.
I didn't even know they were doing it until I saw a link over at instapundit but Amazon.com has gotten into the online grocery business. I have always liked the idea, but living in eastbumblefuck as I do figured I would never have to worry about trying it.
I made a quick run through, and the prices are reasonable, particularly for a lazy ass geek like me. Most of the stuff is in bulk, so if you only go shopping once every couple of weeks or month like I do, it's even better. I may have to try it out. As Instapundit says, if anyone can make it work, Amazon can.
I don't know what it is but I have been having intermittent downtime off and on for a couple of weeks. It is starting to get really irritating and makes me want to bash my head against the monitor, but since lightning took out my flat panel, this is the only one left. Damn it.
Fucking assholes. Got up about 30 or 40 minutes ago, tried to access my site. No go. I finally checked via IP address and did a bit of troubleshooting, and sure enough, it's down. Sent an email to tech support, and they replied back within a couple of minutes. Apparently it's DDOS attacks. Damn, must be Hezbollah trying to keep down my poignant wit, or trolls that don't want you to read my intelligent commentary, or maybe right-wing, ultra-conservative, blue hairs that just don't like the word fuck. Well, FUCK YOU then.
I have been pretty lucky. I have never seen much downtime with my current provider. Hell, I had more down time when I hosted it via the server in my basement, which is why I moved it offline.
Fine, I posted at MySpace. Then again if I am able to post this it means that my site is back up and the point is moot.
It's 6:20am now, and the site is back up. Good deal.
Zoundry has apparently updated the blog posting software that I use, now there is a spell checker. Good damn thing. Hell, it might have always been there but I haven't seen it.
I think I am going to go outside for a nice smoke, then kick the girls out of my bedroom and hit the sack.
I've managed to succesfully reinstall Windows and all of my apps and smoothly upgrade to Windows Vista. I decided to just install the 32 bit version this time, and ALL of my hardware works, even my cell phone. Sweet. About the only issue right now is that I can't sync my ipaq with Outlook, and supposedly they are working on that.
When I get home I still have to set up my email accounts, if you have sent me an email in the last 24 hours, that is why I have not answered.
I may be offline for a few hours. I am slightly pissed off at my OS, so I am going through the upgrade path for the 32 bit versions of my OS up to Vista, hopefully that will take care of some of my current issues (except for the ones in my head).
When I was still running XP I generally used firefox. I like the tabbed browsing, and it seems to load pages much faster. Since I have upgraded to Windows Vista, I have taken to using IE 7. It also finally offers tabbed browsing, and I like it more. Unfortunately, for some weird reason, I can't get Army Wife's site to load in IE, so after a bit of troubleshooting I went ahead and loaded firefox onto this damn thing again so that I can visit her site. After having used IE for a month I think I will continue to stick with that though, except for the couple of sites that I can't use it on. Oh well, sometimes shit just doesn't make sense.
Damn it, I want a natural gas generator and a whole house surge protector. Anyone have an extra 30k or so laying around they wanna send me? Perhaps I should sell barbie on ebay.
Recently I rebuilt my PC and reinstalled windows. I think I may have posted a bit about the crap that was going on. Anyway, when I did, I installed the Windows XP 64 bit version in order to take full advantage of my CPU. There are a few drivers that will no longer work, such as my scanner, and my cell phone USB cable. No big deal, I can live with that. I moved the scanner over to Stephanie's PC, and will just live with the fact that I can't transfer the shit off of my phone. About the only thing that I couldn't get to install and work properly was iTunes, and Quicktime, which pisses me off to no end. I did a bunch of searching on the Apple site, as well as other places, all of which came to no avail. Apple won't support the 64 bit version of Windows XP. Fine, fuck you.
I then put Windows Vista Beta 2 on there, running a dual boot system. I had a few problems with my sound card and network card, but just swapped those out with some others from my basement that are compatible with both OSes. No problems there. There are a few glitches, I have a hard time processing converting DVD's to Divx under Vista, right now I am running under XP to convert a couple so that I can send them back to Netflix and watch later. For the most part, I really like Vista. This is the first time I have even rebooted to XP in a couple of weeks.
The big kicker is that iTunes and Quicktime install under the 64 bit version of Vista with NO PROBLEM. Not only that, but they run just fine. Ok, so what the fuck is the deal? Apple, you are a bunch of fucking assholes. I started iTunes a couple of days ago and got the message that there was an update, so I downloaded it and tried to install. It gives me a message that iTunes will only install on 32 bit versions of Windows 2000 and XP. What the fuck? Is that the purpose of the fucking upgrade? You guys want to be assholes about what you have to support? It's not like I have ever called you for support, and then only two times that I have tried to get Quicktime support (yes, I am a registered Quicktime Pro owner) nobody ever bothered to fucking reply anyway.
Software designers need to leave a loophole in their installation routines, such as advanced installation, so that assholes like me that want to fuck up their systems, can install their software on unsupported systems.
Maybe if I try to run it in compatibility mode that will work. Vista will still not report itself as being XP, but I have done this in the past with other stuff and it has worked.
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