{"id":347,"date":"2009-01-08T21:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:59:19","slug":"mesozoic-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Mesozoic Marte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, I was low person on the totem pole on Team Toshiba.\u00c2\u00a0 We were a group of intrepid souls who did tech support for Toshiba America in their CompuServe Forum.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I had neither the time, the money nor\"Commodore<\/a> the inclination to be a cutting-edge tech geek, my role was to find answers for people like me who were still slogging along two operating systems behind and five generations of computers ago.<\/p>\n

I was then, as I am now, a firm advocate of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”\u00c2\u00a0 While my Team members were avidly pursuing Microsoft’s latest questionable goodies, I toodled merrily along with what worked.<\/p>\n

And maybe because those guys were constantly tearing their hair out trying to get stuff to work, while I suggested “Gee, you know, if you went back to Windows for Workgroups…” I took a good deal of heat now and again.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of it was good-natured.\u00c2\u00a0 Some…\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 not so much.<\/p>\n

One of the real techno-weenies called me Mesozoic Marte.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think he meant it kindly.\u00c2\u00a0 But I thought it was funny and adopted the name quite readily.\u00c2\u00a0 I even have a picture of me, standing next to a bronze Triceratops at the LA Natural History Museum, and I’d post it here if it didn’t show me 50 pounds heavier than I am today.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m Mesozoic but I’m also somewhat vain, what can I say.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Why did I get to talking about this?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, because I haven’t changed my ways.\u00c2\u00a0 I tend to stick with what works until either there’s some program I really really really want that won’t run under the operating system that I have, or the operating system itself gets too cranky to deal with.\u00c2\u00a0 Such was the situation this past week when I finally gave up on Windows 2000 and installed XP Pro.<\/p>\n

All did not go well.<\/p>\n

Despite all kinds of articles claiming that XP Pro will happily upgrade over Win2K, it didn’t, quite.\u00c2\u00a0 I had extremely annoying problems with my DVD burner that no amount of helpful advice would clear up.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything else worked, as far as I could tell, but the fact that the DVD drive was brain dead was a major problem, because I had stuff backed up on data DVDs that I couldn’t restore.\u00c2\u00a0 Aaaargh.<\/p>\n

Well, to make a long and frustrating story short, late this afternoon, I finally threw in the towel, whipped out my Acronis bootable disk, wiped the stupid hard drive clean and started all over from the beginning.<\/p>\n

And of course, once you do that, you’ really only HAVE begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I get to reinstall all my software.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank goodness for Foxmarks so at least I got all my bookmarks back post haste.<\/p>\n

I bet this provides me with material for upcoming posts for a good long time.
\n\"Creative<\/a> photo credit: prad2609<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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