Re-installing Windows....
Tonight I re-installed Windows 1911, now with Service Pack 3. This SP cleaned up accumulated cruftiness and corrected faults introduced by SP1 (loose mortises compensated for by hamfisted toenailing, the frame still with trapezoidal geometry) and SP2 (cavities filled with some form of epoxy which only ensured the strange shape).
Despite taking forever (many time gaps in the process, due to procrastination and the impingement of working and having a life as well as literally waiting for goo to dry) it's been my smoothest re-build project that I can recall. Everything worked out the first time. There were no screwups due to false assumptions. It borders on being a bit, well, creepy.
Yes, I'm talking about meat-space windows, the transparent things you sometimes see between you and the Big Room. The only software releases found in the home in 1911 would have been player piano rolls.
Say, what would a player piano running Windows be like? Sluggish as all get out, and with perturbing memory (air) leaks.
Oh.
That's more or less the situation I'm in right now.
Hmmmm. Maybe I need a Knoppix Ampico roll?
Despite taking forever (many time gaps in the process, due to procrastination and the impingement of working and having a life as well as literally waiting for goo to dry) it's been my smoothest re-build project that I can recall. Everything worked out the first time. There were no screwups due to false assumptions. It borders on being a bit, well, creepy.
Yes, I'm talking about meat-space windows, the transparent things you sometimes see between you and the Big Room. The only software releases found in the home in 1911 would have been player piano rolls.
Say, what would a player piano running Windows be like? Sluggish as all get out, and with perturbing memory (air) leaks.
Oh.
That's more or less the situation I'm in right now.
Hmmmm. Maybe I need a Knoppix Ampico roll?