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# feckin' bastard system...
I now have a win2k pro system running in safe mode with networking, which will actually access the net.

Still doesn't work in full mode though. And the event log is showing all dorts of stuff that doesn't work.

Methinks it's a full system rebuild over the weekend...
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:54, archived)
# sarcasm
could always install Migrane Edition
it's lovely :)
/sarcasm
(I helped save b3ta! Red wine and cheese., Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:55, archived)
# okay.
get firewall.
get opera.
njoi.
(I helped save b3ta! EvS, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:56, archived)
# get new drivers for everything...
install clean system... this 2000 install is so fucked up now that whole chunks of it just don't work. I have complaints from services I didn't even know I had...
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:58, archived)
# maybe XP?
i hear less complaints about XP than 2000 (which is most strange)
2000 seems to self-destruct
(I helped save b3ta! Red wine and cheese., Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:02, archived)
# all microsloth
OS's occasionally just do their own thang and FUBAR*. One of me machines here worked flawlessly (with a fortnightly reboot) for a year then for no reason whatsoever went titsup.com and nothing could resurrect it. That one's now running Linux and hasn't stopped since.

*fucked up beyond all recognition unless you're an old DEC field circus engineer in which case it means failed unibus address register, fact fans
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:13, archived)
# Sinclair Basic
nothing more needs to be said
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:15, archived)
# At least speccys
can be fixed with a bit of solderage. Refitted a new ROM socket to my prototype Memotech MTX today and the bastard STILL doesn't work. Grrr. Fortunately I know 4 ex-Memotech types so hopefully I can get the schematics.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:36, archived)
# MEMOTECH !!!!
sex in anodised black brushed allly !!!
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:45, archived)
# that's the bunny, as
featured in The Woman In Red with kelly le brock.....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:54, archived)
# Most often used to say
LOAD ""
(I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:39, archived)
# Hence the emulator
called JPP :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:49, archived)
# I'm running 98.
And haven't crashed in about 2 months. I think it's a record or something.
(I helped save b3ta! EvS, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:06, archived)
# heheheeh
I'm on my laptop as my main PC is in full on sulk mode, cant do fuck all apart from strungle with fat finfgers and a toshiba nipple
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 21:59, archived)
# strungle
is a fantastic word, and I'm stealing it.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:06, archived)
# heheheheh
laugh atg my typinfg misfortune wont you
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:08, archived)
# sorry to hear of your probs
I would reinstall if I were you.

If I may subvert your thread slightly, I was wondering if other b3tans reinstall 2k/xp regularly as a matter of course, eg every 3 or 4 months. I tend to do this as an easyish way to spring clean, but I am wondering if I am just carrying on a habit i picked up from using 9x that is no longer necessary.
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:09, archived)
# mines been fine and dandy
for 6 mumphs, but today its gone all pre menstrual, mainly IE6, shed loads of updates at microsfot, butg it dunnae wanna install em cap'n
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:11, archived)
# Glad to see the
results of your LIDL shopping trip are taking hold :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 21 Nov 2002, 22:37, archived)