And there I thought...

That it would be Windows XP's Service Pack 2 that would give me trouble ...

But no .. once I took a better look it ws my A4 Tech brand new, Microsoft given on Windows Update site that did it .. I couldn't boot the blasted thing ...

Seems that it activates a service that makes it go "a bit" mad...

Off to the Windows text mode recovery console (always get it installed, very handy ... :) ), disable the service, remove the mouse on Windows, and install the old driver that came on the good old floppy disk :)

Magic.. Who says old things aren't good ? ;) eheh

Service pack 2 on the other hand is working fine so far... just my luck?

A Bananas Republic and other nice stories...

There was a rumor... The Bananas Republic was located somewhere in South America...

I can now confirm this to be a uttere lie! It is located on the Western part of Europe on the so called "Civilised World".

The place is also known as Portugal (or Portuguese Republic") where, starting today, a computorized process was replaced by a manual process (that is chips running software with (lots of) bugs was replaced by a machine of paper running pencils and pens... ! ;)

Objective? Placing teachers on schools for the current school year... Please note that the current school year started last September 16th... ;)

Anyway...

I installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP... so far it still hasn't busted my PC, and it's running fine (except for Norton 2003 wich I still haven't tested well, but the console seems to have stopped appear "by itself").

I'll give notice when I test it decently :)

Google Mail (http://www.gmail.com) on the other hand looks nice.
Nice clean interface, bunch of Space, and for free... pity they still have it on beta state, but it's looking nice :)

Back to the real world now... :)

Boring Weather...

Hi there...

Weather is looking like crap today.. things are slow (wich is not necessarily bad), World is still crazy, and Microsoft still lauched Service Pack 2 wich I still am not installing ... *grin*

People are getting broadband connections, I'm checking how googlemail works, and people still produce documentation (wich is good, if others care to use it... ;) ).

Ah well.. going out soon.. take care :)

Just noticed...

Still haven't told you .. I got a new car !!! :)

It's a Opel Astra 1.7 CDTI Cosmo :)

Here's a pic (well, mine is in black but ...)

Hollidays are over...

Well, hollidays are over people.. 2 weeks passed between Viseu, Aveiro (briefly), Lisbon, Algarve, Sevilla (Spain) and Cádis (also in Spain).

I'll write more later... things to do ... what are you doing reading this? Get to work ! ;)