The only way I could have been less productive today is if I just took it off altogether…
I restart my computer at around noon because its acting a bit wonky, and wouldn’t you know it, it was cause some Windows files were corrupt. IT tells me to boot into safe mood and back up my stuff incase anything worse happens, sagely advice as you’ll see. I take bout an hour to back everything up to my portable HD and lose a couple of precious files due to more HD errors that prevents me from copying them, sigh.
I run chkdsk (check disk) to try to repair the HD errors. chkdsk tells me it’ll run on the next restart, and of course, it didn’t restart, it didn’t even get into windows at all anymore, not even safe mode; just a whole lot of nothing. It makes me wonder how it even booted into safe mode before!
So that’s it, time to reformat the computer, but dum dum dum, dreaded Vista shall be installed. I can’t say I’m impressed, but it hasn’t been all bad. I’ll reserve judgement on this memory hog of an OS till later. So I spend the rest of the afternoon, recompiling code, and reinstalling a bunch of programs (at least I have my backups).
Back home, I spend 2 hours getting Sympatico to work at home since my Dad is switching from Robbers Rogers. This process in itself has already taken a week cause of equipment failure on Bell’s part, so it hasn’t even worked until today. I finally activate the damn thing whilst connected to the laptop, but once I switch the connection to the router, its dead as a copse. Damned router can’t get authenticate with the Bell AAA server. I steal some neighbour’s wifi on my personal laptop just to save myself the time to switch the connection back and forth from Rogers and Bell and discover its some stupid error with Dlink routers and Sympatico, I couldn’t believe this… So an hour later, I try all these stupid combinations of router settings until I get the right ones (and no, its not even connection settings, it’s completely unrelated router settings); and it turns out I had to leave the “Service Name” blank (this field shouldn’t have even done anything, its f’ing optional and is just meant to be a descriptive name) along with setting the router to use an NTP server to get the time. Double-U Tee Eff??? Whatever, as long as it works…
Going to cross my fingers now that the PS3 can still play online now that its on Sympatico, at least I know of a solution for this one…