Monthly Archive for November, 2003

Hot new Backpack

From Burton:

Burton Amp Pack

“Whether you’re running to catch a flight, riding the subway or lugging your shit into the lodge, the Amp Pack makes it super simple to flip through your illegally downloaded music library.”

My New Toy

Mmmmm… 64 bits…

Computer Fixin’: AOL 9 Crashes

I got a call to fix the computer for a kid whose computer kept crashing whenever he started AOL 9.0 on his windows XP machine. I figure, piece of cake, it’s gotta be MSBlast or welchia; just need to apply the security patch and make sure the worm is cleared off.

After about a half hour of going through all the prerequisite steps to do this, I’ve got a problem: the system is still restarting whenever it goes online. Really, just as soon as AOL connects and begins to authenticate, it crashes, hard reboot style. No such luck, but I did manage to figure out the problem….
Continue reading ‘Computer Fixin’: AOL 9 Crashes’