Fairly Symmetrical
Ain't technology grand?
10/14/2004
Things for which I am grateful today:
- Windows XP's System Restore: Instead of spending 3 hours reinstalling Windows and a bunch of applications on Jen's laptop, I spent 15 minutes booting into Safe Mode and rolling back to a restore point. What a great idea.
- 802.11b: Better yet, I was able to do the above while sitting on the couch watching The Apprentice, rather than sitting in the office staring at a progress bar, thanks to our lovely wireless network.
- There was a third thing which I have quite forgotten. Sadly, technology has not yet figured out a way to make my memory foolproof.
- Edit: I have remembered what the third thing was: Microsoft's Automatic Crash Analysis, you know, that window that pops up when Windows or an application crashes and asks if you want to Send/Don't Send the crash to Microsoft. Jen's laptop bluescreened while I was trying to restore it, I hit Send when it came back up, and MS came back with a web page saying that it was a bad version of the Synaptics touch pad driver -- and best of all it gave me a link to download the fixed one. Much nicer than trying to troubleshoot a bluescreen and locate updated drivers myself.
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How about where it autosaved and recovered my entire powerpoint lecture for tomorrow when the dog turned off my computer with his ass?
Good one... Autosave may be the single greatest feature Microsoft ever added to Office.