Day: 6 June 2004

Product Recovery

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I finally gave into the desire. I just got finished backing up all (i hope) of my data on my IBM Thinkpad T-40. As I write this I am running the IBM rapid restore function. Basically a hidden partition on the hard drive has all the settings and software that the machine had when it was bought. I am just returning it to the factory fresh setup.

I do this every once and a while. I may have done it once or twice before on this particular machine and I have only had it for 11 months. When I had more free time I would do this almost every 2-3 months. Now I don’t have the time, so it is a big pain in the ass to do, but it does wonders for the performance of the box.

I was having issues with the machine freezing up and then begin to work again after 30 seconds or so. I also realized how much crap I had accumulated on the machine. Now I am going to put Windows XP (pro), all the security patches and a few other pieces of software. Everything else I need I will put in a VMWare Virtual Machine. I will put VMWare workstation 4.5 on my machine. I just downloaded the free upgrade from 4.0. I want to keep this laptop as clean as possible. I know deep down that it will never happen in reality, but at least I will try.

I will spend the next week installing the main pieces of software I will need. I will spend the next month after that installing other miscellaneous pieces of software until I am finally happy with the setup.

Whenever I do this I always hope I remembered to back everything up. I almost always forget something. Sometimes important stuff, but usually something stupid, that will just take me time to get again, or I say goodbye forever to it.

Saturday Night Halo

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I went for a hair cut Saturday. I got up early since I couldn’t sleep, and went out. I ended up doing some errands, like the bank and a card for my dad’s birthday also while I was out. I then spend the rest of the day in bed trying to rest up for my dad’s birthday dinner.

By like 5PM my mom called to tell me that the dinner has been canceled. I was recovering from a cold. My mom was sick, and then it was discovered that my brother in law mike was also sick. We postponed it till next week. I was going to stay in bed for the night, then I ended up calling jayson and he came over. We went to dinner and then went over to John’s to play Halo for a while. Jay ended up going back to my place to sleep and we are planning on hitting the pool sunday. I also want to see Shrek 2. Not sure what is on the agenda.

This blog entry was written while listening to Out Of Love from the album “America Town” by Five for Fighting

Friday Still Sick

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Friday night I stayed in. I was still feeling sick. I took some more Tylenol PM and tried to goto bed early. Work was a normal kind of busy. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

I am scheduled to visit some apartments Monday afternoon. I hope that I find something. Miguel’s sister is a real estate broker also and I will be calling her if I cannot find something by early next week. I am still optimistic.

This blog entry was written while listening to I Alone from the album “Throwing Copper” by Live