DOT NOT
Previously on this blog I ranted and raved about my painful experience with the last round of Windows updates. Well, that time has come 'round once again, and this time it's been no less painful.
Everything went fine, until it got to the .NET update.
Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (update 1 of 1) ...
SL9.tmp - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services
Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.
Process id=0x50c (1292), Thread id=0x1b8 (440)
Click OK to terminate the application
Click CANCEL to debug the application
Obviously I was simply not meant to use .NET. I rebooted, stood on one leg, did a special dance that a witch doctor once taught me, but all to no avail. It simply won't install the update. The truth of the matter is that the machine is long overdue to have a complete re-install done. But it's my work machine, and of course they (yes, the mysterious, anonymous evildoers known as "they") make it a pain in the ass when you rebuild your machine, because you have to have the machine added to the SEED OF THE ANTICHRIST -- errr, I mean Windows -- domain, and only one of the sup41337 admins can do that, blah blah blah. I hate Windows. I truly loathe and despise it. Windows makes me want to gain posession of inumerable EMP weapons and use them for the greater good of mankind. (Not that I'm overly dramatic about these things). So, my final solution for this problem? Tell Windows update to quit displaying that particular update. Enough with the taunting already!
Oh, that reminds me, I just bought a new computer that runs Windows! (I will never learn). I just upgraded my laptop to a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 17" display. I'm very pleased with it! It's my primary machine, for both work and play. It has a 256MB graphics card which blows away anything on my desktop. It also has lots of memory and a beautiful hi-res display which makes it equally nice for doing software development. And, with appropriate tweaking, I can even forget that I'm running Windows for the most part.
One more thing I wanted to mention. I have added a new search feature to my site. You may notice that the "blogger toolbar" is no longer displayed at the top of the page. What that was supposed to do was allow you to search the blog via google. But for whatever reason it never actually worked. When it created the search it munged it up. So I pilfered some Javascript code and added my own little search function (look on the right side about halfway down the page).
Also, don't forget, (OK, I guess there were actually two more things I wanted to mention) there is a link there which allow you to syndicate the site via RSS. The preceding link is for use with Bloglines but you can also point just about any RSS client to this link.
There's also (OK, technically I guess we're up to three now) a link for subscribing to a mailing list so you can be notified whenever I post a new entry or add a new picture to the moblog section. Note that the RSS feed doesn't include the moblog stuff. The moblog is seperate from the "blogger" stuff so I'll need to figure out some way to generate an RSS feed myself during some of my nearly limitless free time.
So ... happy weekend... and don't forget to send your savings account to the IRS by midnight!
Everything went fine, until it got to the .NET update.
Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (update 1 of 1) ...
SL9.tmp - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services
Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.
Process id=0x50c (1292), Thread id=0x1b8 (440)
Click OK to terminate the application
Click CANCEL to debug the application
Obviously I was simply not meant to use .NET. I rebooted, stood on one leg, did a special dance that a witch doctor once taught me, but all to no avail. It simply won't install the update. The truth of the matter is that the machine is long overdue to have a complete re-install done. But it's my work machine, and of course they (yes, the mysterious, anonymous evildoers known as "they") make it a pain in the ass when you rebuild your machine, because you have to have the machine added to the SEED OF THE ANTICHRIST -- errr, I mean Windows -- domain, and only one of the sup41337 admins can do that, blah blah blah. I hate Windows. I truly loathe and despise it. Windows makes me want to gain posession of inumerable EMP weapons and use them for the greater good of mankind. (Not that I'm overly dramatic about these things). So, my final solution for this problem? Tell Windows update to quit displaying that particular update. Enough with the taunting already!
Oh, that reminds me, I just bought a new computer that runs Windows! (I will never learn). I just upgraded my laptop to a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 17" display. I'm very pleased with it! It's my primary machine, for both work and play. It has a 256MB graphics card which blows away anything on my desktop. It also has lots of memory and a beautiful hi-res display which makes it equally nice for doing software development. And, with appropriate tweaking, I can even forget that I'm running Windows for the most part.
One more thing I wanted to mention. I have added a new search feature to my site. You may notice that the "blogger toolbar" is no longer displayed at the top of the page. What that was supposed to do was allow you to search the blog via google. But for whatever reason it never actually worked. When it created the search it munged it up. So I pilfered some Javascript code and added my own little search function (look on the right side about halfway down the page).
Also, don't forget, (OK, I guess there were actually two more things I wanted to mention) there is a link there which allow you to syndicate the site via RSS. The preceding link is for use with Bloglines but you can also point just about any RSS client to this link.
There's also (OK, technically I guess we're up to three now) a link for subscribing to a mailing list so you can be notified whenever I post a new entry or add a new picture to the moblog section. Note that the RSS feed doesn't include the moblog stuff. The moblog is seperate from the "blogger" stuff so I'll need to figure out some way to generate an RSS feed myself during some of my nearly limitless free time.
So ... happy weekend... and don't forget to send your savings account to the IRS by midnight!
posted by eric at
4/15/2005 05:25:00 PM
2 Comments:
Very cool search... except your site doesn't have anything about meatloaf, lava or umpa lumpas on it. =(
DDog
BTW, I had a similar experience trying to install sp3 for office xp (of course only on virtual pc for Mac as I have recently cleansed my soul and it feels good). The installation continued to fail. First, it would ask for the install disc (WTF is that all about?!), then I would I select “download larger packages” so it wouldn't need the install disc. Finally, I downloaded the whole enchilada (still don't know what the difference between this and the second attempt was) and finally it installed. After 3 1/2 hours, my xp image was completely patched for roughly 40 minutes.
DDog again
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