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September 27, 2005
I Remember When DOS Was Easy
Now I struggle with these here modern contraptions they call com-poo-ters nearly every day. I thought I was pretty slick last night to have managed to transfer my domain, get my email working, set up my blog, change it's style-sheet, and make a few posts.
This morning, I felt like I was Indiana Jones trying to figure out how to get the little Golden Monkey (was it a monkey?) off the pedastal at the beginning of the first movie. He brought a little bag of dirt to hopefully keep whatever trigger pressed down. Good idea, but it didn't work that well! I felt the same way: I had my bag of dirt, so why didn't everything just work!.
I have a pretty regular schedule...shower at 6:45, go downstairs and weigh myself, upstairs, get dressed. 7:05 and I get 15 or 20 minutes on the computer to feed and water my Neopet. This morning I let my poor Aerie go hungry so I could get into Movable Type and my site control panel.
Password not accepted
Password not accepted
Password not accepted
Crap! I have used the same basic 3 passwords for years (although one has always been ridiculously hard even 10 years ago before easy cracking). However, AQ Host who runs my site forced me to choose a password rivaling the Enigma codes. (Almost no joke, I thought this thing was going to want to do a retinal scan before it accepted a password I chose) But I was bright-like-sun and wrote it down! Too darn bad I couldn't remember my farging username!
Same thing on the Movable Type side...so I used the lovely 'recover password' feature. Too bad that my email stopped working sometime between 12pm and 7:05am. AAAARGH! (and not the good pirate kind of AAAARGH)
At least I would be able to admire my pretty color scheme...I have to admit without any modesty that the Chely Wright post complemented my new style-sheet exquisitely. It's too bad I couldn't get my site to pull up either. Double crap. 7:35 and I was determined to get my site working! Of course, this was before AQ Host informed me many hours later that it was some cache-thing or other on my local computer that was messing me up. So my fiddling only made things worse when I got to work and tried to pull it up there.
I get to work at 8:03 (first time I have arrived at work past 8 in almost 6 months). My bosses are ultra-flexible and probably wouldn't mention tardiness unless I strolled in at 9:17 three days in a row smelling of patchouli and tequila. Still, the guilt! 8:03!
There is a happy ending here somewhere though! I must admit the AQ Host folks have been super. I opened 4 or 5 seperate tickets for various and asundry things (that were mostly my ignorance of such arcane terms as /flushdns). I am still trying to get my email worked out, but I am confident they will help!
So all my once-quite-mighty DOS and Windows 95 skills (used mostly to get resource-intensive video games working) feel mostly useless to me. Nowadays, most things just work. ( Well, except for Freedom Force, which took about 6 hours of manhandling to get it to quit crashing me to desktop.) But still, most things!
Except for the coolest ones; the ones I am going to try to communicate with a couple billion people with. Except for the ones I am going to try to use to find Her. Ah, well, nothing to do then but soldier on and learn it.
Posted by TLorin at September 27, 2005 9:59 PM
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