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Same as it ever was.
So my operating system's fucked. I have no idea. Everything got fixed, a full day of seamless, fine workings, then this morning before I even got to check Livejournal, kablooey.
I called Dell to fix it, then my ISP to see why I wasn't getting online, called Dell to say the ISP hadn't been able to fix anything, then ran some diagnostic tests to find out that it's my operating system that isn't working right anymore, not any of the other software or hardware, so I need to restart my system from scratch.
And I'm no longer a student at the University of Pittsburgh, which means no connections to people with copies of Windows XP. So I'll have to buckle down and settle for the copy of Windows 7 that came with my computer.
It occurs to me this is pretty much what happened the last time I got the sort of virus that needed someone to wipe down my computer - a little bit of time where everything went well, then something coming along to royally fuck things up worse than before.
Guess I know what I'm doing tonight.
I called Dell to fix it, then my ISP to see why I wasn't getting online, called Dell to say the ISP hadn't been able to fix anything, then ran some diagnostic tests to find out that it's my operating system that isn't working right anymore, not any of the other software or hardware, so I need to restart my system from scratch.
And I'm no longer a student at the University of Pittsburgh, which means no connections to people with copies of Windows XP. So I'll have to buckle down and settle for the copy of Windows 7 that came with my computer.
It occurs to me this is pretty much what happened the last time I got the sort of virus that needed someone to wipe down my computer - a little bit of time where everything went well, then something coming along to royally fuck things up worse than before.
Guess I know what I'm doing tonight.