Backed up and away we go.
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LUGGABLE: Ready to put Linux on LUGGABLE
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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LUGGABLE BSOD — no outlook
Monday, June 16, 2008It failed so fast. I saw the BSOD, but couldn’t see the codes. Rebooted. Lost 10 minutes on my story. Argh!
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LUGGABLE: BSOD @ 1227
Wednesday, June 11, 2008couldn’t catch an error code.
what did i lose?
outlook was up. word was up with c63.
not hot. not joggled.
fox 2 yahoo maps.
word? auto recover worked.
Argh!
Why?
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WINXP: Lugable takes a holiday
Sunday, May 4, 2008Thursday night, actually Friday wee hours, I couldn’t sleep; so I pounded out several reams of my best prose. It tired me out so I went back to bed. All happy and ready to sleep.
Friday 6AM, I close the lid and go to work. Like I’ve done for what feels like eons. I open up at work and screens black. No power. SO I power up and pouf the data fairy has taken that stuff and sent it to the bit bucket.
I wriggled on that hook for the day. Off and on. It was gone.
Mozy has been spinning cycles but it’s crap.
So I’m screwed … again. BY microsoft’s ‘productivity’ software.
If I ever buy another microdots product, kick me.
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LUGGABLE: VWBBIE is giving me more trouble
Monday, December 17, 2007Again, trying to use Verizon Wireless Broad Band VWBBIE is balky at best today.
For those who saw my problems last week when it was rainy and foggy, today is clear and cloudless.
So, I think this may be the end for VWBBIE! No sense spending good money for a productivity tool and have it hinder productivity.
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LUGGABLE: VWBBIE is a challenge
Tuesday, December 11, 2007Never hurts to try your “disaster”.
Out on the road, and I am dependent upon VWBBIE for inet connectivity.
(Now bear in mind, I try it EVERY Wednesday. Wireless Wednesday! From either work or home. And it works flawlessly.)
Bear also in mind that the last time I was on the road in Denver, it took at least an hour to get it configured and working.
So between yesterday and today, I’ve spent at least two hours getting it working.
Argh!
This is why I debate signing up for another two years with Verizon for this POS!
It’s faster than dial up. Doesn’t work as flawlessly. And “disconnects” frequently. Argh.
Maybe if I had just a road machine?
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LUGGABLE: Power block omission
Friday, September 21, 2007I went on vacation and left the power block at home. Argh! I’ll be filling in the details next week. But, DELL screwed me. Long story. Like a fish with a hook in the gill, I wriggled, wrangled, and tried all sorts of ideas. Bottom line: I’ve been off the air since Saturday and will continue to be off the air until Sunday after noon. Long story. So if you are looking for me, or emailed me, I’ll catch up with you asap.
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XPfails – luggable – Recovery?
Sunday, April 15, 2007Well, dodged a bullet today. (Maybe?)
The registry was reported corrupt and the pig won’t boot. Repair didn’t.
Argh!
I had tried the rescue disk that came with the platform from Dell. It didn’t do anything good for me.
So I dusted off one of my XP installation disks and ran “repair” using that. It threw the box up into checkdisk, which ran. Didn’t report any errors. May or may not have fixed anything. But it did then allow the box to boot into WXP. (Yeah!)
On the theory that this might be my last chance to visit with my data. I pulled out my WDDRIVE with WDSYNC on it and took a back up. (I usually do my weekly backups on Monday!)
Now, I fearlessly did a cold restart.
That worked but it wasn’t not connecting to the home lan. I tried using WXP, the Intel ProSet Wireless utility, and the VWBBIE (Verizon Wireless Broadband utility also manages the WiFi). Nothing worked.
Argh! Squared!
So I power cycled everything in sight. Ran the Intel Wireless debugger.
Couldn’t think of anything else to do, so on a hunch, I changed the WiFi SSID. Shouldn’t have made any difference. Changed the password as well. (Big deal. Any script kiddie can bust this “security”!)
Disabled PGP. Disabled ZoneAlarm.
Power cycle everything.
Argh! Tripled!
Verified that the BackRoom DELLDESK could connect thru the wifi router to the net. Verified that the OLDDELL notebook could get to the net via the wireless.
So it made me focus on the LUGGABLE as the problem.
Deleted all the Intel configurations. Went to the DELLDESK, changed the SSID and password again. Rebooted the router. Power cycled everything in sight again. And then readded the Intel configurations.
And, voila, the pig put on its roller skates and took off!
So, that wasted a Sunday. Sigh.
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XPFAILS – LUGGABLE: Catastrophic error
Sunday, April 15, 2007The registry reports corruption. The pig won’t boot. Repair doesn’t. Argh! Operating from old desktop. Standby for news.
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK won’t send email
Monday, March 19, 2007OUTLOOK won’t clear the outbox. Disabled Plaxo and LinkedIn toolbars.
XPfails – luggable – Lost DNS; shift to VWBBIE
Saturday, March 10, 2007Apparently have lost DNS, shifted to VWBBIE, called “home”.
Time to think about OPENDNS again. Put it on the 2do.
VWBBIE feels downright “spritely”
Download Speed: 495 kbps (61.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 33 kbps (4.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
And, I even “see” that the venturi caching server is offline. Interesting.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK loses the ability to talk to the target
Friday, March 9, 2007Interesting. Every once and while, BLOGDESK loses its mind. It fails to complete a conversation with the target blog it is storing into. I don’t know who to blame (i.e., the Blog site, XP, or BlogDesk). But only a reboot will clear. After a restart, everything works fine. Now that I have gotten in the habit of SAVE then PUBLISH, it’s NBD (no big deal).
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XPfails – luggable – GADWIN PRINT SCREEN v3.5 – This is now the second most annoying problem
Wednesday, February 28, 2007Recap:
For some reason, after several months of use, now when I start GPS35, it doesn’t appear to “do” anything. It doesn’t splash. It takes memory. (I can see it in XP’s process list.) But, it just doesn’t do anything anymore. I’ve uniunstalled and reinstalled. Help?
Haven’t found any help. Need to dig deeper and harder.
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XPfails – luggable – PLAXO acting differently
Tuesday, February 27, 2007I was transferring my LinkedIn contact to my Outlook address book and Plaxo stopped check to to see if they were in Plaxo. Strange?
Update at 0930: plaxo has returned to operating as expected. Perhaps, their site was “down”. If not site, service? And, there’s no idication in the LookOut client that an add in is dead? Interesting that perhaps is the reason for all the non-responding stuff.
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XPfails – luggable – MSWORD AND OPENOFFICE is failing
Saturday, February 24, 2007Argh! Both Microsoft Word2003 and Open Office are locking up on my alumni ezine. Argh! I was able to finish with Zoho Web-based word processor. Saved the issue. Seems to work nicely.
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XPfails – luggable – GADWIN PRINT SCREEN v3.5 – It has to be XP!
Friday, February 23, 2007For some reason, after several months of use, now when I start GPS35, it doesn’t appear to “do” anything. It doesn’t splash. It takes memory. (I can see it in XP’s process list.) But, it just doesn’t do anything anymore. I’ve uniunstalled and reinstalled. Help?
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK locks up posting
Monday, February 19, 2007The post was lost. And, eventually the box locked. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK failed or xp?
Friday, February 16, 2007Today, I was using blogdesk. I composed a post and sent it to wordpress. BLOGDESK just sat there. I assume trying to connect. Breaking the cycle put the whole box into a stoppage. Reboot. A long cycle because it was applying maintenance. Argh! So, what was the failure? All I know is that BLOGDESK lost my post. Not that is was so valuable. More so that I forgot to save a draft before it published. It should do that. Everything appears to be working now?
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK locks up; Plaxo suspect?
Tuesday, February 13, 2007Outlook with Plaxo Update were “not responding”. I suspect that was the problem again.
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XPfails – luggable – Looks like Plaxo?
Monday, February 12, 2007It appears that Plaxo went awol. The first indication of trouble was when a editpro project wouldn’t open. From that point, every think went down hill from there. Reboot. And try again?
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XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc
Saturday, February 3, 2007I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.
I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.
I wriggled around like a dead fish.
Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.
I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.
Argh.
Very very ugly.
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XPfails – luggable – Slow Down
Wednesday, January 31, 2007Luggable has just slowed to a crawl. Maybe a reboot will clear it?
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XPfails – luggable – mouse unresponsive
Sunday, January 28, 2007woke up this morning, always a good thing, to find an unresponsive mouse. Reboot. Seems like the mttf is a day. Less if I exercise it. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – Mouse begins to flake
Saturday, January 27, 2007Sigh. Reboot.
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XPfails – luggable – Box locks up after LookOut “forgets” a reminder
Monday, January 22, 2007Eventually the box became unresponsive after LookOut “forgot” one it’s reminders. It was never able to recapture it.
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XPfails – luggable – WORD blanks a document that I created yesterday ARGH!
Monday, January 22, 2007This is a first. WORD basically “lost” a document I created yesterday. Basically, now it has to be treated as untrustworthy. Perhaps it’s time to move to Open Office?
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