Backed up and away we go.
UBUNTU10
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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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Posted by reinkefj
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.
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