Asymptomatic

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XP SP2 - Thumbs Down
September 03, 2004

Pat’s been pestering me since April or so to install Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Now that it’s finally available through Windows Update, I decided to install it. After letting the “Download complete, ready to install” window sit annoyingly unminimizable on my screen while I completed my work for a few hours, I finally clicked the install button. It didn’t take SP2 too long to completely screw up my system.

Basically, when it rebooted I was met with the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death. Some driver issue. I couldn’t get Windows to tell me what driver was causing the problem specifically, I couldn’t get the boot logger working, and although any trifling signs that I did find all pointed to the Promise SATA controller on my motherboard, the drive was completely acessible in Safe Mode.

Audioscrobbler
September 02, 2004

I created my profile at Audioscrobbler. I downloaded a plugin for WinAmp that reports every song that I play back to the Audioscrobbler website. It keeps track of the music that I like and lets me find people that have similar musical interests. Potentially.

You need to have 100 songs in the list of songs you’ve played in order to get recommendations. And since my list only has a few songs in it at this point, I can’t get recommendations. I should be able to whip through my collection in short order.