Success! Tragedy! Software! PVC Pipe!
Mar. 18th, 2012 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
banjoplayinnerdSo yesterday Kyrielle made a great suggestion, that instead of trying to shoehorn Windows XP onto my laptop that doesn't know nothin' 'bout no PATA, I use Windows 7's XP mode. I pulled down the installers, pushed all the appropriate buttons, bluffed my way through the EULA and whaddaya know, everything worked! I was back in Windows XP and my software worked perfectly.
Until, that is, somehow or other I managed to shut off the laptop in the middle of an upgrade. I mean power out, the whole nine yards. After that XP mode wouldn't boot. It would get about 35% through its progress bar and reset, over and over again.
So, I uninstalled it and I'll give it a try again later. But at least now I know it works for the purpose I wanted to use it for.
In other news, I went out and bought some PVC pipe today. I found a great plan for an antenna that I think I can build on a PVC pipe frame with the materials I have around here. The tricky part might be getting the measurements right, since the dimensions on this antenna are apparently more critical than usual, but I have a plan.
Oh, and St. Patrick's day will be celebrated tomorrow at our house, for several reasons. I wore my green shirt anyway while I was out running errands. Did you know that leprechauns love to pinch people, and wearing green makes you invisible to the leprechauns? I didn't either, but the seattlepi.com said it, so it must be true, because it was on the Internet and stuff.
Until, that is, somehow or other I managed to shut off the laptop in the middle of an upgrade. I mean power out, the whole nine yards. After that XP mode wouldn't boot. It would get about 35% through its progress bar and reset, over and over again.
So, I uninstalled it and I'll give it a try again later. But at least now I know it works for the purpose I wanted to use it for.
In other news, I went out and bought some PVC pipe today. I found a great plan for an antenna that I think I can build on a PVC pipe frame with the materials I have around here. The tricky part might be getting the measurements right, since the dimensions on this antenna are apparently more critical than usual, but I have a plan.
Oh, and St. Patrick's day will be celebrated tomorrow at our house, for several reasons. I wore my green shirt anyway while I was out running errands. Did you know that leprechauns love to pinch people, and wearing green makes you invisible to the leprechauns? I didn't either, but the seattlepi.com said it, so it must be true, because it was on the Internet and stuff.
