"Please insert next disc"
May. 13th, 2011 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesI am re-installing Windows, and by extension Everything Else. I have been doing this for over a week now, and do not expect to finish before Monday. Knowing that it would take this long (if I was lucky) was one of the reasons I'd been putting it off, even though my installation has been getting steadily flakier for the last six months.
However, I am now at the stage where I have the OS, the million and one updates to the OS, my preferred browser, my grudgingly accepted but unloved primary viruschecker, and my prise-from-my-cold-dead-hands email/usenet client installed. Which means that I have contact with the outside world again, even if I'm still installing the other stuff, including my preferred office suite (which is not either MS or OpenOffice, thank you).
The one good thing about this process is that each piece of software comes on a single shiny disc. I remember all too clearly the days of sitting there with a stack of 15 floppies to install the then-current version of the preferred office suite...
(No, I do not want to move to Linux, not unless you want to write a Linux version of the email/usenet client and the office suite for me. Bear in mind that the office suite in question is in fact optimised for OS/2, and that I have been using it since the time of the OS/2 divorce. And that I occasionally fantasise about a port to VMS.)
However, I am now at the stage where I have the OS, the million and one updates to the OS, my preferred browser, my grudgingly accepted but unloved primary viruschecker, and my prise-from-my-cold-dead-hands email/usenet client installed. Which means that I have contact with the outside world again, even if I'm still installing the other stuff, including my preferred office suite (which is not either MS or OpenOffice, thank you).
The one good thing about this process is that each piece of software comes on a single shiny disc. I remember all too clearly the days of sitting there with a stack of 15 floppies to install the then-current version of the preferred office suite...
(No, I do not want to move to Linux, not unless you want to write a Linux version of the email/usenet client and the office suite for me. Bear in mind that the office suite in question is in fact optimised for OS/2, and that I have been using it since the time of the OS/2 divorce. And that I occasionally fantasise about a port to VMS.)
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Date: 2011-05-13 07:53 pm (UTC)