2 posts tagged “vista”

(note: I tried to post this to the Firefox Forums at Mozillazine, but I had to register, so I registered, and logged in, and then typed this up, and then clicked the post button, and it asked me to login again, and I did, and it told me my account was inactive, and I should bugger off, sooooooo maybe you guys can help me instead.)

Sometimes, I'll just stop being able to browse. My internet is fine, as is evidenced by EVERY OTHER PROGRAM working (IM clients, FTP, etc), but Firefox will just keep loading a page forever.  When I close Firefox (using the red X) and re-open it (using the link in my toolbar), the chrome appears (the outside frame, the menubar, the minimize/maximize/close buttons), but nothing else.  Clicking the X to close it several times pops up a Vista "This program has stopped responding" window. The Mozilla Error Reporting Agent never appears.

After telling Vista to close Firefox, and then trying to open it again, it works fine, and will browse normally.

At first, I thought it was being caused by putting the computer to sleep (as that was the only time it would present); however today it has done it several times without warning, and without being put to sleep.

As I said, this has only been happening since 2.0.0.14.  Additionally, I'm not having this problem on my XP SP2 installation at home, only on my Vista Ultimate laptop.

The add-ons I have installed are as follows:
4chan 0.4.5.9
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
Better Flickr 0.2.1
BoxedUp 1.22
Canadian English Dictionary 1.1.0
Download Statusbar 0.9.6.1
East Asian Translator 1.1.2
Japanese-English Dictionary for rikaichan 1.06
Names Dictionary for rikaichan 1.05
Personas for Firefox 0.9.2
Rikaichan 1.01
Stylish 0.5.6
Talkback 2.0.0.11

I'd appreciate any thing suggested.  Thanks :)

Long time, no post.  Feeling bleh, not like writing, lately. Also was setting up my laptop all weekend. Drivers were dodgy, and Sony is pretty lame, but in the end it works pretty good.  I'll up pictures soon.

It may be dodgy getting it on the network at work though.  My eMachines had a PCMCIA slot, and also internal wireless. Initially, I plugged in one of the stock PCMCIA wireless cards and set up the software -- after a while, I took it out, and set the MAC address of my internal wireless to be the same as the card -- in this way, I was able to use the network without my internal wireless being blocked by the MAC filter. Good stuff.

My new laptop though (1) doesn't have a PCMCIA slot, so I can't use the accepted-by-the-MAC-filter stock wireless card, and (2) I can't seem to change the MAC address of my internal wireless card with the drivers I have installed / with Windows Vista.  I can't even find my MAC address in Vista.  Not sure how I'm gonna get on the network. Figured it'd be the same as my old one and I could set it up myself -- as it is, I may have to impose on the computer teacher more than I'd planned. :/

I think maybe I've decided to stay in this job a 5th year.  If I HAVE fucked myself by staying for so long, as I suspect; if I HAVE overstayed my welcome -- might as well go whole hog about it, yes?

Diet is going poorly. Hopefully now that I've made a decision, I'll be more emotionally stable, and can focus on shit like NOT EATING ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED 12 PEOPLE etc.  Haven't really gained any weight, though. Scale still claims I'm between 157 and 160, like I have been since mid-Octoberish, so at least I haven't undone the good I've done.

On long weekends, when I'm alone, late at night, I always get great ideas of things I'll do in the coming week.  "I'll talk to that teacher and see if, when she has a spare moment, she can help me find a Japanese class to get into"; "I'll try for level 2 in the JLPT this year"; "I'll go for walks at lunch time instead of coming home and sitting on my ass doing nothing", etc.  Part of me knows it's all a lie though.

It's been danged cold lately, and I've had to turn the heat on in my bedroom (not the expensive heat -- the cheap heat that is still more than I can afford). It's unfortunate. Also unfortunate is that one of my blankets has a mind of its own: I have it sandwiched between my duvet and another blanket, and i'll wake up in the middle of the night, nearly smothered by this blanket all up around my neck, while my feet are all cold. The duvet and the other blanket are fine and normal, it's just this one that's stupid. Doesn't seem to matter where I put it either, top, bottom, or middle, it's always like this.  Bizarre.

How do people do it? Stay positive, be social, be 'normal'?  I don't understand anything. (shrug)

Now watch an Ayumi Hamasaki video. Subway of the dead is cleaaaaaaaaaaaaan.