Blood On My Hands But Not On My Soul

I feel like in in Nightvale right now...

I've Been Selected To Orbit The Planet In A Rocket

Got my Windows Vista RC1 packaging and discs scanned!

Here we go:

Run A Comb Across My Head

Because it's all about the Instagram Cred these days, yo!

They Didn't Have To Work

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/man-sues-microsoft-seeking-new-copy-of-windows-7-after-forced-windows-10-upgrade/

I struggle.

I realize many, many people aren't computer-savvy enough to install a different drive on their PC, the reinstall Windows using the product key on the sife, but seriously? Suing for a new copy?

If be tempted to buy him a product code off eBay.

I Can't Help Myself

Finished A Song of Ice and Fire (or the other way around) the other day and started listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Don't know how to feel about ASOIF...It just keeps feeling like people are doing things massively out of character, but I realize it is for drama.

And Come Back For More

Listened to the first episode of the new Hitchhiker's series last night.

Thoughts.

The pacing works so far, but that has more to do with it being scripted and adapted by the same guy who did the final books in the series.

The language doesn't quite jive though, and that is what is getting me so far.

Hopefully it will grow on me as much as the original books did though.

And They Call Me The Working Man

So there is this.

I stumbled across this yesterday.  I hadn’t been keeping up with the world of Hitchhiker’s on BBC Radio 4 seeing as I felt like it ended pretty definitively with the The Quintessential Phase back in ‘05.

Seeing as how Douglas Adams died in ‘01, I kind of didn’t expect there to be any more radio shows since he seems too dead to write anymore books at the moment.  I’m aware that Eoin Colfer wrote a “6th book” in the series.  I tried to read it, but it felt wrong.  I’ll give this a chance though.

Old Billy Was Right

Talked to a man today who voted for Hillary but still hopes Mike Pence ends up a 2 1/2 term president...The hell?

Mars Ain’t The Kind Of Place To Raise A Kid–Clean Install

Here is the clean install of Windows Millenium Edition from the Promotional Step-Up disc:

We start with a Windows 98 Startup Disk (or image file in this case). Bear in mind that it needs to be bootable and have CD-Rom support!

So this is the same machine I ran the upgrade from yesterday on.  Just going to format the drive and start clean…

Now that the drive is wiped and bootable, we’ll switch over to the CD and begin the install process:

The same scandisk program that started showing up in (I belive) Windows 95C

Now we get to a re-skinned Windows 98 installer:

Now we have the upgrade eligibility check.  This one only works if you have a Windows 98 disc of some description.  I inserted my Windows 98SE ISO file, pointed it to the install files and it was happy!

We will go through the install customizer now.  It was mostly non-existant in the upgrade because it just retained the same settings and whathaveyou. Granted it did add the Web TV crap which took forever to configure. I am skipping that this time, but installing pretty much everything else.

As for the customizing, the Desktop Themes part was the largest part of the install, clocking in at a whole 31.1MB…We can only dream of that these days!

Otherwise there is all of the localization settings, the startup disk (skipped), the network stuff (surprisingly works and I CAN BROWSE THE INTERNET ON WINDOWS ME IN 2018?!)

I’m going to skip most of this part since it is basically the same as before, just blue…

We get a PC Restart…

Which brings the installer back in line with what we hade before with a slightly prettier skin!