Day two of my trip started fairly early. 12:01am to be precise, and obviously I hadn’t yet been to sleep. Having broken my Gmail account while tinkering with filters, I resigned myself to a late night. Of course, fixing things that break is all part of tinkering so I happily set about trying to find the cause of the problem.
Things only got worse from there.
Gmail was loading fine in other browsers, so I thought it had to be a Firefox specific issue. I reverted all the filter changes I made using another browser, but the problem still persisted. I eventually traced it down to a Greasemonkey script that, when disabled, let Gmail work fine. However, upon re-enabling it, Gmail still worked fine. Strange. Oh well, I fixed that problem.
By this time it was about 12:30am and for some unknown reason I decided this was a good time to install Vista Service Pack 1. Yes i know I’m a bit late to the scene, but I’d never received SP1 in my Windows Update, so I had to download the file manually. Once this was done I ran the installer and nattered away to Yamster on Google Talk while it went about its business.
A picture of my screen during the first install. Yamster and myself are discussing books. Yes. Click to enlarge.
Eventually it required a restart and an hour later I was greeted with a message: ‘Installation not successful. Service Pack 1 has not been installed’. Yay! I just wasted an hour and a half of my life. To be honest it wasn’t unexpected, I mean, this is Windows we’re talking about. Naturally, I was determined to see this through to the end, so I started the installer again, but this time I closed Google Talk. Another hour and a half later, I was greeted with a much more pleasant message: ‘Installation Successful’. W00t 1 is t3h hax0r!
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Kiltman67 // Aug 5, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Actually just started using Revo Uninstall yesterday. It’s pretty cool but has the occassional annoying habit of never actually finishing the process after it’s deleted the relevant parts of the registry, forcing you to just click cancel and hope for the best.
Been on a strange maintenance kick today with Auslogic’s BoostSpeed. End result being a lot of defragmenting, a lot of deleting junk and no noticeable increase in performance
2 Eoco // Aug 5, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Revo Uninstaller works fine to me. I’ve never had the problem you described above.
3 Ratchet8clank // Aug 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Yes, I do like chicken.
4 SWSilentkiller // Aug 5, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Yes I like chicken. Anyway what exactly is the difference between Frostwire and Limewire, they look the same.
5 ninja9393 // Aug 6, 2008 at 1:07 am
Looking froward to more road articles, thay are great
6 kaan the cool // Aug 6, 2008 at 1:57 am
MMMMmmmmMMM…Chicken
7 DigIt // Aug 6, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Retsmay Ydarb is “Yamster Brady” spelled backwards…
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