Yay for updates-for-life!

Download mIRC the other day. Dug out my registration information from an old email backup; I was a little amused that my registration from 1999 was still valid with the newest version :)

(Which reminds me of how I didn't like the fact that my CuteFTP registration wasn't valid for the current version when I downloaded that after setting up a new computer a while ago. Ah well, didn't end up using it anyway, since Altap Salamander can do FTP too, now. And similar for WinZip, but that wasn't that annoying since yay, oldversion.com.)

Stella' PC on the fritz

So Stella decided to reinstall Windows on her PC, since it's been acting up a little.

She wasn't too worried about it, since she doesn't have that much data on it (and she backed up the most important of it), and what was the worst thing that could happen?

Try Windows coming up with a black screen after installation and not responding. Not even the keyboard lights if you, say, toggle Num Lock of something.

She blames it on some update or other since the actual installation went through, and this borkage happened only after it installed fifty-odd updates and took the better part of an hour.

Makes me glad I never tried that stunt; seems I was right to distrust the "restore to factory settings" promise on the install CD. It worked quite a bit better fresh from the factory, thankyouverymuch.

I offered to install Ubuntu on it for her; she wasn't too enthusiastic.

I wonder what will happen next, and whether she'll get it working somehow.