So today I looked at the blogs I usually look at.
Fake Steve Jobs hadn’t added anything since yesterday.
Vista Sucks isn’t adding much regularly (maybe once a week; come on! I’m a bloggict, I need my fix once a day at the very least!)
Rory Neopoleon had some new content and some additional links.
This one looked interesting — Laura Foy — except, What The Hell is “Microsoft Silverlight“? Surely they’re not creating a “competitor” to flash? Or even to Youtube. Please don’t tell me they’re doing this because I hate the pain caused by broken ribs, and that’s exactly what will happen when I LMAO and fall onto the floor.
Well, you can see from the link, that I’ve found some information. Talk about missing the bloody boat.
Oh my aching sides.
Okay, thanks to this article, the treo might just be syncing properly…
I deleted all the windows sync settings from the treo, and have paired the computer and the treo once again.
If this works, I might just call it a night. It’s only been 4 hours. All right, 3 and a half at this point (I arrived here at about 6.30pm).
Well, it kind-of works. There’s still more contacts on the Palm than on the PC.
The addressbook seems to have synced properly though, so that’s nice.
Screw it. It’s after 10pm. I’m going home.
Okay. Success: it installed.
Now for the hard bit: getting the thing to (a) recognise there’s a treo connected, and (b) getting it to perform a full sync without crapping-out halfway through with some incomprehensible error message that not even the programmers in Redmond understand.
Restart time: here we go again…
I just had a heart-stopping moment there: straight after the PC manufacturer rubbish (Press F8 to do unspeakable acts to the BIOS), there was a black screen and a blinking cursor.
Phew, Windows hasn’t suddenly turned into a turgid pile of horse droppings infested with the worms of a thousand parasites. Well, no more than usual.
(By the way, before anyone complains how much I’m bagging windows tonight, consider, I’m well into my fourth hour on this sodding thing. I’m entitled to feel a little annoyed).
Okay, sync-time!Well, we’re back to what we had before the uninstall/reinstall loop.
Activesync refuses to accept there’s a Treo connected, while Windows syas there is.
Found New hardware it keeps saying, like a small dog with a sudden unabiding love for your leg.
Okay, I’ve waited a bit, and restarted the treo. Activesync seems to think it can deal with it now. And we’re Synchronising……with another sodding status bar that does NOTHING!
Let’s see what happens next…
And so it goes: Now to MS ActiveSync.
I’ve just uninstalled this, after 15 minutes trying to get it to understand that there was indeed a Treo connected via USB, and am now installing again.
Norton is up to its old tricks, holding everything up, like a bored gatekeeper at the gates of a rock-concert.
And now we’re back to the boredom of watching the installation status crawl from one end of the dialog to the other.
It’s like a rainy day in wales: full of restless natives stuck inside and unable to bag London.
Wake me when it’s done will you? *snort*, wassat?
Oh, now it wants me to install. What? I thought I just did that?! So what the hell’s it been doing for the last 5 minutes? Warming me up?
Come on, I need to be up early tomorrow.
I’ve had better days at school being morbidly depressed!
Hey, we’ve got yet another status bar. Honestly, what’s the bloody point of a status bar if you keep renewing it every 5 minutes?! What’s the point if you don’t actually display anything going on?
Come on you decrepit piece of monkey effluent! Install for crying out loud! It’s only 6 hours to daylight. Some time soon would be nice!
Well, a post was just lost because Firefox suspiciously couldn’t connect to wordpress.
In my vanity I wondered if MS Fankiddies were performing a DoS attack on my blog.
No, it was just a glitch. Even the MS PC I’ve been working on could connect.
Now I’m in Safari.
Oh well.
There has been progress; while the scan button on the officejet won’t work, and the officejet purpose-built software doesn’t work either, the MS Office scanner utility detects there’s a scanner connected (on the officejet multifunction) and will scan from the plate.
Good.
A minor mishap with multiple installations of the same printer, and a quick delete of the offending party later, and the printer worked fine.
Even when connected to the PC via a USB hub.
Similarly, suddenly the HP laserjet 5L will now print.
It looks very like the ultimate issue was MS all along: Service Pack Two in fact (though why HP didn’t issue an update to their drivers and software is beyond me; but I’ll let it go for now).
Now I have a new quest: get the palm treo to sync with addressbook.Wish me luck.
Okay, we’re back, in the continuing story of the HP printer and computer that could but refused because the software was shite.
When last we spoke (#131), I’d successfully uninstalled XP Sp2 and effectively rendered a large proportion of software on the computer useless.
Now I’m installing the HP printer software. It’s a 9110 officejet btw, a hulk of a beast sitting like… well, it’s the size of a bloody kennel to be honest… on the desk next to me.
And now we wait. The progress bar is… well, we’re validating, so it could take a while.
However, I am cautiously cautious, which is what one gets after four separate attempts to get the stupid thing working.
I think I’m going to get some more tea.
You’re kidding.
I’m sorry, but this is the silliest thing I’ve ever seen. You HAVE to be using MS Internet Exploder in order to download a windows update?!
Why?
What’s the point?
I just don’t understand why a particular browser should be required in order to download a windows service pack. Who cares which browser the user is using?!
No, sorry, this is Microsoft. Forget I spoke.
