Something I’ve consumed yesterday wasn’t very good, I wasn’t feeling very well today. I think its somehow related to the lemon juice, somehow it did taste different then normal. The bottle says its fine until 2009, but I have my doubts.

Checking books for Info

This all did slow me down a bit, also I started to feel all the cycling in my legs, so I decided that today will be a rahter slow day. I had a pano finish from yesterday (Its done, I just have to find info to write a description about it. Anyone with information about the bridge across the Drau near Rottenstein, please write me.), also I had to visit a friend in the tennis club I rarely go too, they needed their flyer updated for this year dates. Not much work, but atleast I got out a bit that way. Otherwise, it was a quite day. And a welcomed one.

Should have turned to the aviation weather services long ago, it was kinda spot on for today. From morning to late afternoon it just keeped raining and raining and raining. And also no big surprise, I didn’t went cycling today either. Need some nice blue sky for the panos

While I was there, bored, I got a phone call from a friend, his computer is acting weird. As he promised a pizza for lunch, I couldn’t resist. I just got my system utilities and got on my way. After running the antivirus and installing one, things look much better. Some minor system adjustments and it was all shiny-new again. And the pizza was delicious too

Rest of the day, not much new, just cleaning up and hoping for better weather. Oh, and I still fight with another HP laptop. It refuses to use the touch pad, no matter what drivers I user (under Windows XP Home). When I deactivate or activate the touch pad with the synaptics driver, it works for a few second then shuts of again, like something is internally deactivating it. It works fine under DamnSmallLinux Live. Ideas anyone?

After my epic struggle against the evil duo (and thanks to the more then sub-optimal weather today), I had time to fix the other 2 laptops, my dads old one and my brothers old one.

This time, it was much easier, since I only had to sweap their drives clean, install XP, set drivers up, install basic software and done. Notice the lack of Vista here? Thats the reson it worked so well. Only problem was the not working touchpad (or hardly ever working) on my dads computer, but this is an old problem.

Also, everything is ready now for the medival games in Pörtschach tomorrow. More info can be found here. Bring a friend.

Unlike yesterday, the weather forecast wasn’t as good for today. Also unlike yesterday, it stayed nice the whole day. And also unlike yesterday, I just went for a short trip (you know the baaaad weather).

So instead of the long trip to the river (what I try to do tomorrow), i just went to the Kreuzbergl near me and looked for some plastic boxes in the wood with my GPS. Wise as I am, I uploaded waypoints for 2 caches on my gps, because from the 2 I added, I found just one. Even with 45 min of climbing and scratching my legs open, I found nothing besides the knowledge that short trausers are bad in the forrest :P. At least I don’t had to worry about ticks, got my shoot today.

Luckily, at the 2nd cache I had more lack, 2nd place I looked was the cache. Nice to feel some sucess for once. Nice place too, havn’t thought we have such big rocks there. Have to explore the Kreuzbergl a bit more the next days.

On my way back, I still wasn’t like giving up, so I looked for the first chache again, but still, no luck up there. I have to go there again with some friends, more eyes might help there. When not, it will at least be fun.

And now to something fun less. My dad bought (against my advice and better judgement) a new notebook for him. It came with Vista, and he asked me if I could check it and install some other needed software (AV, office software, music software and so on). I agreeded, again against my better judgement. And what I expected to take 1, maybe 2 hours turned out to take almost 6 hours. It not only came with Vista, but also with Norton AV on it, what is a duo from hell. Not only vista almost refused to let me set up the network so I could install some missing drivers, Norton refused to leave the harddrive.

First I thought it works, deinstallation was running, and suddenly vista decided to help norton and crashed. No I was there, with an undead norton running (more or less). Deinstallation didn’t work anymore. Running was working even less, besides crashing notices every 5 sec. And the removal tool from Norton didn’t even start up :P. I was close to call an exorcist to get rid of this satanic combination that was spinning inside the computer. But I decided that I give it one last change, and this time no more Mr. Nice Guy.

I went straight to the heart (aka the registery), and the scene was quite close to the ending of HAL in 2001. Vista told me to go out and such stuff, but I removed all the evil parts, and now it works fine. Well, as fine as it can run. Never support a computer you havn#t suggested