Sore Eyes

And let me tell you, it's hell to be Windows 98.
I really wanted to be RedHat even though some people would laugh at me. Meanwhile all of us who are windows are hanging out in my comments, crashing at random and unexplained moments, just because we can. And we're evil enough to enjoy it.

It's even worse being Windows ME. Your new owner decides to upgrade an old Windows 95 installation with you, and finds that you take an eternity to install. Then, when the end is in sight, at the very last step in the process, you fall over. You tell your new owner that such-and-such a file is missing, but he thinks, well, it can't be bloody missing, can it? Surely it ought to be on the bloody CD? Fortunately, at the start of the installation process, your new owner chose to save his present setup so he could restore it if anything went wrong. But when he re-boots, Windows will only start in Safe mode and he spends what's left of the day trying to get his old setup back. Once achieved, he decides that the best thing that can be said about Windows ME is that the installation CD is sufficiently light and frisbee-shaped to be thrown a very great distance, and you find yourself whizzing through the air towards a nasty, hard object...

further to the problems I had previously, I know see there are 2 replys to this thread. I can only see one. I can see part of the 2nd in the comments side bar but not on this page. Unless I click preview. Something's not right

Batgrl:
Windows 98 is truly evil, that's for sure. (Don't get me started on the fun I have at work looking after our laptops. The desktops run NT4, which is at least somewhat stable, but I could swear that our average laptop user must spend an hour a day staring at a BSOD or rebooting their laptops.

Keith:
I have to admit that the one time I did a 95-ME upgrade it worked flawlessly. Mind you, I'm pretty sure that I burned up all my good luck that one time, and if I ever update another MS installation then things will balance out.

The trouble with throwing a Windows upgrade CD at the wall is that it's too light to make a really satisfying noise when it breaks.

Simon:
Next time this happens can you make a note of the page you were trying to access and the exact time and email me details. It would be ideal if you could then wait five minutes and reload the page again (and again note the time), so I can check my server logs and see if my server gets both requests. (As nobody else is reporting this problem I suspect that either your browser is pulling an old copy of the page from its cache or else your ISP is transparently proxying port 80 and feeding you a cached version of the page. If I see confirmation that your requests are actually reaching my server then I'll look more closely at my end of things.)

Obviously if anyone else is seeing stale copies of pages I'd appreciate it if you could drop me a line so I can look into what's going on.