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stoutfellowWhat the hell was that?
:deep breath:
Earlier this morning, while I was on line, AutoUpdate let me know it had finished downloading some updates; I gave it the go-ahead to install them. When it finished, it warned that the computer would have to be restarted to complete the installation. I told it to wait.
I began composing another Top Ten post. One of the listed songs was Joni Mitchell's "Carey"; I decided to listen to it again to clarify my thoughts. It wasn't on the current playlist, but no matter. I listened for a bit, then stopped it and moved to delete it from the playlist. (It had automatically added itself when I asked to play it.) At this point three things happened roughly simultaneously.
1) Jukebox did something, I don't know what, to the playlist. Maybe it shuffled it; at any rate, suddenly it was playing from the beginning, but the beginning wasn't what it had been. This momentarily confused and distracted me.
2) Jukebox also decided, as it sometimes does, that it wanted to contact the Internet. I don't know why it does this, and I don't know how to make it not do this. I whipped the cursor down to the "Cancel" button and clicked.
3) AutoUpdate decided to ask again whether I wanted to restart. The dialogue box popped up right on top of Jukebox's dialogue box; the "OK" button was right where the other "Cancel" button had been.
BOOM! LiveJournal post gone. Jukebox shutting down. Computer shutting down. Computer operator screaming "YOU BASTARD!" at computer (or at AutoUpdate, or at somebody or something).
:deep calming breath:
sunuvabitch...
:deep breath:
Earlier this morning, while I was on line, AutoUpdate let me know it had finished downloading some updates; I gave it the go-ahead to install them. When it finished, it warned that the computer would have to be restarted to complete the installation. I told it to wait.
I began composing another Top Ten post. One of the listed songs was Joni Mitchell's "Carey"; I decided to listen to it again to clarify my thoughts. It wasn't on the current playlist, but no matter. I listened for a bit, then stopped it and moved to delete it from the playlist. (It had automatically added itself when I asked to play it.) At this point three things happened roughly simultaneously.
1) Jukebox did something, I don't know what, to the playlist. Maybe it shuffled it; at any rate, suddenly it was playing from the beginning, but the beginning wasn't what it had been. This momentarily confused and distracted me.
2) Jukebox also decided, as it sometimes does, that it wanted to contact the Internet. I don't know why it does this, and I don't know how to make it not do this. I whipped the cursor down to the "Cancel" button and clicked.
3) AutoUpdate decided to ask again whether I wanted to restart. The dialogue box popped up right on top of Jukebox's dialogue box; the "OK" button was right where the other "Cancel" button had been.
BOOM! LiveJournal post gone. Jukebox shutting down. Computer shutting down. Computer operator screaming "YOU BASTARD!" at computer (or at AutoUpdate, or at somebody or something).
:deep calming breath:
sunuvabitch...
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Date: 2006-09-14 06:06 pm (UTC)Breathing and swearing is good, however. My mother takes a different tack. She *hits* her computer. Hard. And then she wonders why her mechanical and electrical devices cower when she turns them on. Snort.
Hope it doesn't happen again.
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