Thoughts in a Pensieve

So, my boss got a new laptop. She got the sweet Toshiba Satellite M60. It's huge. So she thought she'd do me a favor with her old one and wipe it back to the default factory install. Good thought, except that it crapped out half way through and then would just show a blinky cursor at startup.

Well, I finally got into the bios of her old Satellite Pro 6100 and configured the boot priority so I could boot from the restore CDs again. Toshiba goes with the Esc key as apposed to F10, or the del key.

It crapped out an me during the second restore CD. So I took a quick look at the disk to see if it was scratched. Thankfully it wasn't, there was some nasty gunk stuck to it.

Anyway, I have now spent about 5 1/2 hours getting windows installed and installing Service pack 2. And all the other required security updates and Antivirus... yadda yadda. Then I happened to look at the clock in the system tray. It said it was 5:30 AM.

well, I gotta fix that wuick I thought. Opened up the clock preferences and sure enough, it was set to synch with Time.windows.com for kicks, I pinged it. Time.windows. com was not responding. No problem, I'll just use the Time.nist.gov address that is already in the system.

WTF? as you can see in the picture, I got the dumbest error message. I know my date and time are wrong, that's why I am synching?

Leave it to Microsoft to "Patch a hole" but not allow the true functionality to work.

"I am sorry, you can not save that document, because you need to save it first"

Oh , and by the way, it's just that we need to put cover sheets on all TPS reports from now on. I'll make sure yhou get another compy of that memo.