Fun With Windows (TM)
Mar. 26th, 2003 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaThis morning my computer didn't start up, owing to not being able to find the hive mind.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:58 am (UTC)Yes... I'd have said that this rule should take precedence over all over pints of grammar.
However, I also like my sentences to sound nice, and I find the way split infinitives sound is often much less pleasant than if you'd moved the words around a bit.
(I know there's a typo in the above but I liked it, so I left it there)
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Date: 2003-03-26 06:50 am (UTC)In which case the other way is better for that sentence. I'm not against doing it in principle, but you're right in saying that it's very easy to overdo. That applies to a lot of things, of course.
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Date: 2003-03-26 06:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-26 07:02 am (UTC)And toast.