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We got some rain today, not a huge amount but rather a lot of short bursts. The temperature remained almost constant at around 12 °C. Grey, wet and misty day.
Shopping, but nothing conputerish. I will probably need a new printer but that is not a pressing item. My father is off again till tomorrow evening or till Monday, depending on the weather, so I have to fend for myself again. Not a problem , I just have to get the ingredients.
My car is due for an inspection next week and I have to get it to the garage for regular maintenance. So I get it washed, spending a few hours on the inside. But the it is only the second time in about six years that I actually do a deep-clean (© RBT) of the inside. And it was needed.
Oswal (the second Win98 box on the network in the attic) has been behaving strange this last week.
It started with not waking up after pawer-save. I leave it on all time and normally it wakes up easily. Not anymore. Nothing but the reset button did help. This started last week and this week it only resumed once.
Then, on Thursday the disk started rattling. Well it is a noisy disk and I know that Win98 will do disk optimizing things when the box is idle so it didn't really bother me at first. On Friday evening the disk was still active when I came home and by 23h00, when I normally post, it was still busy. Wiggling the mouse did wake up the box but the disk remained active and some of the icons on the desktop disappeared and reappeared seconds to minutes later while other icons disappeared again. Nothing I did on the box would react, I mean I double clicked on the Explorer icon and it became selected, the cursor became an hourglass but half a minute later the hourglass went away but explorer never started. When I explored the disk from Miona, over the network everything looked normal. I could see all the disks and I could read and write without delays.
After a cold reboot everything looked OK again. And now things are still working as they should, no hanging or slowing down. I did nothing but a cold reboot to solve the problem. OTOH I didn't install anything these last months to cause the problem in the first place.
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