I don’t flippin’ believe it

I stayed home today to work on a computer program that will sort through all of Ken McRae’s features and group them together. Unfortunately, the network was a bit messed up, so I was unable to use the internet for most of the day, and I think the mess-up was affecting my router because even internally my network was having some problems (that is, until I disconnected the modem from the router). The upshot of all this was that, even though I’ve been at my computer for probably 8 of the last 11 hours, I wasn’t able to get as much done as I would have liked — although the internet being unavailable prevented me from wasting lots of time on Fark.com or facebook, it also prevented me from figuring out how to make a tree structure in Java.

 

So for most of the day I’ve been sitting at this here windows computer, the one that was in the shop for 3 weeks with a mystery problem for which the only solution the guy could come up with was to reformat, reinstall and hand me the bill (annoying, because I could have done that myself). So I was lead to suppose that it was misconfigured software. Maybe something weird I installed. Well, just 5 minutes ago, I got on gold old Mozilla Firefox and did a search on a website. Then *poof*. Screen went black and nothing else seemed to be going on. So I hit the hard reset button. Log in again, start up firefox again, which offers to restore the browser to the pages it was on before. I took it up on its offer. Again click the form button to submit the form that I was using and again: *poof*.

 

So I thought I’d write and bitch about it again before I try out that website again. Using IE this time, and then again using firefox. I need to get to the bottom of this, because this computer is nowhere near the end of its expected lifespan.