My technological world seems to be having problems.
My computer is occasionally throwing errors where it oughtn’t. E.g., I was trying to fire up LotRO last evening, and it would throw out a DirectX error. Sometimes. If I rebeooted, the lotroclient would just crash. If I rebooted again, the DirectX error was back. Testing of DirectX showed it was okay, and I’d had the problem come up previously and get solved with a reboot, but not this time. So I reinstalled DirectX 9.0c (the version I already had), rebooted, and, hey-presto, all’s right with the world.
I’ve also had problems crop up with Java on the new MT pages, and .NET with a beta version of ecto.
File scans and diagnostics on the machine continue to come up clean.
Meanwhile, my Blackberry got hung up on Friday and wouldn’t open the mail app. I had to do a hard start to fix it (which it did).
And my wireless headset for my office phone isn’t working, either.
Going to be one of those weeks, I can just tell.
It has begun! The machines are rising up in revolt! Everybody take arms against these infernal devices and 111001011010001010101010011101010101010110101010110001010101011
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The DirectX issue effects many games that I have seen, though this is the first time I have seen that you needed to do a reinstall.
.net is both good and evil at the same time. It is great for all sorts of game add-ons and updaters, but it blew up Autocad when I installed a higher version for ARCinfo…ESRI and AUTOdesk products do not play well with each other and use .net to blow up the other product.
It to some major registry scrubbing and a reinstall of AUTOcad and the version of .net it liked to get things back to normal.
Never had a problem with either of them getting messed up before. Hrm.