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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '1999-12-16T09:00:36'
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title: My computer's still sick, suffering
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My computer's still sick, suffering from the terrible crash of Monday. I've been getting the "bleached pin-striped screen of death" as my screen fades to white with multi-colored vertical lines, locking all input devices along the way. I'm running Norton Crash Guard -- quoth the Microsoft technician on Monday, "There's your problem. Crash Guard actually causes crashes. You should get rid of it." Okay, then! I've now reinstalled all the video drivers, and we'll see where that gets me. Incidentally, while trying to recover my mail files, I installed Netscape Communicator to my system. Despite very carefully answering "No" to repeated queries of "Would you like Netscape to be your default ...", it went ahead and do so anyway to several key file types. It's not just Microsoft that likes to arrogantly seize control of your system. Hmmm... I didn't include a link anywhere, and this **is** a weblog afterall, so here's one: [End of a Ship at Sligo](http://www.rossespoint.com/endofship.htm), a tramp steamer that went down off New England in 1925. _A table from her saloon is the one which you rest your glass on in "Austie's Nautical Museum Bar", and one of her forecastle head ladders, is in Miss Katie Haren's barn on Coney Island. They are all that remain today of the ill-fated vessel._