I am sure somebody on Code Project drinks Bigelow Constant Comment tea but they are too shy to admit it. Not me, of course.. just sayin' If I did drink it, I would have it straight. No milk and absolutely no sugar.

I gave up holding my breath for the HP "Machine" to emerge from the hype. If it does materialize, what will it use for systems software (OS, compilers, database, application frameworks, etc.)? Linux?! A little voice whispers "Itanium!"

I meant to write "Windows Logs --> System".

This is a stretch, but when I am having weird system problems I sometimes go to event viewer and look at Windows Logs --> System Logs. Disk errors and other ephemera may show up around the time you had the Visual Studio problems.

I was reading IBM 360 software documentation in the 1960s. (There were multiple operating systems for the 360 series because OS360 was nowhere near being released.) The logo on the documents I read was the face of a simple compass. The paper these documents were printed on was lighter than newsprint. I never did get my Fortran program to work ...

226 Down 12 Up (!) Ping 26 ms In Andover, Minnesota (suburban Twin Cities). I suspect the disparity in up/down speeds is typical of internet service over a fiber/coax cable TV system.

I love that movie! The hero gets a (semi-)private office with (half-of-) a desk when he is promoted from Data Retrieval to Data Administration. A classic!

Just running the MS Mouse online diagnostic program.

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I worked around Fastrands for seven years or so. There was one just across the hall from my office, in the machine room. The horror! I never heard of one crashing through a wall ... I did hear of a Fastrand, secured in its special wheeled moving rig, roll down a sloped corridor, zip through the reception area and then out the front door to the parking lot. I don't know if there were any hardware or wetware casualties from the incident.