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ThisIsIt!

Friday 5:04pm CST 31 December 1999

This is the last day of the nineteens!!!!!!

There's the whole debate about, "well, it's not really the millenium or even the century cause way back in the day they started counting with 1 not 0 blahdiddyblah."

Yes, I say, but realistically, what is *cool* is seeing those 000 zeros roll up onto the calendar. I mean, driving in the car people don't say oh look! We just turned over 2001 miles!

2000. That's what's cool.

(plus, kings and such changed the calendars arbitrarily to fit their schedules or the schedule of the seasons or for whatever reasons they had at various times back then.)

So anyway, this is the last of the 19s. I mean I look back at my ancestors and they may have been born in 1910 or 1903, but just... just being born a few years prior and bing it's 1800s and I think, "man! that's old!"

So now *I* was born in the old century, I mean in the 19s. Well, in a few hours but yeah!

At work today I installed Win NT 4.0 into one of the three machines. Had a little bit of frustration, but I think I got it all down now.

First problem was I couldn't get it to recognize the new DMA66 IDE drive it has. Turns out Win NT doesn't know about this new thing, so I had to install the driver from a separate disk. That only took a few tries to figure out.

Then when I got it installed I recognized I had created "too many" partitions on the hard drive. I had created 3 partitions, which threw off the default drive letterings for the network drives. Tried to reinstall the OS to fix it, but realized I just had to use Disk Administrator. Cool.

One down, three to go!

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Fred and I are now at Wende's, about to go play on his unicycle and stuff. Y2K downtown on skates tonight!!!!

With Love
- Rob permalink