Mar. 4th, 2007

jenk: Faye (GeekGirl)
US Daylight Savings Time has been starting the 1st Sunday in April since the 80s; going forward it's the 2nd Sunday in March.

(At least we won't lose an hour during Norwescon!)

More info : US Naval Observatory & Microsoft's site, which also has loads of info for IT types for its products that care about DST. If you just want to patch one windows box, go to http://update.microsoft.com in IE (and if you run automatic updates or have done updates in the last month or two, you probably already have it.)

Sims Pets

Mar. 4th, 2007 11:50 pm
jenk: Faye (SydneyStress)
I finally installed the Pets expansion pack for Sims 2. It didn't run. The GPF message ~ you know, a "Windows has detected an error in this program and it must close" type thing. I thought the Sims 2 disk I had mounted (virtual disk via Daemon Tools) might be it so I unloaded it and... same problem.

My tolerance for fighting with it was at low ebb, so I uninstalled it and Sims 2 runs fine now ... ok, yes, it deleted all my saved games, but it had told to backup my games if I might want to uninstall Pets since Pets games wouldn't run under plain Sims 2 (although I have to wonder if it actually booted enough of Sims 2 to screw up my old games, but never mind, hell, it could've done the conversion during setup for all I know.) Right now most of the Broke family is sleeping while the toddler yucks it up with Wobbly Wabbit.

I may try again Pets again when I have more patience. In the meantime, I'm going to go take a bath and climb into bed.

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