Goddamn Microsoft crap!
Wed Sep 03 10:10:18 BST 2003 Permalink
Damnit I had to go and say I was happy didn't I?!?
So this morning my laptop won't connect to anything. The setup looks fine, I can ping okay but no DNS resolution. So I fiddle about disconnecting things from the router, hard coding the DNS server that kind of stuff.
Then I notice that ping is displaying odd non-ascii characters instead of the name, and a little bit later DHCP stops working. It won't assign the address. I can't get host names and ipconfig is telling me unpleasant stories about how things aren't sockets any more.
Of course my little Mac is fine.
It kinda spiralled downwards from there. I tried various fixes (including the netsh TCP/IP reset trick) all to no available.
Last night perfect working laptop. This morning broken laptop. What did I change? I plugged it into the dock this morning.
To be fair to Microsoft when, in desparation, I tried their system restore tool it did work. I've lost some installed applications (but not data) and configuration but TCP/IP is back.
However not wishing to be too fair I would estimate that M$ have cost me 3 days of lost productivity just over the last week with having to reinstall and then another 2 hours this morning trying to debug this fscking problem.
You better believe I will be buying a Mac next time around.