It seems that the SciFi channel has abandoned any pretense of doing anything related to science fiction.  Luckily, BBC American is bringing back both Torchwood and Doctor Who this summer.

Continuing the saga, Micrsosoft sent me a DVD of Vista Business (service pack 1) and instructed me to perform an in-place upgrade to revert the computer to a known quantity prior to installing service pack 2.  No matter what I did, the in-place upgrade wouldn't run. It kept saying there wasn't enough disk space.

Vista Service Pack 2 will not install on my Vaio.  It gets all the way to the end of Stage 3, finds an error, then reverts. I have to say that the reversion seems to work -- but SP2 will not install.  I've been working with Microsoft on this.  So far, we've tried disabling all non-Microsoft apps and services, running the install in safe mode,  and removing all antivirus and security software.

Update1: I'm now waiting for the escalation engineer to finish examining the CBS logs and offer some more suggestions.

Now that the new web CMS is in place, it's time to see what I can break.  The process has started to upgrade this server to Fedora 11.

I've been using CompuServe, in its various forms, for 25 years.  AOL has finally shut CompuServe's dial-up network, disabled logins on the old, octal 7xxxx,xxxx IDs, and disabled other features.  Here's a gallery of CompuServe memorabilia, collected over the years.