Never mind.

I appears that some caching is off the books, so to speak. A simple program to grab a few gig of RAM causes the XP VM to go in to thrashing mode for a long while. No disk activity needed.

http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx

Had the magic command:

sc config intelppm start= disabled

HP/Compaq apparently goofed something in their system configuration for AMD machines. The blog had it that the same problem was encountered in SP2. Odd that no HP update cleared the problem long ago, or that SP3 didn’t do so on its own. Oh well. Life goes on.

One world happens at night, usually. It’s a bit more chaotic than the other world. Not much, though.

If you’re 4, for your whole life you’ve closed your eyes and, zap, you open them in a completely different place. Happens all the time.

Things wink in and out of existence. Maybe not so much lately, but they sure have in the past (when you simply did not process visual information in a way that detected the fast movement of things out of your visual field. Try it with a wee one. Or a cat or dog. You can wink things in and out of their existence pretty easily with fast hand grabs.).

In dreams, you knock around a lot. In “real life” you do the same. In both worlds the knocks you feel go away quite quickly.

Things you see and feel in dreams are familiar. Things you see and feel in “real life” are familiar. Both can be strange, surprising.

In both worlds, things can happen to make you laugh.

In both worlds, thrilling things can happen. Flying around, sliding wildly down slippery shoots. Where does the imaginary leave off, after all?

In both worlds things can make you cry.

Both worlds end at odd times. You wake up. You go to sleep. Either way.

Both worlds are regular and somewhat predictable. “Mom, Dad, I had the … dream again! Only this time …”

Remember the panther in the woods? We had the old lady who was a witch. Really. She was.

Their phone system is a characture of an IVR system from hell. There is, apparently, no way to reach a human. They want “yes” or “no” voice response, but can’t recognize the words. Luckily, they revert to touch tone.

Neither the phone system, nor the web site allowed any note to be made, any “dispute” to be lodged for the two things in the credit report that were really off the wall. Apparently, someone, somewhere misread 911 as 944. You can guess the rest.

Anyway, Experian’s gotta go in the “Minus” column.

Transunion sent a copy of their data, too. I marked up a couple of things through their web site (which limits you to 100 characters of description!) and am awaiting a response.

If mine are representative, credit reports seem to be reasonably clean. Typos and odd-ball stuff are in there, but that’s to be expected.

The credit card companies don’t seem to be aggressive about telling the credit reporting places about late payments. Over the years, I’ve mailed payments late (or they’ve been mismailed, etc). But nothing showed up. Gotta figure that the credit card guys only tell the report guys about late, late stuff. Like stuff that goes a couple months or something of that sort. Makes sense.

Ha, ha. Actually, it does *not* make sense. If I were a credit card place, I’d want to tell the credit report people that my customers were deadbeats. That way the customer can’t get another credit card and will use mine more often. Heh, heh, heh. And, soooooooon, ve shall rule ze vorld.

Hey Dad, what about receiving a text-message from your bank on every transaction?

Ah, you mean one is a super-set of the other. Which one’s the super-set?