abhisarda's Journal: few notes when installing xp(again)

Had to reinstall xp. Hate it. I have a Motorola SM56 PCI fax modem. When I clean installed xp(see journal entry below), the modem worked fine with win2k drivers. Then I reinstalled xp(xp->xp(upgrade)). It stopped working. Reinstalled xp, didn't help. So today I clean installed it and it works fine.

For some fucking reason, Counter Strike is not working on my cable modem(only ports like 21,1337 are working, not 27015..). My isp is a lame bastard. Doesn't know what ports it has blocked and which ones are open. So thats the reason I have to use my 56k modem. Pings are high but when you gotta play, you gotta play.

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When I open some 8-10 mozilla windows and each window has about 10 tabs open in them, with each tab containing a photo, then Mozilla has a tendency to get stuck or hang. Im using Mozilla 1.3. I know that memory leakage is a problem with Mozilla but Netsape(Which is mozilla 1.something) runs better as in that it does hang even when you open 20 tabs each in a window and you have 10 windows open.

The problem now is that when I switched to Mozilla about 2 weeks back, I deleted the netscape installation files. This just blows man.
And those on broadband(unmetered), please give thanks to god.