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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Hi everyone. My name is Simon. I just want to clarify that, because I'm no longer sure that this universe is the same one I had breakfast in.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

This evening, little old me sat down to the computer to enjoy an evening of message board surfing and homework-avoidance. A typical Tuesday, in other words. Well, everything was going fine, until I got online. You see, ever since the Great Crash of '00, when I almost lost all my data, my computer has had a few quirks. Most notably, it always prompts me to log on to a LAN when I connect to the 'Net. Which is no big deal, I just hit cancel, right?

Wrong. That is, I normally hit cancel. This time, for whatever reason, I hit Ok. This launched me on a journey worthy of a Rod Sterling narration.

The first thing I noticed was that my desktop color scheme had shifted. Odd, but I thought nothing of it. So I start up ICQ. So far so good. Hey, look, my cousin Tony is online.

But...

I lost his ICQ number, and all others, in the Crash. I was never able to retrieve my original password, so I had to start a new profile. Out with Solipcist, in with Sol System. Now, all that has apparently been reversed. I am now running my old ICQ profile, through no intervention of my own. I am beginning to worry.

And like the social animal I am, I make my way here to share the tale, only to find that as far as IE is concerned, I've never been here before. In fact, I've never been anywhere. (Netscape, on the other hand, seems to still be grounded in the other reality.)

So please, someone out there with brains and stuff, tell me what the heck is going on. I feel like I'm trapped in an episode of Sliders, only without the lovely Kari Wuhrer to keep me company. In other words, I am officially creeped out.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I'm back! Taking a helpful suggestion from Frank ("Uh, did you try rebooting?"), I've been able to revert my computer to its earlier state and ICQ profile.

Even better, I know believe I have found a doorway between the two realities. I can cross back and forth at will. I'm not sure what this means, but I intend to explore alternate Earth's until I start to suck a lot and get canceled.

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

We'll just add this to the growing list of Simon's personalities. Split or LAN induced.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Sounds like you have a freak case of weird user-profile setup.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Somethings amiss.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Great. And I deleted Solipcist from my ICQ. So is Solipcist the one you're going to use from now on? Is it safe to delete Sol System?

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I had something similar happen to ICQ once! I'm not alone! Yeehaw!

My ICQ just decided to revert to how it was about three weeks after I got it; this incident happened last summer (about five months after I got ICQ). It was very unnerving. But then it took its medicine and got better, much like your whole computer.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Tahna: He would be "Sol System" whenever he's in normal mode. He'll only be "Solipcist" when he's screwing around in the Mirror Universe... :-)

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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :

To Frank I offically hate you now, since you got to say "did you try rebooting"

Hey I can beat that, "Did you log out" you know that loging off and loging back on can do the same thing.

Actually it sounds like that sol has a Microsoft Family logon as the default log on method, in which such weirdness can result, for example, I once had a customer who could get his mail there under one log on but not the other two, after asking a little about it I discovered they could have different colors, icons, and different programs. My guess is that ICQ might have been upgraded since then and is in a different directory (mostly likely it's older version) for the buddy list (I guess that's what they call it). IE is dessigned from the ground up to work with this system. Netscape mostly likely uses a different method of tracking users.

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