Micro$hafted, again.

I am beginning to feel an increasing hatred towards my only windows machine. Tonight, during the latest round of spring storms, this particular machine chose to shutdown. There was no obvious power surge or outage and the other machines (2 of them) running on the same power source / outlet remained active.

No big deal. It's happened before. Just power it back up and all will be good...NOT!

It appears that windows actively modifies the registry (winsock in this case) while you are on the web. I say appears because I've been so far removed from the inner workings of windows networking for several years now. I used the linux boxes (text-based browsing at it's finest, lynx) to google for the solution to reset the winsock and get back to the web.

Looks like it's time to get that mac I've been thinking about.