The Digital Life

1. Try to install Adobe Captivate on my new Mac Mini. (I've got an important 'sceencast' that's got to be done pronto.)

But Captivate only runs on a PC.

2. Load Captivate on my old Dell Notebook.

But it's too much for my old Dell Notebook. The thing keeps crashing.

3. Load Apple's Boot Camp on my new Mac Mini. With Boot Camp, you can run both Mac and Windows!

But Boot Camp only runs with Windows XP Service Pack 2 ('SP2'). My copy of XP (from my old Dell Notebook) is older than that.

4. "Slipstream" (i.e. integrate) the updates from SP2 into the earlier version of XP and produce a new bootable CD.

But 'Slipstream' doesn't work so well on OEM (as in Dell specific) versions of XP.

5. Walk three miles to a friend's house. Grab his copy of Windows XP, go home. Install it on my Mac Mini and finally load Captivate on the PC partition.

Does this sound like a productive weekend?

(And I didn't even mention the part where I completely erased my backup drive. Don't ask.)

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