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...how sad he's the high-wire walker, and not the man on the flying trapeze!
Speaking of which, I continue my high-wire act.
I put in my time at the office today, despite a late start due to not being able to find my car keys (a first of some kind... Galina took me to the office and went home and ransacked the place... eventually finding the keys in a drawer I don't remember using since arriving, which probably contributed to not finding them this morning, but I digress...)
Since returning home, I've translated the item due tomorrow, which still leaves me with a stretch of wire to cross tomorrow night. I also took care of some ATA business, which is a load off my mind.
I've been on and off the phone with Drew over the past 10 minutes or so. He's been trying to deal with a problem on the machine we use for FedEx shipments. It seems the license to use the software must be renewed, but the renewal routine pretty much insists one use Internet Explorer to do the job. The problem is: Mozilla is the default browser for the system and there seems to be no straightforward way to undo that. Oh, and did I mention the software has expired?
During our last conversation, I suggested Drew uncheck all the items in the dialog box that appears after selecting Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|System, but there's no news on that front. In theory, faced with a Mozilla that won't respond to a call to action, IE should spring into action, but one never knows.
Add to that the news that some kind of scumware appears securely installed on the system (flooding the screen with popups), and it would appear that our only real alternative is to wipe the OS and start from scratch. (First, however, we'd need to back up the FedEx customer and shipment database, which is a separate issue.) Blyeah.
There are days I hate silicon... I really do.
Cheers...
Speaking of which, I continue my high-wire act.
I put in my time at the office today, despite a late start due to not being able to find my car keys (a first of some kind... Galina took me to the office and went home and ransacked the place... eventually finding the keys in a drawer I don't remember using since arriving, which probably contributed to not finding them this morning, but I digress...)
Since returning home, I've translated the item due tomorrow, which still leaves me with a stretch of wire to cross tomorrow night. I also took care of some ATA business, which is a load off my mind.
I've been on and off the phone with Drew over the past 10 minutes or so. He's been trying to deal with a problem on the machine we use for FedEx shipments. It seems the license to use the software must be renewed, but the renewal routine pretty much insists one use Internet Explorer to do the job. The problem is: Mozilla is the default browser for the system and there seems to be no straightforward way to undo that. Oh, and did I mention the software has expired?
During our last conversation, I suggested Drew uncheck all the items in the dialog box that appears after selecting Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|System, but there's no news on that front. In theory, faced with a Mozilla that won't respond to a call to action, IE should spring into action, but one never knows.
Add to that the news that some kind of scumware appears securely installed on the system (flooding the screen with popups), and it would appear that our only real alternative is to wipe the OS and start from scratch. (First, however, we'd need to back up the FedEx customer and shipment database, which is a separate issue.) Blyeah.
There are days I hate silicon... I really do.
Cheers...
