Breaking point...
May. 23rd, 2005 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI managed to remember to keep my fast this morning before going into the local medical lab for some blood work. Now, I just have to remember to show up for my appointment in Durango tomorrow afternoon.
We drew Huntür babysitting duty today, as Drew and Brady hold down the store. The kid has successfully run her grandparents ragged all day, forcing me to take a nap. We just ate dinner, right out of the crockpot, although without Drew, who says he has a lot of work to do.
I fetched a bunch of stuff from the store that had been dropped off by the young woman who had been doing our books. She is nowhere to be found: her business no longer rents space and both phone numbers are disconnected. I fired up the computer we let her use and found that QuickBooks won't run because IE isn't installed. IE is probably not installed because even with it not installed, IE popup windows advertising all sorts of crap open up at an obscene rate. I ran Ad-Aware, which found about 120 items to delete, but then could not delete them.
Figuring that a fairly recent version of Something Bad™ was stopping Ad-Aware in its tracks, I downloaded a newer version of Ad-Aware, which proceeded to find nearly 1300 items to delete, and deleted all but a handful. Getting rid of that handful turned out to be..., well..., a handful!
In all, I must've rebooted the machine about a dozen times in an attempt to get rid of something called WinTools. What was particularly frustrating about the process was not being able to delete the programs because they were running, and not being able to halt the programs, even logged in as Administrator. I eventually stumbled across something called HiJackThis, which kept crashing when I asked to do a scan, but was able to set things up so as to delete a troublemaking file before the system went on to the main part of the boot procedure (something hinted at, if not promised, by Ad-Aware, but not delivered). Eventually, I was able to run Ad-Aware and find zero problems.
The adware probably explained why our former bookkeeper had deleted IE5 from the system, because even with the obvious parts of IE5 gone, the influx of unwanted ads made using the machine impossible. The only problem with deleting IE5, however, is that our '01 version of QuickBooks requires IE5 to be installed in order to be able to run the program (go figure).
In other computer news, I ran across something called TiddlyWiki that, when saved to and run from your local machine, gives you a fair subset of Wiki functionality without having to formally run a web server. The whole thing, which is Open Source, runs via Javascript. Fans of David Allen's Getting Things Done (which I am reading right now, in between other things) can get a version of TiddlyWiki that's been optimized for the GTD philosophy, called GTDTiddlyWiki. These are really amazing apps, in my (arrogant) opinion.
In yet other news, a number of factors came together last night - fatigue, irritability, what-have-you - so that when Galina got home a little in front of 9 pm, our reunion quickly degenerated into an argument. You'd figure that after nearly three decades, we'd have all this stuff figured out, but this had to be some kind of first for us, I think.
Cheers...
We drew Huntür babysitting duty today, as Drew and Brady hold down the store. The kid has successfully run her grandparents ragged all day, forcing me to take a nap. We just ate dinner, right out of the crockpot, although without Drew, who says he has a lot of work to do.
I fetched a bunch of stuff from the store that had been dropped off by the young woman who had been doing our books. She is nowhere to be found: her business no longer rents space and both phone numbers are disconnected. I fired up the computer we let her use and found that QuickBooks won't run because IE isn't installed. IE is probably not installed because even with it not installed, IE popup windows advertising all sorts of crap open up at an obscene rate. I ran Ad-Aware, which found about 120 items to delete, but then could not delete them.
Figuring that a fairly recent version of Something Bad™ was stopping Ad-Aware in its tracks, I downloaded a newer version of Ad-Aware, which proceeded to find nearly 1300 items to delete, and deleted all but a handful. Getting rid of that handful turned out to be..., well..., a handful!
In all, I must've rebooted the machine about a dozen times in an attempt to get rid of something called WinTools. What was particularly frustrating about the process was not being able to delete the programs because they were running, and not being able to halt the programs, even logged in as Administrator. I eventually stumbled across something called HiJackThis, which kept crashing when I asked to do a scan, but was able to set things up so as to delete a troublemaking file before the system went on to the main part of the boot procedure (something hinted at, if not promised, by Ad-Aware, but not delivered). Eventually, I was able to run Ad-Aware and find zero problems.
The adware probably explained why our former bookkeeper had deleted IE5 from the system, because even with the obvious parts of IE5 gone, the influx of unwanted ads made using the machine impossible. The only problem with deleting IE5, however, is that our '01 version of QuickBooks requires IE5 to be installed in order to be able to run the program (go figure).
In other computer news, I ran across something called TiddlyWiki that, when saved to and run from your local machine, gives you a fair subset of Wiki functionality without having to formally run a web server. The whole thing, which is Open Source, runs via Javascript. Fans of David Allen's Getting Things Done (which I am reading right now, in between other things) can get a version of TiddlyWiki that's been optimized for the GTD philosophy, called GTDTiddlyWiki. These are really amazing apps, in my (arrogant) opinion.
In yet other news, a number of factors came together last night - fatigue, irritability, what-have-you - so that when Galina got home a little in front of 9 pm, our reunion quickly degenerated into an argument. You'd figure that after nearly three decades, we'd have all this stuff figured out, but this had to be some kind of first for us, I think.
Cheers...
