Popping Culture

I must say, now that the relevant Football season is over, and Seinfeld is only in reruns, Popping Culture and the College Basketball season are my most interesting sources of entertainment. PC definitely stand a chance in upending Seinfeld as my favorite show about nothing, and definitely beats the Amazing Race as my favorite Reality TV show.

Thanks Big Dan, you entertain me! But, sorry you're having all these computer problems. That really blows!

Dan,
I sent you an email with my phone number. You officially have reached the computer user level known as "knows enough to be dangerous". Your situation does not sound unrecoverable though. Your friend should be able to reinstall without incident. Next time I recommend Firefox I'll be sure to mention leaving IE around.

Well heck, Dan. I didn't chime in--you know how I hate to be pedantic--but had I, rest assured it would hev been just to berate you for using Windows in the first place. Next investment should be a Mac. No popups, no IE, no viruses.

:)

Folkbum,
Weren't you the guy complaining about how you had to send your Mac back to Apple about 10 times to get it repaired and it still didn't work. What did you do? Buy a new one?

No, Ralph, I sent my iBook to get a motherbord replacement (it took just three days from drop-off at the Apple Store to pick up at DSL shipping place!) but while it was at the depot they wiped the hard drive for no reason. It works like a dream now, but I lost about two years of work product because--like Dan--I didn't back up even though I knew better. Human error on two fronts lost me my data.

But I can still say I've never had a virus, never seen I popup I didn't ask for, and never had any spyware/ trojan horses/ nastyware infest my machine. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to restart (outside of the day the motherboard went) in two years. This puppy will probably last me another three years, and you can't beat that with a stick--or a Gateway.

Hey Ralph:
Sounds like Dan is in need of one of your famous lectures about "backups"... heh heh

And guys complain? Funny enough.. I thought only women did that sort of thing! ;)

Danny:

I got to this part of your post --

Well, my logical mind says the only thing to do now that Firefox is running like a dream is eliminate the last source of spyware: Internet Explorer.

...and I was like "D'oh!" and I guess I was so loud that people poked their heads into my office to see if I was all right.

Oh man, I am so sorry. I hate when that happens.

Don't feel bad.

I did something stupid to my computer around Christmas last year, too. I had just downloaded a bunch of neat fonts and as I was checking out all the other fonts I have, I started thinking, "Hmmm, why not get rid of the ones I'm not using?"

Yeah, I know better now.

So I deleted a bunch of the fonts I figured were only taking up space since I certainly never used them in Word or anything.

Piece of advice: Don't mess around with your fonts. And for heaven's sake, don't delete Martel.

Turns out you need most of those stupid fonts for everything to run properly on your computer.

Another one of those things they never tell you when you buy a computer. But hey, I am nothing if not a trial&error kind of girl. After a few hours of panicked Googling for help, I fixed the problem without having to make that embarrassing call to the tech-y who helps out my family with these sort of things.

Hey Ara? Just used you as an example in a post over at the garage. Hope you don't mind! LOL!!!

And yes Dan! I linked it back to here....

Folbum,
Just kidding there. You Apple guys sure are boastful. hehe. For a closed and proprietary achitecture, I can't say enough good things about them. Can you buy a piece of iron that hooks up to that thing that isn't sold by Apple or are those plans still in the oven? If you're going to bash Microsoft, at least tout Linux. I heard you can buy Lindows (Linux based windowing OS) at WalMart these days.

Cam,
Reminds me to backup. It has been a while. Wonder where this new version of Outlook stores my email?

Well, the guy working on my computer fixes small business computers for a living, so I expect all shall be well.

Once this snafu is corrected, I'll be able to get back to shaking babies.

CAVEAT FROM PREACHING PROFESSOR... Yikes, Dan-- I've never read anything that cautions one not to remove IE when installing Firefox. The fact I DIDN'T do it, myself, was merely dumb luck, not being even as swift as you, probably, in the computer department. Well, now we know-- but sorry the learning had to come out of YOUR hide! (By the way, I've found there are a couple of things that are worth still using IE for-- such as working with the school's email server from off-site, which is more flexible with IE.)

Nice try, professor (if that IS your real name), but I see now that this was your plan all along, no doubt from the first day I registered at CRCDS!

I'm on to you now!

Cam:

Loudness looms large in me legend.

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