Month: April 2006

I was fixing a computer for someone, and decided to run Windows Update to check for updates. Well, I was alerted that the copy of Windows was illegal. So I checked it out. The sticker on the computer says Home Edition. The one installed on the computer: Professional. It turns out, they had taken their computer several times to a couple of different shops, and of course, their solution to removing spyware is format and reload. Well, I guess they didn’t have a CD, so they loaded an illegal copy of Professional on a perfectly good Dell that had Home Edition. Should I report it? Does Microsoft give away rewards? I mean, I don’t really care, but that is just awful to be putting that on someone elses computer without their knowledge. And why do people format and reload in the first place? It would have been a 2+ hour process to do all that, and I removed the spyware, uninstalled McAfee, installed AVG, showed the customer how to use Spybot and several other programs like Disk Defragmenter, all under 2 hours. An hour and a half to be exact.

Everytime my UPS’s beep because of a power drop, my cat, Meiko, runs into my server closet and looks up at the UPS’s… why is that? How does this interest her?

I have finally upgraded from Hoary to Breezy. It broke a few things:

• Evolution – Inbox is empty on my IMAP? So I switched to Thunderbird. I’m loving having extensions.
• ESD was all screwed up, so I removed the ALSA part.
• Pi-Sync will no longer run because of some Qt style

That is all I have noticed so far. The last one is really annoying at the moment, because now I have no Calendar, except for the one on my laptop. And it runs in Dapper, so why not Breezy? This is why I don’t like doing dist-upgrade stuff. I just like to start anew.

I’ve also noticed that I have burn-in on my brand new (5 months old) Dell 20" monitor. Go figure…

Before:

After:

I’ve never seen a hard drive shatter like that. One shot. I threw it up against some concrete steps, picked it up, and heard the shattered pieces inside. If Bobby was around, we could have put a few big caliber holes through it. I still have a bunch of hard drives I need to destroy, maybe we can do some skeet shooting with them.

I saw this in the back of a car yesterday… all I could think of was what if someone smashed into the back of them, and Beanie Babies went flying all over the place.

Jessica did the most amazing, sexiest thing today. We were going to the post office, and Wal-Mart, and she was driving. Well, she starts the car up, puts it in reverse, puts her right hand behind my seat, looks back and proceeds to back out of the driveway, all the way. About 75 feet total. Without a hitch, without stopping and adjusting her steering. And she did it at a decent speed (almost as fast as I can do it). I was astonished. I think she deserves an iPod…. but the question is, should I buy her one?

If anyone would like a Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz cheap, let me know.

I got a forward from someone today via email. I usually skim these and then delete them. I don’t pass them on. Of course, I usually check them out to see if they are a “myth.” This one was. You can see it here. I replied to the guy that sent it to me, and to everyone he sent it to. It reads like a hate letter to Muslims. It talks about Hitler and how he tried to supress Christians for their beliefs, but then hypocritically talks about Muslims in return, saying that ALL Muslims may be terrorists. I can’t stand things like that.

Someone set this to me today:

If you are looking for a great computer tech that comes to the house call Jason C. Greb. his co. is ELECTRONERDZ. If you use him please tell him I told you about him. HE is GREAT Very impressed by this very clean cut young man. Jean

I guess she sent it off to her friends. This would be the first official testamonial that I have gotten in writing. People tell me this stuff all the time, but it’s not like I am writing it down.

Here are some random pictures I have taken while out.

This was on the back of some Snoopy Doggie DVD… if it was a LIVE performance, then it’s been seen before… by a lot of people. Otherwise, it would have been a pretty expensive gig to set up, and have no audience.

Classic example of a redneck truck. In case you can’t tell, that is a refridgerator on the back. It’s his tool box. And guess where I saw it… Wal-Mart!

I saw this on US 27 heading down from Haines City. Must have been done for the day. I guess his truck isn’t big enough to put the ladder in…