No, not for my wife, can’t afford that right now. For the PVR. Apparently TVedia supports all of the cool stuff that I have been doing, plus will play iTunes protected music. I will have to check it out when I get back from the blog-meet this weekend.
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Not much on right now that I watch since the season finale of Deadwood was come and gone, but I enjoy Battlestar Galactica, and apparently they’ve got some stuff going on over at sci-fi to get ready for the new season. Thanks to Jeff for the heads up.
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…but not that kind.
A few days ago I picked up a PC from one of my former employees to work on. Her kids is also one of my wife’s students, so I figured I would do them a favor. At one point in time, I had to clean out a bunch of viruses and spyware from my wife’s computer. At that time, it was the worst infestation I had ever seen. I finally just backed up all of the documents and wiped the damn thing clean.
I don’t have that option here unfortunately. One thing I hate when people bring me their computers is that I ask them to bring ALL of their installation CDs as well. No monitors, keyboards, mice, just the damn box and CDs. Of course, as is usually the case, she can’t find her installation media. Luckily she still has her damn Windows sticker on the fricking thing. I thought I still had a copy of XP Home OEM here, but apparently not, so I had to find one before I could even get started. I did an install and chose the repair option, so that it would not delete any of the stuff that she needs saved.
I am on my 14th or 15th reboot after having scanned for viruses and spyware. I have actually seen more infected files on other computers, but this has been pretty difficult to get rid of. I am just about done thank goodness. The usual suspects were found. Kazaa media desktop. Just buy your fucking music legally. I hate it when people that don’t know any better install kazaa along with it’s wealth of spyware and proceed to download gigs of files, some of which are more spyware, trojans, and other wonderful viruses.
The person they took it to last (they had someone attempt to work on it before and were told that they just needed to format the hard drive) must have installed five or six different spyware programs, some of which are no fricking better than what they are supposed to be removing. I generally stick with Spybot, maybe Ad-Aware, and if they want something free for AV, I use AVG Free. Once that is finished I will install Windows Defender, and run all of the Windows updates.
It is simply amazing how much crap people put on their computer. As much shit as I download and I very rarely get a virus. My main problem is that I like beta testing software, so I will occasionally end up hosing my computer, but the difference is that I know it might end up this way and I am doing it on purpose.
I think I will put a sticker on top of their computer that says “DO NOT INSTALL KAZAA, EDONKEY, WEATHERBUG, ANYTHING THAT SAYS GATOR OR BARGAINBUDDY”. Gator and bargainbuddy will install when you visit some web sites, but only if you let them. Bonzi Buddy also sucks.
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Apparently the auditor is back at my store this morning. That’s actually a good thing. My boss tends to try and manipulate numbers to make things look better than they are. For instance (and I am sure that is why the lady is there), I was off last Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday is the last day of the week. We close out our weekly numbers on Wednesday morning. My boss in her infinite wisdom took food $ off of her Tuesday food pull in the computer and added them to Wednesday. The end result of this is to make the food cost on the weekly report look good. The only problem is that it doesn’t fix any problem. It just moves it to the next week and makes it that much harder to fix whatever the real problem is.
The good thing is that I trained the auditor about 18 years ago, and while not really friends, I respect her, and think she is smart enough to figure out what is going on, and to charge whatever shortages she runs to the rightful person. I also have her cell number and will call her shortly to make sure that she knows EXACTLY what is going on, because my boss will lie and throw me under the bus in order to protect herself. That kind of sucks because I like her, and she is supposed to be a friend.
Damn, I wish they had come before I went on vacation. That is the only thing that worries me.
Update – Well, everything was cool. I guess maybe I worry too much. I have seen too many people that work for my company get fucked by people with no integrity, and I always have it in the back of my head that I could get shit-canned any day. That’s a pretty shitty feeling, considering how long I have been with them and how valuable I am to them.
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I think that “Red Hot Poker of Love” is a much more apt description myself.
Once again I am on vacation. Even though I just had one a couple of months ago, this is much needed and if I am smart and keep my mouth shut I may be able to sneak an extra one in this year. Fuck ’em. After 20 years it’s not going to kill them to give me some extra time off. I will end up needing one in a few months anyway. It’s going to be a bitch to open the new store next month and have them ready for Christmas. One of my old bosses uses to call it our “Superbowl”. He was right. Busiest fucking day of the year for me.
What’s really nice is that I really don’t have much planned for this week. I have to fix someone’s PC today, and probably do a bit of housecleaning, but that is about it. I’ll probably take the car up Friday morning and get an oil change for the trip. Oh yes, the week is going to culminate in the blogmeet in Helen. Luckily I don’t have to be back at work until Tuesday, so that will give me an extra day to recuperate.
I still have a bunch of extra crap in my closet, motherboards, memory, etc… so I may try to put together a PC. Would be nice to have my own again. Using Stephanie and Anna’s is OK, but it’s not mine, and I can’t mess with it. I pretty much put this one off limits to myself except for maintenance, that way I know it won’t have any problems. No beta software, no testing. Damn, that sucks.
Actually that should read Big Dick’s Dry Rub. Forgot my little apostrophe there. Bet you thought I was going to post something disgusting here.
I haven’t ordered any yet, but I may have to. I love to rub my tenderloin and barbecue the little bastard to juicy perfection.
Freddie is much nicer than I am, and says that she tends to stay away from topics that might unnecessarily offend others. That’s pretty cool I guess, but fuck that. I too have the tendency to open my mouth and speak about topics that might offend others, I just have no problem doing it. Even when I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about.
WE ARE ALL RACISTS. Everyone. Anyone who claims to have NO biases or prejudices is either lying to you, or to themselves. It’s just that some people have the bad taste to advertise their prejudices (fears) to everyone else around as if we give a fuck.
Maybe you are prejudiced against people that are a different color than you. Perhaps it’s Jews. Or stupid fucking people. Or fat people. Or rednecks like me. Or poor people. Or people that have “blue collar” jobs. Or the chick at the 7-11 with the dot on her fucking head. Or homos. Whatever. Sometimes our prejudices take other forms, such as fear of different ideas, political leanings, war, peace. For us as Americans (generalization) it was blacks for a long time. During WWII, it was Asians. Then people of Spanish descent. The last few years it has been Muslims. Who gives a fuck. One of the managers that I like a lot, and trained last year is from Sri Lanka, so he shares a lot of the ethnic qualities of the towel-heads that I am so afraid will bomb my ass. Doesn’t mean that I don’t like him any less, it’s just that I know him, and am comfortable with him. That’s the way prejudice works.
The fact is that as humans we are generally scared of people and things that are different, and therefore uncomfortable. My parents raised me to pretty much have no prejudices, but somehow, they are still there. I find that the older I get, the worse they are. The fact that some people do nothing but live up to their stereotypes does nothing to lessen my biases.
Dammit. My iPaq has crapped out. I had it in my car earlier today listening to some music on the ride home and it locked up, now when I try to reset it, it just stays on the fucking reset screen forever. Maybe I can find some more info on HP’s site, but I think it is a goner. Crap.
Unfortunately I have to go back to work in a bit, or I would try to take it apart and see if I could find something wrong.
Damn, now my site is down. That just blows. I hardly ever have any downtime there. Has to be the server, as I can’t get to my cpanel either. Crapola. This will just have to sit in the drafts until later, but then again, by the time you see it, the server will obviously be back up. Guess I will just have to use Eric’s blogroll for now 🙂
…is better than it has started. I am aching today, particularly my back and ankles. Damn. Get in the shower and the thing the holds the shower head breaks and the motherfucker cracks me in the head. Guess that’s my signal to go to work.