Comments on: Doing My Part

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:32:39 +0000

The software infects every corner and there’s no other way of getting rid of it than using their software. It’s really annoying.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:55:03 +0000

Thanks. And I just loved this little snippet at the end of the instructions: “Your computer may be restarted more than once, and you may be asked to repeat some steps after the computer restarts.”

It took me two bleeding hours to get NIS off my computer, and one hard reboot in the middle of that, when the first attempt got hung up somewhere and completely froze the machine–even the damn clock wasn’t advancing! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:12:26 +0000

Michael, this link should do it. If there's a problem here's a list of removers.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:02:46 +0000

You can’t just leave me hanging like that, Bryan! What’s the special program needed to get Norton A/V uninstalled? I’m downloading AVG as I type this, I’m that frustrated with the ginormous memory-sucking monster that Norton has become, and its insistence, despite being told not to, on checking the internet every couple of hours to see if there are updates–at which point my computer slows to the veriest trickle. And it seems to do the same whenever I start it up, which of course means that I actually wanted to do something with my computer, and not sit and wait for it to be able to respond to my input again.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:02:56 +0000

I cross-linked this post at BBWW, putting out the call for a better mousetrap.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:56:52 +0000

As for the DLC, I see no reason to make Ralph Nader’s claim a reality.

Individual candidates will decide for themselves what needed for their area, but I see no reason for the Party to change to accommodate a minority view. Polling has shown for some time that a majority of the American people hold the same views as the Democratic Party on most issues, so there’s is no point in making changes.

“Bermuda Triangulation” indeed, because no one knows what the real effect will be, making it a wild gamble, not a reasoned choice.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:51:06 +0000

Your plan for the machine is what we did with donated machines for the clients of a local service organization. There is no other way you can be sure that everything is removed. The clean install will prevent problems that have been building up over its life and clean up the registry.

You’ll need to check the Sony site for updated drivers, because I’ll bet the install disk still has the originals on it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:34:32 +0000

“That hasn’t been outlawed….yet.” – Bryan

Bryan, that’s one scary thought I hadn’t had yet, though the notion that the Bushists might jail the current Democratic leadership as “enemy combatants” has occasionally crossed my mind.

But I am from “the Democratic Party wing of the Democratic Party,” as the late great Paul Wellstone put it, and I see no need for the compromises (read: total capitulations on central values issues) that the DLC advocates.

The center-right already has advocates in American government: the old, pre-Bush GOP. The center-left deserves something too, and to hell with anyone who says I am damaging America by demanding that my views… which were regarded as centrist enough 10-20 years ago… have representation in government.

As you said, there is only one Bill Clinton; no one alive today has his gift, and no living Democrat can afford to “triangulate” as he did. If someone tries, it will be, as I recently coined on my blog, “Bermuda triangulation,” and “the Democratic Party wing of the Democratic Party” will vanish beneath the waves. Uh-uh. I’ll fight like hell to prevent that.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:24:17 +0000

Bryan, that five-year-old Sony laptop belonged to a medical professional who may have had sensitive data on the HD. I’m considering wiping the drive and using the restore CDs (which are XP SP1), installing AVG, applying XP SP2 from a CD I have, then doing a Windows Update from the net. If you have a suggestion as to a better order in which to do that, I’d be happy to hear it. If everything works, this may become Stella’s laptop; her current one is from 1997 (yes, you read that right), and performance is really not an issue for her.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:19:22 +0000

It is well past the time to end corporate welfare and let them pay a fair share. Why should their income be treated differently than their employees?

All of the moves the DLC wants to make involve core values. You don’t give up core values or degrade them. If they want to start a third party, let them. That hasn’t been outlawed….yet.