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Gah! Delayed Wednesday
Jul. 18th, 2009 10:16 pmSo of course today was the Folk & Fiber Fest or whatever it's called. Went to look at the exhibits and booths at 2 pm and took over the guild table at 3, stayed until closing at 6. At least the questions were intelligent, but they should be when you're at an event that exists solely for people who already knit, sew, weave, crochet, or whatever. There was plenty of activity, but I honestly didn't see a lot of people carrying loaded shopping bags so I suspect that merchants are going to be disappointed again this year. People are looking but not buying.
And maybe that's not surprising when you have a hundred sellers and over 90% of what is displayed is yarn. How much yarn could anyone need? Show us something new, different or imaginative, please.
Meanwhile, Gary is having problems with Windoze. AdAware (an unreliable program at best in my experience) informs him that he has some kind of Trojan called W32.TrojanDropper.Delf and offers to remove it. When told to do so, it says it was removed, but it's still there after a reboot.
Trying to research this thing produces a number of reports claiming that AdAware gives false positives for it, and also claiming that it is a real nasty piece of work that will download tons of spyware and advertising onto your computer unless you get rid of it. The later sites all offer to sell you a "removal tool" but give no useful advice about removing it yourself. They claim to tell you, but say generic things like "Go to the control panel and uninstall the W32.TrojanDropper.Delf" software. Right, sure.
So he decides to go back to a prior checkpoint, a handy feature of XP. Except it apparently doesn't work. No matter what checkpoint time or date he chooses, it comes up with an unhelpful message that the restore was "unsuccessful" but gives absolutely no information about why and nothing useful about how to fix it.
And people just can't understand why I hate Windows and Microsoft so much.
And maybe that's not surprising when you have a hundred sellers and over 90% of what is displayed is yarn. How much yarn could anyone need? Show us something new, different or imaginative, please.
Meanwhile, Gary is having problems with Windoze. AdAware (an unreliable program at best in my experience) informs him that he has some kind of Trojan called W32.TrojanDropper.Delf and offers to remove it. When told to do so, it says it was removed, but it's still there after a reboot.
Trying to research this thing produces a number of reports claiming that AdAware gives false positives for it, and also claiming that it is a real nasty piece of work that will download tons of spyware and advertising onto your computer unless you get rid of it. The later sites all offer to sell you a "removal tool" but give no useful advice about removing it yourself. They claim to tell you, but say generic things like "Go to the control panel and uninstall the W32.TrojanDropper.Delf" software. Right, sure.
So he decides to go back to a prior checkpoint, a handy feature of XP. Except it apparently doesn't work. No matter what checkpoint time or date he chooses, it comes up with an unhelpful message that the restore was "unsuccessful" but gives absolutely no information about why and nothing useful about how to fix it.
And people just can't understand why I hate Windows and Microsoft so much.
