RANT: LinkedIn toolbar and LookOut

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

>Does anyone have a quick fix to help me completely remove this malware

I have had to (several times) use the Outlook repair function on the “notsoHELPful” menu tab.

Some caveats. Backup. You may want the old crud after you see the new crud you’re left with.

(1) Make sure you have your distribution media and serial number handy — you may muck things up worse if you don’t (I did);

(2) Nuke all the “extra” crud installed Options>Other>Advanced and nuke all in “add in”, “reminder”, and “com add in”.

(3) Uninstall everything Plaxo, LinkedIn, and any other Outlook add ins from ADD/REMOVE program entry;

(4) from the start>run>msconfig ensure that you don’t have anything automatically helping you that you don’t really understand.

Wish everything good bye. You did backup didn’t you?

(I had one acquaintance who blamed LookOut, and it was a disguised corrupt registry and, when the hard disk burped at the wrong time, his data went to data heaven welcomed by 72 disk drives that ever had an data! My acquaintance had NOT backed up in a while either. He changed jobs soon after that. Probably got promoted with more money.)

THEN run repair from OUTLOOK HELP.

Reboot cold TWICE. (Once is not necessarily enough!?!)

Then sacrifice a chicken, examine the entrails, and send the remains to Bill Gates or Vincent.

It’s ugly.

One thing I have found that repeated COLD REBOOTS (power down and wait 5 full excruciating minutes) allows WINDOZE and LOOKOUT to clear queues and caches and who knows what else allowing the stupid thing to run correctly).

Argh! I’m in pain just thinking about what you’re going thru.
YMMV FAIWWYPFI FWIW

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PRODUCTIVITY: REINKEFACESLIFE now has send me email feature

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

On the ABOUT page, you can enter some thing and shazam it shows up in my email box. FWIW?

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FUN: Never kissed a frog. Never had to.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

frog

It was a great commercial. I always wanted a poster for my neice-in-law’s daughter. Girls today need to know the sky’s the limit. Boys too. But that’s a different problem.

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LIBERTY: Stossel on “skoolz”

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA

What a joke!

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GUNS: Guns bad; loopholes bad; politicians dumb!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070424/D8ON5A500.html

Va. Gov. Looking at Gun-Buyer Loophole

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Virginia’s governor said Tuesday he may be able to close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus. In 2005, a court had ordered psychiatric counseling for Cho after determining he presented a danger to…

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Time and attention might be better spent restoring the student’s Second Amendment rights.

How did we ever get to such a sad state of affairs?

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RANT: Menlo Park train station

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

1015 news today reported that “they’re beginning work on the Menlo Park trainstation … (insert big number of millions of dollars)… (long litany of improvements) … paid for mostly with Federal money”.

“FEDERAL MONEY”!!!

There ain’t no such thing.

It’s generally conceded that NJ PAYS far in excess of Federal Taxes than it receives back in Federal benefits. That in itself is a losing proposition!

So it’s money stolen from NEW JERSEY taxpayers. It’s THEIR money.

It’s also generally conceded that GOOFERMENT takes between one quarter and three quarters for itself — a handling fee — for its own expenses.

SO, we send double the amount to Washington for the privilege of getting half back for a train station.

Shouldn’t we have just done it our self and cut out the handling fee?

Better idea. Get the Gooferment out of mass transit entirely.

When McDonald’s improves its restaurant, I don’t pay them to do it. Do I?

Argh!

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LIBERTY: unenumerated rights — those rights the Founders felt no need to specify in the Bill of Rights — Yours!

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://vtcommons.org/node/741

Remembering the 9th Amendment
Submitted by Rob Williams on Mon, 04/23/2007 – 1:38pm.

Thanks to “Alternet” for this important book review.

The “Silent” Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don’t Know They Have
By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007

 

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What a pity. Even more, what a terrible oversight: the Ninth Amendment bears directly on such modern-day constitutional issues as abortion, the right to die, and gay rights.

The Ninth Amendment is key to understanding how the Founding Fathers thought about the liberties they expected Americans to enjoy under the Constitution. They did not believe that they were creating these liberties in the Bill of Rights. Instead, they were merely acknowledging some of the rights that no government could properly deny.

The history of the Constitution reveals the purpose of the Ninth and the Founders’ intent: to protect what constitutional lawyers call unenumerated rights — those rights the Founder assumed and felt no need to specify in the Bill of Rights. Unenumerated rights include, for example, the right to privacy. In the America of today, unenumerated rights account for freedoms like a woman’s right to abortion. …

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So the next time any politician talks about a “right”, remind them that the Constitution reserves it to the people and he should shut up!

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TECH SOFTWARE: ACT2007 has its problems

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/
04/some_sage_advic.html

http://tinyurl.com/3xoyjt

April 23, 2007
Some Sage Advice

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Act 2007 Premium for Workgroups is reliant on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. It turns out that the very installation of Act breaks all of our other SQL instances. That includes Sharepoint, Backup Exec and other critical apps. It’s a one-way upgrade too. So there is no ‘uninstall.’ The cure? Uninstall SBS2003 and reinstall. Oh, and yes, the files that Backup Exec has recorded — unusable.

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Ed (Gripeline) Foster always has some good “heads up” type stuff.

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INTERESTING: Don’t annoy the wild animals! (Seems obvious?)

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china//
article1690634.ece?Submitted=true

http://tinyurl.com/34phxr

April 23, 2007
Catapult boy is eaten after taunting crocodile in pen

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The official Xinhua news agency said: “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.” His companions then raised the alarm.

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Remember the Darwin awards?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Honoring those who improve the species…by accidentally removing themselves from it!

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RANT: Yup, nothing anyone could do

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong5.html

Bloomberg’s World
by A.D Lelong

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Here is how Bloomie saves lives. On the exact same day he told rational people they were sick, we had a murder suicide in Queens. A 20-year-old man, with a history of mental disturbances, shot and killed his mother, his mother’s invalid boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s hired nurse. He then wounded a nephew, and turned the gun on himself. Before the incident, the mother three times tried to get the cops to do something, but they said she needed a court order. The victim’s sister said, “He was threatening to kill her, and she told the police everything. The police said we can’t do anything about it.”

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Or is it that any one could be a concealed weapons carrier. Exercising their (God Given, Inherent, Constitutionally protected) RIGHT to self defense.

Argh!

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