Reinke Faces Life

>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

http://www.nwwbetopdog.com/

NETWORK WORLD TOP DOG

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The Network World Technology Opinion Panel is a group of technology professionals who evaluate, use and/or purchase technology-related products for the organizations they work for. Panel members represent a wide range of industries, company sizes and areas of expertise. This diversity allows us to gather information on a variety of technology topics from different perspectives.

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I don’t think I ever exposed the fact that I’ve been on this panel for a while. At least for two jobs worth! (Heck of a way to rekon time!)

http://www.masternewmedia.org/operating_systems/
web-operating-systems-virtual-desktops/
best-web-os-and-virtual-desktops-guide.htm

http://tinyurl.com/2l7ocz

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April 8, 2007
Web Operating Systems And Web Desktops: A Mini-Guide

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Wikipedia defines Web Operating Systems (aka WebOS) as:

“A software platform that interacts with the user through a web browser and does not depend on any particular local operating system.”

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Robin Good summarizes the WEBOS niche. As only he can.

I’m always impressed with what he produces for us in the way of technology direction posts.

Isn’t “technology” is too broad a brush? There are web-based applications and client-based applications. There are internet based services. There are hardware gadgets. There are concepts. Mushing them all together isn’t allowing them to be differentiated. It represents muddled thinking.

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251

Apparently now the blog option gives you a hosted WORDPRESS implementation.

Remember when they first came out with a blog option, it was for a free one. I tried it and blew out my website. If I had used my blog’s domain name http://www.reinkefaceslife.com who knows what would have happened.

In any event it’s “interesting”. I’m playing with it. And, will give it my usual “tire kicking”.

http://www.feedmailer.net/

FEEDMAILER

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Feed Mailer sends you RSS feed updates by email. Updates can go out every hour, every 12 hours, daily or weekly.

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Didn’t take long to find an alternative. I’m testing it now.

Funny but they don’t make it easy to add an icon to a website touting their service. Nor do they have away to contact them. Not a good omen.

More when I get it.

Argh! FEEDBLITZ did it again. It missed a whole day of especially valuable pearls!! Guess I’ll have to look for a replacement.

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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/
interesting-a-new-blogger-who-i-think-will-give-you-an-interesting-read/

http://tinyurl.com/2f9r3s

INTERESTING: A new blogger who I think will give you an interesting read
April 2nd, 2007

http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/

“Connecting the World One Beverage at a Time”
by Cavalier, G. Lane [EUN] [LKDN] [PLX] [TRKY]

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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/
money-james-turk-urges-new-hampshire-to-remonetize-gold-and-silver/

http://tinyurl.com/22b5u2

MONEY: James Turk urges New Hampshire to remonetize gold and silver
April 2nd, 2007

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=12824.0

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, is among those urging the New Hampshire legislature to pass a bill allowing citizens to require state government to use gold and silver in payments to them.

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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/
writing-blog2book-project-interesting-conclusion-that-i-now-agree-whole-heartedly/

http://tinyurl.com/2yzlcu

Everybody Can Write One Good Book
by Sergei Boukhonine

Anyone can write an autobiography!

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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/
fun-italian-math/

http://tinyurl.com/2y9hg7

FUN: Italian math
April 2nd, 2007

An Italian man wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little math test. “Here’s your first question,” the foreman said.

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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/
jobsearch-jibberjobber-offers-itself-at-a-discount/

http://tinyurl.com/2kbh9p

JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER offers itself at a discount
April 2nd, 2007

JibberJobber offers an 80% discount for a week!

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http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/03/29/
get-your-own-domain-and-wordpress-for-your-blog/

http://tinyurl.com/25e39j

Get Your Own Domain and WordPress for Your Blog
posted March 29, 2007 by Andrew Flusche

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Free hosts are great for the casual blogger, but they’re not right for companies or individuals wanting to distinguish themselves. The primary reason is control. If you own your domain and pay for hosting, you control your blog. You decide what you can and can’t do.

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Of course, being a giant turkey, and not knowing any different, I commented. How else does one learn?

Ferdinand Reinke says:

I guess I’ll say I don’t understand. Sorry, maybe I’m being a little dense. (1) What do I want to “control” that I can’t do on the free blog at WordPress? (2) I’ve been doing the “free thing” for over a year now and have a substantial amount of content on the free WordPress blog site. If you convinced me to move to a paid WordPress account somewhere, what would be the benefits, challenges, and migration activities? Maybe I’m just being more than a little dense, but I have not seen anything “bad” at the free WordPress offering. And, I think I’m pretty critical. Thanks for the education, fjohn

To which Andrew replied, both in his blog and by an email:

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Ferdinand,

I definitely don’t think WordPress.com is “bad.” In fact, for many bloggers, it’s a great option. It just wasn’t right for me, mostly because I didn’t have ultimate control over my blog. Here are some thoughts on limitations of a free blog:

With a free blog, you don’t actually own the domain or the blog. You’re just using someone else’s space. I like having the keys to my blog, and knowing that I can do anything I want; I’m not at someone else’s mercy.

Free blogs are inherently limited when it comes to customization. You’re usually stuck with a number of preset themes. WordPress has tons of plugins, but only certain widgets are allowed on WordPress.com.

You also can’t do some things on free platforms, due to the Terms of Service. One example is PayPerPost. We can debate the paid posting model, but the fact is that WordPress.com won’t allow you to do it. I like flexibility.

Migrating to your own custom WordPress installation shouldn’t be too hard. I did it last year. I copied each and every post from WordPress.com to my new installation. There’s probably a way to automate this, but I’m not sure. The biggest issue of migrating is that you’ll lose some referral and search traffic, if you’re not careful. You can put redirects on each old page, but this is time consuming. Once again, maybe there’s an automatic way for this to work.

Best of luck in whatever you decide,
Andrew

PS: I’m happy to help with a specific issue or question. I hope this answers some general questions.

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Now, I know about the widget restriction. Javascript is basically verboten on the free site. And, I doubt I’d ever attract the readership to make any money out of this. So up to now, the idea of moving off the free site, never interested me. But, like bozos who use a hotmail email address for their jobsearch, maybe I am being “dense”. I started to look at WordPress’ preferred hosting vendors. One has some gripes about their availability and others are focused on webhosting with barely a mention of WordPress.

Have to think if that effort is worth the cost in dollars and attention.

One item of note: I found Legal Andrew as a result of a blog carnival hosted by Jason Alba of JibberJobber http://www.jibberjobber.com. So, one truly has to keep your eyes open and connect the dots to learn all the “tricks of the trade”. Blogging trade that is.

I was exchanging email with G. Lane Cavalier of “Connecting the World One Beverage at a Time” http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/ about my thoughts on this topic. I referred him to the blog and he came back and asked where I had blogged about it. Of course, being lost in the subject, I had forgotten to hang it out here. Duh. That’s for the reminder Lane. P.S.: Listening to my favorite podcast http://www.freetalklive.com I’ve been know to drive by my exit in the morning too.

Bottom line: I’m not sure that moving off the free WordPress is a good idea or easily done. Still thinking about that/

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http://www.sowesay.com/

So We Say

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SoWeSay, a company created by two Yahoo alumni, launched the first symbiotic social networking site (www.sowesay.com) that allows users the freedom to create profiles, rate and review anyone they know or encounter online and offline. SoWeSay also gives users a powerful social networking tool “SayWhat?” to gain candid feedback from anyone. SoWeSay is the fun destination to find, share and learn about new individuals directly from the people who know them best.

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Now using my amazing power of negative thinking, I would think this would be a good place to place the “LEAD WEIGHTS” in one’s life. I think their methodology is flawed unless one wants to be incredibly negative about someone. All a bozo will see is negativity.

Correct me if I am wrong?

I don’t think our brains are wired this way. IMHO it only works by pair-wise comparison. For example, even if we accept their dimensions of “Generosity, Intelligence, Likeability, Sense of Humor, and Trustworthiness” — I’d have my own as would you –, how can you rate “likeability” on a sliding scale. I can say that I like X more than Y, or I like X, or I dislike Y, but to slide the “likeability” bar. Nah, I’m no psysicy-ologist just an old injineer who can’t spell them bug wurds. My brain doesn’t work that way

And, to put someone on this site, you really have to know a lot about them.

So imho it’s a good page for the lead weights in your life.