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11:30 am: I Officially Hate Adobe
Also, people who make use of Flash when they don't have to. Which, if you ask me, they never do.

I've given up on trying not to have Flash installed on my computer, because so many websites use it for every little damn thing. Even the site stats Wordpress provides come with pretty graphs in Flash.

Well. New install of Firefox needed for my work computer, okay: done. New install of Flash needed for my work computer *sigh* Okay, will do...

...can't. Every time I try to install Flash, it comes up with an error message saying "No, you need Firefox". There is no means of telling it that I have Firefox, that the exe install file that is telling me smugly "no, you need Firefox" was downloaded using Firefox: it simply says "You need Firefox before I can install" and sits there, doing nowt. You can't report the error anywhere: you can't alter the install program: you just have to delete it and do without Flash.

There's nothing helpful about this on the Adobe site. Obviously, they don't have a support e-mail to contact: you can register and ask on the discussion boards from other users, but frankly I hate those: also, since I have Firefox, the problem must be that Adobe Flash is looking for a specific directory name, and it's probably still looking for Firefox v2 and I have v3, so the only solution is to wait until someone at Adobe realises, behind their wall of non-communication, that in the outside world people using Firefox v3 cannot install Flash.

Tags: computer disasters, just my life really, powerful speech vs. powerless silence, venting, wanting to fire people for being stupid

04:42 pm: What fresh hell is this?
( My woes, let me show you them )

I am trying to think of nice, happy, fluffy things.

1. I made a cake. It is a very good cake, and I shall ice it with lemon icing.

2. I can go home now. It's after five.

3. My garden is nice.

4. My cats are lovely.

5. Bob is well and purring.

6. Cake is nice.

give dragon eggs clicky

Tags: bloody work, bob, cake, computer disasters, dragon eggs need clicky, family stuff, lists, self-obsession

01:00 pm: Stone Knives and Bearskins
Today I made my first sale on Redbubble! (A card with a reflective picture on it.) I made 29p!

( Other than that, not a good two-three days )

Saw Forbidden Kingdom on Thursday night with Ajay. It was fun.

Tags: computer disasters, gym membership, photos

09:53 am: CD stuck in drive - drive won't eject
I have a Sony DVD player/CD rewriter drive on my computer, installed some time ago.

There is a CD in it, and it won't eject. I tried: pressing the button: clicking the Eject option on the menu: swearing at it quite a lot: trying to assist the Eject option by levering at the drive when it did that little thump.

I can't figure out what to try next. It's outside the manufacturer's warranty period. Anyone else know what to do when this happens? Not only would I quite like this CD back, I also want to make use of this drive.

Tags: computer disasters

09:49 pm: Windows Millennium
*after searching on Symantec for a reference*

Anyone heard of a virus that reacts to you deleting files by multiplying copies of them? Runs on Windows Millennium. The deleted files show up in the Recycle Bin. The deleted files are Word documents.

Tags: computer disasters, family stuff

05:55 pm: Er, help...?
My brother set up a network for my parents' computers (my mum has a Mac, my dad has a Dell) and then went away and left it.

Now my mum can access the Internet (as can their lodger, who has a PC running Windows 98) but my dad, whose laptop uses Windows Millennium, cannot. As far as I can figure out, his laptop is playing a game of "Local area connection? What local area connection?" though it will quite happily attempt to use the old dial-up modem.

He has been able to connect to the Internet, on an identical setup, in the past: quite recently it "just stopped working". He uses ZoneAlarm firewall and AVG viruschecker, both installed by me. Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong? I can double-checked all the physical connectors, and the D-Link network card itself still seems to be working.

Edit: Furthermore, I can ping my dad's computer from the lodger's computer (I don't know how to ping from a Mac - I've led a sheltered life) , and I can ping the lodger's computer from my dad's computer. So something's working...

Tags: computer disasters, family stuff

07:39 am: It is NOT 1 January 1980, because if it were I would be 12
Last night my computer crashed. This morning my computer thought that it was New Year's Day, 1980, 23:23. (Which is the time my computer crashed, though not the date.) I first realised this when I switched on and the computer told me that it had automatically updated my clock for Daylight Savings Time (which it would have to, if it were January and I hadn't switched my computer on since the 2nd of October) and would I confirm it was correct.

And I got up and got halfway through to the sitting-room to turn my TV on to check whether it was Daylight Savings Morning, before I could slap myself and point out to myself that it's Friday morning, not Sunday morning, and the clocks never go back on a Thursday night, always on a Saturday.

Then I checked the date and discovered that it was 1980 again, and as I did not want to go through my teens once more, nor to experience another 17 years of Conservative government, I quickly fast-forwarded through time to correct the situation. You should all be very grateful to me, especially if you weren't born yet.

It is now 07:39 on 3 October 2003. Should I be worried about my computer's sudden refusal to recognise reality?

Tags: computer disasters, evil british politics, history