Remember...
Easy to know men's faces...
Not their heart.
Master Chen Hai Yang
We have a house full of kids at the moment, Alex is having an hour of tennis coaching this morning, and Carly is pestering me to get dressed and take her down town. We have touch football this afternoon in Wagga and one of Carly's friends are sleeping over tonight. They plan on doing a "Trick or Treat" around the neighbourhood. I keep telling her that it's not halloween until Monday, and we're not American and don't actually get into the whole Halloween thing but all the kids are quite adamant about going. It's my neice's 21st today so I may have plans of my own.
I can't get over how quickly the weeks are slipping by. Before we know it, Christmas will have crept upon us. I've done very little about it so far and I guess I need to start thinking about what I'm buying everyone. Carly wants a double bed and a stereo. Alex wants everything he sees on the ads on TV.
I've fixed a few computers this week for friends. The first one, the computer wouldn't detect the scanner, but after pulling plugs and reinstalling software, we discovered it was the software that came with the scanner that wasn't working, windows own Scanners and Printers had found it and using that was the only way we could get it to work. The next job was a computer full of viruses or something just as nasty. We had no mouse control at all, and windows right click menus were popping up all over the place without being clicked on. That was most frustrating. Very difficult to open a program without the use of the mouse. I installed Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Doctor, and although there were lots of problems fixed up, it didn't clean up the problem. I had to leave that one (it was 10.30 pm by the time we finished and I really had to get home). The next day my friend got a technician in who installed Ad-Aware and found over 100 critical instances and that cleaned it up. We had a problem just installing software. The computer was on a school network (my friend is the principal of our local primary school) and we needed admin permissions to install and run programs. My next computer job was for my mother. Recently they bought a computer with Windows XP installed and every time they logged on they got the Windows Activation window. 30 days to activate. Anyway, it went beyond the 30 days and now they're locked out of the computer. Don't you just love Microsoft!! I tried everything I could think of, even setting the date back to before the 30 days were up. The person who mum bought the computer from has given me some serial numbers and other numbers, but I don't think it is what this activation screen is looking for. It looks like I may have to reinstall Windows for them. I have an XP Pro version that doesn't need activating so that will be a job for Sunday unless these numbers I have makes a difference but I'm not confident that it will work.
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