Fighting the dust bunnies for control of the file server

Sometimes the Mandelbear wins. Sometimes the dust bunnies win.
( technical details within )

Total score: mdlbear 1.5, dust bunnies 2. Three hours for a job that was originally scheduled for 10 minutes. Good thing I didn't have any plans for the afternoon.

My 50 closest non-friends

From TrustFlow, following a posting by lysana.
( the list )

Turns out, as might be expected, that many have me on their friends lists, and I ought to reciprocate. Almost all are either filkers or Callahanians.

If I ever get my hands...

on the person who made it possible for porn sites and other low-life to install crap into my kid's copy of IE, I'm going to cut them into tiny pieces and feed them to the geese.

One might think that Microsoft designs their software specifically and primarily as a vehicle for advertising, spyware, viruses, unremovable toolbars, and other malware. One would almost certainly be right in so thinking.

(Pointers to most of the available extermination software can be found at spywareinfo.com. I can personally vouch for the moderate effectiveness of Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware -- neither was able to detect and remove both of the added toolbars, but they did find whatever was making them visible, resetting the home page, and popping up the porn ads.)