All Weekend Long

So it seems the aforementioned spider monkey was wrong, wrong, wrong all along, as well as awfully annoying. The router I set up while he was babbling on and on was set up wrong, so it didn't hold the IP assignments over night. Fixed that Saturday.

Also Saturday, I took care of a laptop that had an unfortunate habit of loading the HP drivers every single time it was booted up. Disable the Cue Discovery Service, my son.

Sunday, went to a new client's home and found their ancient, underpowered machine. It was a bit slow, they said. 512MB RAM is barely enough for WinXP, it surely isn't enough for WinXP and every pig utility from Symantec. And I mean every one of them. It was painfully slow. I did my best and strongly suggested a RAM upgrade, and removing Mr Norton.

The original complaint was that the Palm Desktop software had somehow truncated the contacts list such that there were no records past S. I found that there were records, but they were largely blank. Ghostly Backups were no help; they were the same. There's no telling how long this had been going on. Lesson Here: Archive the important stuff to a separate file and Verify Your Backups.

Oh, and the machine was suffering a BSD error about every week or so. This error (0x0000007F, 0x00000008) is Symantec puking up when it loads the Firewall app; they provide a registry fix on their web site. I noticed that the Norton Firewall didn't load after the fix; now the client uses Windows Firewall.

Then, off to the club to put back the office PCs that I've had for about two months. The renovated office is nice, and the PCs are fast(er). It's a great step up from what it was.