Sweetpea Manor Musings

Rooted Nook

2011-07-07T16:59:12Z

I bought Mom a rooted Nook for an early birthday pressie. I got it off of ebay and it went somewhat well, though it took an evening to get it minimally sorted out. The Nook was as advertised from the ebay guy. The trouble is that it's an Android OS and that's new for me. The first free app didn't want to dl, the notice said there was no phone number associated with that account. To make a long story short, I needed to go to the 'Talk' icon on the Nook and set up a gmail account. Go figure.

After that, I dled an antivirus app, an app for making the battery more effecient, and file manager and some games. I bookmarked Fairyland and her email page. I've tutored her a few times on how to go from what place to another (just three or four clicks, but she gets confused.) I will have to make a cheat sheet for her, I believe. Part of the problem is that the icons seem to disappear. I need to learn all about that, too, but I've just been overwhelmed with all this crap. Plus summer has hit with a vengence and I hate the heat. I just want to crawl into a nice cool cave for a few months.

Really.

But, Mom loves her Nook. She downloaded a book and has exhausted the battery every day. The reason I bought the Nook instead of a tablet was that the Nook was lighter than any of the tablets I held. Since it's mainly for reading, that was important. Since it's rooted, and she actually likes the Amazon site better, she's using the Kindle app for her reading. It's all good. But that was why, giving the choices I currently have.

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Technology: The Nine Circles of Hell

2011-07-07T16:20:37Z

Or what has consumed my life for the past four weeks.

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Two more entries to go!

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Computer woes

2011-06-19T08:49:30Z

Last week before the Tull concert, I got the dreaded pop ups from XP Antispyware 2012--and that is a VERY BAD THING. To make a long story short, I ran my antivirus and that caught 5 things, but I still had the popups. Malwarebytes would get shut down as it tried to start up. I did a restore to a previous date and after that Windows was deeply confused and useless.

I dug the desktop out of it's cubby (spraining my back a bit) and took it into Geek Squad. Today they let me know the drive would have to be reformated. :( I had some stuff backed up, but not everythings so I'm having the data transfered to an external drive (that I bought to make backups on.) And I had to bring all my disks in to reload some of the programs. Of interest is my computer is 7 years old today. It runs XP and I've been meaning to retire it but since this is getting formated, I guess I'll have to keep it for a bit more. I'll have time to figure out what to replace it with. Next year.

Just before they called, I bought a rooted color Nook on ebay. Mom wants a ereader because the novels she's reading are huge books. A rooted Nook means some computer geek has loaded it with a full Android OS on it. Now it can have any app on it, and Mom can have a couple of ereading programs so she can buy from Amazon or B&N. She'll be able to get games, and get her email and browse the web and play her FB game. It should be a really nice tablet now. Here's a seller if anyone is interested. I'll report back in a few weeks once I have it and have played with it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150599969171&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

I have a itouch and am only familiar with Itunes. This Android stuff is AFLE. (another f-ing learning experience.) :(

Anyone got any advice as to what app is good to get?

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Virus Alert to Mega-upload users!

2010-10-17T10:32:10Z

Helping to get the word out here. I visited MU tonight and did pick up the trojan. I downloaded MalwareBytes and it did find the nasty lil' devil. Original post at:

http://gateruner.livejournal.com/251220.html?view=2878804#t2878804

To anyone who uses the Mega Upload site.

There appears to be a particularly nasty Trojan installer virus embedded within a JavaScript (JRE Runtime) pop-up ad. I hit the site twice just to be sure.

Type: Trojan/Fake-loader
Source code: Javascript, JRE Runtime platform
Info: It installs 2 component fake 'programs' including a system defragmenter and something called ThinkPoint (hotfix.exe)
Symptoms: Makes you believe your machine is failing. Says there are memory resource errors, no more disk space, hard disk failures (including corrupt sectors)

Target folders: (Windows users) User\AppData\Local\Temp

Solution: Disable System restore, boot into safe mode, clean using Malware Bytes and follow-up with your most current anti-virus scan.

Unfortunately I stumbled upon this a few hours ago and have spent all this time cleaning my machine. This one is a bad one folks. Spread the word!

You can find MalwareBytes at the following website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
It is some kick-ass software folks! Will get stuff when other programs don't.

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Firefox 3.5

2009-07-14T15:47:12Z

Last week the computer was acting screwy and one of the things I did was to upgrade Firefox to the latest version, 3.5. It seems like the right clicking does squat now. I used to right click on misspelled words and possible spellings would pop up and I'd just click on the right one. Also, if I wanted a photo, I'd right click and be able to save it. Now, the right clicking does nothing.

Does anyone know if there's a way to enable those commands? Or do I need to try to find a way revert back to an older version?

Thanks!

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