I seem to be having my first problem with FiOS Internet access. I’d better enter this quick, before the network light turns red again.
Follow-up: this turned out to be nothing.
Category: Tech
Turning Uninstall Into “Doneinstall”
It’s very annoying when a Windows application gets weird and you try to uninstall it, either to get rid of it or to try installing again, and things don’t go very well. You can end up with the program sitting in the Add/Remove Programs list, but you can’t get rid of it. Click the link to read about the Windows Installer CleanUp.
YouTube, YouSuck
For single videos that I don’t capture and master myself, I download from YouTube and post them. Putting playlists into custom players was the one feature YouTube offered that I found useful. But now YouTube’s playlists are blown. Gone. Snafu. Broken.
7/31 Flash! As in Flash player. Playlists seem to be working again. I’ve only checked a couple of them, but at the moment, for now, YouTube has redeemed itself.
2002 Honda CR-V A/C AOK
The air conditioner has been replaced, it works great, and I paid what I expected, a little over $1400, including the initial diagnosis; i.e., the cost of replacing the compressor. So that’s that. Time to move on to whatever coming’s next.
Tech Trouble Quiz
I’m still, can you believe it, pulling stuff from my old tower PC onto my new mini-tower PC. We’ve been having lots of thunderstorms lately, so I’ve been good about turning off my computer before leaving the house or going to bed, because the battery in my uninterruptable power supply is just about played out.
Tonight I couldn’t start my PC. Dead battery in UPS, but that’s OK because I paid only $12 for the thing (thanks, tastewar, how long ago was that?), and it’s worked well until recently. The UPS wouldn’t turn back on, so I moved the PC plug over to the surge protector side of the unit.
I powered up the PC and logged onto my account. Within moments the computer shut itself down. Huh. Did it again and it powered itself off again. Ah. Of course. I powered it up again but got into safe mode. I ran a Windows utility program and changed something. Then I restarted Windows, logged onto my account and it was fine.
What did I change to fix the problem? tastewar will know the answer, I’m sure.
2002 Honda CRV A/C Black Death Compromise
A compromise has been reached with Honda. My position is that I can understand the compressor going on a car with 95,000 miles on it. But this Black Death thing, where the A/C is completely destroyed to the tune of $4000, indicates a product defect. I have agreed to pay $1300 for a compressor replacement job, and they will replace the entire system. The car goes into the shop on Thursday.