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Jan. 6th, 2007 09:25 amPerhaps a fugue. Raining this morning, temperature when I arose before the sun stood at about 50 F. No, I'm not going to rearrange that sentence.
Wandered through the friendly neighborhood Staples yesterday, buying a new pocket calendar to track meetings and such, and picked up a 1-gig USB flash drive for under $20. How the mighty have fallen.
Then I plugged the thing into the laptop (this Win98 desktop doesn't recognize flash drives, and the USB ports (2) hide out on the back, anyway...) and instead of just showing up as a drive, it popped up with a bunch of preloaded software. Yecch. No, I don't want Skype. No, I don't want Avast! -- already running AVG, and the two would fight. I considered running the synch program to automate backups, and the first thing it did was try to connect to the Internet...
Am I the only one out here who remembers original program disks pre-loaded with a virus???
Wandered through the friendly neighborhood Staples yesterday, buying a new pocket calendar to track meetings and such, and picked up a 1-gig USB flash drive for under $20. How the mighty have fallen.
Then I plugged the thing into the laptop (this Win98 desktop doesn't recognize flash drives, and the USB ports (2) hide out on the back, anyway...) and instead of just showing up as a drive, it popped up with a bunch of preloaded software. Yecch. No, I don't want Skype. No, I don't want Avast! -- already running AVG, and the two would fight. I considered running the synch program to automate backups, and the first thing it did was try to connect to the Internet...
Am I the only one out here who remembers original program disks pre-loaded with a virus???
