Can you take a quick look at my computer?

Charity work takes too long. Working on wipe/reinstall of XP on a friend's laptop; 2 days backing up the laptop hard drive, then when I went to install, the Dell XP CD I have is bad.
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GT Wiki spammed

Well, that didn't take long. The new GT Wiki which I set up around June 29 got invaded by spammers on July 9. They hide their pages so that it's not obvious, but there were hundreds of fake accounts set up and created hundreds of spam pages.

I installed the ConfirmAccounts module so that from now on people have to provide a valid email address, confirm it, then I'll get an email and will have to go and confirm their account before it's created.

Then I reverted the database to July 7. VERY happy that I wrote a script to do daily database backups; it made nuking all these pages a single command line and 30 seconds.

GT Wiki

stupid mouse...

"This stupid mouse's scroll wheel sure doesn't work very well. Think I'll open it up and take a look..." OH MY GOD. That is nasty.
Kudos to Logitech for a design that comes apart completely into a very cleanable (with toothbrush and toothpick) set of modules, with the removal of one screw.
In my defense, this is probably a 10 year old mouse from the junk box that was last active in a house with 3 cats.

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Bluetooth

Neat, my bluetooth headset works on hangouts (I think). Just gotta go pick up a good camera. Also the USB hub is hopeless, I need a new one.

Audiobook finished

Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind, book 4 of Sword of Truth.

Pretty good, I liked it a bit less than book 3 probably. The torture didn't bother me so much but I'm glad I have the "speed up playback" feature on my MP3 player to get past the sex scenes. He does a good sex scene I suppose, and they're always important to the story but he does ramble on. OK, we need this scene for the story, but this ain't a regency romance, get on with it.

There were some moving parts in it though, for sure.

I do think this is a good place to take a break from the series though; nothing is hanging and things are pretty much OK, and I feel like I've had enough of this for now.
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