Computer Geek for hire...

Anyone interested in employing a computer freak? Not necessarily with the skills to match tho...

Hahaha... Pamela's HER good friend. Spent the ENTIRE afternoon at Pamela's house fixing her comp... And to no avail... First time I've been so frustrated by a bloody virus. It started off innocently enough. (Internet Explorer has problems accessing the website because your security settings prohibit blablabla due to ActiveX shite) It's MSNPG, it's a backdoor virus, takes advantage of the pre-SP2 exploits to download all sorts of other virii to the infected host's comp and the AMAZING thing is that IT SURVIVES FORMATTING... Ridiculously tough nut to crack. I'm supposing it exists in the fabled Master Boot Record OR D:\ drive which we did not format due to important files inside the D: drive. Well, I was stumped, despite my best efforts at removing the ~14 virii and trojans that came along with the parent virus. AVG wasn't much help (for once) and despite 2 formats, installation of Grisoft's AVG, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Spysweeper, online scanning by Trend Micro's Housecall and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, all of which had served me well in the past, NOTHING could be done about the popup by AVG that alerted me to the very first instance of infection (VIRUS ALERT!! The bloody file could not be removed.. MSNPG.EXE) Well I never... So I fully reformatted, and scanned, and installed drivers, and scanned, and went online, and scanned, and installed MS Anti Spyware, and used that to scan, and *BEEP*, lo and behold, (VIRUS ALERT!! The bloody file could not be removed.. MSNPG.EXE)(Let's call it THE EVENT). I wonder how I managed to keep the swear words within my head (whilst formulating a whole host of new cuss words for people who had all the time in the world to formulate virii and trojans). And so, Pamela called her sister's friend, a computer expert. "Oh... you never install SP2 ar." Aww right, he was so right... But the thing is, howdya install SP2 WITHOUT an active Internet connection?? By the time the BITS Windows Update even finished downloading, THE EVENT would have occurred. Oh rite, I shud haf downloaded SP2 before I came. Silly Me... SUXXXXXXX.... Frigging comp... And so I went to LAN gaming pretty pissed.. And perplexed..

Never mind that. Well, it certainly seems that the whole world has got a problem with their computers in one way or another. Mel wanted to share his internet connection with his sis. So I suggested P2P networking (i.e. cross-cabled lan cards/ ad-hoc wireless variant). We went to SLS, Fuwell and there we met many conflicting opinions. The 2 staff that came up to us knew absolutely NOTHING about ad-hoc networking ("It cannot be done" "You should get a router else it will not work") ARGGHHHH... I was pretty certain that even without a router, the gods of networking would have thought of implementing cross-cabled features in wireless networking. And yes, right on the first try, we got it to work. Mel wanted to share files with his sister though, and so we had to change his workgroup name. I used the stupid Networking Setup Wizard. WHICH CORRUPTED EVERY SETTING I HAD PAINSTAKINGLY MADE. And in the process of doing so, chose to override the default settings I had specified in the wireless adaptor's software. What a cock. And a big, ego-inflated one at that. To probably satisfy their master's lack of one. (Both cock and big ego).

Then again , don't they look alike?

For the (rare) people that have yet to experience the Force, The bloke on the left is Senator/Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine and the right chap is Bill Gate$.*snigger*

Okie. I was late for my KTV outing with WM,Thui and Mao2 after that. Mao2 WUZ EVEN LATER... We'd enjoyed ourselves, and certainly Mao2 had a great voice (as usual). The only other girl that could match her prowess would have to be Fangyu.. Or issit Kim Bee.. Arghhh I dunno la... Keep mixing up HER frens. I found that my singing had fallen to Fiona Xie's standards (read: lip-synching) when in the past, I could croon Ronald Cheng's soppy ballads with ease. Hah.

So after that, on our way back, I received 3 (yes, THREE) SOS calls. Computers. Firstly from Uncle Freddy. Who's Uncle Freddy? No, not my relative. Perhaps in the future(hehe). And so he had these beeping sounds emanating from his computer. I asked, with a certain degree of temerity, "how many?". Numerous, continuous beeps. And so I concluded it was either a problem with the graphics card. He exclaimed "Yea! I had a problem with nview.dll a couple of days ago.". Sir, I did not find the Holy Grail. Any geek worth his salt/RAM would probably know that as well. Haha. I requested that he reseat his graphics card, or else, perhaps I could come down in another week or so to rectify the problem. Case 1 closed.

Next up was Zhong. A much more murky problem. He could not connect to the internet despite being connected to the wireless network. Hmmm... Point to ponder.. We spent nearly an hour on the phone. I deemed it a problem with his router settings OR ADSL modem. In the end he got so frustrated that I promised to head down tomorrow to have a look.

Next up, Greggy. One of my Armourer men. He had a problem with ActiveX. Sounds familiar? "Greg. I was unable to solve another fren's similar problem. Tell u what. Since ur problem is in its infancy, use MS's AS,GS's AVG, WR's SS and LS's AA to scan." I should come up with codenames for them. Furthermore, since I figured that I have cited these software countless times, I should get endorsement fees man. Dammit. I'd be rich.

Bloody Starhub still down. No MSN Messenger. No BF. No RoseOnline. Got BT only. Boohoo.. Wow I spent an hour writing this entry... OMG.. O.o