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Nov. 27th, 2001 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupMust have been some kind of weird browser thing. This whole morning I kept being unable to: a) log into Yahoo mail; b) enter the maintenance page of the reviews I am editing (ie my "job"); c) see verbminx's new icons. But every other kind of graphic (NY Times, etc.) kept loading fine. After confirming that the work site was functioning fine and logging in to Yahoo at a CompUSA store, I came home and tried everything again. Worked once, then the same problems. So I thought about the fact that I tried this applet last night that was mentioned in the New York Times and didn't work on Macs. I cleaned out my cache and history. For some reason, second try let me in to everything.
I don't really understand stuff with caches. It seems to me that this cache should be located somewhere, but I can never find it. I have preferences set to update all the time, so I'm not sure why it would torpedo my system.
I had gone to CompUSA because I figured this might also finally be the virus acting up. I've known for months that I have the Myna virus on my machine. I have never encountered anything specifically wrong as a result of it, but my system is much more unstable than any Mac I've ever owned. Then again, this is the first Mac where I do a lot of internet and Microsoft stuff (IE and Word, mostly). The machine has a tendency to quit right after you try to print something. One happy result of the switch to the cable modem has been the absence of this frequent problem, where the first page of IE would load after dialup and then nothing else would load. (I chalked that up to Earthlink.)
It pisses me off, because I got my first Mac in 1987-- my Pittsburgh friend Kenneth had one in 1985, when they first came out-- and I used to know my way around Macs very well. But there's so much external crap that comes up at startup that I have no idea what it is.
Anyway, so I shelled out $50 for a damn virus program and cleaned everything up. Argh.
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Did end up working last night. A bunch of syllabi for me to edit finally came in at about 5 p.m. Looks like the same thing might happen today. It is hard to make a full 8 hours when doing so much work at night, but I will take what I can get.
Used my idleness today to go to the academic used bookstore in Davis Square. Just about the best used bookstore I have ever been in for finding books I actually use (as opposed to $1 paperback fiction or history, of which I have plenty). Found two books I consulted almost every day of writing my dissertation, together came to $20. We have been spending to beat the band the past few weeks, but I figure I can't pass that stuff up. If I don't have good access to an academic library, I can at least build up one of my own.
I don't really understand stuff with caches. It seems to me that this cache should be located somewhere, but I can never find it. I have preferences set to update all the time, so I'm not sure why it would torpedo my system.
I had gone to CompUSA because I figured this might also finally be the virus acting up. I've known for months that I have the Myna virus on my machine. I have never encountered anything specifically wrong as a result of it, but my system is much more unstable than any Mac I've ever owned. Then again, this is the first Mac where I do a lot of internet and Microsoft stuff (IE and Word, mostly). The machine has a tendency to quit right after you try to print something. One happy result of the switch to the cable modem has been the absence of this frequent problem, where the first page of IE would load after dialup and then nothing else would load. (I chalked that up to Earthlink.)
It pisses me off, because I got my first Mac in 1987-- my Pittsburgh friend Kenneth had one in 1985, when they first came out-- and I used to know my way around Macs very well. But there's so much external crap that comes up at startup that I have no idea what it is.
Anyway, so I shelled out $50 for a damn virus program and cleaned everything up. Argh.
**********************************
Did end up working last night. A bunch of syllabi for me to edit finally came in at about 5 p.m. Looks like the same thing might happen today. It is hard to make a full 8 hours when doing so much work at night, but I will take what I can get.
Used my idleness today to go to the academic used bookstore in Davis Square. Just about the best used bookstore I have ever been in for finding books I actually use (as opposed to $1 paperback fiction or history, of which I have plenty). Found two books I consulted almost every day of writing my dissertation, together came to $20. We have been spending to beat the band the past few weeks, but I figure I can't pass that stuff up. If I don't have good access to an academic library, I can at least build up one of my own.
