I was at the library and picked up a couple DVDs. Both were supposed to be romantic comedies. I just watch Le Divorce. Well, I watched almost an hour of it. That is an hour I will never get back. IT IS NOT A COMEDY! It is not even really romantic. The movie stars Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts. I normally like movies with Kate Hudson. This is the exception I guess. I almost bought this movie on DVD a while back. I am glad I didn’t!
I HATE IT WHEN THE DVD BOXES DESCRIBE A MOVIE AS A COMEDY AND IT ISN’T!!!!! Why do the movie companies do that? Apparently to get people to buy the crappy movies!
This morning I booted my computer, and got a message saying my Norton Anti-Virus subscription had expired. This was not a surprise. A short while back, my hard drive crashed, and I reinstalled the software for the machine from the ground up including the Norton Antivirus with the 60 day subscription. So this morning it expired. I uninstalled it, and installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2005 software that I had on my machine before the crash. But Norton wouldn’t let me activate it, saying it had be installed too many times. Yeah, that kind of happens sometimes when you have computer hardware problems (You morons!).
So I uninstalled the NAV 2005, and tried to install the Norton Internet Security 2004 software that I bought a couple years ago, and never installed. I was going to leave this on my computer for now, and order NAV 2006 online. But at one point, I remember a screen where it showed what users would get what access. It showed Administrator getting administrator access. I showed my user, and think it showed administrator access, but my user, and the access level were grey out. *shrug*.
After rebooting, it got an error trying the connect to norton. I couldn’t access the net from the machine at all. I rebooted, and continued having problems. I decided to uninstall the Norton Internet Security (NIS) 2004 software. When I went to the control panel and tried to uninstall it, it said I needed to be logged into the Norton Internet Security software as administrator. I ran the software, and went to the users screen. The Log In button was greyed out, and didn’t show any users that I could log in as. I remembered the administrator thing. I booted up safe mode, and logged in as admistrator on the PC. But when I tried to run NIS 2004, it said NIS couldn’t be run from safe mode.
On my other computer, I searched for info, and found that the Administrator login doesn’t appear on the welcome screen, on in safe mode. I searched and searched for info, but didn’t find a whole lot. Norton’s website basically told me to login as Adminstrator for NIS, assuming I actually could.
I finally booted up in safe mode, and did a system restore to a couple days ago. Norton Antivirus was again installed. Norton Internet Security didn’t seem to be installed anymore. I could now access the internet again. BUT, everytime I booted the machine, I would get an error message saying that NisProd.dll was not found. It also complained about a couple other missing files, but those messages stopped after I booted the machine a couple times.
I searched for info about this NisProd.dll file, and found other people had the same problem. I decided to go to Circuit City and buy NAV 2006, and hopefully installing it would fix the problem. It didn’t.
I searched more. I found some stuff at Norton’s web site. After I follow several links, it took me to a page where I could download and run SymNRT (Norton Removal Tool):
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&docid=2004092711224136&nsf=nip.nsf&view=docid
I followed the instructions, and it uninstalled everything NORTON! It got rid of the remnants of Norton Internet Security. It got rid of the recently installed (but not yet activated) Norton Antivirus. It also got rid of Norton Ghost that has been working fine.
I rebooted, and the annoying NisProd.dll messages had gone away. I reinstalled Norton Antivirus 2006 with no problems. I reinstalled Norton Ghost also with no problems!
So if you are having these problems, use the Norton Removal Tool! It successfully wipe out all of the Norton stuff. It is a pain to reinstall stuff, but less of a pain than dealing with the problems of half-uninstalled software!
Storm Large completely rocked! I was not familiar with the song, but it was cool. And she gave an awesome performance. Even without the stage dive it was great!
Phil Ritchie got axed! The said it was for questionable commitment. I don’t doubt his commitment. The guy gave up a white collar job to follow his dream of being in a rock band. I don’t doubt his commitment. I don’t think he had good vocal control. His voice was all over the place on some of the songs he did. With training, this might be fixed.
Patrice Pike was just bland this week! Very forgetable.
Dilana. What can I say about Dilana. She is freaky to look at. She has a great voice. Doing the Nirvana song this week she really showed that she can sing soft too.
Josh Logan still seems like he is auditioning for INSYNC or The Backstreet Boys.
Zayra Alvarez is just not right for this band. I like her even though her voice is out of control on some songs. love the song Not An Addict, but I didn’t like her version of it.
Dana Andrews is cute. Not sure about whether she would fit or not.
Lukas Rossi is interesting. He is good. He probably fit in with the band very well.
Steely Dan is trying to claim that the movie You, Me And Dupree ripped of their song Cousin Dupree. I haven’t seen the movie, but I have seen the trailers on TV and in the theater. I quickly looked up the lyrics to the Cousin Dupree song (which I have never even heard), and the song seems to be about some guy name Dupree having the hots for his cousin Janine. The movie seems to be about a lazy guy named Dupree staying with his buddy and his buddy’s wife. The song kind of suggests that Dupree might be staying at his Aunt Faye’s house.
But to say that the movie was even inspired by the song is a far stretch.
I just looked, and it looks like the song Cousin Dupree is from 2001? I didn’t even know that Steely Dan was still together. I liked a few of the songs off of Brain Salad Surgery. I liked Aja when it came out. I listen to Aja now, and I find it boring. Oh well.
Hey Becker and Fagen, get a life!
It was an interesting week. Jenny Galt just got booted. She sang okay, but the performance seemed like she was faking it. Like she was just bouncing around the stage like she thought the band wanted to see.
Dana Andrews sang great, but I don’t think her voice is right for this type of band. Josh Logan seems like he is auditioning for a frigging boy band!
I liked how Jason Newsted got up there and played bass on White Rabbit Tuseday night! He rocked! I still think Phil Ritchie’s voice is not that good.