From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Norton irritations

December 31, 2005

While I’m paying most attention to my new WordPress blog, I mustn’t neglect this MT one.

Still in housekeeping mode today, and spending too much time this morning on sorting out an irritating problem on my desktop system with Norton Internet Security (NIS). I upgraded to the 2006 version a few weeks ago and have had problems with it since then.

These are the types of problem that are difficult to pinpoint. But they include things like whenever I shut down the PC, I get an error with the ccapp.exe part of NIS where it doesn’t close on a timely basis. Or the Norton firewall keeps popping up a dialog re the MS print spooler accessing the net even though I’ve made changes to the permissions for that app.

irritating. The PC’s currently running a disk test as part of the diagnostics I’m doing. I could do without this at the moment. Maybe I should switch back to Zone Alarm. That’s running on the laptop on which I’m writing this post. Never had problems with Zone Alarm.

And while on the subject of weird things, why can I still not set multiple categories when creating a post in MT 3.2? In the post edit window, I can choose the primary category. Yet in the drop-down list to assign multiple categories, I can select them but they don’t stick.

But enough ranting for the moment and back to the PC. What an end-of-year commentary to post!

Many more good things to talk about re software in particular. Later.