Bucking the Trend

Trend Micro virus software failed to catch a nasty one which has been around for a long time - the virus does this:

Disables the Run, Search and Help buttons in the Start menu (they are still there, they just don't do anything)
Disables msconfig (it won't run from the command line - maybe the virus just messes with the PATH environment variable?)
Corrupts Trend Micro's main DLL so you can't do a virus scan
Disrupts the PC's ability to boot to safe mode/command prompt (it took three tries)

I uninstalled Trend Micro, replaced it with McAfee (which I get free from Comcast and was planning on switching to in May when my Trend subscription ran out), but McAfee also didn't detect the virus either on the pre-installation scan or the post-installation full scan.

McAfee tech support pointed me to a DOS-level scan which they have cleverly hidden as a separate online download (Why don't they include this with the software package?). It took about an hour to run, and fixed the problem. The report it gives is misleading - it shows how many files were scanned, how many were not infected, and even though the diff between those two numbers was 19, it showed the number of "cleaned" files as zero. But it did the trick, so I'm happy, and will be replacing Trend with McAfee on my laptop as well.

Meme With A Twist

So many people are doing the movie quotes meme. I don't watch that many movies, and don't remember most of the dialog, so here's my twisted meme:

Quotes from Musicals
Following are 15 quotes from musicals (G&S, Hollywood, Broadway and popular off-Broadway). Without using any kind of search engine, identify the musical. Extra points for naming the character who says the line, and if it's from a song, naming the song. All of these are available on CD or DVD.

1. Facts are the enemy of Truth

2. This is ridiculous, what am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story! gil_liant: "Into The Woods", the Baker's Wife, 'Anything Can Happen In The Woods'

3. The price, gentlemen, depends on the quality of the rape.

4. Hey! I got a social disease! cinchntouch: West Side Story - Officer Krupke

5. The only thing constant is change.

6. Never be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking - they don't do it very often.

7. A: Why is [deleted character name] beating his head against a tree? B: To loosen the bark, so the tree will grow faster. gil_liant: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", A=Linus, B=Lucy, [deleted character name]=Charlie Brown

8. A: Are you saying you know who I am, and it doesn't matter? B: I'm saying I don't know who you are, and it doesn't matter

9. When a cutthroat's finished jumping on his mother, how he loves to lie a-basking in the sun gil_liant: "The Pirates of Penzance", the Police Sergeant, 'A Policeman's Life Is Not A Happy One'

10. But it's Summer, and we're running out of ice.

11. Two millionaires with a dream are we, we're keeping romance alive

12. Child, If I had two dollars I would retire and never do a lick of work again

13. If you ever lose your teeth when you're out to dine, borry mine targeter: Anything Goes. Quack quack quack. cinchntouch: Friendship

14. You've got to be taught to be afraid / Of people whose eyes are oddly made, / And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, / You've got to be carefully taught. cinchntouch: South Pacific

15. Solo for the President!

Dissonance

Consonance has scheduled Dr. James' concert at a time when those of us coming from Silicon valley will have to fight peak Friday rush hour traffic to get there. I know I'm not getting on 237 at that time of day. And I guess I'll have my nails done tomorrow instead of Sunday so I can catch figmo's act. I'll miss the wedding, but since I don't know the happy couple and only know the bride's parental units from afar, that's probably for the best.

It looks like a great line-up for the weeknd. Maybe I'll get up the gumption to do a two-fer.

SCA Puzzler

Been reading SCA members' LJs, and there's an inconsistency which has been bothering me, because I'm hopelessly A.R. about things that don't matter. :-)

SCA territory is divided into:

Kingdom
Principality
Barony
Shire
Stronghold
Canton

The first four are classical British terms for political units, the fifth is more of a military term, but still Britt. But Canton is French, and to the best of my knowledge was never used outside of France and Switzerland (except for more recent appearances in Ohio and southern China).

The word they are looking for, I believe, is County, as in the domain of a count.

Tangentially, how come SCA doesn't have any empires? Or do they?