Netflix Services Experienced An Internal Error
Published March 16, 2011
Watching Netflix over my Roku HD player was working fine two nights ago. Last night I sparked it up and it displayed “netflix services experienced an internal error”. Tonight’s the same thing. It’s been raining like a mofo here at night and maybe my internet connection farted and got dropped in the middle of the night. I’m on a Cisco Linksys E2000 wireless router with AT&T DSL. Here’s how I fixed it.
- I unplugged the Roku for a couple of minutes to allow it to reset.
- Powered it back up and let it do its startup.
- It found my router ok, but wouldn’t connect to it.
- Poked the little discovery button on the router, ran out to the Roku and tried it again.
- BAMM! Bob’s your uncle. Connected successfully.
6 Days Too Late
Published August 19, 2010
I removed McAfee from my computers 6 days ago. I got tired of actually GETTING viruses with McAfee. Why, you ask? Because they didn’t have real-time notifications like, oh, I don’t know, FREE AVG does! So every weekend I’d scan and every weekend I saw I was infected all week.
Today I see that Intel bought McAfee for $7.68 billion. Not that it matters anymore because it’s too fucking late, but I hope to God that the Intel engineers are better with software usability than McAfee is. I’d start by firing every fucking one of McAfee’s programmers.
UPDATE: Not long after this, they upgraded the software to include instant infection notifications. Too late.
How To Remove McAfee From Your Computer
Published August 13, 2010
I have fucking had it with McAfee antivirus. Ever since that new major upgrade earlier this year, nothing works right. I have 3 licenses. On one of my computers, every time that McAfee notification pops up telling me it just updated, I can’t click the the buttons on the notification to make the window go away. Click, click, click, nothing happens. I end up either moving the window off the edge of the screen or rebooting. Even when I go into the setup, none of the buttons work. When a program needs permission to access the internet, I can’t give it rights because…you guessed it, none of the fucking buttons work.
The absolute last straw was when I tried to remove it from my computer this morning. Went to the control panel to Add/Remove programs. I get a warning that it will uninstall it and I’ll have no virus protection. I click Remove and the buttons disappear and nothing happens. It just sits there like rock. I couldn’t even delete the folders off the computer because files were in use. It’s like trying to get rid of an ex-wife when you had kids together. I’m tired of my computers being held prisoner by their bloatware.
After a little research, I did find away to get it off. Long story short, go Google “mcafee removal tool”. I downloaded it, ran it, and FINALLY it’s off my system.
I installed the free version of Avast instead. We’ll see what happens. It sure as fuck can’t be any worse because even though real-time scanning was on, every week when I ran a full scan, it always found viruses. Beats me wtf they were because I also couldn’t figure out how to find that out, either.
Already that computer is running faster. However, now I see the free version is only good for 30 days. Fuckers. Time to go back to AVG where free really means free.
