PRB - Golden Age - Lockheed L9
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Darn it. Now the wind is directly on the nose, from sea lavel up to 10,000 feet. The only difference is that at 10,000 feet the wind is 22 knots, and at 4000 feet it's only 12. So I'm back down to 4000 feet. Cool thing is, from 10,000 feet I could see Australia on the horizon. So even though I'm back at 4000 and can't see it anymore (surrounded by clouds), I'm pretty sure it's really there now...
Slight misfortune has struck team Lockheed. It seems I have been slightly unvigilant lo these many months. I never kept the Lockheed locked. But last evening I was set upon by tiny bandits (my computer got a virus). They came out of nowhere! Well, come to think of it, the guys at the bar I was at in downtown Darwin last night looked kind of shady... (I was looking for JavaScript help) They must have followed me back to the airport... They appear to be gone now, but until I can be sure of the overall health of the 9D, she’s in the hanger for a comprehensive overhaul and in depth inspection of all systems (conducting virus scans, installing better anti-virus software, got a CD boot disk to delete the offending beasties). It may be another day before I can take off for the great interior of this vast continent.
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It looks like I'm back up, more or less. I never did manage to rid the system of the virus. Well, not without resorting to the “nuclear option” anyway. Three days of poking around with windows boot CDs, a myriad of virus and spyware scanning tools, registry cleaners, checkers, sweepers, master boot record fixers, and a couple of small hammers. Nothing worked. I had two IT gurus in two states giving me suggestions, and the web was no help. Damnest thing I ever saw. Always, after “deleting” the offending file, it would come back upon booting normally. Don't know where it was hiding, but it couldn't hide from the “format c:\” command. Of course, the “collateral damage” associated with that option is sort of total. Lucky me I had only the OS and applications on the c:\ drive. The data was safe on the other drive, which has been scanned repeatedly, and my new OS (Windows 7) is running very nicely so far. This wasn't t the FS computer, BTW. It was not affected by this event. It was turned off when I got hammered, but I did have a lot of work stuff on here. So tomorrow I will be back on the road to the Great Australian Outback Wilderness. I did loose my LM2009 flight plan, however. Good thing I'm almost done!