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I found out that a friend of mine just got hired by Apple. When he announced he was leaving the company he works at, I said "Where could you go up from where you are currently working? Google? Microsoft?" He said, "No, no, no, the anti-Microsoft!" Um, uh, he's going to be Linus Torvald's personal assistant? "Apple?" I asked. Bingo... Oh, figures, lots of mac lovers at his company, I should have known. "They don't even rate on my map, but congratulations anyhow!" So tonight, during a bought of insomnia, when I booted up my Windows Vista HP machine, and it did it's usual disk thrashing, (Tomcat with Confluence likes to max out the processor for several minutes after coming out of suspend) and then I was presented with a low risk warning by Norton that "Apple Computer Bonjour" was trying to access DNS, I thought of my friend. I am sure he would have clicked "OK! Sure! I trust anything Apple puts on my computer!" But for me, I hadn't a clue what that would be. I looked through my program menu, couldn't find anything noticeable from Apple, or anything called Bonjour. That doesn't give me a good feeling. So I looked up "Apple Computer Bonjour", and discovered it is some sort of network discovery protocol for iTunes. Grrrr... I don't remember installing iTunes. I accidentally installed iTunes on one of my other machines, and now it constantly bothers me to make updates to itself, and it keeps wanting to take over the playing of my media files, etc. Frustrating like a low grade fever, I don't mind how Widnows Media Player is handling things, thank you. No I don't care about the download of the week that promises to make it even easier to hand over money to Apple to download music. Stop "interrupting my internet experience" begging for upgrades. So I said no to Apple Computer Bonjour. I've got better things to worry about after I go online than wasting cycles on that. The aggravating thing is that I don't think this machine has iTunes on it. I can't find it anywhere on my start menu. Maybe it's the eMusic Download Manager that brought along Bonjour. eMusic Manager was busy downloading some files before I suspended my machine. But I just restarted it, and it seems happy, no additional warnings about Bonjour. I am looking at "Administrative Tools" to get to Services. I don't see anything called Apple Computer, or Bonjour, there either. So I don't know how to disable this for the future. Maybe a good old going to "Program Files\Bonjour" and renaming that directory to "Bonjour Offline" will do the trick..... So back to downloading Kyema, Kailasha, and Koume, whatever they are.... Other links:
OK, I guess I won't nuke it, HP is one of it's enthusiasts, probably explains where it is hiding somewhere in this HP machine. Not exactly what I wanted to spend my insomnia and battery on, at least I didn't have anything else really pressing to do. |
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