In one of the best efforts I have seen by a Jasper team since winning the MAAC regular season game, the Jaspers brought their A game to College Park Maryland. Despite being razzed by Frau Reinke and one of my best friends who happens to be a Maryland alum, I was strong. I never doubt that if we had a lotta luck we could win. Bottom line: they did! Go Jaspers.
Manhattan College Jaspers nip Maryland
Saturday, March 18, 2006
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RECOVERY: bring PERSPECTIVE back up
Saturday, March 18, 2006I had to recover from a platform failure. McAfree got stuck on a registry entry. I could not uninstall the privacy service, couldn’t reinstall the privacy service, and couldn’t get anything to work. So I had to reinstall wxppro. Luckily I didn’t have to reformat.
In bringing everything back up to snuff, I had problems with IIS and Perspective. I just kept looking and trying stuff. Finally, I got the idea of permissions. I brought up the IIS directory and right clicked it. Then, I took the “web sharing” and added the iis directory to the “share the folder” option.
Magically everything began to work.
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CBS March Madness on Demand
Thursday, March 16, 2006http://www.ncaasports.com/mmod/welcome
Interesting for free. I don’t know that I’d pay a lot for it. The picture quality is “scratchy” and it is small.
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Dilbert author advocates mob rule; imho he should stick to ‘toons
Wednesday, March 15, 2006http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/03/constitutional_.html#comments
Dear Scott Adams: This is a “howler”. You can’t be serious. What you describe is mob rule that is as short-fused as a polsters dream. The constitution, if it was followed, enshrines the minorities’ rights. It used to before the popular election of senators slowed things down to a reflective pace. Before that change, there was no such thing as an “unfunded mandate” (unless the Senators wanted to be lynched by their respective state legislatures). But, then we used to have “honest money” at one time too. The dead old white guys who wrote that Constitution were pretty smart about how to try to limit government power. Unfortunately, we became as “dumb” as the pointy head mamager in your strip. Government is into everything and we are being slowly enslaved by the majority.
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Go Jaspers
Wednesday, March 15, 2006Interestingly, Manhattan’s win against FDU (I was a guarnteed winner since I am an alum of both schools.) now pits them against Maryland. One of my best friends is a Terp. So, we’ve been exchanging barbs. About state skools. And turtle soup. It would really be HUGE if the Jaspers can pull of an upset!
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The employment age comes to a close
Tuesday, March 14, 2006http://ripples.typepad.com/ripples/2006/03/if_you_are_empl.html
While very depresssing, sort of like “in the end, we’re all dead”, this blog entry highlights the changing metaphor in employment. Originally, at least from my pov, there was the “gold watch” era of my Mom. Then, there was the era of “pretending”, (you pretend to work and we’ll pretent to pay you). Then there was the entreprenurial era (“You Inc.”, intraprenurship, coopetition). Now I think we are in the era of “bleakmanship” (i.e., there is no salvation, no silver bullet, no hope, work for who will pay you, build your own skill, diversify, build networks of people who can help you). I do think, and I advise youngsters, that the model for their sucess is: get a cost-effective education for a white collar job, build a blue collar skill other than flipping burgers, develop side businesses like ebay, and be a ruthless manager of money. If I could come up with a sexy label it would be the “insecurity” era.
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Interesting. I see how old folks can drain their savings when there’s little coming in.
Sunday, March 12, 2006This is scary stuff.
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The Wealth of the American Nation
Americans are clearly the richest people on earth. Or are they? With some $50 trillion in stocks, bonds and real estate, we are watching our net worth grow each year. Some argue that the low US saving rate is not a problem as real net worth is growing fairly rapidly.
But not for the average family. A survey by the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances offers us the most detailed recent look at the balance sheet of U.S. households.
The median family has about $3,800 in the bank, do not have a retirement account, has a home worth $160,000 with a mortgage of $95,000. No mutual funds, stocks or bonds populate their investment portfolios. They make (jointly) $43,000 and struggle to pay off their $2,200 in credit card debt. That means 50% of Americans are in worse shape than the above. It is not a pretty picture.
As I noted last week, “…we find that 67% of the people aged 50-64 saved less than $10,000 last year. Over 40% saved less than $1,000!!!” No wonder that most people expect to work after age 65.
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When recovering, you better have every email address and password!
Sunday, March 12, 2006Or you’ll lose something. I’m not so sure that I’ll be able to recover the minor ones. The topical ones that I created with gmail for a very specific purpose.
I use the inbox with a rule to put each email address in it’s own folder. When reinitializing outlook, it sucks … sucks all the old messages down to the inbox. I wait to energize that rule to move until I have had time to determine the date I already have and delete the prior. Then I energize the rule, and all is back to normal. I’ve used that trick before.
Also, when setting up lookout for gmal account, remember it has by design huge stores of messages. Use the received after now option and read the intermedairies online. If you need a local copy forward it to yourself.
Arghhhhh!
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In the quest to restore luggable, I thought about something interesting … …
Friday, March 10, 2006… … since it is my intention to go to Linux as opposed to Vista, perhaps I should go now?
What are the implications? Hmmmm. Since it is a giant pia to recover to windows, maybe I should just forget it. Hmmm?
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Restoring “luggable” to service!
Thursday, March 9, 2006The disks arrived yesterday from Dell. That was quite quick. I was pleased (undeservedly so) and got right to work on the project. I first booted from the recovery disk. And tried a repair. Reboot and that left the stuck mcafee entry in the registry. Remember my problem is that the privacy software was blocking the wireless tcpip and I couldn’t get it to uninstall or install. So that problem remained. I tried a few other things. Visualize a dying fish on the end of line flopping about struggling to get loose. You, that was me. So I more ahear to a reinstall. An HOUR LATER, arch, the new disks trow up all sorts of missing file errors and hangs. Argh! So I dig out an old xp pro sp1 install disk and copy it to the hard drive. And retry. Luckily I was smart enough not to reformat the ntfs partition else it would have been really bricked. So when going through the pig again, I was able to find the missing files on the “old” installation disk. Install completes and it is ugly. No drivers are loaded and I have forgotten how to be administrator. Argh. Argh. So I start pouring in the disks they sent me. I was under the illusion that the “recovery disks” would magically transport me back to the way it was when it arrived. Hah! Another two HOURS of fruitless playing with the stuff gets me to a working system with zero connectivity to my home net. So I start zeroing in on drivers. Mind you now, I have nothing workign in the way of a browser or any other tools. just my wits. So I go back to the driver disk. I had thought that it would intall the necessary drivers that it knew I needed. Nope, gotta go in and do them one by one. Argh! Argh! I got that working and could connect to the world. Yeah. Still have to reinstall Office Xp but tomorrow night.
One nagging problem is that it didn’t pick up me “reinkefj” from the prior install. My files and stuff are all there. It is just that it’s not seeing it as a user. Argh! So, last thing before I went to bed was to kick off a massive copy from the old “reinkefj” to the new “reinkefj dot machinename”. I have no idea how that went since I got up late. Argh!
Whatta mess. Thanks mcafee!
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