I like to organize my contacts into logical groups (i.e., fellow alums, LinkedIn, Prepsters, Prepsters64, family, friends, acquaintences, coworkers, excoworjkers, exjobs). So I have different files for different groups. What happens when one person is across different groups? Does LookOut recognize people? Nah. That’s your problem!
TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006It’s inconsistent. (Porbably the most damning thing one can say about a software product)
It takes mental vacations when you are pounding away, and goes off doing something or an other, all I am sure very important, but frustrating.
The right mouse click doesn’t always work. For example, when I am creating a new contact from an alumni record, I cutnpaste (didn’t know that was now a one word verb, did ya?) from an alums info on mcalumdb. Sometimes their birthday is in the mcalumdb, so I highlight it, copy it to the clipboard, take the “details” tab, highlight the trash that in the birthday field, right click getting ready to paste, and nothing. It doesn’t work. I have to cntl v it. Argh!
Also, “take the details tab” means I have move my right hand from the keyboard to the mouse to take it. Arghh! Each tab coulda had an alt key combo assigned to it. SO, I should be able to to an ALT D to it. I think that no one really used this stuff. It’s so obvious.
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LIBERTY: “ZONING” … … another gubamint crime!
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=14398
Town shuts down 13-year-old’s $5-a-month worm-selling business because the small cardboard sign on his lawn violated zoning laws
By SARAH MISHKIN, Courant Staff Writer
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CROMWELL — Local worm salesmen, beware. As 13-year-old Joe Cadieux learned recently, Cromwell can be a hostile environment for those looking to break into night crawler vending – particularly if they advertise with a yard sign.
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A variation of the “lemonade stand” flaw of gubamint, where gubamint expresses it’s inability to differentiate significant from insignificant AND it’s general disregard for business AND it basic contempt for its residents.
Personally, I like when they do this because they show the true colors of gubamint — stupidity and brutality! The only thing missing was them shooting someone, imprisioning them, or seizing the home!
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TECH: Phishers are funny!
Saturday, August 12, 2006As reader’s here know, I use LOTS of email addresses. It’s especially comical when I get a “security notice” on one of these accounts. This one in particular is used for my fellow alums to report their upcoming alumni events. Naturally, I have an Outlook rule that takes mail from this mail account and, if it comes from an alumni’s email address, it is moved to an appropriate inbox. Everything left in that account’s inbox is suspect. Financial accounts have their own unique email accounts. SO, be definition, this trash is in the wrong place. I am immediately ‘on guard’! Add to the fact that I don’t have a Citibank account, and I am ready for a laugh. Now this idiot actually has a like to a German site. It’s a good think that they are stupid or someone might actually get fooled.
From: service@citi-bank.com [mailto:service@citi-bank.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:08 AM
To: events@jasperjottings.com
Subject: CITIBANK Account Suspended
CITIBANK Update – Account Suspended !
We recently have discovered that multiple computers have attempted to log into your Citibank Online Account, and multiple password failures were presented before the logons. We now require you to re-validate your account information to us.
If this is not completed by August 13, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.
To continue please Click Here <http://www.vedbaekgarden.dk/galleri/albums/citi/> or on the link below to re-validate your account information :
http://www.citibank.com/update.html/ <http://www.vedbaekgarden.dk/galleri/albums/citi/>
Sincerely,
The CITIBANK Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your CITIBANK account and choose the “Help” link in the header of any page.
© 2006 CITIBANK Security Manager
SPAM folder for this one, but it was good for a laugh and a blog.
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TECH: GMAIL burps?
Saturday, August 12, 2006Yesterday, my Outlook, or as I lovingly call it until I get off it, LookOut, started to request a password every time it went to one of my gmail accounts. Arghh. I thought that this was the beginning of one of the infamous LookOut problems. So I started fresh this morning to “solve” it.
- Looked up the correct password. (Paper back up is wonderful.)
- Plugged it in.
- Same problem.
- Logged onto the Gmail account from Firefox. OK!
- Confirms the password is correct and usable.
- Maybe GMailhas “forgotten” I want to use a pop client?
- Bingo!
- Setting for POP is “forgotten”. Reset.
- Retest. A-OK!
Don’t ask me why GMail got stupid? I’m just happy it wasn’t LookOut!
That’s ten minutes of my life I won’t get back!
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TECH: HOMEDESK winrot correction plan
Saturday, August 12, 2006HOMEDESK has a bad case of winrot that won’t allow it to network with anything. Argh. So, it needs a reinstall. Always a traumatic event. I’ve ordered a WD500 external disk drive for taking a complete backup. I’m going to get GHOST for repartitioning. My tentative plan is:
- delete all downloaded software installer distribtuions:
- copy everything from HOMEDESK to the WD500;
- make an image of HOMEDESK on the WD500;
- GHOST HOMEDESK to cd;
- pray;
- repartition HOMEDESK’s 90 into 10-25-45-10+;
- reinstall XP into the D drive;
- see what I have lost?;
- live happiply ever after?
Sounds like a plan. Comments
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TECH: “Gadwin PrintScreen” … a must-have for your desktop
Friday, August 11, 2006You know how I love free utilities. Here’s a screen print utility. I use it to take jpegs of screens for documentation or helping people understand what they will see. You may wish to put it in your arsenal.===
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
What is Gadwin PrintScreen?
Want to create a screenshot suitable for saving or printing? Then just hit a key on your keyboard. Oh yeah, you’ll have to download this program first.
There are several hotkey combos to choose from (PrintScreen is the default). Once you’ve chosen your favorite combo, head to the Destination tab and have the screen print out instantly, copy the capture to the clipboard, save it to a specific folder, or even send it through e-mail. You can perform full screen captures, or only capture a specific window.
Gadwin PrintScreen is an easy to use freeware utility that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice.
There are also six different image formats to choose from, and each one can be resized. With all the customization capabilities, what more could you ask for?
Who needs Gadwin PrintScreen?
Screen captures can be used for many reasons. Use captured images from Gadwin PrintScreen to show off your product on the web. Enhance technical or sales documents and embed captures into presentations. Gadwin PrintScreen can help you capture and print or save computer screen data.
Why Gadwin PrintScreen?
On most Windows computers a full screen of data can be put on the clipboard by pressing the PrintScreen key. This sends whatever you see on screen to the clipboard, which you must then edit in a different graphics program to cut to the right size and image format. Here are some other reasons not to use the prefabricated PrintScreen function of Windows:
Full screen of data can be put only on the clipboard.
It is either difficult or impossible to capture some elements of a Windows screen, such as different shaped cursors.
You spend too much time making image captures.
Use Gadwin PrintScreen to save time and enhance your screen shots! Download freeware Gadwin PrintScreen now and try it out! This is the best way to learn what it can do.
System Requirement.
Gadwin PrintScreen requires Microsoft ® Windows 98/Me/2000/2003/XP, or Windows NT 4.0SP6. If you are running any of these operating systems and have a Windows-compatible mouse or pointing device, your system has already met all the requirements necessary to run Gadwin PrintScreen. A full installation of Gadwin PrintScreen requires 1 megabyte of hard drive space.
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TECH: HOMEDESK repartition strategy
Friday, August 11, 2006In getting ready to fix my winrot problem, I’m not going to make the same mistake I made last time. I just laid it down over the old image. No, this is going to be a complete start from scratch. So, I am thinking that EVEN after I get all the data backed up, I’m going to “save my work”. Several sites seem to recommend having a partitioning strategy. They seem to favor: a CEE drive small; DEE drive about 25g for WINDOZE; an EEE drive for data; and an FFF drive for downloads and drivers. So if I carve up HOMEDESK’s 90g, it works out to be C=10g, D=25g, F=45g, and E=10g. Comments?
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TECH: HOMEDESK is still in trouble. WINXP repair failed to solve the problem!
Friday, August 11, 2006Well, I suspect that winrot will finally force me to rebuild the box. Arghhh. I just finished taking specific backups. I’m going to try one more trick. Hard wire the box into the home netwrk and see if that will allow it to limp along. Double arghhhh! I suspect that darn mcafee “security” package. That’s one thing that gets dumped in a rebuild.
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TECH: wireless keyboards
Friday, August 11, 2006I got tired of the LUGable frying my leg when I use it. There was also some mild concern about about the three dell fires that have been blogged about. So I bought a wireless keyboard. I highly recommend the MX3000 from Logitech.
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