Bare metal restore time?
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MACBOOKAIR: Applied 10.6.7 update but still having panics
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 on MACBOOKAIR doesn’t have scheduled send
Tuesday, March 22, 2011Fedinand Reinke, Mar-18 11:49 pm (PDT):
Sometimes I would like a message to be delayed until tomorrow, next week, or some time next year. I can’t find how to induce POSTBOX2 to do that for me. I know it’s in Outlook. How does a POSTBOX2 User do that?
It would be really nice if POSTBOX2 would handle that very smartly (i.e., wake up when a deferred request triggers and send it) but I could even live with it doing it the next time it is “alive”.
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Justin Rochell, Mar-21 07:47 pm (PDT):
Hi Fedinand,
Postbox has a “Send Later” feature, but without scheduling.
http://support.postbox-inc.com/entries/247672-using-the-send-later-command
If you don’t mind, please submit a request for scheduling in the Ideas & Feature Requests Forum so we can keep track of it.
Thanks for using postbox!
Best,
Justin Rochell
Postbox, Inc.
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(1) This seems to me to be an OBVIOUSLY needed feature. OUTLOOK does it; I’m no MICROSOFT fan, but they have certain features. It just WINDOZE that sucks.
(2) WINDOZE may suck; MACOSX has its problems too. The question is how much suckiness will you the User tolerate. If you do a real good job of separating your data, your applications, and the OS on a WINDOZE platform, AND IF you do a real good job of managing your WINDOZE OS — slipstreaming fixes into a WINDOZE DISKIMAGE (by like ACRONIS) so you can bare metal restore at the drop of a hat, I’d give the nod to WINDOZE over MACOSX. On to Linux anyone?
(3) The meme of “personal computing” is that you can have your little PLATFORM and it’s “personal”. The new meme of “cloud computing” is nice if you never leave home and you high speed connection to the inet never fails. Once you leave home or if your inet provider is flaky, then cloud computing is challenging at best. Wifi ain’t that ubiquitous or that “free”. If you use the phone as you’re inet gateway, you’re stuck with an expensive “data plan” and find out that “unlimited” doesn’t mean “unlimited”.
(4) Clearly, the applications developers have to design applications that can work either with or without the cloud. I haven’t seen one yet that does.
(5) The regulators are back in 1910 and are (deliberately?) clueless about how companies are ripping the folks off.
(6) I love how developers want the Users to do their work for them. Assuming that “scheduled send” is a valid useful “new idea”. Why ask me, the User, to do your data entry work? That’s down right rude. Do I get paid, or anything, to be your R&D staff? It’s not like this is Open Source Software, where there’s more of a collaboration between developer and User. Argh!
(7) Many enterprises treat the Customer like they are an unpaid staff. The cable and telephone companies come to mind. I may have no choice but to put up your “barbara streisand” now, but there will come a time. Payback is a bitch!
Argh!
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MEMORIES: Children?
Tuesday, March 22, 2011Over the past weeks, I know that people had a question. One of my old far away friends asked. So I’ll put it out here that others may take a lesson from Frau Reinke’s experience.
We were married a few years and, despite making all the plumbing parts operate, no children were produced.
Her Mom broached the subject and suggested a plumbing check.
We were in Maryland, and I wasn’t comfortable with USAF “medicine”. So we went to an expensive private doctor that we paid with our own money.
So, I went first. (Not too embarrassing.) And, I got a passing grade.
She went through a bunch of tests with no trouble found. (Yeah, and you wonder why I have such a high opinion of “medicine”.)
Her Mom passed. We had the tumult of her coming home to help her Brother and Dad. I got an early out in December and went back to work at AT&T. Her mission at home finished, we got an apartment near AT&T. (Hidden Lakes.)
She wasn’t the housewife type. But, I urged a repeated test. On the theory that two independent doctors might give a different answer. We did them over with an expensive Princeton doc. (Embarrassing Squared! Had to tell the doc about my first test. Then repeat it. That was “unpleasant”.)
Still, no trouble found!
Around that time, she got “sick”. Malaise. Gradually losing all her energy. That was most unlike my “energizer bunny”. So after this “flu” didn’t go away after a week, we were banging on the doc’s door. He diagnosed her with “depression” and RXed her with sedatives. Needless to say, she then was sleeping 20 hours a day. Talk about no energy? She had no life. And I was getting crazed.
About that time, AT&T offered a new idea in healthcare — an HMO. (RCHP) And, it was (a) cheaper; and (b) offered a more complete coverage. So, I figured what could I lose. And, Frau Reinke was in no shape to object. So I signed up. That day I received from AT&T HR an enrollment package. I filled it out immediately. Heath history as best I knew it. Frau Reinke could barely stay awake to talk let alone give me intelligent cooperation. So I put them in the same day, I got them. That was Friday.
Sunday night about 6PM, I got a strange phone call. It was “Doctor Ron” who had been assigned to us. And, he wanted me to bring Frau Reinke to the HMO center immediately. Wow! I did. He did the first of what would be lifetime of finger pricks and a quick blood glucose test. She was “HIGH”. He gave her a shot of regular insulin. Forty units as I remember it. Said to go home have her eat something substantial now, and be back first thing in the morning fasting. He said it was obvious to him from the intake questionnaire that she was diabetic. But it had to be confirmed. When I asked him about “depression”, he said that was absurd. And, that I should sue for malpractice.
The rest of that was history. Then next day the fasting blood sugars with a glucose chaser confirmed Type 1 (“Brutal”) diabetes. She left with a bunch of RXes. We started that day with an N injection in the morning, and R before every meal.
Doctor Ron was kool and Frau Reinke really loved him. His advice was to just do her best but that it would be hard for her to keep her BG in the normal range. His sister was a brutal type 1 so he had empathy. (Only doc I ever heard that told a diabetic it was OK to have some ice cream. But just enough to satisfy a craving.) He was gentle as he gave her the bad news that she’d find it impossible to get pregnant. And, that she couldn’t worry about her weight either. That would be only as controlled as her BG permitted.
So, unfortunately, Ev and I could never have kids. And in those days they didn’t have the turkey basters and chemistry experiments that allow everyone from 70 year old women to strange men to have kids.
But she was a tough girl. She announced: “We can adopt!”
So, we tried to adopt. Spent a small fortune and jumped through innumerable hoops. Only to be told “We didn’t qualify because with the diabetes, Ev would not live long enough to raise a child.” Cross my heart. That’s what she was told. Broke her heart. Cried for hours. Then she dusted herself off and found a little girls bball team to coach. And went and got a job.
She loved children because she was a child herself at heart.
Upon reflection, I should have sued or shot that doctor, strangled that social worker, and litigated the issue of diabetes as a disqualifier.
Lesson to be learned: Never believe a bureaucrat; regardless of whether their Gooferment or from a private agency. Don’t take someone’s “no” for an answer. If you want it, go for it and, don’t let anyone kid you, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
I regret I wan’t as pushy then as I am now. Maybe H is correct? I should write that book.
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Posted by reinkefj
FUN: Darn, I should have gone to dance class; not college!
Monday, March 21, 2011http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
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Dance and Courtship
Dance has been used for tens of thousands of years for men and women to select each other, to gauge each other’s worthiness as prospective mates. Dancing conveys rhythm, which translates well to the bedroom (also the cave, the hut, or the buffalo hide). If you can dance well, or even if you’re just willing to dance and enjoy yourself, you are more likely to attract positive, sexual attention. And, like it or not, sex is the backbone of human evolution.
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ROFL.
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JOBSEARCH: The “unemployed need not apply” phenomenon
Monday, March 21, 2011http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-its-bad-business-to-hire-the-long-term-unemployed
Why It’s Bad Business to Hire the Long-Term Unemployed
The Obama administration has overseen the utterly preventable destruction of human capital that is arguably unprecedented in human history — and it’s their fault.
March 15, 2011 – by Tom Blumer
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If a person is already working somewhere else, they’re demonstrating that on a daily basis, not in the recent or sometimes distant past, their work habits and output are more than likely satisfactory to someone else. There’s at least a decent chance that this person has kept his or her skills sharp, and has kept up with technological and market developments in the industry. The effort involved in training such a person in their new job will often be fairly minimal. There will also be a lower likelihood that the person will flunk a background check, credit check, or their drug test.
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Does anyone really believe these government statistics? It’s like their “jobs created or saved” mantra. imho the rates were much higher. Dropping the 99 weekers is just one way they put their thumb on the scale. “You have overseen the utterly preventable destruction of human capital that is arguably unprecedented in human history — and it’s your fault.” is exactly spot on. From the massive Gooferment spending, the Obamacare overhang — who’s going to hire employees without any idea what they will cost, the regulatory blundering — gulf oil drilling permits, and on and on. Government is out of control.
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SERVICE: KODALGALLERY is down?
Sunday, March 20, 2011It’s not just you! http://kodakgallery.com looks down from here.
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FUN: What’s Vedic Math?
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Silly me! I thought Math was Math regardless. The universal language?
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EVLYNN: Remember those ratty shoes you were after me to toss?
Sunday, March 20, 2011
… I threw them in the garbage today. Pleased?
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HARDWARE: FIOS is “tone deaf”
Sunday, March 20, 2011Here;s yet another example of an organization being “tone deaf”. An unmonitored email address? Wasn’t one of their commercials “Can you hear me now”. (Just shaking my head) Argh!
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Ok guys, now that hardware you said is defective is working perfectly today. And, I have no way to tell you!
And look at all the stuff I’m supposed to do for free! Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
RANT: The first item first column on Drudge says it all
Sunday, March 20, 2011The first item first column on Drudge says it all.
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MARCH 19, 2011
OBAMA: ‘Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world’…
MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: ‘American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger’…
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Donna Nobis Pacem!
Would anyone like to go back to the last Presidential campaign? I said here and vocally that the only truly “Peace” candidate was Ron Paul. Everyone told me that BHO44 was that “Peace” candidate.
“barbara streisand”
I told you so. And, it gives me no pleasure to say that. If I was smarter, I would have been more persuasive. But, when I say there is no difference between the R’s and the D’s, everyone tells me there’s a difference. Look at “today’s conservatives” and “today’s liberals”?
Where do we get the moral authority, let alone the Constitutional authority, to wage war on Libya?
IMHO from a moral, strategic, and tactical basis, this is an outrageous disaster.
So what are you going to do about it?
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