TECH SOFTWARE: DRUPAL a true content management system

Saturday, April 28, 2007

http://drupal.org/about

About Drupal

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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

* Community web portals
* Discussion sites
* Corporate web sites
* Intranet applications
* Personal web sites or blogs
* Aficionado sites
* E-commerce applications
* Resource directories
* Social Networking sites

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Maybe I’ve outgrown blogging. It doesn’t wow me like it once did. It hasn’t engendered or created the cooperative conversation I was hoping it would.

I know I am disillusioned with websites. They are static snapshots of the past. They don’t integrate of play nice with other uses.

Wikis are a content system of sorts but hmmm they don’t seem to jump up and create conversations.

Perhaps, I need more?

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TECH SERVICE: YAHOO is responding very poorly today now

Friday, April 27, 2007

FWIW, it usually is snappy. Today it feels like it is timing out. Sigh!

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TECH HARDWARE: My USR wireless access point settings

Thursday, April 26, 2007

LUGGABLE’s Windows Networking errors out on permissions. I plugged in the @HOME in the simple network setup. Doesn’t show anything.

Could the problem be that the router has a blank for a domain name?

LUGGABLE022

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TECH HARDWARE: next generation of USB flash drives: the U3 smart drive

Thursday, April 26, 2007

http://www.u3.com/smart/default.aspx

Next generation of USB flash drives: the U3 smart drive

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Meet the next generation of USB flash drives: the U3 smart drive. It’s what’s inside that makes them smart.

* Carry and access your files easily
* Keep your data safe and secure
* Comes with pre-loaded software
* Hundreds of software titles available!

Storage+Software=Smart

Imagine carrying your software on the same flash drive that carries your files. That’s what you can do with a U3 smart drive. You can plug it into any PC and work, play a game, message friends, send email, edit photos and more. A U3 smart drive makes any PC your own PC. And when you unplug it, it leaves no personal data behind.

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Neat idea. No wonder the stores are dumping the old usb drives at fire sale prices. Before this paradigm shift gets out and they are stuck with the unsold and unsellable inventory.

Already inside the U3 paradigm there’s a Vista incompatibility. If you want to “Vista”, then you need version 1.4 or higher. And, yes, there’s no guarantee that you can move from your version to that version. And, you have to get it from your drive manufacturer.

Nice idea BUT doesn’t wow me.

(1) Locks you into the windows genre.

(2) Limited hardware competition (less than 10 vendors)

(3) Limited software selection. Applications developers need to do a rewrite.

No, not for me. Maybe you, but not me.

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RANT: LinkedIn toolbar and LookOut

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

>Does anyone have a quick fix to help me completely remove this malware

I have had to (several times) use the Outlook repair function on the “notsoHELPful” menu tab.

Some caveats. Backup. You may want the old crud after you see the new crud you’re left with.

(1) Make sure you have your distribution media and serial number handy — you may muck things up worse if you don’t (I did);

(2) Nuke all the “extra” crud installed Options>Other>Advanced and nuke all in “add in”, “reminder”, and “com add in”.

(3) Uninstall everything Plaxo, LinkedIn, and any other Outlook add ins from ADD/REMOVE program entry;

(4) from the start>run>msconfig ensure that you don’t have anything automatically helping you that you don’t really understand.

Wish everything good bye. You did backup didn’t you?

(I had one acquaintance who blamed LookOut, and it was a disguised corrupt registry and, when the hard disk burped at the wrong time, his data went to data heaven welcomed by 72 disk drives that ever had an data! My acquaintance had NOT backed up in a while either. He changed jobs soon after that. Probably got promoted with more money.)

THEN run repair from OUTLOOK HELP.

Reboot cold TWICE. (Once is not necessarily enough!?!)

Then sacrifice a chicken, examine the entrails, and send the remains to Bill Gates or Vincent.

It’s ugly.

One thing I have found that repeated COLD REBOOTS (power down and wait 5 full excruciating minutes) allows WINDOZE and LOOKOUT to clear queues and caches and who knows what else allowing the stupid thing to run correctly).

Argh! I’m in pain just thinking about what you’re going thru.
YMMV FAIWWYPFI FWIW

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TECH SOFTWARE: ACT2007 has its problems

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/
04/some_sage_advic.html

http://tinyurl.com/3xoyjt

April 23, 2007
Some Sage Advice

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Act 2007 Premium for Workgroups is reliant on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. It turns out that the very installation of Act breaks all of our other SQL instances. That includes Sharepoint, Backup Exec and other critical apps. It’s a one-way upgrade too. So there is no ‘uninstall.’ The cure? Uninstall SBS2003 and reinstall. Oh, and yes, the files that Backup Exec has recorded — unusable.

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Ed (Gripeline) Foster always has some good “heads up” type stuff.

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TECH SERVICE: Assume the worst!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/business/
la-fi-consumer22apr22,0,5309582.
story?coll=la-home-headlines

http://tinyurl.com/2d43ly

Public Wi-Fi may turn your life into an open notebook
Don’t assume wireless hot spots are secure.
‘Sniffers’ may be hacking nearby.
By David Colker, Times Staff Writer
April 22, 2007

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Cheung was using a “sniffer” program that intercepted online signals as they flew back and forth from the laptops to a wireless modem hidden somewhere amid the coffee paraphernalia.

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That’s why if I have to use a public wifi, I use GOTOMYPC to “go home” and surf from there. It encrypts everything between my home desk top and my notebook. If I’m on an internet cafe’s machine, I assume there is a key logger in place.

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TECH SERVICE: Blog Hosting Alternatives

Saturday, April 21, 2007

http://fortyplustwo.com/2007/04/21/
wordpress-and-finding-a-host/

http://tinyurl.com/3d4udd

 

WordPress and finding a host
April 21st, 2007
Bengt Wendel

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I currently run my blogs at WordPress.com which has its benefits (free and no need to worry about WordPress) but also limitations in things like themes and plugins (no java scripts allowed).

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me2

I would like a kool name, javascript, and some ads to make millions from my loyal readers. (All 6 of them!)

Seriously, I currently redirect from http://www.reinkefaceslife.com and, while I could pay WordPressDotCom to “domain” me, I don’t see the value. Perhaps, I too need to bite the bullet and go host it elsewhere? But if I go thru the effort, then I need to see a big payday. Or at least some payoff. Sigh,

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TECH SOFTWARE: Latest Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)

Thursday, April 19, 2007

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu704

Latest Ubuntu delivers on the promise of Open Source

While millions consider whether to pay for Vista, the Ubuntu project releases its secure, high performance, free desktop and server editions.

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LONDON, April 16, 2007 – For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04.

Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.

Ubuntu 7.04 server edition adds support for hardware facilities that speed up the use of virtual machines as well as other improved hardware support, making it an excellent choice as a web, database, file and print server, the fastest growing area of Linux server use. Ubuntu’s already outstanding support for thin clients is boosted with advanced print and sound support.

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I can’t wait to try it. Badger was good but no wireless. I’m expecting great things out of this release!

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TECH SERVICE: FEEDBLITZ fails me again

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Feedblitz AGAIN skipped over some of my best work!

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#1788 2007-04-16 10:55:00 pm
INTERESTING: Who thought the era of big gooferment was over?
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
interesting-who-thought-the-era-of-big-gooferment-was-over/
http://tinyurl.com/2vn8eu

#1787 2007-04-16 10:14:00 pm
RANT: Sharpton is a professional race card player
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
rant-sharpton-is-a-professional-race-card-player/
http://tinyurl.com/2v8mxd

#1786 2007-04-16 8:45:00 pm
LIBERTY: BATF routinely perjures itself!
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
guns-batf-routinely-perjures-itself/
http://tinyurl.com/2etn35

#1784 2007-04-16 6:36:00 pm
INTERESTING: Digital Notary feedback (THREE)
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
interesting-digital-notary-feedback-2/
http://tinyurl.com/39w3hc

#1783 2007-04-16 6:33:00 pm
INTERESTING: Digital Notary feedback (TWO)
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
interesting-digital-notary-feedback/
http://tinyurl.com/3avup9

#1790 2007-04-16 5:56:27 pm
GUNS: Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill 31JAN06
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
guns-virginia-tech-spokesman-larry-hincker-was-happy-to-hear-the-bill-31jan06/
http://tinyurl.com/2ht5qt

#1785 2007-04-16 5:39:00 pm
INTERESTING: Digital Notary feedback (ONE)
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
interesting-digital-notary-feedback-3/
http://tinyurl.com/2qglte

#1789 2007-04-16 5:09:35 pm
GUNS: At VaTech, the lack of any meaningful self-defense response is stunning
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
guns-at-vatech-the-lack-of-any-meaningful-
self-defense-response-is-stunning/
http://tinyurl.com/25zgmd

#1782 2007-04-16 5:08:00 pm
LIBERTY: Ahh only the gooferment can “do” roads
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/
liberty-ahh-only-the-gooferment-can-do-roads/
http://tinyurl.com/2e9l3r

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Argh!

Thanks to the reader who called it to my attention.

Bottom line, if you don’t get a email summarizing every day, you should suspect FEEDBLITZ not me. I have opinions, ideas, and “news” everyday. ;-)

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