I’m consolidating all my Web stuff on one WSP 1and1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251) and getting away from old wsps is like escaping aol!
TECHNOLOGY: Moving from a wsp is like getting away from AOL
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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TECHNOLOGY: My security observation included
Monday, February 5, 2007http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.56.html
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Sunday 4 February 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 56
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:28:34 -0500
From: “Reinke’s Catch All Email”
Subject: A second site “improves” security
A second site, Paytrust, has followed Vanguard, in “improving” security. They now have one screen for userid and then a second screen for password. The theory is that if I don’t see my selected picture and secret phrase on the screen then I shouldn’t enter my password.
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Peter G. Neumann is the of Risks and the chairman of ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. I was honored to have my security observation included in his ezine.
Nice to know my mind hasn’t gone totally to mush.
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XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc
Saturday, February 3, 2007I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.
I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.
I wriggled around like a dead fish.
Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.
I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.
Argh.
Very very ugly.
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TECHNOLOGY: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml
Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 02/02/2007
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Browsing the internet has overtaken DIY and gardening to become the favourite pastime of older people, according to a survey. The current generation of “silver surfers” spends an average of six hours online each week, research by the insurance company AXA found.
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“on the internet no one knows you’re a dog”
to quote a famous New Yorker magazine cartoon. Nor do they know you are old.
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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPE me (reinkefj) for free.
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html
SKYPE
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Call other people on Skype and it’s free – anywhere in the world.
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WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There’s nothing that I can put on the blog that will make it easy for you to tap one icon, get skype, install it if needed, call me, and talk to me free.
You can get it and install it. Then skype me as “reinkefj”, or “732-917-4816” is my skype phone number.
(Or you can Yahoo me at reinkefj or 609-489-5893!)
I’m just playing around and love to try technology.
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RANT: The Most Important Author of the 20th Century
Thursday, February 1, 2007The Most Important Author of the 20th Century
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Who is the most important author of the twentieth century? Why?
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Ludwig von Mises
IMHO he “nailed” socialism, and the big government, as the complete opposite of liberty and freedom. He kick started the Austrian School of Economics which is the opposite of Keynes’ socialism big government control. He brought the issues to the fore and challenged that Government is the problem. The enemy of freedom and liberty. And, that only in the marketplace is every need best satisfied. In one fell swoop, he pinpointed the reason why socialism can never succeed. The entrepreneur investing his own capital is infinitely responsive to the buyer’s demands. If he fails, he pays a severe price.
“A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man’s effort in terms of money.” – Bureaucracy
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TECHNOLOGY:: Skype me?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007<!–
Skype ‘Skype Me™!’ button
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js”></script>
<a href=”skype:reinkej?call”><img src=”http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_blue_white_124x52.png” style=”border: none;” width=”124″ height=”52″ alt=”Skype Me™!” /></a>
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XPfails – luggable – Slow Down
Wednesday, January 31, 2007Luggable has just slowed to a crawl. Maybe a reboot will clear it?
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TECHNOLOGY: It might be a great offer, but you’ll be on your own
Tuesday, January 30, 2007PaperPort Professional 11 Special Upgrade Offer
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Visioneer is happy to announce the newest scanner to the extraordinarily popular Strobe line – the RoadWarrior. As a Nuance customer, you are eligible to receive a substantial discount on the RoadWarrior before it even hits the stores. Purchase your new RoadWarrior today for only $169.99 – a $30 discount – just for being a Nuance customer. Simply enter the promotional code below in the checkout process and you will automatically receive your discount plus free ground shipping! But hurry, this exclusive offer expires on February 2, 2007. Click here to order yours today.
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As a Nuance screwee, I would NOT buy anything from these folks based on what they say to quote Judge Judy “if your tongue came notarized”.
These are the people who screwed me on “IBM” Via Voice. To which, I blame both IBM (their name was on the box) and Nuance.
Visioneer ain’t on my hit parade either. I got screwed when their Strobe was not being supported or drivers created for various windoze releases. All “silent” of course. I found out after I bought or tried to upgrade. A plague on their houses. Also, I have had lost of “unsupport” from them with their Paperport line in the past.
So here we have the hit parade, this one announcement hit every one on my don’t buy list:
IBM — Misleading me in who would support the product.
Nuance — making me pay for nonsupport
Strobe — nonsupport and selling gear with no drivers
Visioneer — nonsupport of current versions in the past
If you deal with any of these four, be warned. Don’t come whining to me that you got screwed. Learn from my screwing!
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TECHNOLOGY: TrustyFiles has it all
Monday, January 29, 2007http://www.trustyfiles.com/index.php
TrustyFiles
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TrustyFiles is Ultimate P2P – the top high performance multi-network file sharing software with the most advanced features.
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An interesting possibility
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