TECHNOLOGY: John McCain doesn’t like the blogs; this blog doesn’t like him either!

Thursday, December 14, 2006

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/13/mccain-war-on-blogs/

John McCain’s War On Blogs

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John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.

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Just to be clear, this blogger doesn’t like John McCain.

As a POW, he took parole and broke faith with his fellow POWs. As a member of the Keating Five, he demonstrated his “honesty” credentials. As part of the McCain – Feingold team, he demonstrated his thoughts on the First Amendment.

The people of Arizona should be embarrassed to have him as their senator.

Time to repeal the direct election of senators anyway. The dead old white guys had it right!

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Thursday, December 14, 2006

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 14 December at 0645 est on Route 1 by the Stop’n’Shop  … …

… … a white state police suv  SPA145A … …

… … raced by the standing traffic at the light on the right hand lane … …

… … No red/blue lights. It didn’t look like it was even equipped with them. What kinda of SP was this?

… … (I admire that the person timed the light perfectly. Anyone running the light, right turning on red, or late in the opposite direction would have been killed! But it was timed perfectly.) … …

… … down route 1 at a between zero and what seemed to be over a hundred (Your serf speed limit is 55)

… … of course the statist road system, with myriad lights to slow the serfs down, allowed us a better look at the state car when we caught up.

… … All that serf traffic just meant that it was tailgating the poor peon in his way all the way down.

… … It did observe the unwritten rule of the powerful “never leave the left lane”!

… … (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

… … And once freed of the serf, when last we saw it, it was flying down route 1, hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

[For those not familiar with the NJ roads. State “workers” proceed straight down route 1 to the golden dome of corruption. If you come later in the morning, then it’s not unusual to see “lots” of state cards commuting to the state jobs by the state ’employees”. It particularly ticks me off to know that I am paying for the road, the traffic jam, and the bad driving of my “servants”. Arghhh! That’s one reason I like to commute early; I can’t afford to have a stroke because I couldn’t afford the death taxes.]

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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XPfails – luggable – Resume from hibernate runs like sludge

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Today after resuming, the box is running like sludge. Perhaps a reboot will recover.

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TECHNOLOGY: CARBONITE tried a save

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

—–Original Message—–
From: Alison O’Brien @ Cabonite
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:36 PM
To: ReinkeFJ
Subject: Carbonite

Hello and thank you for your email –

Sorry you had trouble with your restore. We ask for serial numbers when passwords have been

forgotten as a security measure. If you can tell me the some other information to help verify you, I can reset your

password for you. If you can provide the name of the PC you installed Carbonite on and the date (roughly) that you installed it,

I can go ahead and reset your password for you.

Thank You,
Alison O’Brien
Carbonite Customer Support

—- My Response —

No need; I just wrote it off.

You may want to think how your offering will be used. When the source machine “burns”, it will be unlikely that the user will have access to any old stuff. Serial number, email, and passwords may all be gone.

And, when I gave it the serial number, that I carefully copied from the live screen, it still wouldn’t reset the password.

So, I gave up on a restore.

Luckily, this was just a test. I was planning to sign up but when the process failed. And rescue was complicated by a need to go to you. I decided it wasn’t for me.

Good luck.

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TECHNOLOGY: CARBONITE not recommended

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Well, I tried the restore again. I went back to the primary desktop, which if this was a real test would not be there to go back to, and got the serial number. However, on the restoring pc, I could not get past the pc password reset. In a real disaster, when you have nothing working, it will be unlikely that you’ll be able to get your files back from the cloud without heroic effort imho. Hence, it’s not for me and I wouldn’t recommend it. Guess I’ll look for another solution.

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TECHNOLOGY: CARBONITE testing

Monday, December 11, 2006

OK, prior to becoming a pay for customer, I decided to test a restore.

Assume that my pc is wiped out, (I actually left it home today), let’s see if I could restore a key file to my work notebook without anything.

Stumbling block one was the carbonite password. No problem I’ll ask for reset.

Stumbling block two was the email. I set this up on a non-trivial email id. But I was able to find that in my gmail message store.

Stumbling block three carbonite asks for a serial number in password reset. Huh? Who knows that.

Restore failed. I’ll try again tomorrow!

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RANT: The needless suffering at Pearl Harbor

Thursday, December 7, 2006

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061207/D8LS100G0.html

Pearl Harbor Survivors Meet for Last Time
Dec 7, 7:58 AM (ET)
By JAYMES SONG

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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) – With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.

This will be their last visit to this watery grave to share stories, exchange smiles, find peace and salute their fallen friends. This, they say, will be their final farewell.

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If one reads Robert Stinnett’s book on Pearl Harbor, “Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor”, you’ll come away with a real understanding of what caused all this dead, destruction, and suffering. It truly was a “day of Infamy”, but not as we thought it. As a cryptographer, I was stunned reading this. Further the fact that the truth was concealed for 60 years really lends credence to the quip “How do you know when a politician is lying? When his lips are moving.” There has to be, I hope, a special circle in hell for those politicians. Not that “ours” are any better. This should be required reading for voters and anyone considering entering the military.

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RANT: I am SHOCKED a la Casablanca to find that politicians don’t act in accordance with their professed beliefs

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/
0,,1964075,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

http://tinyurl.com/ymjz6m

Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers
Robert Tait in Tehran
Tuesday December 5, 2006
The Guardian

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran’s Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show.

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Please, lying and two-face-ed-ness is a universal political meme or gene.

I am SHOCKED a la Casablanca to find that politicians don’t act in accordance with their professed beliefs. I believe the appropriate Bible verse is “by their fruits”. So, don’t be shocked when a politician, any politician, of any nationality, ilk, or gender, says X and does Y.

It’s amazing, and I am SHOCKED (see above reference) that people would be so naive!

And, I am shocked, shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on at Rick’s cafe. Now where are MY winnings. ;-)

I think the more newsworthy story would be when the man bites dog, or a politician is found to inadvertently conform to their stated beliefs. Isn’t in amusing that there are “no smoking” laws all over for the peasants, but all exempt Capitol Hill. Doesn’t that send you serfs a message?

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TECHNOLOGY: Do you use the same password for different accounts? No!

Monday, December 4, 2006

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/passwords/
poll–do-you-use-the-same-password-for-
different-accounts-219219.php

Do you use the same password for different accounts?

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A UN agency reports that the explosion of usernames and passwords required for web sites puts users at risk – because folks use the same password for lots of different accounts.

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Do you?

I use the “generate password” function of RoboForm to get a nice long random string.

Then, when I setup the website, RoboForm steps in and saves it for me. Then when I revisit the site, it “suggests” my logon information.

http://www.roboform.com/

Now it’s NOT free. Unlike what you usually find me advising you, here’s the rare instance when I think you should actually buy something. Do you really want to trust your security to a free utility? To me, thirty buck is cheap insurance.

P.S.: If you wonder how I created those great email addresses, that I DARE an alpha spammer to find, like A9355A8E7B32583A58D8, F2F967D552AF5A8278AD, or D94BAE6E7FBDBCADC888, then you can guess that I generated them with RoboForm. Since most people reply to email or will click on your mailto:name@isp.nnet, no one cares what you call yourself.

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TECHNOLOGY: Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera

Monday, December 4, 2006

http://www.scanr.com/default.aspx

Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera

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scanR is a service that helps you capture information contained in whiteboards, documents and business cards. scanR lets you use your mobile camera phone or digital camera to clean photos of whiteboards, documents and business cards, extract the printed information, and get a digital file in your email, contact manager, or fax.

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trying it, but my first attempt didn’t work.

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