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Thursday, October 26, 2006
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK snarfs 4 messages today
Tuesday, October 24, 2006OUTLOOK snarfed four messages today. No rhyme or reason. Copying the message to a new one and send worked fine. Just annoying.
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XPfails – luggable – RSSBANDIT fails
Tuesday, October 24, 2006RSSBANDIT failed in initiation. Stopping and starting didn’t help. Reviewing the task manger I couldn’t find anything to nuke. A reboot was required. The reboot process exposed a hidden window that was recorded as RSSBANDIT’s. I don’t know how one could find and nuke it without the restart. That seems like a design failure.
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XPfails – luggable – wsod
Tuesday, October 24, 2006The white screen of death hit at 1215. Argh!
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TECH: New version of copernic; locks up my platform
Monday, October 23, 2006http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20061019CopernicDesktopSearchIsAMustHave.html
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I did try the new version. But the darn thing locked up the whole setup during install. So, I’ll wait to hear how others do.
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TECHNOLOGY: Search, even Google Search, has huge limits
Sunday, October 22, 2006I have canned searches to find my fellow alums. I am finding that more and more of the inet are not indexed at all. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of the inet that isn’t spydered at all. In my nievete, I used to think that Google and the other engines were pretty good. Now, I think they are mediocre at best. Arghh!
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TECH: LookOut, aka Outlook, snarfs two of my outbound messages
Saturday, October 21, 2006I’m defining a new word to describe this problem / opportunity. SNARF for the word SNAG and F for you know what.
A message gets SNARFed, when for no apparent reason,
LookOut, (OutLook’s evil Sybil side), takes:
a perfectly good outbound message that was sitting read to go, as denoted by that BOLD ITALIC font that it has in the outbox with a date of today
AND
changes the date to NONE, removes the BOLD ITALIC font, and it just sits there.
No amount of cajoling will get it out of that state!
One can see other messages whizzing out bypass the “stalled cars”.
Stopping Outlook doesn’t help, though it gripes about unsent messages, so it knows that they are there.
The only solution is to create a brand new message, send that, and nuke the old ones.
Argh! I hate OutLook.
And, yes, the data stores are big, but that would only bear if all messaging stoped.
Argh!!
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TECH: Anyone going to Vista, (not me), must have a rock in their head!
Friday, October 20, 2006October 19, 2006
Forbidding Vistas: Windows licensing disserves the user
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It is unlikely that a home user looking for a computer operating system has any of these “features” of the Vista EULA in mind: The Red Queen
1. Self-limiting software
2. Vanishing functionality through invalidation
3. Removal of media capabilities
4. Problem-solving prohibited
5. Limited mobility
6. One transfer only
and a bonus,
7. Restrictions on your rights to use MPEG-4 video
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Why would you “volunteer” for this non-sense?
I can’t understand WHY do this upgrade. There are few upsides; what comes out of this that can’t be done on Ubuntu or remaining on XP SP2?
If I had any Microsoft stock, then I’d dump it. I think they “screwed the pooch” doing this XP 2 Vista. I’d bet they planned for a huge increase in the bottom line. I think they are going to take a hit. A big hit!
I think this is the best thing that could have ever happened for Linux!
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TECH: Microsoft Word got confused today
Friday, October 20, 2006Microsoft Ward began to display, what I think Microsoft calls a “screen artifact”, today. (I’d call it a bug!) Unfortunately it was right over the main menu entries on the upper left part of the display. Stopping and restarting Word was enough to make it go away, but it was annoying, until I gave up and tried that. Arghh! ;-)
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TECH: XP’s “Notification Area” is all screwed up
Friday, October 20, 2006Somehting’s funky.
The icons that should be there are not. I have lots marked “always” and they ain’t there.
Did a quick look at the Microsoft Knowledge base and didn’t see anything that applied. (But, then there is so much chaff, how can anyone find anything?)
Thoughts?
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