TECH: Anyone going to Vista, (not me), must have a rock in their head!

Friday, October 20, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yhvx69

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/10/19/
forbidding_vistas_windows_licensing_disserves_the_user.html

October 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, 2006

Microsoft 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, 2006

Somehting’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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TECH: Why can’t I lock my desktop icons the way I want them?

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Microsoft rewrites them anytime they make a significant change. That seems anytime they feel like it. It’s annoying. It wastes time.

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TECH: GOOGLE SEARCH has a strategic flaw

Thursday, October 19, 2006

When I went to look up an obit for a fellow alum, I wanted to find the funeral home’s site and see what it had to say. You can’t do it.

You get overwhelmed with sites that have stories that use their name, as well as, what I will call scraper sites that have created “listings”. Those so called listings don’t point to the underlying real site.

Hmmm?

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TECH: PRINTERALL has a small flaw

Thursday, October 19, 2006

If you print a document and ask for multiple copies, then PRINTERALL only produces one copy.

Interesting.

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TECH: You can “vampire” LINKEDIN …

Thursday, October 19, 2006

My profile is on LinkedIn at:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=214231

…

if you want to play pick a new friend at random

…

Pick a number!

Put it at the end of the following string:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=

… and meet your new friend!

How long before a bot master discovers this and “sucks” linkedin dry.

Zoominfo did it with the public inet. Why couldn’t a bad guy do it with this “semi-private” data source?

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TECH: Microsoft has no viewer for Microsoft Project

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm#Project%20Viewer

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Microsoft has not provided a viewer for Project. However, it is designed with the Web in mind, which allows anyone with an Internet Browser or email facilities to view details. For a picture, try clicking the copy picture button (little camera on the standard toolbar). There you have the option of creating a GIF file which can be used with the Save As… HTML format or directly attached to an email. Save As HTML… > give a file name and Save > select an Export Map (or New Map) > Edit > Options tab check “Include image file in HTML page” > insert path and name of GIF image.

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Argh! That’s a bummer. I like the viewers to protect me from active content in Microsoft files. Sigh!

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TECH: The signup for GMAIL has a flaw

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

It allows you to send repeatedly invites to the same email address.

I use it to generate extra email addresses that I can use for specific purposes.

Maybe they don’t care.

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TECH: LookOut, aka MSFT OutLook, has ANOTHER message “stuck”!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

An email I wrote yesterday, and “sent”, is stuck in the outbox. Argh!

No apparent reason. No fix possible.

Workaround is to copy it to a new message, send that, and nuke the stukee.

Argh!

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