Ed Foster “IBM’s Brand Takes on a Different Nuance” — that me! ;-)

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2006/04/11_a386.html#a386

IBM's Brand Takes on a Different Nuance

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When you buy a product because you trust the brand, it can be a shock to discover a completely different company is actually doing technical support. For example, many IBM ThinkPad customers were unhappy when IBM sold that brand to Lenovo. And now a reader finds that support for another product with Big Blue's name on it – the IBM ViaVoice speech recognition software– is actually done by ScanSoft. Or, as ScanSoft now calls itself, Nuance Communications.

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Hey that's my story. I'm famous! I shared it with Ed because he has a knack for highlighting the problems. Not that in this case anything got done. The doc still can't use his voice. BUT, at least the story is out there for others to profit from.

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My Wiki Opedia problem: Can’t refer to a local file

Sunday, April 9, 2006

I didcovered that you can NOT have a space in an external url. Google desktop does not include files without a file extension. Goodgle desktop only includes certain extensions. Yahoo desktop doesn't always work as expected (i.e., the dash in a search must have a meta meaning). espite changing the mediawiki advices string and restarting everything, I still can't reference a local file. So I'll have to change my strategy. Give each alum an number and key it thsat way. Hmmm, have to think about that. … …

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ARGHH! Somehow I managed to lose my choices on my other blog

Saturday, April 8, 2006

I must a done something wrong. Not sure what it was. BUT, like a dummy I didn’t have a copy anywhere. Yahoo search, doesn’t work as good as Google desktop for finding webpages. Although Yahoo’s does find things that Google’s couldn’t. Guess you need both. Luckily, I was able to find an old entry cached on Google to recover it. Neat! A new form of backup. Do something stupid. Blunder away. And if Google’s spyder took it, you might be able to find it. Any way it’s back to the way it was.

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WIKI: mywikopedia was accessed over the net

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

My luddite reports that he was able to see my wiki. Hmm, this will change my entire set of thinking. Can't write anythign bad about him in it now. ;-)

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RECOVERY: Reinstall the Nikon P2 wireless (who disks I’ve misplaced)

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Arghhh!

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Getting to the Internet troubles today

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Main connect down, vwbb not working, sigh

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My Wiki Opedia problem: Icon gone from tray

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Nope. Doesn't / Didn't work. Reboot either.

So being the inveterate finger poker! I went it to task manager and nuke everything in sight to do with wamp5, apache, or sql.

Rebooted and it's back.

Don't know why, but it was always working, just zero icon in the tray.

Hmmmm….????
—–Original Message—–
From: CyberSpatium [mailto:cyberspatium@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: WAMP5 ICON gone from tray [2:5423:5446]

This message was sent from: WAMP5 English.
<http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=5446&t=5423>
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click on:

Start Button -> All Programs -> WampServer -> Start Wampserver

This will now show the icon in the tray.

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My Wiki Opedia is running

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Interesting for sure. It's up and running. I've message my Luddite to test it. It does seem to error occasionally, send a report to msft, and keep on going. It doens't lose any data.

I still haven't figured out how to back it up.

I still don't know what I am going to do with it.

But, I'm learning!

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ARGHH! I remember something but I can’t recall it. No prob, I’ll google it up. WRONG!

Saturday, April 1, 2006

Something I was reading triggered a memory of an old, and this is how I remember it, as late 60s joke, about the "Mensa Human Operating Instructions". It had come up in the Nineties and I found it after a struggle. Should be easier now. With Yahoo, Google, and a gaggle of others. Nope. 9 grazillion results for Joe Somebody's book with a simialr title. Yup, mechanized search has a long way to go. Now how can I find it?

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MediaWiki and Wikopedia and mywiki

Saturday, April 1, 2006

Well when PERSPECTIVE wouldn't run, which was probably my fault, I moved on to another wiki. inspired by http://www.lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php I gave mediawiki, the thing that powers wikopedia, a try.

Worked like a charm; well maybe a cracked charm. I had some trouble getting the WAMP5 to install. Then, I had some trouble getting apache to come up. I iterated thru that drill a few times. With reboots to ensure that wxp was clean. AND, just as I was about to give up. POOF! Everything started to work. Shazam.

I haven't rebooted since I got it working but that shouldn't casue anything to fail? Right!

I actually have tested it across my home lan and it seems to work. I've got a DUH, a type3, and a type4 so far, but nothing I can't live with.

I ported all my stuff over from Perspective last night.

One observation is that I don't have a backup … yet. AND, the underlying data store is not xml or html or text. Have to think about that.

You can't see my wiki because it's firewalled. Kinda defeats the purpose of wikiing. But when I feel confident enough, I'll go up on vwbbie and expose it to the net for a short time. Then my luddite friend can test it for me. It's neat technology.

Next I want to put it on my machine at work. That should cause a stir.

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