Test results
1) For whatever reason, I couldn’t have a GTalk conversation riding on the Verizon Wireless BroadBand. Not to convict VWBB, but is the new thing in the equation.
2) You couldn’t “see” http://reinkefj.shancknet.nu but then neither could I from where it should have resolved to. Interesting? Since I did it at work one day, I suspect the DynDns Dynamic DNS service shacknet.nu. It’s free so I can complain too much.
3) Frustrating when you can not see what is happening.
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Amazing how many useful ones there are out there.
WIKIs on the Internet
The Clearinghouse http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Now you’d think since I got it on my personal notebook, this would be trivial. Wrong. Several bumps. Right now I’m stuck trying to add antoehr user. Sigh. Nothing’s every easy.
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http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
It required me to recognize that I couldn’t make microsoft publisher publish turkey directly to the web. So … … I published to the luggable and filezillaed to the site.
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One of the advantages of a home lan COULD be that you can automagically back up all the data on your primary machine to an old machine. In my case, my primary is this dell luggable, not loveable, and my “old” machine is in my garage. A free directory synchronizer like AllWaySync (http://allwaysync.com) or Karen’s Replicator (http://www.karenware.com), both FREE, can sync your primary machine to the secondary.
p.s., Because I am a belt and suspenders guy, I do make a monthly copy of my data on cd, put it on top of my mom’s refridgerator, and I still worry!
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Following up on my idea of an “annualized” directory structure, I want to have the underlying directory structure built quickly and easily. SO … … going back to my old batch days it’s real easy to create a batch file in the root that does all the md’s (make directory) you need. “md x md y md z” I’m going to use the topcial as lower case and the people ones with the letter z. The the topics will sort to the top and the people to the bottom.
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My latest thinking on directory organization is by “year” and then by topic. I reserve the year “0000” for the things that will never change and always be necessary to keep around. So, for example the scan of my drivers license in stored under \000\FJR and so I’ll always be able to find it when I need my DL number for all the dumb forms. It goes along with my concept of scanning everything. I am buried in paper and it’s a way of fighting back.
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Well time to bite the bullet. My favorite podcasters (http://www.freetalklive.com) have completely lost their technical mind imho and are now producing one fat, but still free, podcast for each three hour show. Now, you may or may not know but to fast forward my rca lyra mp3 player is a pia. Soooo, I have to bite the bullet and figure out how to split their mp3 into fragments. Argh. Cheaply and easily goes without saying. I wonder if that music player software I bought in moment of weakenss can do this. Hmmm.
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i arose this morning form troubled sleep with visions of my writing dancing in my head. so i lept to key board, all ready to write. but first we have daily work to get out the way. my mail, my libertarian week of poddies to dl, check azureus, do reinke ramblings. Then to writing. ARGHHH! I was well underway to getting that all done when my net connect developed a balkiness. no browser could connect. no dns. couldn’t ping yahoo. so, dump the power at the cable modem and get out vzwbbie. power down the laptop to insert the pcmia card (i bought it to i’m VERY careful about it) bring the whole shebang back up. and guess what, yup you guessed it, my cable connect pops back and says ‘where have you been’ ARGH, ARGG! so i have just lost the better part of one of my creative hours for who knows what reason! argh, argh, argh!
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… … to stop phishing, to track results, and to authenticate correspondents.
I was moved to write to a national technology figure about phishing. She was recommending a tool to authenticate websites and prevent phishing. I think I came up with a way to handle it awhile ago. Zero cost , of course. And easy to implement. Here’s my note, which I then put on a job search site I like.
WRT: Phishing
A while ago, before Yahoo came up with Address Guard, before GMAIL made extra email addresses commonplace, I focused on the idea of using different email addresses for different purposes. One specific email address for financial traffic, another for orders, and others for topical use. Thus when phishes came in on ANY of the non-financial email, they were so obvious there was no doubt.
Now with Address Guard, a yahoo subscriber can assign each correspondent their “own” email address. For free, a GMAIL user can accomplish the same thing with either multiple free gmail accounts or that new plus feature. So for a user at any level to be phished now days is kind of hard to believe.
In fact, it is so easy to assign different email address to different correspondents, that I have been doing it for other purposes. When you throw in the ability to manage email traffic by rules in most email packages, it really serves to “authenticate” email traffic is “good” stuff.
It even helps with plain old spam. For example, if some things comes in on a non-assigned email address, it stands a high probability of being spam.
Until we get to ipv6 and absolutely authentic email verification, this can serve to minimize the risk of being fooled.
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Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
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Greater New York City Area
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Philosophy of Liberty
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