OK, I think I have ‘evidence’.
With only POSTBOX2 and CHROME running I get message ‘no space’. So, I quit CHROME and now I have 1+ Gig back.
(I have to figure out how to shrink IPHOTO. But there doesn’t seem to be any way to do it other than just delete stuff. Argh!)
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
This is getting absurd. Every time I come back to MCBA it fails to resume. Argh! In the ultimate act of desperation, I turned off all hibernation. WINDOZE is beginning to look better. Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
2011-03-17 @ 2241
Several dropped signals and restarts early this evening. I just noticed that the DVR is working. “Cloud crap”? Argh!
Inet working fine. Don’t know about phone.
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2011-03-18 @ 0845
Checking the DVR and the initial menu comes up. But then it recycles. Powering down the DVR.
Watched TV again. Get ready to touch the DVR and it recycles. No signal. “Press menu to watch”
(Argh!)
Ran the DVR trying to find the Jaspers on Saint Pat’s Parade. Recycles again.
@0854 recycles again.
(Argh!)
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Posted by reinkefj
Sitting all alone, it locked up! Argh!
Reminds me of windoze.
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Posted by reinkefj
Again this morning. Another bare metal restore in our future?
Argh!
I’d rate MACBOOKAIR and OSX10.6.6 as no better than windoze!
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Posted by reinkefj
Argh! Twice yesterday. Need to be sure I never leave anything valuable unsaved.
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Posted by reinkefj
Applied an Mac update. It triggered an IPAD update. It triggered a reprocessing of all photos.
About 3 hours later, it’s bout 75% done.
I’ll be more careful about updates on the MACBOOKAIR.
I thought that MICROSOFT had the monopoly on bad updates.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/06/google-nukes-rogue-android-apps-on-users-devices
Andy Greenberg
THE FIREWALL
Google Nukes Rogue Android Apps On Users’ Devices
Mar. 6 2011 – 9:26 pm
Your Android phone has a built-in kill switch for nasty apps. And Google, apparently, is not afraid to use it.
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Over the weekend, the search giant announced that it had remotely wiped “a number” of malicious Android apps from users’ phones, programs that earlier in the week had been identified as malware and pulled from Android’s app store. “We are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. This remote application removal feature is one of many security controls the Android team can use to help protect users from malicious applications,” Google wrote on its mobile blog, linking to an explanation it posted in June of a built-in functionality for deleting apps from users’ phones.
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The last time Google deleted applications that were already downloaded to users’ devices was in June, and its targets were two proof of concept apps built by security researcher Jon Oberheide. As I wrote at the time, that use of its kill switch seemed to be a loud warning to malware writers about the company’s ability to remotely destroy their tools. After all, Oberheide’s apps were designed to show the possibility of creating an Android-hosted botnet, not to actually create one.
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Isn’t anyone concerned that “HeadQuarters” can assume control of YOUR hardware and override something you’ve done?
“Sorry, we know better.”
We’ve seen Amazon nuke content that a reader had paid for. We’ve seen Microsoft “Live Update” computers into bricks with “fixes” that break rather than fix. And, content purveyors have always harassed legitimate uses and legal Users with “digital rights management” schemes that “fit” like a suit from Omar the Tent Maker (i.e., good for the provider, disasterous for the User).
I think this is a demonstration to Android Users that you’ve taken a “snake to your bosom”. And, what happens when the bad guys crack the HQ code and they can put stuff on or take it off your hardware.
Haven’t we been down this road before?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://stevecheney.posterous.com/how-facebook-is-killing-your-authenticity
How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity
Mar 6, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Face it, authenticity goes way down when people know their 700 friends, grandma, and 5 ex-girlfriends are tuning in each time they post something on the web.
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An interesting and astute observation.
On a personal note, I have some relatives, close friends, some not-so-close friends, acquaintances, e-friends I’ve never met, fellow alums fro different schools, past colleagues from various past employers, consulting contacts, fellow “outplacement” turkeys, headhunters, fellow authors, a few companion tin foil hats, and a few complete strangers.
On Facebook, like Twitter, like LinkedIn, they become one glob of undifferentiated mass of folks.
It makes the news streams into a torrent of items that can’t be reviewed, used, or actioned in any rationale way.
Since Facebook doesn’t allow alternate identities, either by its initial design — back when they required a college email address to get on, its current TOS (according to how I read it, but I’m not a lawyer, or do I play one on TV), or its new assumed role as the inet’s “identification server”.
In considering “identity”, information security gurus always identified the concept of an “identity” with the concepts of “roles” and “user control sharing”.
Interesting?
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Hi – thanks for sending me a message. I am using Boxbe to manage my email inbox. Once you’re on my Guest List, your email to me will be delivered with priority.
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BOXBE doesn’t present the challenge for me to “solve”.
So there is no way for my message to get thru.
Anyone ever test these things?
And, when you use spam filters, what are you missing?
Argh!
BOXBE, and all spam filters as a general rule, NOTRECOMMENDED!
I “wash” email though gmail for a spam filter.
Argh!
Sorry, but the ISPs could stop this in a heartbeat if they wanted to spend the effort of implementing email authentication.
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Posted by reinkefj
ADDRESSBOOKSYNC appears to be the culprit.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Don’t you just hate when you “lose” someone? I do. The symptom is that you’ve taken your “eye” off them for a minute and — poof — like Jack in Titanic they’ve slipped beneath the waves. Lost forever. That’s what happens. Guess it’s a fact of life. Emails, especially corporate emails, cease when the person moves on. Would it be such a big deal to forward it? People should really use their personal email or, even better, have their own domain.
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May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
May I suggest that you need a website? As a student, you have tons of time and are producing content. Papers, pictures, whatever. You need to get them on the web to estabish “your brand”. The web is always straved for content. By adopting a consistent strategy of displaying high quality content under your own “brand name”, you will take over the first page of Google. (For example, Google “Ferdinand J. Reinke” or “ReinkeFJ” and you’ll see I have EVERY one of the first page entries.) You don’t want a dry static page, but a page that shows off all that stuff you claim to have (i.e., organizational and communications). :-) LOL
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People shouldn’t be “lose-able”.
They should “stay” where I left them. Like keys.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
I don’t know. I don’t have the hardware, software, or expertise to debug the situation. But, when my MIFI and my WIFI, both have sucky performance. And, programs, that access the network, seem slow. And, I ‘always’ see “searching for networks”. Could it be that they have a significant problem with wifi at the operating system level?
Sigh!
How to figure that our?
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Posted by reinkefj
I did the fix and the problem still exists.
Their response is to “call” us. Argh!
This is supposed to be “production quality” software on a bullet-proof OS.
It’s an illusion.
I’ve moved CARBONITE to my list — NOTRECOMMENDED!
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Posted by reinkefj
To whom it may concern:
This is a stunning set of instructions. And, you expect non-techies to perform these steps. I’d say you have a design problem to have to do this.
Fjohn
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Carbonite Mac Support wrote:
Response (Ricky C.) 03/02/2011 02:26 PM
Hello Ferdinand and thank you for contacting Carbonite Customer Support.
We reviewed our records under your email address ‘XXXXXX’ and it indicates that you have backed up 33GB of data approximately on Carbonite server from your Mac named ‘ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air’ and 5 files are left pending for backup.
We request you to uninstall Carbonite from your Mac manually and then reinstall it in order to fix the issue of high CPU usage of your Mac.
Please follow the steps below to manually remove Carbonite’s program files:
1. Restart your Computer.
2. Control click on Finder on the dock and select ‘Go to Folder’.
3. Type /Library/Application Support/ into the window that appears.
4. Move the ‘Carbonite’ folder to the Trash.
5. Control-click on the Application Support folder in the header bar and click the Library folder.
6. Go to the Contextual Menu Items folder and move ‘CarboniteCMM.bundle’ to the trash.
7. Go back to the /Library folder and go into the LaunchAgents folder.
8. Delete ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist’ and ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist’.
9. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into LaunchDaemons.
10. Move ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitedaemon.plist’ to the trash.
11. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into PreferencePanes.
12. Move ‘Carbonite.prefPane’ to the Trash.
13. Restart your computer again.
14. Empty your trash.
You can reinstall Carbonite by logging into your Carbonite account and clicking the ‘Reinstall’ button. Reinstalling Carbonite will not affect your previously backed up data. It will resume your backup from where it last left off. For more details, please click the link below.
Reinstalling Carbonite on a Mac: http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1406
Please let us know if you need additional assistance.
Sincerely,
Ricky C.
Carbonite Customer Support
Back it up. Get it back.
Important Message: If you have recently restored your Carbonite backup to a Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer, please take a moment to verify your backup settings. Visit http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2654 for instructions.
For the latest news, tips, and discussions about Carbonite, visit our blog at http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog.
Customer 03/01/2011 02:56 PM
to=macsupport
to-domain=carbonite.com
subject=User incident report
from=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
version=1.1.4 build 389
os=Mac OS X 10.6.6
category=Troubleshooting
comment=Carbonite is absorbing 75% of the CPU. Is this the reason my macbookair slows down to a crawl periodically.
serial=212XXXXXXXX
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CarboniteLog.zip, 1436252 bytes, added to incident
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Argh!
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FOUND THIS IN THEIR EMAIL BOX THIS MORNING
in response to my simple message: “My wife, Evlynn, is dying in Saint Peters Hospital. It’s now inevitable. Please stop ALL RXs.
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Your Unique Tracking ID is: 493432
Dear Plan Member:
Thank you for contacting CVS Caremark. We strive to provide quality customer care to every one of our plan participants.
All pending orders have been canceled per your request. Thank you for allowing CVS Caremark the opportunity to be of assistance.
Should you need additional assistance, please respond to this e-mail or you may contact Customer Service at 1-800-701-5833. We appreciate the opportunity to serve all of your prescription benefit needs and to help you better manage your health.
Regards,
Brandon M.
CVS Caremark
Web Support
This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its content is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.
Coming Soon!
The New Caremark.com
Always working hard to make things easier for CVS Caremark members, we will be launching a new and improved site soon! The new Caremark.com has simplified and enhanced the features of the current site to make getting your prescriptions, finding savings, and learning about your medications even easier. Get a preview of the new Caremark.com at http://www.caremarkrelaunch.com/”>< a=””> face=”Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif” size=2>www.caremarkrelaunch.com<>.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED FROM WEB FORM
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Email Address = evlynn@reinke.cc
Question Subject = Other – Other (Call Us, Better You, Corp) – ZBA21
Question Type = Customer Service
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Group Code = ZBA21
Name = EVLYNN REINKE
Member Id = 902966664
Contact Me = Yes
Phone = 908-209-3625
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Question:
My wife, Evlynn, is dying in Saint Peters Hospital. It’s now inevitable. Please stop ALL RXs. Thanks, fjohn reinke
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Argh! Doesn’t anyone really think about what they are doing? Do they really think we are fooled by this “caring” email? And, what about all the “barbara streisand” in and around it?
Finally, can they make the font any smaller?
Argh!
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OK, here’s a hospital room thermostat. It’s cold in the room. How do I make it warmer? Or, colder.
Those three buttons must DO something, I feel like I’ve been dropped into a future civilization. Or stuff changes, and I didn’t get the memo.
How about a big + and – sign?
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
AddressBookSync is taking 98% of the CPU?
I have “sync” set to manual. What’s up with that?
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Posted by reinkefj
POSTBOX2 and CHROME running. Zero free space. Reboot. 7 Gig free. Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-and-receive-calls-in-gmail.html
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We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If you’re using Google Apps for your school or business, then you won’t see it quite yet. We’re working on making this available more broadly – so stay tuned!
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[JR: Lotta times I see them announce stuff and it is not there. Hmmm?]
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Posted by reinkefj
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/15/the-10-essentials-for-outdoor-adventures/
The 10 Essentials for Outdoor Adventures
by CHRIS on NOVEMBER 15, 2010
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Navigation: As mentioned above, the navigation system could include traditional forms of orienteering such as a good topographic map of the area you are in and a compass, or it could include a GPS unit. Just remember, should you choose to rely solely on GPS, you put yourself at risk of poor signal coverage, dead batteries, water damage, and other mishaps that could leave you without a navigational aid.
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In the tin foil hat TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) crowd, there is a very relevant expression:
“Having one is really having none.”
First heard that in the USAF Survival School. And, having done that two weeks of hell on earth, I can attest that in every field exercise, every man had TWO compasses. True the secondary one, your eye sight better be good to read it. But there was TWO.
Two ways to make a fire. Two knives — one big and one small. Two canteens — one which was required to always be full and secured to your personal belt. Your only excuse for losing that belt was to be sawed in half.
And, you certainly didn’t want to fail that course and have to repeat it if you were lucky. Otherwise, you were scratched and sent back to “personnel”. Euphemistically call “Human Resource Assignments”. There was always a need for garbagemen, grease trap cleaners, or “weeds ‘n’ seeds”. (We were told that one flunk out was sent to do gardening at “Than Sue Nutt, VeitNam, Republic of”! But we thought that was a fairy tale to scare us. Since we all had our next stations assignments, it did. If I’d have flunked, I’d have lost my gig in Maryland. Sweet.)
SO I have a quibble with the navigation advice, one GPS and TWO compasses and one analog watch, are the minimum.
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Google’s two factor authentication has arrived at one of my accounts.
It’s an excellent idea and turns one’s cell phone into the equivalent of a SecureId token. Maybe better?
Basically, before you turn it on, you have to consider THREE things.
(1) Understand that the initialization process takes a few minutes of your undivided attention. (If you screw it up, then I’m not sure how you fix it.) So “multi taskers” be forewarned.
(2) Understand what you need to do for all things that access your Google Account but don’t support two factor authentication (i.e., you email program). You’ll generate a special password for each of these applications. (It doesn’t say to, but makes it easy to generate on unique on for each such use.)
(3) Understand you have to have a plan if you loose your cell phone (i.e., losing one of your two factors will lock you out). Google allows you to specify another number and to print out a bunch of backup one time use passwords. Don’t fail to do this.
All in all, seems like a good working implementation.
I’d suggest that you do it on a test id. (Like I didn’t. I was excited to see it finally. That’s could be a bad blunder.)
I assume that you can revert if you want to. But I don’t know that for a fact.
Do as I say; not as I do?
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Interesting!?!
Could have been disastrous. So there is nothing in the MACOSX operating system that ensures everything that should be in your environment is. And, by extension, nothing that shouldn’t be there isn’t either.
Argh!
What else can’t we see?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7959?hq_e=el&hq_m=1174302&hq_l=4&hq_v=e357d8d5d7
LibreOffice
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Sure, LibreOffice 3.3 is basically a recolored OO.o, at this point. But, adding its own fixes and features sets it in a new direction. LibreOffice should retain its compatibility with OO.o so that extensions, fixes, patches, and code enhancements can be used in either product.
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RECOMMENDED!
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Posted by reinkefj
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Users of devices jailbroken by one of the methods that allows Apple’s test binaries to successfully run who attempt to open content purchased from the iBookstore are met with the following error message:
There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.
Restoring a device from iTunes obviously removes the jailbreak, again rendering the device in compliance with Apple’s standards.
Apple’s tactics are of course drawing some scrutiny from jailbreak fans, many of whom are pointing to recent actions by the U.S. government to explicitly allow jailbreaking. Consequently, Apple’s move to prevent access to legitimately purchased iBookstore content just because the user attempts to view it on a jailbroken device is seen as interference with legal usage.
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Now, I remember why I didn’t like LOTUS. And, why I shouldn’t like APPLE.
DRM!
APPLE sells me some hardware and dares me to use it.
Henceforth and forever more, all APPLE hardware is, be definition, “NOT RECOMMENDED”. Windoze may be “bad”, but at least you can be “OPEN”!
On to Linux!!!
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