Luggable has just slowed to a crawl. Maybe a reboot will clear it?
XPfails – luggable – Slow Down
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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TECHNOLOGY: It might be a great offer, but you’ll be on your own
Tuesday, January 30, 2007PaperPort Professional 11 Special Upgrade Offer
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Visioneer is happy to announce the newest scanner to the extraordinarily popular Strobe line – the RoadWarrior. As a Nuance customer, you are eligible to receive a substantial discount on the RoadWarrior before it even hits the stores. Purchase your new RoadWarrior today for only $169.99 – a $30 discount – just for being a Nuance customer. Simply enter the promotional code below in the checkout process and you will automatically receive your discount plus free ground shipping! But hurry, this exclusive offer expires on February 2, 2007. Click here to order yours today.
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As a Nuance screwee, I would NOT buy anything from these folks based on what they say to quote Judge Judy “if your tongue came notarized”.
These are the people who screwed me on “IBM” Via Voice. To which, I blame both IBM (their name was on the box) and Nuance.
Visioneer ain’t on my hit parade either. I got screwed when their Strobe was not being supported or drivers created for various windoze releases. All “silent” of course. I found out after I bought or tried to upgrade. A plague on their houses. Also, I have had lost of “unsupport” from them with their Paperport line in the past.
So here we have the hit parade, this one announcement hit every one on my don’t buy list:
IBM — Misleading me in who would support the product.
Nuance — making me pay for nonsupport
Strobe — nonsupport and selling gear with no drivers
Visioneer — nonsupport of current versions in the past
If you deal with any of these four, be warned. Don’t come whining to me that you got screwed. Learn from my screwing!
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TECHNOLOGY: TrustyFiles has it all
Monday, January 29, 2007http://www.trustyfiles.com/index.php
TrustyFiles
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TrustyFiles is Ultimate P2P – the top high performance multi-network file sharing software with the most advanced features.
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An interesting possibility
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RANT: If the FCC has any value, it should be here
Monday, January 29, 2007http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS/701270365
$31,000 cell phone bill stuns Sarasota retiree
By TODD RUGER
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SARASOTA — Oliver DeSofi’s normal cell phone bill is about $150 on a family plan, and he used about 183 minutes on his phone in October.
But when the 77-year-old retiree opened his Cingular Wireless bill in November, he saw $21,420 in roaming charges for more than 4,500 calls from Nicaragua — where he’s never been — to numbers he’s never called.
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What a croc. To put this fellow thru billing hell! This is by no means an isolated case.
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XPfails – luggable – mouse unresponsive
Sunday, January 28, 2007woke up this morning, always a good thing, to find an unresponsive mouse. Reboot. Seems like the mttf is a day. Less if I exercise it. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – Mouse begins to flake
Saturday, January 27, 2007Sigh. Reboot.
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RANT: How stupid are the voters in New Jersey?
Friday, January 26, 2007101.5 is reporting the gutting of all the proposed property tax savings bills in Trenton. Why is this surprising? It’s business as usual for the thugs in Trenton who steal our money. It’s slavery.
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TECHNOLOGY: CRASHPLAN a backup alternative
Monday, January 22, 2007
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Features like continuous backup, versioning, and advanced data compression make CrashPlan the smartest backup solution out there.
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Perhaps a viable alternative!
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TECHNOLOGY: WDSYNC backup always seems to have a new version
Monday, January 22, 2007v6.2.038
It makes the old sync unusable.
It doesn’t pick up any of the old registration information.
Interested to see what happens next week.
And, you have to drop the browser and the email.
But, it does make a complete encrypted back up.
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XPfails – luggable – Box locks up after LookOut “forgets” a reminder
Monday, January 22, 2007Eventually the box became unresponsive after LookOut “forgot” one it’s reminders. It was never able to recapture it.
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XPfails – luggable – WORD blanks a document that I created yesterday ARGH!
Monday, January 22, 2007This is a first. WORD basically “lost” a document I created yesterday. Basically, now it has to be treated as untrustworthy. Perhaps it’s time to move to Open Office?
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TECHNOLOGY: MSFT PUBLISHER replacement?
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Scribus on Windows
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The Scribus Team is pleased to make available the only open source page layout application which runs natively on all 3 major desktop operating systems; Linux, MacOSX and Windows. Scribus also runs on Unix™ variants like Solaris. HP-UX and the BSDs. Both online and direct commercial support is available for Scribus. There is a very friendly and active user community which has developed around Scribus with the active participation of the developers.
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Hmmm, MSFT has dropped Publisher (that I liked and used). Maybe this is something I can use in its place.
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XPfails – luggable – TYPE1 Box eventually becomes unresponsive
Sunday, January 21, 2007First CARDSCAN, then Outlook, become unresponsive. Eventually everything including TASKMANAGER does the same thing. Power Off. Argh!
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FUN: Guess blondes won’t buy a benz anytime soon
Friday, January 19, 2007
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TECHNOLOGY: 7ZIP choice isn’t there
Friday, January 19, 2007PCMechanic tip:
Since most files compress very well and, in turn, are faster to transfer, zipping them up makes sense. The excellent open source program 7-Zip addresses both of the issues above. When 7-Zip is installed with its context menus, you can right click on a file and inside the 7-Zip menu select Compress and Email. The result is an empty mail message with your attachment zipped up. There is no garbage subject line or text, so just fill out your email like normal.
But, I don’t see that choice!?!
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XPfails – luggable – EDITPRO fails and eventually locks the box
Thursday, January 18, 2007Kodak and Syncura didn’t uninstall right. Reinstall and uninstall?
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XPfails – luggable – LUG couldn’t pick up the home wap
Wednesday, January 17, 2007Needed a reboot to connect.
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TECHNOLOGY: FEEDBLITZ has its uses
Wednesday, January 17, 2007A fellow blogger was surprised when his blog wasn’t updated as he thought it was. Feedblitz sent me his summary and when I clicked to read it, there was nada there. I pinged him and he was surprised. I explained to him how I use feedblitz to (1) confirm that I posted stuff and (2) as a back up and recovery mechanism, in that all blog posts are echoed in my email. Weather he adopts the strategy , or “outsources” checking up on him to me, who knows?
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XPfails – luggable – WINDOZE developed Alzheimer’s
Wednesday, January 17, 2007It forgot where the internet was? Symptom nothing was resolving by name. Ping worked fine. DNS worked on other boxes. All that was left was a reboot. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: WalMart offers a 398$ Linux box
Tuesday, January 16, 2007http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762908
WalMart offers a Linux box
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Microtel SYSWM4008 Desktop System, 2.8 GHz Intel Celeron w/CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive $398
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Very interesting. I’d like one just to see how good it is.
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XPfails – luggable – Reinstall, reboot, try again and again
Tuesday, January 16, 2007I guess the XP gnome — annoying creature that it is — decided that if I was really going to keep rebooting until I got wireless connectivity back to my home network, then it’d eventually relent and give it back. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – DELL’s wireless fails
Monday, January 15, 2007Luggable’s wireless stopped working. Argh! Wrassled witht he drivers. Uninstall, reinstall. NG! Latest drivers loop and drive cpu to 100%. Argh! Not working, System restore, still ng. Arghhh!
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TECHNOLOGY: SYNCURA goes pay
Friday, January 12, 2007Oh well, was nice while it lasted. Have to drop this and uninstall it.
My fall back is hamachi and Karen’s replicator.
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XPfails – luggable – Outlook Lookout fails – Reminder left hanging
Wednesday, January 10, 2007Outlook gives me a reminder. Good. I click dismiss. Outlook transforms into LookOut and leaves a zero reminder hanging out. Eventually the performance degrades to unacceptable. Reboot. Argh!
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Four Steps To Restoring the Culture – And Avoiding Catastrophe
Tuesday, January 9, 2007Welfare, Family, Money, and Education! He’s hit my top 3 and thrown in “family” for good measure. I agree and he writes it up much better than I ever could.
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RANT: TV moves RU game time
Saturday, January 6, 2007Not having a very good day today. It appears that RU moves the game time for TV. We have tickets that say 2PM. It’s being played at noon. That really aggravates me!
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