… won’t give my the USA options for Skype. I’ll have to renew when I get home. Argh! Talk about to smart for its own good. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Skype knows where I am and …
Monday, December 15, 2008
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TECH SERVICE: Example of the danger of depending upon the cloud for computing service
Friday, December 12, 2008Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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TECH SERVICE: Example of the danger of depending upon the cloud for computing service
Friday, December 12, 2008Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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MCBA: Taking Macs off my recommended list
Friday, December 5, 2008For all the griping about Microsoft and its problems with Operating Systems, Apple is rapidly moving into the same class. There is a very annoying problem that arrived with a required update. Now every so often the Mac Book Air stops working while it rescans and reconnects to the WiFi Access Point.
Browsing the web shows that this has been a problem since the First Quarter of this year.
Argh!
Don’t buy Microsoft or Apple. Bite the bullet and go directly to Linux. At least, when you have a problem, you’ll know you are on your own!
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SERVICE: Microsoft FOLDERSHARE being replaced
Tuesday, December 2, 2008From: Windows Live FolderShare <communications_iw_cs_enus@communications3.msn.com>
Date: December 1, 2008 7:21:57 PM EST
To: fjohn
Subject: Windows Live Sync replacing FolderShare: What you need to know
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Dear FolderShare user, We’re contacting you to let you know what’s next for FolderShare, and to make you aware of some important changes. In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It’s going to look familiar and offer the same great features, plus:
A huge part of Sync’s success story depends on FolderShare users like you. When Sync releases, FolderShare goes into retirement. That means your FolderShare software will stop working and will ask you to upgrade to Sync. Once you do, Sync will automatically rebuild your personal folders. We expect a lot of new users when Sync is released, so if you can’t sign in right away, please give it a little time. Here’s the part you need to pay attention to: Sync will not be able to rebuild your shared libraries. If you have a lot of shared libraries, you should hop over to the FolderShare website while it’s still available and copy all that information. You’ll need it to rebuild your shared libraries in Sync. Thanks for being a FolderShare user! We’re excited about delivering an even better file-synchronization experience to customers like you. We hope you’ll come along as we move forward with Windows Live Sync. Sincerely, The Windows Live Sync (formerly FolderShare) team # – # – # Yup, it worked relatively problem free. SO we have to screw around with it! Can’t have that. AND, we can’t have a seamless transition, you have to redo all you’ve done with it. And, they wonder why people HATE Microsoft? I’ve started the painful process of emigrating. Digging that parasite out from under my saddle. My MCBA was a my first step away on my way to Linux. Others would be well advised to do the same. You have no control of what “they”, (Microsoft, Google, or the “cloud computing providers”), do to you! That’s just unacceptable. # # # # # |
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MCBA: Excessive Airport Scanning after 10.5.2
Friday, November 28, 2008Re: Excessive Airport Scanning after 10.5.2
Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:01 AM in response to: Gregory Vonderh…
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Glad to know I’m not alone. Slight comfort. I almost bought a new AP thinking that had to be the problem. Of course, this has only happened since the OS update. I never had a problem prior to that. None of the subsequent updates have helped, either. Getting rid of the airport status in the menu bar has only helped in that I don’t constantly see black bars fade to completely ghosted every 30 seconds. I’m hoping that this issue is resolved soon. It’s beyond maddening.
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I’m also having the problem. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: AntiSPAM tactic that Yahoo misses
Monday, November 24, 2008Here’s a spam that I received at my Yahoo account. It purports to be from a Yahoo user id. BUT, if it didn’t originate entirely inside Yahoo, then Yahoo should be able to NUKE it before it hits my inbox. Seems simple to me?
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Return-Path: <jfrank@yahoo.com>
Authentication-Results: mta134.mail.ac4.yahoo.com from=yahoo.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 80.229.33.223 (EHLO esssrv01.eatonsquareschool.com) (80.229.33.223) by mta134.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:25:19 -0800
Received: from User ([216.212.164.154]) by esssrv01.eatonsquareschool.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:17:48 +0000
Reply-To: <jfrank@yahoo.com>
From:
“Frank”<jfrank@yahoo.com>
Add sender to Contacts
Subject: Question about Item – Respond Now
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:24:41 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”Windows-1251″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Bcc:
Return-Path: jfrank@yahoo.com
Message-ID: <ESSSRV01f9hYDkngMUJ000029cf@esssrv01.eatonsquareschool.com>
Content-Length: 10368
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TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo Group fails to send message!!!
Sunday, November 23, 2008*** begin quote ***
DistributeJasperJottings · Distribute Jasper Jottings
Post Message We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request at this time.
If you continue to receive this error for more than 48 hours, please contact our Customer Care team. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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ARGH! What kind of nonsense is this? No wonder their stock is in the toilet! FORTY EIGHT hours? Are they kidding me? Time to search for alternatives.
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UPDATE @ 9AM
The problem is in their “Rich-Text Editor (Beta)”. That allows you to send an HTML message. The old version forces a plain text message. That is working.
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TECHNOLOGY: Website fraud
Saturday, November 22, 2008http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/11/classmates
Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren’t Really Looking for Him
By Ryan Singel Email 11.12.08
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When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long-lost fifth-grade dodge-ball buddies and see if his secret crush from high school had looked him up online.
But once he’d parted with the $15, Michaels learned the shocking truth: No one he knew was trying to contact him at all. Classmates.com’s come-on was a lie, and he’d been scammed.
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Instead of NJ chasing after eHarmony for not “servicing” homosexuals, maybe they should chase the corrupt politicians who are stealing our tax dollars. Or, this site that is defrauding folks.
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TECHNOLOGY: Missed opportunity
Tuesday, November 18, 2008http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081118/D94H4S981.html
`$100 laptop’ group reboots Give 1 Get 1 offer
Nov 18, 12:06 AM (ET)
By JESSICA MINTZ
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SEATTLE (AP) – The One Laptop Per Child project is set to resume its Give One Get One promotion for its kid-friendly computers Monday with logistics help from Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.
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Boy, did they miss their opportunity. I tried to get some last year. Argh! Now with the various alternatives, they have missed the boat.
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