Downloaded the latest release. Some platform problems getting it down, but got it. Luggable comes up on the live distribution clean. Connected to the home wireless network by selecting the network and supplying the admission password. Looks like we have something that will be my “production” release for my secondary desktop. Good bye Microsoft is on the horizon!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7708268.stm
New MP3 logo gets online support
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Seven of Britain’s largest music download sites have got together to promote a new “MP3 compatible” logo.
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No DRMs for me. I’ve been fooled too many times. I have load of cassettes with great content; don’t lock me in. Argh!
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DROPBOX
Perhaps a better version of FolderShare? (A file sync utility with some bells and whistles?)
Note: For some reason, they’ve given me some invites.
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Back Up Your Computer to Save Time and Money
Saturday, 25th October 2008 (by J.D.)
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Here’s a public service message: Back up your computer regularly. This has more to do with your pocketbook than you might think.
Not only was I sick this week, but the hard drive on my laptop crashed. It’s gone. The Apple Geniuses (that’s what they call themselves!) cannot salvage it. I was able to pull the single most important document (the GRS spreadsheet) and a few posts-in-progress, but I lost a hell of a lot, including:
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It never ceases to amaze me how pros get caught short.
And, as I have learned the hard way, back in my FBC days, you have to test the restoration.
My story was entertaining. Since it was a test! If it’d had been “for real”, the outcome might have been different. I was challenged to justify at the highest levels why the organization had to run a very expensive Thanksgiving Day test of our recovery capability. IT was a huge multimillion dollar effort. I was insistent. (That was in my younger days when I was full of “principle”.) We were under regulatory scrutiny and my plan was pulling them out of the mess that they were in. (Those were the days when folks listened to my advice as opposed to seeing my gray hair!) I refused to sign off and certify to the regulatory authority that we were in compliance with the agreement to “be recoverable”. The entire chain of command was saying it was a lock sure process. But, I insisted on a test. (In injineering skool, we waz taught about Mister Murphy and his law!) My Boss and his Boss gave me weak support, but under pressure had to admit that based on their reviews they saw no reason why a test was absolutely necessary. So, I was called up on the carpet. (It was a very lovely RED carpet.) To explain. (Get my arm twisted.) It was a subcommittee of the BoD. (I learned later that it was the Audit subcommittee.) My defense was simple: “The regulators will hold me and the Board of Directors personally liable if we cause a market meltdown by being unable to recover. Since I’m too young to be unemployed, I need a test to sign off. I’d suggest that you have more to lose financially that I do, so you might want a test too.” That simple logic carried the day.
The Head of the Largest Business unit, (a trading desk), was to go run the test. I was there as an observer. (Soon to be unemployed, if the grazillion dollars was wasted.) The Head Poobaah was one of the one’s who confidently predicted success and was upset that “his bonus was going to be reduced because of the expense of this test”. Rules of engagement were that WTC (where the data center was) is gone. A core cadre of people are in Sunguard Philly with all the back up stuff stored there and were to recover the business from that point. (It really was the simplest of the seven disaster scenarios.)
(Can you see where this is going?)
Bottom line: Test failed. AND, among the reasons for the failure, in addition to the usual media and process failures, was that the Poobaah’s trading desk had essential data store on their PCs on the trading desks that was NEVER baked up.
That incident taught me to have lots of “belts and suspenders”.
From time to time the Universe has reminded me of that lesson. Hopefully, you can learn it without the painful experience.
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Simple private sharing.
Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online.
Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.
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[JR: Recommended]
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Google Blogs Alert for: “manhattan college” -marymount -“marymount manhattan college” -“borough of manhattan college” -marymount -manhattan.edu -bmcc.cuny.edu -msmnyc.edu -mancol.edu -gojaspers.com
Good night, Pop. Love you.
By Gina DC: Armed and Clever!(Gina DC: Armed and Clever!)
He was graduated from Manhattan College in New York in 1942 with a bachelor of arts degree in English and history. He did graduate work at the New School for Social Research in New York, at the University of Vermont, the University of …
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As you might guess, I have my ‘agents’ spread far and wide across the internet looking for any hint of a Jasper. They are wrascally wrabbits doing all they can to hide. What I find personally very frustrating is when and ‘agent’ calls home with a great story. I go to ‘collect’ it and it’s NOT accessible. Argh! IMHO the engines should not index content that is not reachable. TO me this is a flaw in Google and Live Journal. Argh! And, Gina may not be aware that she has NOT posted a heartwarming tribute for the word to read. She just writing to her friends. I hate to be teased. Sigh!
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Funny how you can find people by “Find Friends”, but you can’t add them to a list or suggest them to others. I suspect that the various databases in use by facebook are not updated very frequently.
Hmm, maybe an “employment opportunity” for a FOWG from the days when “directories” were differentiated from “databases”.
You also can’t get a list of your “friends”. Is that to conceal lost data?
Fascinating!
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Always thought birthdays were a great way to setup a granfalloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon
You can’t find dotcomeraden! http://tinyurl.com/34n533 on Facebook who share your birthday. Only your Facebook Friends can do it for you. It’s like a “Robbie Burns” message. You know the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Facebook tells me that you share the day with others in my circle; it doesn’t tell you.
Here’s a gift you can give your Facebook Friends. A networking stretching weird one. They did NOT say that opportunity would be a fat old man with strange ideas!
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WPDC is the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom (and did I mention free!!!)
Yeah, I know “beggars and choosers”, but …
It would be nice if on the creation screen tags, like categories, could “suggest” the most frequently used ones, or show a list of all current ones to choose from.
The free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom is still my favorite; even if it doesn’t work the way I’d see it work.
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Download my contacts in CSV format.
Printed my profile into a pdf.
You?
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