TECH SERVICE: Vangard requires Adobe PDF Reader! Yuck!!!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Vangard requires Adobe PDF Reader! Yuck!!!

Adobe stinks. It’s a pig in terms of size and complexity. You put out a pdf. Why can’t I use an Open Source free product to view the pdf? And, it used to work. SO you’ve introduced a change without notification. Just like your split authentication change, it does zip from my perspective except make my life more difficult.

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TECH SERVICE: LOGMEIN free

Monday, June 23, 2008

Has worked very nicely from the road. The hotel’s wifi is deadly slow. But moving up to the Verizon wireless broadband gives good performance. (It should for those prices.)

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JobFinding: IT job source

Friday, June 20, 2008

My favorite Socialist recommends these folkd for jobs

http://www.sessolutions.com/

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Welcome…

Software Engineering Services (SES) provides leading-edge IT Solutions for the Department of Defense, Federal and State Governments and the Commercial Sector. Our key services include:

Commercial and State Government Services

• Systems Integration

• CMMI Assessments

• Process Engineering

• Quality Assurance Services

• Enterprise Security Solutions

• Systems/Software Development

• System Engineering & Architecture

• Compliance (HIPAA,PCI,SOX,GLBA)

• Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

• Project Management and Project Management Office

• CMMI Gap Assessment/Implementations and Appraisals

DoD and Military Services

• JIOWC Deployable and OPSEC

• Missile Warning Systems Support

• Meteorological Modeling and Analysis

• Satellite Imagery and Weather Observations

• C4ISR Policy Development & Implementation

• Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Coordination

• Interactive Grid Analysis and Display System (IGrADS)

• Information Assurance and Network Vulnerability Analysis

• Weather Data Collection and Dissemination System (WDCADS)

• System Engineering, Management, and Sustainment Taskings

• Weather Interactive Data Display System (WIDDS) Development

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McBookAir: McBa gets a real field trial

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Up to now, McBa has always been close to LUGGABLE. For passwords, for files, for the ‘chuck it moments’. Now we are going to work it away from LUGGABLE, More than a day away. Many mies away. Here’s a real field trial. We’ll see.

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TECHNOLOGY: LOGMEIN

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Giving it another try. Fromt he McBa to LUG. Let you know next week how well it works. This will be the first time I go for a real test of the concept of "leaving LUGGABLE". LogMeIn free seems to be workign nicely. No burps like last time. No lets see what it does on the road.

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LINKEDIN: LinkedIn has raised $53 million

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/linkedin-raises-53-million-at-billion-dollar-valuation

LinkedIn Closes Its Round; Got That Billion Dollar Valuation
Mark Hendrickson

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LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion.

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Yeah, LinkedIn wasn’t doing anything!

As a commenter recently and harshly took me to task about!

So, do you think those folks GOT ANYTHING for their 53 Mil?

:-(

Now what will they try to do to the users. Still no competitor in sight to knock them off.

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TECHNOLOGY: Take care GOOGLE DOCS

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

I was using Google Documents to write my story. I’ve been burnt several times in doing this on various platforms and softwares. This was no different but surprised me. I was banging away stringing words and poof! Poof?! All my pearls disappeared. I was in a dither. Poking around it was was back to its original state. Lost about an hour’s worth of work. Kept looking and thinking. Found something in the Help about ‘revisions’. There I found my awol text. replaced by something. I copied it to an email and gave up in disgust. Argh!

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XPfails – luggable – Maybe the BSODs were due to BITTORRENT?

Monday, June 16, 2008

I took down bit torrent (i.e, Utorrent) and no BSODs. Causality or coincidence? 9AM to 2PM and no problem?

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XPfails – luggable – BSOD before outlook or word

Monday, June 16, 2008

bsod again — tcpip connects in event log


LUGGABLE BSOD — no outlook

Monday, June 16, 2008

It failed so fast. I saw the BSOD, but couldn’t see the codes. Rebooted. Lost 10 minutes on my story. Argh!