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Can you beleive this response?

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From: Yahoo! Music Jukebox [mailto:migration-support@cc.yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:53 PM
To: Reinke’s Catch All Email
Subject: Re: Musicmatch Migration issue (KMM102549845V28118L0KM)

Hello ,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

To correct this issue, please uninstall then reinstall Yahoo! Music
Jukebox.

First, uninstall the Yahoo! Music Jukebox:

1. Make sure to exit the Yahoo! Music Jukebox. If you don’t, the uninstall will fail.

2. At the bottom left of your Windows screen, click the “Start” button.

3. Depending on your Windows version, select “Settings” and then ‘Control Panel’, or just look for ‘Control Panel’ in the menu shown when you click ‘Start.’

4. Open ‘Control Panel.’

5. Double-click or select “Add/Remove Programs.”

6. In the list of applications, select “Yahoo! Music Jukebox” and click the “Remove” button.

7. Click the “Next” button, then “Finished.”

If you see an error that the uninstall process failed, you will need to install the Yahoo! Music Jukebox following the instructions below and then uninstall the application by performing the above steps again.

Once the Yahoo! Music Jukebox is successfully uninstalled, you will need to reinstall. Note that uninstalling and reinstalling the Yahoo!
Music Jukebox is free, and does not affect your Yahoo! Music Unlimited account. You will simply need to sign in using your Yahoo! ID at the completion of the install process; you will be prompted to add in the music files already on your computer, and your subscription music (if any) will be automatically populated.

1. Close all running applications except for Internet Explorer.

2. Please then visit your respective URL:

U.S. Version:

http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/music/ymj/us/ymjsetup.exe

Canadian Version:

http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/music/ymj/ca/ymjsetup.exe

2. “Save” the program (please do not “Run” it) and download it to the desktop.

3. From the desktop, run the installer file that you downloaded and follow the onscreen instructions.

4. Please Note: Download time can take anywhere from 1 to 25 minutes and
18 MB of free space is required to install the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

5. After installing, click the icon on your desktop to start the Yahoo!
Music Jukebox. Sign in using your Yahoo! ID.

For more information about troubleshooting with the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, go to:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/jukebox/troubleshoot/index.html

Thank you again for writing Yahoo! Music.

Regards,

Yahoo! Customer Care
57994239

New and Improved Yahoo! Mail – better than ever!

Original Message Follows:
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Mail-Id: 1187621904-6907
“Name:” : reinkefj
“Yahoo! ID:” : reinkefj
“Email Address:” :
“Current Operating System:” : Windows XP “Subject:” : Musicmatch Migration issue “WMP Version:” : Not set by user “If yes, check here:” : Not set by user “Additional Information” : Don't know what WMP version, Script error; workaround doesn't work. Argh!
While Viewing: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/jukebox/troubleshoot/troubleshoot03.html

Form Name: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/general.html

Yahoo ID: reinkefj : Yahoo id from cookie “https://amt.yahoo.com/amt/dosearch?.token=5y.Tu0qEPLfejWEUKFW_NSx14saef
_rBHh3JD_Or”

Other ID:

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6)
Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

REMOTE_ADDR: 68.87.100.77

REMOTE_HOST: 68.87.100.77

Date Originated: Monday August 20, 2007 – 07:58:24

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Yuck!

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http://portableapps.com/suite

PortableApps.com Suite
your computer, without the computer™

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PortableApps.com Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.

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Interesting. Your USB fob is all you need for any strange machine. Great idea. Even my personal machine is strange!

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http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/13/15-productive-uses-for-a-wiki/

15 Productive Uses for a Wiki
WEBWORKERDAILY

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A few of the things that are emerging about web workers is that 1) we do just about everything online; 2) we want to be able to access it from any computer, anywhere; and 3) it’s hard to organize all the stuff we use and do, in our work and personal lives.

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1) To-do list. Once you’ve learned the simple wiki markup language, creating a list is easy. And the most productive list, of course, is the to-do list. In fact, if you’re into GTD, you can set up multiple context lists for a simple GTD system — try GTD Tiddlywiki, dcubed, or MonkeyGTD for more integrated wiki solutions.

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Sigh, maybe I’ll try again. It’s the doing that is hard.

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FROM AN MLPF EMAIL

>Re: FLASH: Hoovers seems to be making a move into LinkedIn’s space
>Posted by: “vmwusa_2000”
>Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:55 am (PST)
>Nice job on the blog, by the way!
>And thanks for capturing the screenshot for us…

Vincent,

Thanks for the kind words. But, my blog is more of a whine. :-) Sort of like “Do Not Go Gently Into … ” as performed by Rodney Dangerfield. :-) I’m “raging”.

On a technical note about the screen capture, windoze users are often frustrated by capturing screen shots. As was I, until I found a free utility that makes it trivial. Gadwin Systems Print Screen 4.0 at http://www.gadwin.com/download/ is my “silver bullet”. (It’s free, so I’m not getting out of this message other than the satisfaction of helping my fellow human. And the acclaim at being a big fat old but TRICKY turkey.) So I use the PrintScreen button to trigger the GSPS software, edit the resultant JPEG with MSPAINT (i.e., cut the appropriate part, drop the old file, get a new file open, paste the good stuff in, and save it). From there getting the JPEG onto the BLOG is trivial. It’s then accessible to the millions of MLPF readers. If anyone needs further help, feel free to contact me on or off list and I’ll try to create a better explanation. Usually just knowing that there is a solution is enough for people to try to find that solution, their own solution, or a better solution. That is, if you think something is impossible, it is (AKA learned helplessness?).

I’m sure there are faster, better, easier, but I doubt cheaper solutions.

With being around you (i.e., VW creates the MLPF and genre), there’s no doubt that this is a very minor contribution to the whizdum wars. But we all do what we can to spread light.

Again thanks for the kind words,
fjohn

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A BLOGDESK competitor, one has to at least consider the offering from the Evil Empire. Clearly in my mind, it starts off with one big strike against it. It integrates with IE7 and not firefox. Strike Two. Now let’s see if it posts to WORDPRESSDOTCOM?

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OK so it did stick a post in the blog. Two strikes and looking for a third. :-)

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BLOGDESK26.600 was released.

http://www.sticky-notes.net/sticky-notes-software-free.html

Sticky Notes Software

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This free software allows you to create sticky notes on your computer desktop to remind you of important events.

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Comes highly recommended. I’ll try it.

http;//www.blogdesk.org

Highly recommended and superbly supported.

FROM A POST ON BLOGDESKDOTORG:

Periodically, BLOGDESK “disappears”. I leave it up, open, and blog when I have time. Since the upgrade, BLOGDESK disappears. It’s not on the taskbar, not can I alt-tab task switch to it. When I look at what processes are running, there it is. If you use the “switch to” in the process view, nothing happens. It’s like a little kid sulking in their room. :-) If I terminate the task from the process view, it goes away peacefully (i.e., I don’t see any effects). If I then restart it from the program menu or quick launch it runs fine. Could this behavior be from that dll that wouldn’t register? Is there another bug? Am I the only “problem child”? Your attention when you have time would be appreciated. It is only severity 4.

UPDATE: The developer fixed it. Try and get that from Microsoft!

http://www.roboform.com/

RoboForm is an award-winning automated password manager and web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence.

FROM MY EMAIL TO MY LUDDITE FRIEND

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Look at roboform2go for your sign up hang up. I use it. One of the few packages I’ve paid money for. I use it to sign up when needed, generate a unique password for the site, and it does all the memorization work. I have a few passwords hat I trust to no one (i.e., banking, my websites, and certain documents) but for the most stuff it handles all the details.

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Passwords have been in use since Julius Caesar. The security principle is a shared secret between you and something else (i.e., website, service, application, platform, whatever). To keep the integrity of that shared secret, you shouldn’t use the same password for different sites. Or, reuse it in any way. Or, generate it by adding a digit to your middle name!

Some “rules of thumb”:

(1) Passwords need to be unguessable.

(2) They need to be long enough prevent someone trying everyone by brute force.

(3) They need to use lots of possibilities (i.e., 26 letters become 52 values if you use upper and lower case).

(4) It can’t be in the dictionary (i.e., or the word in reverse); it’s called a “dictionary attack”.

SO if you have to have a slew of passwords, what do you do?

I suggest using a tool, like ROBOFORM, as your “extended memory”, like I do, for low risk uses. Routine logons are a snap. It will also speed your initial sign up, generate a complex password, and remember the whole thing for you.

For your high risk uses (i.e., financial sites), where a compromise could be a disaster, use your memory. If you have more than 10 high risk uses, then you need to consolidate your uses.

I recommend using a USB THUMB DRIVE with ROBOFORM PASS2GO. It does all the above, but you keep the passwords on it. So the password data is not on the machine that you use! When you’re not using the computer, put the drive in your pocket. So, if your computer gets stolen, then you should have the USB THUMB DRIVE with all the passwords in your pocket.

Losing your notebook is bad. Losing all your passwords is a disaster.