MACBOOKAIR: Ready for the shop tomorrow

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Well, at least, I think I am.

Have alternate platform that will allow me to do email and Jasper Jottings, CHECK!

Have complete backup of McBa, CHECK!

Have complete data backups at CARBONITE, CHECK!

Have documents backed up at DROPBOX, CHECK!

OK!

Monday, if all goes well with Frau Reinke at the lab, then I’m off to the Apple Store: (1) missing sound; suspect hardware; (2) failure to sync; suspect OSX os; (3) intermittent slowdowns; suspect OSX networking.

Best outcome: all three fixed

Worst outcome: completely wiped “repaired” machine.

Somewhere in the middle: a permanent replacement “new but old model” mcba machine or one of the new macbookairs.

I should have keep a book on how much time and effort this has cost me.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Uncle Sam, the aging athlete

Sunday, December 5, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232729

Why are we still in Korea?
Posted: November 26, 2010
Pat Buchanan

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From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us.

We can’t let go, because we don’t know what else to do. We live in yesterday – and our rivals look to tomorrow.

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Why are we still in Germany and a slew of other strange places?

Why are American girls and boys dying in the Sandbox, the Rockbox, and a slew of other places?

Why are American politicians immune from “We, The Sheeple”?

Peace. Now!

If women ever decide that they want a peaceful world, they can have it. In minutes! (OK, maybe not minutes. But so quick, it’ll seem like minutes.)

“Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262

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SOFTWARE: ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug

Saturday, December 4, 2010

ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug … …

… … it lost the left column of the main screen that allows you to select the blog you want to post to. Nothing on the support site and I know they take days to reply. So, I tool a change and reinstalled.

Problem solved.

The MACBOOKAIR has to go in again. (Monday?)

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INTERESTING: Buying decisions are the equivalent of “micro elections”

Saturday, December 4, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy170.html

The TSA’s False Tradeoff
by Bob Murphy

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The market economy solves this problem effortlessly through market prices and the profit-and-loss test. If a car factory is using up resources that consumers would prefer go into alternate sectors, this fact manifests itself objectively when the accountant announces that the car factory is “losing money.” After all, to be unprofitable simply means that the car factory cannot earn enough revenues from its customers in order to pay the prices for resources that other entrepreneurs are able to afford. That is the sense in which consumers are “voting” (through their spending decisions) that the car factory either reform or shut down.

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We need to emphasize more these micro elections and de-emphasize the Gooferment.

We can control corporations with the very fine razor of individual buying decisions. No bureaucrats needed.

The Gooferment on the other hand is immune to our intentions. Completely.

Like some wag said, “if elections changed anything, they’d be outlawed”!

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RANT: GE took TARP money!

Friday, December 3, 2010

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090216110722AAM5UEA

Since GE took TARP money, shouldn’t “President” Obama limit multi-million dollar salaries for NBC reporters?

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GE Capital received billions in taxpayer funds from TARP-1. GE Capital provides 55% of GE’s revenue. NBC is a subsidiary of GE. houldn’t Obama limit Brian Williams and Chris Matthews $10 mil and $5 mil annual salaries to 500k like the infamous “CEO’s”? Doesn’t it make sense now how MSNBC spends the whole day touting Obama and his agenda. Shouldnt they disclose their conflict of interest during every news story?

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No wonder that NBC and ALL its outlets were in love with BHO44!

Its a national disgrace!

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GUNS: An 18 year old can vote and enlist but can not … …

Friday, December 3, 2010

http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=22591

Texas violating Second Amendment rights of teenagers – KOSA (West Texas)

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Americans are granted the right to bear arms in the constitution but the NRA is arguing that Texas Teenagers are being left out. The National Rifle Association is taking the State of Texas to court, claiming that limiting concealed handgun licenses to adults 21 and older, infringes on the rights of 18, 19 and 20 year olds.

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Let me understand this: an 18 year old can vote and enlist but can not carry or drink.

As a little L libertarian, I find that “age” laws are absurd.

The Gooferment has a “one size fits all” meme.

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FUN: Twist the TSA’s shorts if you MUST travel

Thursday, December 2, 2010

http://laughingsquid.com/underclothes-that-display-the-4th-amendment-when-x-rayed-by-tsa/

Underclothes That Display The 4th Amendment When X-Rayed by TSA

By Scott Beale on November 29, 2010

4th Amendment Wear

4th Amendment Wear is a series of underclothes that have the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution printed on them with metallic ink that so that it will show up when worn through a TSA X-Ray machine.

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JOBSEARCH: Job #1 is finding your next job

Thursday, December 2, 2010

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/23/2050239/When-Your-Company-Remote-Wipes-Your-Personal-Phone

When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone
from Slashdot by kdawson

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Xenographic writes “NPR has a story about someone whose personal iPhone got remotely wiped by their employer. It was actually a mistake, but it was something of a surprise because they didn’t believe they had given their employer any kind of access to do that. This may already be very familiar to Microsoft Exchange admins, but the problem was her iPhone’s integration with MS Exchange automatically gives the server admin access to do remote wipes. All you have to do is configure the phone to receive email from an MS Exchange server and the server admin can wipe your phone at will.

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Clearly, you must maintain an “air gap” between your employer’s stuff and your personal stuff.

Never forget Job #1 is finding your next job.

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INTERESTING: … in that it demonstrates how fragile the financial “eco-system” is

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

http://www.smh.com.au/business/millions-cashless-in-bank-glitch-20101126-18akf.html

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ONE of Australia’s biggest banks is scrambling to process payments to millions of customers, who potentially face days of uncertainty about when they will be able to access their money.

A corrupted file in the National Australia Bank’s computers on Wednesday jammed its payment system, hitting customers from a range of banks who rely on the NAB to process payments.

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As an IT guy, I assume they are talking about a corrupted database, where the the software develops the IT equivalent of Alzheimer’s. (“Let’s see Joe Jones’ record please.” “Don’t have Joe’s in that slot have Sam’s.” “Tilt. Summon programmer.” To which the programmer says: “<synonym for excrement>” and schedules rebuilding the index. That’s like a Doctor’s secretary having to go through every file folder recreating an index into the filing cabinet. Long and cumbersome for people. Same for computers.) The fact that there’s a “holiday” around when the problem occurs makes me suspect that there was a change or testing going on. When I had a Dister Recovery Group, Tday Weekend was a great time for testing. Basically four days with minimal requirement from “real people”. It’s one of the most highly sought weekends by IT people to do “stuff”. So, when ANY holiday comes, think of the herds of nerds globally changing stuff. If that doesn’t inspire you to take a little extra cash and make a few preps for at least a little outage, then you are truly clueless. :-)

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ADMINISTRIVIA: WordPress iPad app ng

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tried the iPad app for word press. Doesn’t work so well. And there are no shortened.

Also the iPad autocorrect is a PIA!

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