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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Today's inbox held this from Mike Barkman about page load times with the Trend Micro virus stuf moved to another page: Definitely faster -- I could tell it was the Trend site holding up the
works because I have a very useful utility running called Naviscope.
Appears as a toolbar; when connecting to a site it has dropdowns of arrows
labelled with the page name/image name it is waiting for. So I think I want Naviscope. How come I never heard of it until now? C'mon guys, share the toys! OK, I see that Naviscope has its own website, and its home page includes these magical words: Best of all, as a limited time offer, Naviscope is completely FREE! I'm there, man! |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Spent all day today wrestling with an Exchange server. The customer called in a bit of a panic, since email is the lifeblood of their business. So I did the obvious things (obvious to my little brain, anyway)... I examined the system and application logs, and looked up the error numbers mentioned in the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base, hereinafter referred to as the KB. That's one URL (or is that a URI these days?) that I always keep in my Favorites menu. So the logs talked about corrupted incoming message headers, and the KB articles suggested moving the specific messages out of their default folder, and installing Exchange Service Pack 4. So I did, and I did. After which the original messages went away, leaving me with a new set that were somewhat less informative. Eventually I ended up calling Microsoft Support on the customer's credit card, and we found out that the binding order of the network cards in the server became critical when SP4 was installed. So we fixed that, and Robert became our avuncular relative. Ipso facto, Q.E.D, and badda-bing badda-boom. |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ There a Reg article today that is so sweet, it can't possibly be true: An escaped European Commission antitrust document makes it clear that Microsoft is in deep trouble with Europe's authorities. The document, leaked to the Wall Street Journal, charges that Microsoft's server software - specifically, Windows 2000 - has been deliberately designed to exclude rivals, and that the company has illegally bundled Windows Media Player in a bid to establish a monopoly in Internet music and video. Do you love it? The Register article refers to a Wall Street Journal item that I couldn't read without signing up for a WSJ subscription that I don't want. Argh. Here's the last paragraph from the Reg bit: The non-cooperation is however possibly the best bit of the leak. Aside from claiming obstruction, the Commission says that Microsoft produced no less than 34 letters allegedly from companies supporting its case. Says the WSJ: "In many instances, the letters had been written by Microsoft, or the companies weren't aware they were to be used as evidence in the case, the Commission said." Suh-weeeeeet! Maybe the Borg might find it a bit more difficult to buy (OK, maybe "rent" would be kinder and more accurate) European pols than the home-grown variety. One can only hope. As for me, I'm spending all day catching up on all the graphics-related work that piled up while I was busy wrasslin' pooters. Church tonight. I'm listening at the moment to an internet radio station called Gospel Train (I notice that a lot of these have pretty short play lists) that plays black gospel music from the 1920s to the present. B.B. King, Aretha, Mahalia, Big Mama Thornton (who Janis Joplin must have listened to a lot), and lots more that I never heard of before. It satisfies my craving for blues music in a way that doesn't leave me drowning in depression and second-hand sadness. I also just downloaded and installed Microsoft's Reader 2.0. Yeah, I hate the Borg, and I ain't gonna register this thing, but it's a decent reader program with good ClearType technology in it, and there's no real shortage of free e-books to read. I'm just finishing David Drake's Redliners. He's written things that are much better, but I'm guiltily enjoying this slash-and-hack neo-space opera. It's available, along with many more at the Baen website's Free Library page. Books are available in five formats, including simple RTF files that should work with Windows WordPad. Remember our motto: Free Is Good. (Would that the converse were true as well...) |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Exactly one month today since our dreams were shattered in New York City and Washington. We used to think that two oceans and two friendly neighbors guaranteed our security from any direct physical attack on America. Welcome to the twenty-first century. As Disney put it — "It's a small world, after all." Today I just happened to open a new job folder, for some little signs that my company makes. I mentioned before that my new job involves designing these signs. This job folder is from a school in New York City. They want to put up little plaques honoring the firefighters and police officers from their neighborhood, who died in the World Trade Center thirty days ago. My company is giving them the signs for free, and happy to do it. Thank you, firefighters and police officers, for doing the jobs that are too nasty and difficult for regular people to do. Thank you for being willing to put yourself in harm's way every day and night of your working life. Thank you for being there when nobody else is there. Thank you for going off to work every shift, knowing that you really might not come back home again. Thank you Lieutenant Vincent Giammona,
FDNY Ladder 5. Thanks, from all of us. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
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