A golden iPhone marked "for the coolest one".
(And yes, I already shared it with a few people on IM and posted it to Facebook. Gotta love social fragmentation.)
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amusedTHIS FRIEND IS A SERVER APPLIANCE PRODUCT. ACCESS IS AUTHORIZED ONLY THROUGH PUBLISHED INTERFACES. UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATION OR REVERSE ENGINEERING OF THIS PRODUCT IS PROHIBITED AND WILL RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OF YOUR WARRANTY AND SUPPORT CONTRACT.
The last few times I've logged into GMail, my script blocker has notified me that there was blocked remote-site content on the GMail front page. Today I finally allowed it to see what it was.
After a several second delay, this showed up:
Trying to click on the links in a screen shot of a web browser doesn't work very well.
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frazzled(This is a "feature" of Windows networking that has aggravated me for years. Anyone who can teach me a workaround will gain my undying gratitude.)
Between docking and undocking my laptop, and using it at home, I've somehow managed to lose my network credentials yet again. I don't want to have to reboot just so I can print a one-page text file.
Is there any way to re-establish my network credentials without rebooting my machine? (Logging out of Windows would be just as disruptive as a reboot, as I would have to close out all of my windows with work in progress.)
Please note that my TCP/IP network connectivity is working perfectly. I have a zillion open SSH sessions, web browser windows, IMAP views, etc. none of which are affected by this bit of Windows stupidity.
Failing that, is there a way to set up this machine so I can log in and out of Windows without interrupting tasks I have in progress?
Windows XP Pro (Version 2002) with SP2
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VERY annoyedA blast of hot stale fetid air from the past...
Twiki's formatting oddities remind me a bit of programming in SNOBOL...
I will not use the root password for my most secure server as my password for an online game.
A cow-orker sent around the old joke about the "broken cup holder" PC tech support call.
In response I sent:
You mean your PC didn't come with a standard cup holder? No problem, it's available as an addon:(Note that there are other sources, that was just the first one I found with a decent picture.)
http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/thermaltake_xray_pc_lighter_and_cup_holder _04060129/
amusedFrom a box of papers circa 1996-1998:
0.
Computers talking
Bits and bytes flash back and forth
Up and down the line.
1.
Lightning in the sky
Thunder shakes bones of the earth
Network going down!
2.
Poor little modem
No longer talking to peer
Unplugged and lonely
(No, I haven't written any more geek haiku recently, sorry...)
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AdBlock is a very popular FireFox add-on that filters out popup and other ads.
The current version of AdBlock, 0.5.3.043, doesn't play nicely with FireFox 2.0. It breaks a variety of JavaScript-based web applications that I use every day.
(I've used AdBlock for years with older versions of FireFox with no problems.)
The short-term fix is to disable AdBlock or, in some (but not all) cases, to whitelist the entire site hosting the application.
I suspect that the longer-term fix is to wait for the next version of AdBlock.
disgruntled, but glad I know the root causeSeveral cow-orkers and I were discussing the power of human stupidity, and how one idiot (user|process) can screw up your whole mail infrastructure.
Me: Well, that's been true ever since our ancestors came down out of the trees, and probably even before, one idiot can ruin things for everyone.
Cow-Orker: Ooh, look, Fire! Let's mess up your hard drive!
(Well, it made me laugh. Maybe you just had to be there.)
Microsoft released a number of beta versions of IE7. Lots of companies put a lot of effort into making their websites compatible with these browsers.
The released version of IE7 has yet more JavaScript changes that are breaking a lot of Web applications, which is causing Microsoft to delay the "security update" automatic rollout of IE7 until November.
None of that is news.
Now, one of my colleagues reports that installing IE7 changed the fonts used by other applications on his PC, causing usability problems:
In the new IE7, it is set to use the ClearType fonts. Depending on the monitor, resolution, the font size and other such configurations, ClearType can make text look very good or a little bit fuzzy. I have always found ClearType fuzzy and I hate it. The upgrade to IE7 not only affects IE, it also affects the font being used in Outlook and Outlook Express!! It took me a while to figure out how to unset this ClearType stuff. See the below url:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/03/524367.aspx
On This Day
September 20, 1954 - The first FORTRAN computer program was run. Fortran is the dominating language for technical and scientific applications. John Backus at IBM supervised the development of the programming language that would allow uses to express their problems in commonly understood mathematical formulae.
(Note, though, that the Wikipedia entry for FORTRAN says: "A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by mid-1954. The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956, with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.")
Any email that says "forward this to all your friends" should be ignored, as a general rule of thumb.
annoyedWant to test your antivirus protection? Most antivirus products will detect a "test" virus - any file that starts with the string
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
"the nightmares of green fanged TCP/IP packets are becoming less frequent"
-- from a comment on an excellent explanation of the TCP TIME_WAIT status
Stereotypes and "labels" are the result of lossy data compression when trying to compress reality into a convenient data size.
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thoughtfulAlexander Graham Bell never intended it to take this long to boot your telephone.
-- concept14, posting on Tech Support Comedy's Tech Rules page.
I just figured it out.
Orthodox Judaism thinks that Halacha is statically linked.
Conservative Judaism thinks that Halacha is dynamically linked.
Reform Judaism thinks that Halacha is interpreted.
(Halacha = (loosely) Jewish Law)
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