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04.06.07Dell support sucks the big oneLike many of you, I am the default user support person for family and friends. Mostly, this doesn't bother me. When it comes to my parents, it can be a bit heartwrenching - I want to offer them the best I can, but they seem to feel their needs come before my work and everything else. It's a little bit of a sore point. Back in early February, my Mum started having troubles with her Dell Inspiron 1150 notebook. At unpredictable intervals, it either BSODs or bypasses that altogether and drops out to a DOS crash state with a message about ...
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03.02.07Banning YouTube WON’T workBanning of access to YouTube in schools by the Victorian Government will do less than nothing to reduce bullying. It's totally und utterly the wrong approach. Big Brother governance has never worked in situations of this nature and it never will. This action fails to address the problem where it occurs - criminal activity by a small minority that ultimately leads to penalisation of the majority for the criminals' actions. As a kid who was pretty nerdy at school, I know about bullying. I understand the consequences for those on the receiving end and I understand the ...
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11.13.06Whither CF?Over at Application Generation, Forta Blog and at An Architect's View, there's yet another iteration of the "long term viability of ColdFusion" discussions going on. Peter Bell, Ben Forta and Sean Corfield are all smart cookies, and more than adequately eloquent on the subject matter. That said, here's my $0.02. Adobe spent a lot of money acquiring Macromedia and the goodwill that went with its developer community. Macromedia before did the same thing when they acquired Allaire. Dumping CF, or any other of the "Macromedia" apps is probably too expensive a proposition to be seriously considered. The "ColdFusion ...
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11.02.06The TechCrunch (un)debacleMike Arrington of TechCrunch has posted on CrunchNotes about his unhappiness over the supposed conflict of interest disclosure issues some seem to have with him (see the buzz at Techmeme). Now, unless I've completely misunderstood what's going on here, I just don't get it. Mike Arrington seems to me to make it abundantly clear when a possible conflict of interest may occur. He's forever stating when his has a finger in the pie in one of his Crunch Network posts. "I invested..." or "I advised..." or "I something else..." Isn't that clear enough? Okay, I see that some folks might ...
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10.18.06Alternative iCal sender - possible?Is it possible to have iCal send invitations as a different user? The default behavior seems to be that it sends as the last Apple Mail user to send an email. Frankly, this isn't what I want. I want to be able to choose to send invitations to events related to work from my work email address. The real hassle is, of course, that I have to use the red-headed child that is Exchange/Outlook Web Access to read my work email. This means I can't export the work calendar to iCal from OWA, nor can I read ...
