Glorious weather, how can you not love it! I was in San Francisco last week. Chicago was beautiful this past weekend, i.e. t-shirt weather. And now I’m in Atlanta with cool 70-degree weather. On another note, I’m posting soley for an alternative purpose…to see how my stylesheets get layed out. Big plans, I’ve got, just not for this site… :) Still need to post more - maybe I’ll post my summaries from RSA…
There’s a story on Kuro5hin about how to stop receiving credit card offers. I actually did this myself a couple months back as I was receiving 3-5 offers a week, and it was simply getting ridiculous. Similar to when you receive an email with EOM (End of Message) in the subject and still feel oddly compelled to open the email, I felt oddly compelled to open each and every credit card offer just to make sure I wasn’t missing something. ...
My sleep patterns tend to vary on a week-to-week basis. For example, I’m in San Francisco this week at the RSA Conference (woot) and I’ve taken to just walking over to the bed and collapsing on it - cloths, contacts, and all. I think this is due to the fact that I’ve been trying to stay up late writing summaries of the con (which I hope to post on here if I can figure out how to extract html from notes emails…). ...
Lazy lazy lazy! I can’t believe how little I’ve blogged lately. I think I’ve just been bogged down with work. No, not bogged down…motivated perhaps. Some things have changed and now I get to do even more of what I want to, so I find myself going into work earlier and leaving work later, much to the chagrin of S. There’s so much that needs to be done, but not nearly enough time. More than there used to be, however. ...
I hate when I do stupid things. Like tonight, I got a new case for an old computer and moved everything over to it. Unfortunately, it didn’t work when I plugged in the power supply and flicked the switch in the back. After about an hour of debugging, I had the bright idea to push the little power button in the front. Voila, it worked! sigh I must be getting old…and here I thought I had fried the mobo while installing it on a carpeted surface. How silly of me!
According to this page, there are a few options you can set to improve Mozilla Firebird’s performance. There are also a ton of other options you can access by typing “about:config” into your browser bar.
MSN Messenger wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t feel the need to ingrain itself in every other Microsoft communications program, i.e. Outlook and Outlook Express. Scratch that - It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t require hacking the registry and unknown system config files to remove or even to just not start up when Outlook Express starts up. Alas, one must set this registry key if one does not want MSN Messenger to start when Outlook Express starts:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Hide Messenger=2 (REG_DWORD)I didn’t want it to not run at all, so I didn’t set some other registry keys that would prevent that or uninstall it completely. I just didn’t want it to run when Outlook Express ran…imagine that!
I have to go to Ohio tomorrow. More details later, but let’s just say I wasn’t even sure I was going until about 5:30 this evening.
I’ve always known what [sic] stands for, but never knew the true defition. From dictionary.com:Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.Makes perfect sence[sic].
While moving a website from an old workstation running Windows XP to a new server running Windows Server 2003, I had to map one directory on the website back to a share on the old server. I had a little trouble doing so… Although both servers are on the same domain, I don’t have access to manager user accounts on said domain. So I figured if I added a user account on the old server, I could use that account to connect back to it. Well, try as I might, setting up an IIS 6.0 Virtual Directory to connect back to a share on the older server with a local user account just would not work. The web server would just give me an HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error) when I tried to access that directory. If I put in a domain account (mine), it would work, but I didn’t want to do that because I’m paranoid. ...