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November 2003 - Posts

Downtime

posted Friday, November 28, 2003 11:27 AM by andy
I just wanted to warn everyone that geekdojo will be down for a few hours between 6:00 and midnight tonight (28 November 2003) for upgrades. Read More
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WordPerfect 11 and NTFS permissions

posted Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:43 PM by andy
This is weird and unless you use WordPerfect 11 your going to think I'm overlooking a permissions setting but I assure you I am not.  WordPerfect 11 has a problem that makes it so newly created documents do not inherit permissions from their parent folder. Read More
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Outlook and AutoComplete

posted Monday, November 24, 2003 10:56 AM by andy
Outlook XP has the same nice AutoComplete feature that IE does.  However, Outlook does not have an intuitive way of deleting incorrect items that AutoComplete remembers.  For instance, lets say I want to send a message to joe@jos.com but instead I type Read More
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Logging into AIM at more than one location

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:29 PM by andy
I am at my parent's place right now and apparently I left my laptop on and logged into AIM at my apartment.  When I logged in here (at my parent's house) I was sent to a page with this on it: Instant Message RoutingThe instant message you received Read More
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Bluetooth for your car

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:46 AM by andy
I had finally given up hope on Bluetooth.  It seemed like the technology made way too much sense for manufacturers of any kind to start using it.  (I don't mean cell phone manufacturers of course; the amount of stuff they try to cram into those things Read More
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\Device\AFA0 : Controller battery needs reconditioning

posted Friday, November 14, 2003 2:47 PM by andy
Apparently I need to take my RAID controller's battery to get a massage every six months....Dell describes the best way to handle your battery: How do I resolve the message “Controller Battery needs reconditioning” that may Read More
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No longer only for *NIX

posted Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:59 PM by andy
I have always thought that one of the major downfalls of Windows is the lack of cool flashy toys.  There are a lot of cool scripts out there that are made solely for LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). (It should be BAMP....linux is for script kiddies)   The Read More
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Elbow problem

posted Sunday, November 09, 2003 10:15 PM by andy
I have been trying to figure out what is causing my elbows to get this dull pain in them after I workout. I have run through all of the obvious suspects in this order: weight lifting, swimming, doing pull ups and climbing.  My elbows hurts after a little Read More
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Broken Mirror

posted Friday, November 07, 2003 4:29 PM by andy
I came into a client today to pick up a check and add a new user to the system.  When I got to server I saw these in the system log:   Event Type: WarningEvent Source: dmioEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 4Date:  10/31/2003Time:  12:56:06 PMUser:  N/AComputer: Read More
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Triathlete's Pslam

posted Monday, November 03, 2003 11:31 AM by andy
I'm in an introduction to the Bible class right now and we had to write our own Pslams.  A lot of people wrote about the Cubs (this was assigned when we all had our hopes up*sniffle* ) but I figured I might as well write a prayer that I could actually Read More
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New Category

posted Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:40 PM by andy
I do a lot of rock climbing and I think I have been giving it the shaft by not giving it its own category.  So here it is the climbing category...ooohhhh....ahhhhhh..... I threw a halloween party and after some attempts at drunken climbs on the brick Read More
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