Why?
Why do we still do this “daylight savings” thing anyway? I’m tired…
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Linux thoughts
Tony’s got a link to an interesting freshmeat article about there being too much free software. Tony’s remarks, ” This has been a bigger impediment to the growth of Linux than many people would realize. I see it in email every day – “Which text editor should I use? There are so many.” Or, worse…
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Sparks fly
Yes, first thing this morning, sparks flew, and I had to lug monitors around the office to replace the shorted one before I even had my first cup of coffee. Not the way I like to start my day. Heavy lifting in the morning is no good for me. 🙂
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Tech news
Microsoft has released details on the Office 2003 lineup. Which components are included in which version, etc. Sounds like the Professional Enterprise edition is going to be the most “improved” over earlier versions of Office, what with rights management and XML stuff built in, but the lineup will be changed from the way XP is…
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RTFM
Much to the chagrin of my geeky side, yesterday while trying to figure out how to remotely check messages on our new answering machine, I accidentally erased the greeting instead of the message and had to record a new one. I recorded a new one, but in the course of telling Angela about this little…
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Windows NT 4
As someone who still works with NT 4.0 servers in my professional life, I wasn’t thrilled when MS didn’t come up with a patch for an RPC vulnerability. On the other hand, I already have our NT 4.0 server behind a firewall with port 135 blocked, so it’s really not that big a deal. I…