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Gsyncit, so far so good

ByMike McBride May 10, 2007July 19, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve got an evaluation copy of Gsyncit running on my laptop right now. It’s a tool that easily syncs your Outlook calendar with your Google Calendar. You can use the evaluation edition for as long as you like, but that means putting up with a nag screen that takes about 15 seconds when you open Outlook, or perform a sync. If it continues working for me, I think it’ll be worth the $9.99 USD to register it.

For the record, I think the fact that Yahoo calendar has an intellisync program available that syncs with Outlook for free still tops this. On the other hand, I don’t spend a lot of time in Yahoo like I do with Gmail, and the Google calendar gives me an iCal format that I can use to sync with Thunderbird on my Ubuntu machine, so there is some value in using Google Calendar instead of Yahoo for me.

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Linked – It’s Not Nagging: Effective Communication is Deliberately Redundant
ByMike McBride June 19, 2024June 18, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s not nagging to follow up a meeting with an email summarizing the discussion. It’s good meeting etiquette. It’s not nagging to drop a group chat in Slack or Teams for updates. That’s what those tools are for. It’s also not nagging to expect your team to report progress in many ways. That’s their responsibility.

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Linked – Blame the Echo Chamber on Facebook. But Blame Yourself, Too
ByMike McBride November 28, 2016November 30, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

In The Big Sort, Bill Bishop shows how, over the last 30 years, Americans have sorted themselves into like-minded neighborhoods. The same appears to be happening on the web. All the empirical research to date suggests that the reason is not the use of personalization algorithms per se. Algorithms can easily expose us to…

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Happy Ending
ByMike McBride December 15, 2004 Reading Time: 2 minutes

After further review with that PC this afternoon, there is obviously a very serious problem, maybe even a hardware issue with the network card. The system restore actually made the intermittent problems it was haivng with print jobs and emails much more acute. You can download things from the internet, the work network, etc. just…

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Linked – Leaked NSA Hacking Tool On Global Ransomware Rampage
ByMike McBride May 14, 2017May 13, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

This. Just this. There are no “safe” backdoors. “Once again, this reinforces why we should not allow backdoors to encryption or any other such vulnerability. Over and over again, the proponents of backdooring encryption have insisted that it can be built in a “safe” way, where only government will get the backdoor access to encryption….

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Techie stuff
ByMike McBride March 8, 2005July 22, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Thanks for allowing me the temporary diversion in the interest of helping out Ohio’s libraries, now for the random techie comments: Perhaps the worst drive-by adware ever! According to Virtualsecurity.org, this one actually goes ahead and downloads the .NET framework if you don’t already have it, without asking, so it can use it to display…

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Linked – One in five employees would sell their work passwords, some for less than $1000
ByMike McBride March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 Reading Time: 2 minutes

“It turns out that all of the security in the world won’t stop a disgruntled — or adequately incentivized — employee. According to research done by Austin, Texas-based security company SailPoint, one in five employees would sell their work passwords for money.” First off, let me just say that I do not ever condone this….

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