I spent just about all of my work day troubleshooting issues with a new PC I just setup last week and it’s driving me crazy! This is a new OEM of Windows XP Pro, updated to SP2, running Office 2000. There were two issues, both of which involved spooling processes and timeouts. One was sending…
Kevin has the latest episode of his In The Trenches podcast up on his site. I quite enjoyed being part of the Tech Chat with Kevin, Kevin Mazur and Eric Maynard, chatting about the difficulties of dealing with dissimilar systems on your network. Eric put his show prep notes on his site, and I have…
Robert sent me the link through IM earlier today that he discusses in this post. I’m impressed, this is a pretty good idea to get people to at least think about computer security. Let’s face it most home users are never going to go spend a lot of time looking at computer security articles online,…
I wanted to say something more about the haloscan trackback that I was talking about yesterday. I don’t know that trackback is that big a deal. Simply put, I think it’s just not quite there yet. I can’t, using Blogger and many other tools, automatically ping a post on another blog. I have to go…
Excuse the mess for the moment, I’m playing around with enabling trackbacks using Haloscan’s trackback feature, because, well, because I can. When did I never need any more reason than that? 🙂 I’m not sure if the autodiscovery feature works, I suppose I’ll figure that out in time.
As someone who doesn’t plan on having kids, I’m going to be spending the day trying to come up with excuses to use my laptop on my lap MORE often. 🙂 Seriously though, infertility is a huge issue to a lot of people who want to have kids, and this is one more area to…