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Memorial Day Musings, Continued…
Lest you think yesterday’s Memorial Day Musings were designed to present only one viewpoint on a many-faceted issue, here are some others that were either prompted by that missive or offered after the fact and, therefore, not included until today. Gnomie John H. St. John wrote: July 2, 2005 I will see my 84th birthday. [...]
Netflix
When you get the urge to rent a movie, what do you do? To most people, heading out to the local Blockbuster or Hollywood Video location to pick up a DVD is still the normal way to go. It’s nice to go to a physical location that has a gigantic library of titles when you [...]
To How Many Groups Can A User Belong?
A user’s security access token can not contain more than 1000 security identifiers (SIDs). If this limit is exceeded a user may receive the following error message when they attempt to logon to a domain or access a network share: During a logon attempt, the user’s security context accumulated too many security IDs. You may [...]
How To Prevent Disk Cleanup From Hanging (XP Home/Pro)
Many people report that the Disk Cleanup tool hangs and the following message is displayed: Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space you will be able to free on (C:). This may take a few minutes to complete. Scanning: Compressed old files. According to this knowledge base article, this occurs because of a problem with [...]
And The Music Comes Out…
Do you like music publishers telling you what equipment you can use to play the music you paid for? It’s like telling you that you need to buy a $500 iPod in order to play content from iTunes. Oops! Well, let’s skip the examples. None other than PC Magazine’s VP in charge of Ziff-Davis and [...]
IE7 & Win2K Follow Up
In response to yesterday’s post: Microsoft doesn’t plan to support IE7 on Win2K, which is ironic considering the same blog entry says that Microsoft is extending supporting for Win2K beyond June 30, 2005. I heard from Tristan who explains it: Windows 2000 is now over 5 years old, and is moving to its Extended support [...]
Memorial Day Musings
What are we memorializing – or who? It’s a holiday weekend here in the US, and many families have gone on a three-day vacation. Monday is Memorial Day, and some would argue that the original meaning of the holiday has been lost. I’m doing nothing other than catching up on a pile of tasks throughout [...]
Message In A Bottle Server: Index
Have you ever come across a message in a bottle while walking down the beach? Me, neither. I’m sure we’ve all heard tales of people who have deposited a message into the ocean and received a response years later from the individual who found the message. I know a lot of kids still do this. [...]
Getting Started In The Business Of Helping Others
When people write to me, I try to respond to every letter, and if several people write about a specific topic, I usually try to work it into a column. My reasoning is that probably more people are interested in the subject than take to time to write. With that in mind, it is time [...]
Message Rules Not Working For Spam Pt. 2
In last Monday’s column, I explained why Message Rule “keyword filtering” was useless against large scale spammers. Spam filtering has become a major battlefield between spammers and the companies that develop tools for fighting the problem. Unfortunately, the spammers have the upper hand because they can take any of the tools and methodologies being used [...]
