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. I am [...]
We all have cookies in our computers. No, not those crumbs stuck in your keyboard but little files that store information about you or a Web site that you have visited. Don’t you wish there was a way to learn more about these cookies, who put them there and a way to delete [...]
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 [...]
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 think it [...]
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 the Windows [...]
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 [...]
Dave. In reference your recent comments on .msi installation (specifically How do I install an .MSI download?). I’ve done some research and find that neither Microsoft nor you don’t reference WinXP, which is where I’m having a problem. My Dell laptop constantly tells me that .msi is required for the application to work properly. I [...]
McDonald’s is introducing, I kid you not, downloadable music and ringtones under the golden arches. The offerings, available via Blaze Net kiosks, are McDonald’s latest bid to stay current with the times. Other offerings include store-wide Wi-Fi and McLattes.
Said McDonald’s spokesperson Bill Whitman of its newly funkified locations, “It is clearly unique and [...]
VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype!
“What’s that Aunty?” you ask. “Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?”
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 phase. [...]
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