My Book is Now Half Off

You probably didn't notice, but I thought it was definitely worth mentioning: my e-mail publishing book is finally available in PDF format for HALF off the printed price. People are still asking me “how” and “what” every other day. If you didn't know I wrote a book, I did – and its finer points still [...]

I Love Rachel!

Props to Rachel for pointing to this MSN buddy. Sweetness! She referenced Christine, but I've been so out of the loop with things that I haven't been a good blogger lately. I'm not saying that I bit off more than I could chew, just that I've got a lot of stuff on my plate right [...]

Click the Garbage Pail Kid!

Fuddy Duddy

If you don't Understand Your Options yet, you will soon. Coming directly from the horse's site: “After July 31, 2002, Microsoft's new Volume Licensing program will be fully implemented. Purchasing Licenses, or Licenses and Software Assurance together, will be the way customers obtain rights to future versions of products. However, before that change, many customers [...]

Batch Bonanza

Lockergnomie Dilip Raj is quite a multitasker: “This tip is for those who load many programs at startup which are not always needed – but they're still loaded just so that they do not have to launch the program when it IS required. For example, I used to have my IM Client, a program that [...]

Group Mentality

Lockergnomie Zachery Wolfinger has a great idea for Outlook & Outlook Express users who subscribe to discussions: “The large amount of traffic generated by interactive e-mail lists can be quite cumbersome. First, create a new (separate) folder to store the mail from each list; give it a meaningful name. Set up a rule for the [...]

Adobe Acrobatics

Lockergnomie Caleb Ciampaglia has documented a document dilemma: “After upgrading to the latest and greatest Adobe Acrobat Reader (5.05), I encountered an error message when I was using a Web based reporting tool at work. Whenever I tried to view a report (which was a PDF file), I received an error message: 'linear data' error. [...]

Full Versus Quick

Lockergnomie Patrick Kingsley has a heap of help for those of us who have ever faced a complete reinstallation of Windows 2000 or XP: “Regarding the difference between a Quick and Full format… the error check is only part of the overhead that occurs when you perform a Full format; the other significant portion of [...]

Sincerely Aron Hess

I recently got a “newsletter” from somewhere which I had never signed up for a newsletter. Now, I use a junk account for all my web forms and newsletters and such, and I forward these to my real, personal account. When I start getting too much spam, I throw away that account and start a [...]

Case in Point

Received from a random user this evening: “I was running the Linux Mandrake 8.2 Install and I donÂ’t know what I did but it brought up a command prompt about “global destruction”. Help me out IÂ’m clueless.” Attempt to free unreferenced scalar during global destruction CanÂ’t upgrade that kind of scalar during global destruction Install [...]

Companies I Hate

I love e-mail. I look forward to checking my accounts every morning. I've discovered a pattern; perhaps it's just a larger signal to noise ratio at play, but I seem to get more unsolicited commercial messages on the weekends. For instance, today I received 81 pieces of electronic garbage. I would like to take this [...]

Minky Fresh

Ya know how some people say that downloading digital music from the Internet leads to more frequent media purchases? I didn't believe them. Now, you might remember my position against unethical file sharing – that hasn't changed any. Last week, however, I discovered that They Might Be Giants was offering ~50 free MP3 files on [...]

Qool

Lockergnomie Eric Ose knows about a rather unique download that we haven't featured in years; it's definitely worth checking out again: “QNX is a full operating system. It is not open source, but the makers are giving it away in order to spur development. It is a UNIX OS which uses a microkernel and has [...]

Linux Sucks

And another geek drops his two cents into the bit bucket: “Linux, while it has its own bugs, is 10 times better then Windows has ever been. Windows is insecure, leads its users intentionally down the path to stupidity, and makes things easier then they should be. It is this 'usability before security' ideal that [...]