I’ve been having network issues on my Vista install for months. I think I did a Windows Update one day, months ago, that broke it. I couldn’t get into Network properties at all – whenever I tried I would get a blank screen. I couldn’t update my VPN connection at all, getting into the properties of it was impossible. Blank windows that weren’t responding seemed to be the prevalent issue, and when I was able to see the status of the network it would say “Server execution failed”.
It seems you need to add the NT Authority/Local Service to the Administrators account. Yeah, it’s dodgy, but it worked for me.
Right click “Computer”
Click “Manage”
Under the “System Tools” section, expand “Local Users and Groups”
Click “Groups”
Open “Administrators”
Click “Add”
Click “Advanced”
Click “Find Now”
Double click “Local Service”
Click “Ok”
“NT Authority\Local Service” should show up in the list now
Click “Ok”
Close Computer Management and reboot.
And of course I can’t find where I found this originally…
There’s a new MoveableType version out. I dumped MT for pMachine, then pMachine for WordPress. I’m not ready to dump WordPress for the new MT, but I think I’ll use it to set up a test photoblog.
I had been seeing “spread this number” posts flying around on a few RSS feeds I follow for trends. The number the Internet Mob is trying to spread is a code that will allow you to decrypt almost any HD-DVD. After reading one post on it and what it was, I never really gave it much thought other than, “Wow, this is everywhere.”
A quick search for spread this number shows the numerous posts on Digg and elsewhere, and even displays the code in the search results. (Edited to add: Google has now received it’s own personal Cease and Desist letter from AACS.)
TechCrunch has an article (Digg Surrenders to Mob) on how Digg responded to a takedown notice (by removing the post and suspending the account) and the Mob revolted by posting and reposting the number. Digg invariably gave in, with this comment on their blog:
“If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”
So my question is…what would happen if Digg does die trying? Then what will the Mob have to say? And where would they say it?
I took a Lenovo Thinkpad running Mac OS X to work two weeks ago because I needed to do some work in Omnigraffle. I showed it off to the willing geeks who properly “ooohed” and “aaahed” over it. 
Later that week I hijacked a Mini Mac from another project in the company (we’re a nearly pure Microsoft/IBM shop) to set it up at my desk and use it for a week or so.
When I returned from Web 2.0 Expo, the following note was stuck to the Mini Mac.
(Mystery Letter)
I still don’t know who wrote it, but I’ve got it pinned up in my cubicle.
Okay, let me try this again. Wordpress ate my first post on this a few days ago.
I was kind of disappointed by the Web 2.0 Expo. The information in the sessions was very basic and I didn’t feel like I learned anything other than I know a lot of what they were talking about. One good thing came out of it, I know a lot about Web 2.0. Hah!
The wifi absolutely sucked. You could get on but couldn’t do anything with it. How techy.
I got to meet a few interesting people while I was there, but unfortunately I never got used to the time change and was a walking zombie for three days.
My brother lives in SF and I was able to meet up with him and his girlfriend. I haven’t seen him in about seven (yikes!) years, so it was really really nice to see him. They took me up to the Twin Peaks and it was an absolutely gorgeous, clear night. We had dinner at an Italian restaurant and the food was amazing. I definitely have to make a special trip back to SF for at least a few days to see the sights and catch up with him again.
I took pictures but Vista isn’t playing nice with the camera so I’ll get them up as soon as I can find my SD reader.
Well, I landed in SFO on Saturday. We had some fun trying to get to our hotel – the driver dropped us off at the wrong Hilton. He wasn’t the smartest cabbie, nor the friendliest. Or the safest for that matter. We got another cab to the right hotel and got a few drinks while we planned our session strategy. I was completely exhausted.
Sunday’s first session was excellent. Kelly Goto (Gotomedia) is an excellent speaker and has a LOT to say. The session was long but I didn’t even notice. Unfortunately there was another session at the same time that I wanted to go to, but I didn’t realize it because they had switched the schedules. Grr!
I also went to The New Hybrid Designer this morning, which was more of a discussion among the panelists about the hybridization of development and design. “Community, communication, and curiosity are the key elements.” Great quote.
The next session was even better – Embracing Chaos: Designing for and With Community. Mike Beltzner from Mozilla gave an excellent presentation and I took a lot of notes.
Most of the stuff I’m hearing here is really nothing new, but it’s good to know that I’m not grossly undereducated or uninformed.
The wifi access is pretty bad, but I’ve got EVDO as a backup so I’m surviving.
I finally found some time to sit down and breathe a bit and actually post to my blog. I’ve been working all hours, trying to fit my life around work, and getting little sleep. I’m actually supposed to be working right now, but I figured I needed to step back for a bit and then tackle it with a fresh mind.
I’m really excited to be working on hockey.com as it combines the two passions in my life – hockey and the internet. I can’t really say anything here other than it’s going to kick ass (and the design will be 1000% better than what’s there now). It had better kick ass because I need and like my job!
Now if I can just get someone to pay me to play hockey too…
I’ve been using del.icio.us for quite some time now. I’m even geeky enough to have my actual name as my username on it. Look under Angela for my bookmarks.
A new FireFox extension came out today that makes using it even easier…and I didn’t think it was possible. Now you can search your tags as part of the browser rather than loading the site. Get del.icio.us Bookmarks and try it out.
A few weeks ago I posted about the insane amount of spam I was getting in my gmail account while using POP3. Around a week later, the problem disappeared. Completely.
I woke up and immediately fed my crackberry addiction, as I normally do, first checking my work email then then gmail. (I love the gmail app.) There was no spam. Not even one. By this time I had become accustomed to at least 7 to 10 new spam emails in the morning, more if it was a weekend day. My first instinct was to swear at my host, thinking that they had been down all night. I sent myself an email from my work account and it showed up in gmail almost immediately. Okay, so it wasn’t my host!
I held my disbelief that the problem was truly gone for about three or four days. I would log in to gmail and find that I had no mail, or just a simple newsletter. My crackberry addiction took hold for those few days while I got accustomed to the lack of spam. Now I could only just check my email, there was nothing else do to. No “report spam”. No “delete”. I didn’t realize how ingrained in my routine it had become!
Now I can fill my days with other, more pleasant yet useless tasks.
Recently I was engaged in the tired old debate of FireFox vs. “other” with my boyfriend, Jake. Intially I started using FireFox because of tabbed browsing. I think the first version I used was v1.5.0.2. I had tried MyIE2 a long time ago, specifically because it had tabbed browsing, but I had tons of problems with it and went back to IE. Eventually MyIE2 became Maxthon and I tried it again, but still without success. Back to IE.
He’s using a Mac now and is going through a search for which browser works best. He’s an Opera fan, as well. I tried Opera, and I liked it but, unfortunately, about a third of the sites I visited wouldn’t render properly and it was just plain annoying.
Then one day I downloaded FireFox and have used it ever since. When IE7 came out, I did try it out, but I just wasn’t as impressed. Maybe I was already biased. I’m not anti-IE, or against any browser. I think each person has their own preference and what’s good for you may not be good for me, and vice versa. The only reason I use IE now is because our company’s intranet runs on Sharepoint and Firefox doesn’t play well with the versioning for documents.
Extensions I must have:
- del.icio.us Bookmarks – I love del.icio.us and the “Tag” feature for this is great because it pulls your tags as you’re typing, leaving out some of the guesswork. (Crap, what tag did I use? “Download” or “downloads”?)
- ShowIP – I don’t really need this anymore but when I was the IT guru I needed it due to the number of websites and IP’s we use.
- DownloadStatusbar – Useful.
Extensions I’m trying out:
Extensions I’ve used, but don’t now:
- Tab Mix Plus – I pretty much stopped using this when Firefox v2 came out.
- FoxyTunes – now I just use Winamp or Finetune.com.
- ForecastFox – a lot of my memory problems went away when I stopped using this.
- The one that added a Google search box – FireFox now has it by default.
Here’s a list from Lifehack naming their Top 10 Firefox Extensions. You’ll notice I’ve listed some of these already.
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