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Continue reading →: Long Windows Shutdown and Startup Times
Why does XP take so long to shutdown. Apparently, this is because during shutdown, Windows needs to make sure all user sessions are shutdown. They have a fix called “UPHClean”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en which
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Continue reading →: Phone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With “GlobalPhone”:https://www.gphone.com/myaccount/multirates.asp?glo=globalphone&aid2=GH15 as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6…
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Continue reading →: Double EQM Miles
United is having a promotion. If you register at http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Double+EQM+Offer&pcode=MPD288 you get double miles between April and June!
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Continue reading →: Administrative Assistants RU us
Wow interesting to see what passes for a job description on Craig’s List these days. Here’s a sampling of admin jobs: OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! (Seattle) Reply to: job-643801913@craigslist.org Date: 2008-04-15, 4:57PM PDT Job Description: Rewarding…
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Continue reading →: The Forbidden Kingdom (aka the Monkey King retold)
_Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_ “The Forbidden Kingdom”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0865556/ (功夫之王 gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung Fu’s King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (“å™æ‚Ÿç©º”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (“西游记”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West xi1 you2 ji4，lit. western travel story).…
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Continue reading →: Simple Phone
Jon and my parents have both asked me about a simple phone that isn’t complicated or smart like an iPhone or a Blackberry, my two current recommendations. In looking at this, the main criteria are: # Big screen. So you can see the numbers you are dialing (most folks at…
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Continue reading →: Ben Graham’s Net Net and other factoids
Peter taught me this rule, that a famous investor Ben Graham showed you can invest in “net net’s”:http://www.allbusiness.com/accounting-reporting/reports-statements/367332-1.html which are true value-oriented stocks. That is, invest in stocks that are trading at 65% of net curretn asset value (NCAV = current assets minus all liabilities include long term debt and…
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Continue reading →: Time Capsule Archive
In the 7.3.1 firmware, you can now connect a USB Drive to a Time Capsule and then archive the 1TB disk itself. That is a backup of the backup. This is supposed to be fast. However, this is a one time copy so if you don’t have enough space on…
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Continue reading →: Entourage and iCal Duplicate Removal
Apparently, these are well know problems with Entourage putting duplicates everywhere. There is even a FAQ topics on “duplicates”:http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html thanks to “Joe”:http://bigmountaindesign.com for the pointer. Now maybe I can get rid of the 30 entries for St. Patricks Day in my calendar. There is a simlar set of utilities of…
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