Archives: 2006 November

I took calculus when I was still in high school, and I did pretty well on the math SAT, but there is one kind of calculation I simply can’t do: the restaurant tip. For some reason my mind just goes blank. Even when it’s something simple like “triple the tax,” I choke. You have no [...]

Here’s another example of a messed-up Microsoft licensing policy — this time from Gartner Research. They applaud Microsoft for making some important IT management tools available through Software Assurance but gripe about the onerous purchase requirements.

Removable hard disk drives are not new technology, but they may be set to go mainstream. Iomega’s REV drive premiered back in 2005. It never really caught on, perhaps because of its somewhat limited capacity (35 GB native, 90 GB compressed) and Iomega’s suspect reputation in some IT circles. Iomega recently launched its second-generation model, [...]

I have so many gripes about Microsoft licensing programs that I have created a special category in The Schlog for posts on this subject. Here’s the latest:
When does Microsoft Software Assurance NOT include version upgrades? I don’t know what the rule is, but it seems to have happened to me. One of my clients had ordered [...]

The travel planning industry has obviously been revolutionized in the last 10-15 years. But although the phrase “travel web site” now generates 328,000 hits on Google, I still haven’t found one that matches the way I like to plan vacations.
If you already know where you want to go, it’s fairly easy to find the best [...]

After posting something that included some text in a smaller font, I noticed that all subsequent posts on that page were displayed in that same small font. But if I opened a “small font” post in its own window by clicking the post’s title, the font went back to normal.
Turns out that when a series [...]

Sometimes you feel like a sync, sometimes you don’t.
At completely unpredictable but far too frequent intervals, cradling my Pocket PC phone does not result in an ActiveSync connection but rather in a pop-up message emanating from my system tray:
USB Device Not RecognizedOne of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does [...]

Many people fail to take full advantage of new technology because they just dive right in and do what comes easily and obviously. By taking the time to learn some of the advanced or hidden features, you can save time later on and increase productivity greatly. If and when you first install Internet Explorer 7, you [...]

From time to time people I know will tell me they’re looking to hire. I figure I might as well make this information available as a public service (with their permission, of course). Here’s the first such posting: E-commerce Manager Job Description. If you have jobs you’d like me to post, just drop me an [...]

Data Call Failure
Error Code : 37
Miscellaneous Erroneously Mobile IP Set Up Occurred.
I have a number of “issues” with this error message, which popped up on my screen a few days ago.

There’s no time stamp on the error message, so I have no idea what I was doing at the time the error occurred.
I am quite [...]