Claire came and asked me last night, “Where is Ellenwood, Georgia?” I told her it was near where I worked. She’s excited. Claire has been tracking the new iMac 20 across the country.
We don’t know why it decided to spend 3 days in Reno, Nevada. Maybe it did some gambling.
Trying to set up a policy that will archive e-mail older than 365 days on the server. It wasn’t obvious in the instructions what triggered the archive process. Finally realized it is the “-a” option for the “compact” command. This was set up in program document and scheduled to run Sat, Wed at 4:00 a.m. I also found I had to manually archive a couple of documents for the archive database to be created.
Spent a lot of time on a policy document, but in the end, I don’t think that is being used at all because it is not being pushed into the client database. (Using a custom template.) So it is the client archive settings that enable the compact -a command to work on a given database.
The “mail” in this line means only look into the mail directory. The -b means to
Load compact mail -a -b
I just noticed that my Gmail mailbox now has 5 gigabytes up from 2.5 (and the original 1 gig.) Gmail also now allows 20 mb attachments, which is good for a collection of large photos or a small video. I am currently using 10% of this space with over 5,000 e-mails. I went looking for my oldest e-mail which was an exchange 7/1/2004 with Ted about whether or not it was his finger in a photo of a dik-dik.
Ted: “Actually it isn’t. I noticed that that picture made the rotation and
since I did take the picture and post it on a blog I figure it’s okay.
There was a woman standing at the fence and the dik-dik walked up and
jumped up on the fence to say hi. I would rather have just had a picture
of the dik-dik but it shows how friendly and small the dik-dik is by
having the hand. Susan said that woman’s hand was yucky looking, but you
can’t really tell from the picture.”
Can you guess what this is a map of?
Kelly and I are sitting in Best Buy as I type playing with the new iMacs on the new Leopard operating system. “They’re giant” says Kelly referring to the 20″ and 24″ screens. (She is on the 24″ right now.) After playing with it for a few minutes she said, “Our Mac is old. I don’t even know how to do most of the stuff in here.” Of course, she really does because she is over there building a Garage Band song right now.
Kelly sent me this picture that she created with the Mr. Picasso Head website. I have no idea. Thank you Kelly.
Then mom sent me this one. It’s catching…
And then this one came in from Miss Bear:
Susan’s contribution to what is obviously becoming a cultural phenomenon. This could change what we see coming out of Paris next spring… even affect the 2008 elections….
From the curator’s private collection.
Verizon sent met a notice with a letter and flyer explaining how important it was for them to gather and share Customer Proprietary Network Information, and how if I did not “opt-out” within 30 days, I would in effect be consenting for them to do this.
What it really means is they want to sell personal information like what numbers I call, where I drive and travel, and how frequently I use the network, and they don’t want to get in trouble for sharing it… whether on purpose or by accident.
Read more about it at the FCC here.
I called the opt-out number at Verizon and disabled sharing of CPNI for all numbers on my account (including Ted’s.) Call 800-333-9956 if you use Verizon and want to protect your information.
So this adds to the growing list of reasons I don’t like Verizon.
The farthest manmade objects from the sun are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977. This article is about the equipment that has to be maintained to keep talking to them.
They are supposed to call home until 2020. One calls once per month and the other calls every day. Not sure why the difference. I thought one of these 2 were the basis for V’ger in the first Star Trek movie, but I just read it was a fictional Voyager 6. (We only made two.)
If we can have “pong” emulators, why can’t our laptops have Voyager emulators? (Ted?)
Movable Type version 4 is coming soon. For years I have wished uploading and managing photos was easier. The steps to upload / thumbnail / copy html code / paste were just too complicated for the average Joe. And then if you upload something wrong or to the wrong place, how do you change that without FTP? (You don’t.) MT4 will introduce a media manager (Manage Assets), something I’m used to using with Joomla on the www.sjnlilburn.com website. Here are a couple of related links:
Test Site for Movable Type 4 (login = demo and password = demo)
Our garage door opener started making a thumping noise that got worse, and then it did not want to open our door. It sounded like the sound was coming from within the motor housing, so I figured something was busted bad. Started researching new openers.
I had previously fixed our opener when a chain guide sprocket had broken. Had to order over the internet. I thought I would take the housing apart to see what was wrong before going off to buy a new one. Piece of rubber fell out of the housing. About 5 inches of the inside of the drive belt had torn away. The thumping noise was the stripped part of the belt slipping on the drive wheel.
Ace Hardware. Lots of belts, but not the 3L 290 size. Lowe’s. Lawnmower belts only. Guy there said try Pep Boys, Autozone, or Napa. Pep Boys guy looked at it and brought out something that looked like a close match. Had to adjust the motor a tad for tension and the belt seems a bit too wide, but the garage door is going up and down fine. $12.70 beats $200.
Reference: Original belt is optibelt 3L 290 (H). Made in Germany (like my Passat.) Opener is an Allister II. Replacement belt Dayco Top Cog 15295 (11A0750). Has ribs on the outside where the 3L 290 was smooth. Doesn’t seem to matter. Looks like a much tougher auto belt. Aaargh.