Tech
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A good idea.
TechnicalVideoRental.com – where you can rent “How to” videos and DVDs, including quite a bit of the Homespun music catalog. HT: Marginal Revolution
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3 and 1
Bad for the morning
- The update to window server is 330 megs
- The update to Norton antivirus is 25 bucks, for virus updates, it was only ten two years ago
- There are several built in .Net functions such as GetFileName() and GetExtension which exist natively in the .Net framework. I had built some simple functions to accomplish the same thing.
Good for the morning
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Would you like to play a game?
Oh artificial intelligence, so like us.
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I figure out Bluetooth
Yay Hosanna
To trick it into searching and detecting Bluetooth items again, all you have to do is
- Click on the mRouter Icon in the tray
- Deselect one of the virtual Com ports that Bluetooth uses
- Wait About 3 Seconds
- Select that Same Port again
That will force the Bluetooth card to scan the area again for paired devices, which will allow it to find the phone, or it does for my Nokia 3650 anyway. Oh the joy of tieing up loose ends.
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Bluetooth Update
I finally got everything installed properly, the problem wound up being the drivers that came with the device; the default windows drivers work just fine. However, you have to do everything in the proper order, and reboot after each installation, which for 3 distinct pieces of software is a pain.
And below is an interesting photo from last year, it is from the photo shoot I did with Julie at Georgia State.
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It must be the phone
Or possibly all Bluetooth software. It’s surprisingly difficult to find proper drivers for all this. Oh well.
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Thoughts on Self Selection
While picking some with JP this evening he brought up some new show on CNN that feature two people reading headlines from the blogosphere. Oddly enough the Daily Show on Comedy Central also had a piece on that as well.
JP also said something to the effect that with all of our technology we aren’t any better informed. After some thought, here’s what I think about that.
For the purposes of this post, there are three kinds of information
- Identical Knowledge – this is information that is seen and believed identically. Example are Columbus landing in this hemisphere in 1492, Water boiling at 100 degrees Celsius, etc. Generally this is value neutral.
- Shared Knowledge – Knowledge that is generally attached to a point of view or some moral value where two people can know basically the same facts but arrive at different conclusions. Examples are the designated hitter in baseball, politics, conspiracy theories, etc.
- Personal Knowledge – this is knowledge that one person knows, but that other people in his or her social group do not. An example are highly specialized data that comes from hobbies or one’s job.
I think that with the ever present technology Personal Knowledge has increased dramatically in relation to the other two types, giving the appearance that we all know less since Identical Knowledge (which is largely verifiable) is an ever smaller percentage of what people know.
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Outlook fixed
After 10 hours of importing, exporting, and much other crap. I finally have Outlook working again. I still don’t know the cause of the original problem, though I did learn that when Microsoft puts a limit on Outlook file size, they really mean it.
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More SATA Madness
So I get the new hard drive installed after flashing the bios, and finding a not quite recent SATA driver for windows, after that it installs fine and seems much faster, all well and good.
However, for some reason my Outlook quits working (I cloned my C drive over the new hard disk.) by not displaying any new messages. By some weird coincidence my outlook.pst file has reached the maximum size and once it reaches that point you can’t delete anything nor see new emails (even though it says you can). So now I have to make a backup copy and truncate that, hopefully not lose anything, and see if that works. The backup is copying over now.