Lots of places offer resources for creating online groups. Think this is an excellent service to provide the Internet community. However, managing these animals can be time intensive. People need help learning how to use it. People selfishly bend or break rules. At times, I wonder, “Why am I do I bother?” Then I find…
Maybe it is just me, but why is it that no one can invent a great email program? I mean, they really all suck. Nothing is built for my needs… huge volumes of email, lots of important requests from dozens of sources, tons of email lists, and tons of spam. It takes hours to sort…
Got this up without a problem here (30 minutes) after dorking around with Berkley DB and DB_file for 2 or 3 hours on the web server I run! WTF? Sux 2 B ARF…
This was written as an explanation to the quiz and answer. The web is a difficult animal to wrangle. A web page may appear different in different web browsers. For this reason, as a web page designer, I keep various web browsers like IE, Netscape 4 and Netscape 7. Being a professional in the world of…
Here is the answer to the question of the week… “How many web browsers do I have installed on my work computer?” Internet Explorer 6.0 Netscape 7.x Netscape 4.x Opera 7.x Mozilla 1.x Phoenix 0.x Lynx 2.8.4 Ghostzilla I have 8 web browsers installed at work. At home, I just have 3 (IE, Phoenix, and…
Quiz question for the week… How many web browsers do I have installed on my work computer? 🙂 People get in a tizzy over the dumbest things sometimes. Cell phones with cameras are not a menace to privacy, any camera can be. Yeah, cell phones are small. Lots of digital cameras are so small they can…
Virus and worm writers suck… This stuff gets really annoying really quickly. The latest worm picks on Microsoft SQL server. Don’t think we have many installations here. However, between 4 and 6 AM on a Sunday morning we had an average 30% utilization of our bandwith? That is down from 80 – 100% utilization yesterday afternoon. Could…
Got a kick out of these emails. My favorite parts are bolded. Hey there, I’m nnnnnn. I got your email address from a friend and thought I’d get in touch. I’m kind of new to this whole thing, the internet and meeting people on the internet. I thought I’d tell you a little about myself,…
I push my computer very hard… Average around 500 emails a day. Usually have no less than 10 windows open after an hour of using it. Average probably 20 during most of the day. My average memory usage is 300 MB. I do try to avoid some performance hogs. For instance, I am not running…