Saturday, August 16, 2003

I had to rebuild our home PC today.  We'd been having some drive errors and clicking (usually not a good sign) when we saved and read data from the drive.  I was getting really nervous about  it.  Finally, it went down for the count while I was trying to apply the blaster worm fixes. I decided that I would set my wife up as a restricted user this time.  I wanted her to run as a restricted user because of those ActiveX Internet pop-ups that install pure evil on your drive.  We have some experience with those, and I'd like to not repeat it. I quickly arrived at the same conclusion that I had 2 years ago - Windows requires you to run as a Power User or Administrator.  At first blush, everything is rosy.  Everything seemed to work just fine.  Then I installed Quicken (as administrator of course).  When I switched back to my wife's acccount, I couldn't run Quicken! After some fiddling, it turns out Quicken won't run unless you are a Power User or Administrator.  LAME! So, I had to put my wife in the Power Users group.  You know, there's corporations that try to run on Windows... 11:40:09 PM    comment []

Google calculator. Geekiest. Feature. Ever. (7 words) [dive into mark] Hysterical.  Be sure to ask "the answer to life, the universe, and everything"... 11:31:17 PM    comment []

WYSIWYG Editting in Radio. Jake has created a WYSIWYG editor for Radio that runs in Mozilla.  [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] Very cool.  I'm using it to post this link.  I think it may be better than the IE WYSIWYG editor.  Highly recommended. 11:21:04 PM    comment []

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