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September 22, 2005
Not Spam, it's a Cheating CS Student from India
I don't think this is spam - I think it's Hema Razapuratan (using her English-friendly name, just like some call center reps do) asking for my VB.NET code from college...
From: Jennifer Jacob [mailto:jenni_j_84@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Sat 8/27/2005 5:34 AM
To: jeff
Subject: project help request
Dear Sir
I'm Jennifer Jacob doing my final year graduation, as a part of my
graduation completion i have to submit a project
I'm interested in doing a Project in ASP .NET / VB.NET with Oracle
When i'm searching the Internet i come across your details and i'm
requesting you to kindly help me out
if possible, please provide the source code reference site or any
project source code, which you have with you as a graduation
project
Kindly treat this as a help and do the needful
Respects
Jennifer Jacob
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September 16, 2005
Wireless Audio
I do the research, you benefit.
I wanted to take audio from my computer and send it wirelessly across the room to the entertainment system. It is not easy to find the product to do this simple task.
FM transmitters are always disappointing because of FCC limitations, and the ones that work well are too big and too expensive.
I know that there are streaming media servers, but I just wanted wirless audio for now, mostly so I could also use it for DJ gigs in some way, to have the mixer and decks away from the amp/speakers.
The only affordable wireless audio solution for <$100 that I could find is the Terk Wireless Video TX/RX. I know it sends video too, that's a side bonus, but if anyone else knows of any other product that can send stereo hi-fi audio wirelessly, please let me know. PS - you do need to be careful with other 2.4 Ghz devices - if it's too close to my 802.11g router, there is periodic clicking in the audio (the wi-fi connection continues to run fine).
http://www.terk.com/pdfs/LF30S.pdf
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September 12, 2005
I Will Have My Homepage, Please
I didn't want the client intranet login to be my start page, but they have it enforced by Active Directory group policy, so it periodically reverts back even if you set it to something else. I wanted to have a ready set of client links on a start page.
In My Documents, I made a txt file in notepad that contained:
start iexplore http://www.google.com/ig
I renamed it to IE.bat, and created a shortcut to it from the desktop. The command "start" is necessary so iexplore doesn't hijack the top IE window, and instread starts a new Internet Explorer. If you want to be fancy, you can change the icon for the shortcut to be the real IE icon by doing Properties->Change Icon->Look for icons in: %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
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September 09, 2005
Whistle While You Work
Annoying behaviors displayed in the workplace are common material for comics everywhere. Everyone, especially consultants, love to speak of "Office Space" with nothing but "It's so true."
Listen, I'm not going to play this up. There is a guy at work who finds it to be his employer-given-right to watch the clock all day long in what must be horrible anticipation of that blessed moment at 4 PM when seven dwarves from the animated classic Snow White descends upon his cubicle and implore,
Just whislte while you work,
Put on that grin and start right in
to whistle loud and long"
Because he does it, repeatably, for rankling hours on end. I fantasize about everything from leaving anonymous yet kind notes, to setting off an airhorn directly behind him.
"Oops! Pardon. I guess noise can be... distracting at work."
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September 02, 2005
Wow
It's getting big! Katrina Shelter - and we still need help, especially a PR manager
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