SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - California sued six of the world’s largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.
I recently bought and reviewed an item at ebags.com. They gave me a 20% off coupon via email. I don’t have a need for another bag. So if anybody is planning to purchase from ebags, contact me (ebags [at] pranavsharma [dot] com) and I will forward you the coupon url. I only have one so first come - first served.
I have complained to anyone who has lended me an ear about this. I ordered new RAM chips for my laptop (2 x 512mb). I went to newegg.com and ordered the cheapes chips with the most reviews (~140 reviews). Long story short, after about 6 weeks of sending memory chips back and forth with newegg.com, I finally received my CORSAIR memory chips that work perfectly! All I wanna say is screw gigaram - the manufacturer of memory chips that have a sticker that says 512mb and is actually a 256mb chip. I love you CORSAIR! Also now I love my significantly more responsive laptop - especially with Outlook 2007 B2TR running in the background.
The much awaited TR is here. I was getting quite sick of killing my Outlook process everytime I woke my computer from a hibernate.
I downloaded the Office 2007 TR (about 400 mb), this afternoon. I then went ahead and installed it. The installation process was nothing more than accepting the licensing agreement and clicking next. The entire update however took about 60 minutes on my 4200rpm hard drive (I know!) and it required a restart.
I made the mistake of opening OneNote in the middle of the update and that apparently cancelled the update instead of killing OneNote. I then killed the OneNote process using the task manager and then restarted the update process (60 min).
There have been some GUI changes and the most apparent one is the new icons! I love icons and for those who are dying for a preview, here it is-
Don’t they look cool? Anyways, one thing that the installer said while exiting was that I had at least one other product that needed the TR and I assumed this meant SharePoint Designer or Visio or something that isn’t part of the Office Professional suite. You can see how SharePoint Designer and Visio do not have new icons in the above graphic.
To confirm my theory, I went into my Control Panel and started the “Add/Remove Programs” application and checked the “Show Updates” box on the top. Take a look-
It looks like my initial guess was right even though I didn’t realize that Microsoft Project was not updated as well. Can someone confirm that the graphic above is displaying the old Project Icon and not the new one? In any case, I will download the TRs for these products later this weekend - especially SharePoint Designer which has a history of crashing on me at least 25 times a day.
Another new feature is the Splash screens. They now look different and have the letters B2TR engraved at the bottom right. Take a look at this Word 2007 splash screen-
The first thing I did after installing the TR is opening up Outlook to see if it still froze up on me eventually requiring me to kill its process. So far it has been behaving well and I feel like I can finally live happily ever after.
Those who have anything to do with a website know that FTP is an indespensible tool. It is the bread and butter of web development and maintenance.
I have had a problem for a long time with the FTP clients I was using - I couldn’t selectively and recursively upload something. To explain that, let me walk you through my situation. I use a software to create the web album that is on my website. This software creates small .htm files and big .jpg files. Now if I move my folders around, all that needs to be updated are the small .htm files and the software (jAlbum) is smart about this as it only processes the .htm files and gets the job done quickly.
The problem is, how do I only upload only .htm files from my computer to my website? The solution after a long search process turns out to be an FTP client called CoreFTP. This software lets me recursively upload selective files. What that means is that I can say something like ‘upload all .htm files in this folder and subfolders’ in one command to this program and this will take care of the rest. You can check it out here.
Although I’ve had some issues with reliability, I’m not too sure if my network is at fault or the program. In any case, this is the closest I’ve come in my quest for a solution to my problem.
PS: The -recurse switch is not well documented but is an available option to upload/download recursively.
