BlueGlowy Records

So as I sit here alone on another saturday night, I was cruising google reader before I head off to bed and found this post by PZ over at Pharyngula about raids being conducted to “protect” the RNC.  While in and of itself a frustrating thing, in the comments there was a link to this site at the Cato Institute.  This is one of the more depressing things I’ve read in a while, but it brings to my mind once again the big question….does it even matter anymore what we think about the goings on of the United States?  Are we too far gone to stop the inevitable slide to Fascism.

So as I sit here with my now slightly vodka addled mind pondering this question, a quick cruise of my 3 minute IT memory leads me to think about these connections:

Greece - started as democracy, absorbed into roman empire

Rome - started as democracy and republic, at its demise was tyrannical and fascist.

USSR - started as monarchy, revolted to a country based on the working class, ended in fascism before its collapse

I’m sure there more, and I’m probably not making my point very well, but what I’m getting at is that it seems to me that at some point most nations reach their height, and at that height try and place a type of dictatorial control over their people.  Eventually, the people will have had enough of their shit and revolt, and the cycle starts again.  Are we at the end of the Nation of America, and truly beginning to embrace in full on fascistic ways the American Empire we actually are?  The Empire that doesn’t want to be, yet has forged itself anyhow?  Should we rush out and stock up on MRE’s and guns for the revolution, or sit back and play xbox as we obliterate ourselves?

Its incredibly depressing.  I’ve been a political junkie since about 04, and what I’ve now come to realise is that it’s all in vain, its fucking depressing, and I don’t really see a point any longer.  On the one hand we have McCain and Palin, the guy who doesn’t know WHAT he stands for, and the ultra religious bitch with no experience other than being the mayor of fucking WASILLA.  Then we have Obama who voted for Telco immunity and the further eroding of our constitutional rights.

So here’s to you this once great country of ours.

May we all burn for our apathy, and hopefully we’ll all get eaten by zombies or something, cause there ain’t much left here to save.

Learn something new everyday.  I have a 5g Ipod Video 30GB, and disk use is NOT enabled, and it auto syncs playlists.  In this configuration it generally syncs when i plug it in, then un mounts itself and I get the happy “Ok To Disconnect” message.  Well today, it wouldn’t get out of “Do Not Disconnect”.

Turns out the issue was the ipod itself.  Hold down ‘Menu’ and the center button to reset the ipod, then after it restarts put it in the dock and it should start behaving normally!

Happy ipodding

Ever have the Sendto Compressed (zipped) folder option go *poof*?  Yeah, annoying isn’t it?  Wanna fix it? Here we go:

Go to Start –> Run and copy and paste the following command:
rundll32 zipfldr.dll,RegisterSendto

Wasn’t that easy?

Another odd one.  A user was having problems syncing his my docs, and kept receiving a strange error that “The Parameter Is Incorrect”. Well, here’s what I did to fix it:

Go to the offline files tab in windows explorer, hold down  ctrl+shift at the same time that you click the “Delete Files…” button. I know it’s kind of an unusual method for Windows but it does seem to solve the problem most times. It should pop up with a warning message and Yes or No buttons. Click Yes, reboot, and resync and all should be well.

If not, try the following (although I can’t say that I’ve tried it myself):

1. Disable Offline Files with  csccmd.exe /disable

3. Reboot into Safe Mode and delete all content under %SystemRoot%\CSC

4. Reboot again and re-enable Offline Files.

After this is done, try the Ctrl+Shift+click method again.

Also, be aware that the offline file database has a path name limitation. I don’t know what it is - but if your path\file name is too long it will corrupt the database and cause the “The Parameter is Incorrect” error.
Make sure that your file and folder names are kept reasonable. I also recommend not using special characters for any folder or file names.

Hope it helps!

So a user got a new laptop, and everything seemed ok.  Until he went to send an email and get an address from his contacts list.  IT WAS MISSING.  So, after a bit of google-fu, i was led to the following solution which worked like champ:

Step 1: Install the Outlook Address Book service

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287563/

To do this, follow these steps, as appropriate for the version of Outlook that you are running.
Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

1.    On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
2.    Click to select View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
3.    If your Outlook Address Book is listed, click Cancel, and then go to the steps in the “How to Mark Your Contact Folder for Use with Your Address Book” section.
4.    If your Outlook Address Book is not listed, click Add.
5.    Click to select Additional Address Books, and then click Next.
6.    Click to select Outlook Address Book, and then click Next.
7.    Click OK when you receive the prompt that the address book you added will not start until you click Exit from the File menu.
8.    Click Finish.
9.    Click Exit from the File menu, and then restart Outlook.

My google-fu is strong.