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Race to the Bottom
Recovered from 9/7/2008… thanks, Wayback Machine! I’m preparing to give an important presentation to a major financial institution from my home office. I start the demonstration VMWare images, bring up the Powerpoint, sign into WebEx, and call into the conference bridge. I’m using a 1 year old 2.4GHz Uniden cordless phone connected to my Vonage…
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Data Replication Time Calculator
I was recently reminded of the Data Replication Time Calculator I wrote with PK… and thankfully, the guy who reminded me of it found a copy on the Internet Archive. When DroppedPackets.org was converted from Zope to WordPress, the copy I’d posted there was lost. So, thanks to David D it’s now back on the…
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The AppleScript equivalent of rubber sheets for Outlook
Here’s an AppleScript to deal with Outlook getting itchy if there’s email in the outbox and no Internet connection to send it over. Sucks to have your battery die on a plane over something stupid like that. — if I can’t get the Internet, and Outlook wants to send email, then it behaves badly.– since…
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Imperfect Product
Software vendor people have all sorts of different backgrounds… while lawyers and architects might have pretty similar educations, software people could have been educated in liberal arts or pre-med or hard knocks instead of STEM or EECS. Furthermore, they might have more experience in selling or more experience in servicing, or no customer-facing experience at…
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Notification Silencer (was AppleScript ain’t so bad)
Sick of getting inappropriate popups during screen-sharing sessions? This took about 30 minutes to hack up after I figured out where to look. It could still be a lot better of course, but it does the job. UPDATE: resurrected in 2021: — Run via crontab: 0,1,29,30,31,59 8-18 * * 1,2,3,4,5 osascript ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~ScriptEditor2/Documents/meeting-test.scpt > /Users/jcoates/Library/Logs/meeting-test.log…
