Adventures As Me » That’s not Right! http://blog.tel-cor.com Programming, life, oddities Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Application Focus Amock http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:43:27 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/applicaition-focus-amock/ Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ‘sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/feed/ 0 Attracting the Spam http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/04/attracting-the-spam/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/04/attracting-the-spam/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:00:41 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=337 Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1

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Please be careful when using urinal

I wish I had a picture of it, but alas, no camera is available.

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SP: 2

Act: 2005

Action: Uninstalled ACT 2005

Results: Removes all ODBC drivers from System

Fix: uninstall service pack 2. Reinstall MDAC 2.8. Reinstall ACT (if that is your goal). Reinstall service pack 2.

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