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Tommy, for your mini/comcast problem, could it be the DNS in the network pref's? Try: [link]
Yeah, it seems that the Comcast installation software temporarily modifies the system to make all DNS requests point to a Comcast IP address until the installation is complete. So if the installation fails, you're hosed, even if you get internet access set up the normal way (by having a Comcast human enter your modem or router's MAC address).
I've been reading a lot about Comcast service people insisting that users install their software. Apparently it rebrands IE with some Comcast crap and installs other bad stuff. I only let the guy install the software after he was put on hold by their own tech support for over 40 minutes.
I think I'll just nuke it from orbit (I was thinking of installing Leopard anyway).
ION, Time Capsule is finally in! I've been using Time Machine to back up everything except iTunes, due to not having a big enough external drive (I've been backing iTunes up manually to my Mini's external drive). I think I'll pick up a Time Capsule and back everything up before I take apart my MacBook's LDC display....
I'm surprised my Macbook is still usable. It's like having to use a 640x480 display, though.
On the main screen of Outlook navigating to Tools/Options/Spelling and changing the auto stuff there doesn't make a difference. Being in a reply or a newly composed messaged does.
This absolutely drives me crazy about Outlook. It is the worst designed piece of software from the standpoint of debugging simple stuff that I can think of. One of my fondest wishes is to catch the developers of Outlook in a dark alley and beat them to within an inch of their lives with watermelons.
As sucky as Outlook is, Lotus Notes is worse. Incredibly non-intuitive.
I hate, hate the use of modal dialogs in Outlook. You can't compose an email and look up an address at the same time.
I still open up outlook in safe mode because when I use it any other way, it crashes my machine. Luckily I do not use outlook for email, so the safe mode works really well.
As much as I hate Outlook, one of the guys at work is using Eudora which means we keep losing fancy stuff inside the enterprise.
I don't care how plain plain text is--for all I insist on it in internet email, sometimes you need more, and that sometimes is often inside the enterprise.
As sucky as Outlook is, Lotus Notes is worse. Incredibly non-intuitive.
I just wanted to second this. We used to be on Lotus Notes and were so thrilled when we moved to Outlook. Notes sucks ass!
Whyever in Access does it sometimes prompt me twice for the same parameter for a query? It seems to only care about the last value entered.
I thought it was because I was querying a complex table with strange linkages or stuff, but it doesn't seem to be that, or even related to the complexity of the query itself.
It's very annoying.
Best thing about Notes was the actual notes part. Still haven't found a notepad utility I liked as well as Notes. I'm currently using an unsupported version of Daytimer software from 2000. I know it'll die at some point, but I can never get it back because they lost lots of customers, like me, when they used to support it.
