Monthly Archives: April 2005

As INETA grows, so grows our volunteer base

Ineta

Do you know that worldwide, INETA has (at the moment) 769 member user groups? INETA NORAM (that’s North America, as in US & Canada) accounts for 250 of those groups. About 200 of them are in Latin America. APAC is about 120, Europe 130 and MEA (Middle East & Africa) is about 70. We have groups in places like Bulgaria, Iceland, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Micronesia and even little ol’ Vermont :-).

Anyway, what started me off was that I wanted to welcome a few of the new liaisons in NORAM: Rob Windsor from Toronto, Scott Spradlin of Missouri and Morgan Baker in Florida.



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Thank you Kirk!!!

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I gave up on this problem many many months ago and my one touch is sitting in a corner of my office detached from anything. There is hope for me yet to solve my backup problems. I am sure that when I plug it back in, I will discover that it is formatted as FAT. THANK YOU KIRK!

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Finally solved a VPN/Windows Messenger problem

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I have had a problem for a few years that when I vpn into a client’s network, Windows Messenger automatically starts up and signs me in. Without even showing me anything in the systray. It’s a little frustrating only because if I am VPNing in, that means I’m working and don’t have time to chat.

I finally googled the problem today and discovered that there is a somewhat hidden setting in Windows XP which allows you to stop Windows Messenger from starting up on it’s own. Here is the MSDN Support article on it.

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There’s already a word for that!

Just Rambling

Josh Trupin definitely hit on a pet peeve of mine with his editorial on invented words (eg “performant”). I blogged about that recently.

Another one that has been hitting my radar a lot lately is “asks” as in “what are your budget asks?”.

We don’t need to invent a word for this! What’s wrong with “request” or some of the words from this list of synonyms?

appeal, application, asking, begging, call, commercial, demand, desire, entreaty, inquiry, invitation, offer, petition, prayer, recourse, requisition, solicitation, suit, supplication

 

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Another DevSource Trivia Quiz – win a Dell Flat Panel Monitor

Just Rambling

Are you proud of knowing all the answers to obscure programming questions? Here’s your chance to find out if you really are a geek guru.

Enter the DevSource Programming Trivia Sweepstakes, and you could win some really cool stuff. The Grand Prize winner will win a Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20″ Flat Panel LCD Monitor! The runner-up gets a red iRobot Roomba 4100 Bagless Robotic Vacuum (to clean up after all those late nights of coding, where people slid pizza under your office door).

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