first time I have ever made a mess of a simi-truck! sigh… thats costly. you dont want know.

Update:

Good to Go Pass:  $11.07

Windshield:  $274.85

Fuel loss for no delivery and sending an extra truck to pick up the trailer: $17.75

Time loss for 2 paid drivers not able to conduct there routes:  $105.00

Administrative time involved with truck repair, accident investigation, insurance claim, and correspondence with you $105.00.

Loss of truck time 1 day $117.00

All the hours are based on $35.00 per hour. 

Total cost for this claim: $630.67

The price of being honest and stopping to deal with your mistake: Priceless.

Im going on record here, as I think I have some ground breaking news for microsoft. I just finished playing around with a copy of windows 7 and I have this to say…

“Why do I have any need to use windows 7”

Its a waste of time, here is what I see in windows 7 a bunch of speedy bloated operating system toys for multimedia users and kids. Windows7 Serves no purpose in a enterprise environment.

I might be proven wrong but I dont see any reason for enterprise to upgrade to any OS other then being forced. Why as a IT director would I ever want to start installing a mess of OS that is new bigger and has the word “store in my media vault” all over it. Poo on windows 7. My operating system is meant to do one thing …provide a API to hardware for my applications. If I wanted something that poped shot fireworks and plays videos I would buy a Mac and never get any work done with it..

Message to microsoft …stop making enterprise tools bubbley. its work. not a place for a 4 year old to print pictures and send them to grandma.

What the Hell…

Fox News = WTF

nothing new to blog about lately. life and the pursuit of happiness. mostly working on the yard and house and truck.

The truck is running schwell and took it to ellensburg with no issues. Katie did recently try driving it and didnt let it warm up causing her to kill it on the road.

House… oh house… what fun that I will never (ever?) stop spending money on you. Went to get some things at home depot for fixing up little projects. 400 bucks later I got them done. Built a shed, took down the chimney. Mowed a bunch. Katie painted the front door red. Paid a bunch of bills.

I will be in PA next week for work, I do get to stop for a day in Chicago to visit Fernando.

Want to be more secure online? Stop using Adobe Acrobat reader to open PDF documents in your browser. That's what F-Secure virus hunter Mikko Hypponen, the closest thing to a rock star holding court at the RSA security conference, is advocating.

Ditching Adobe Acrobat Reader will greatly reduce your chances of getting your PC infected by a drive-by download, says the pony-tailed Hypponen, who was recently profiled in Vanity Fair. "That's my advice," says Hypponen, "I don't expect a Christmas card from Adobe."

The bad guys are increasingly using security flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugins to open a backdoor to your hard drive. These instructions get implanted when you visit a tainted website. The next time you use Adobe Reader, a very tiny poisoned PDF from the bad guys also opens and installs the backdoor that may allow them to take over your computer.

from USA today – however I fully support that claim I use FoxitReader

I don't know that I would call myself a successful published, BUT!! I did get published in 2600 magazine. I have been a long time subscriber and was bored one day and felt like writing. Published up some code to hack up a robots.txt file its fancy I will give you that, no more cut and paste! I think my dosbox code was cooler.

anywhoo go get a copy of the Spring 2600 magazine and I will sign it for you.

“‘TIS EASTER SUNDAY and it seems Microsoft is commemorating the resurrection with a little resurrecting of its own, dragging us away from our chocolate egg hunt with snooze, er, news that its talks with Yahoo are back on again.”

Source: The Inquirer

did I just read that the resurrection of christ was compared to microsoft and yahoo…

Create a user.js file in your Profile directory for firefox (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\) Dump this following code into that file.

//Speed Tweaks FF3
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 500000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 250000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 20);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive", true);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 600);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 10);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 1000);
user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
//set following to false if you find that FireFox is slow to maximize from the tray.
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
//security tweeks
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.updateGenerators", false);
//memory cache  Physical RAM Memory Cache (in KB)
//32 MB 2048
//64 MB 4096
//128 MB 6144
//256 MB 10240
//512 MB 14336
//1 GB 18432
//2 GB 24576
//4 GB 30720
//8 GB and up 32768
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 18432);

Got this code from a post on DSLReports page, copy here for my own notes.