Apparently it is possible to run quickbooks on terminal services but it involves several hacks including the raising of admin priviledges for users. To me the risk of admin rights and the unsupportedness (which is not that much different to support in my experience with quicken) of a companies financial data is just not worth the risk of trying it.
Actually it wasn’t bad working in the garden over the weekend even if I did get a little suntan/burn on the back of my neck. I really have the farmers tan now – but I think that is mainly because the rest of me is so white, anything non-white sticks out quite drastically 🙂 On Saturday we borrowed Kristen’s parents mower and I spent about 100 minutes mowing the back and front garden whilst Kristen and Mom weeded and raked up the fallen leaves that were left in the flower beds. By the end of the day we had sore backs and 10 lawn bags and 2 bins full of grass cuttings and leaves for the green disposal lorry to come and take away today. I’ve been trying to decide on whether to get a ride on mower (called lawn tractors nowadays) or whether to get a self propelled walk behind mower. The cost difference is pretty big but the ride-on would be much more comfortable but starting at $900 its a big outlay. The other thing is that there doesn’t seem to be anywhere you can actually try a tractor (although John Deere’s are all over the neighbourhood but I can’t afford one of those). I was favouring the craftsman mowers from sears until we found out that their cheapest one doesn’t have a gear system that you can change whilst driving – apparently you have to come to a stop to change gears (according to the sales person) but that strikes me as odd as you always move away from a standstill in first, so coming to a stop doesn’t make sense.
A google search for reconditioned, second hand or used mowers does not come up with anything in the vicinity and I am not aware of any mower shops (unlke Haslington mowers or Congleton Mowers back home in England). Any locals got any ideas or want to let me borrow their tractor for a test drive (I’ll even cut YOUR garden if I can try out your mower!)
It’s been one year today, since we moved from the UK. In the past year that we’ve been here we’ve lived in two houses, purchased a house and a car, passed a driving test, called a plumber out three times, been to the vets twice, got a job each, driven lots, eaten lots, thought about getting a hottub OR a rideon tractor mower, found a great church and new friends, went to one wedding and a funeral, replaced all the exterior doors and windows, ended up with more (broken) tv’s and great furniture that we could use at any one time, passed 4 microsoft exams, broke the 400 geocache marker, got vonage and used skype a lot but not heard from many people in the uk (you know who you are!),got roped in to design 2 web sites (neither of which i’ve got very far with), got two fish, lost a fish, discovered Apples2Apples and many more things that I’m sure you can remember if you have been reading the blogs.
We’re off out to celebrate now – yummy burgers await.
Looks like I’m going to have to install MS Search now that there is a plugin for Lotus Notes Thanks to Ed Brill for the details
Good source of ie7 hints, tips and troubleshooting.
How to fix ie freezing when you use the drop down box and the answer (at least official) isn’t to use firefox. This is due to a known issue with HP hardware and the MS06-015 / KB908531 patch.
On a related note I was wondering what readers policys on implementing patches are. We tend to wait a week or so to see if there are known issues (like above) but if everyone waited a week to see if there were no issues then this policy isn’t very practical. Also testing the patches on machines isn’t often very practical either – with a vast array of software on users desktops – most of which I would not use, just how do you test the effect of patches? Even getting hold of a spare box in most companies is unlikely as they are all in use. I’ve also found that the details in the patch documentation is getting sparser so it is also difficult to tell just what the patch does or what it affects.
And as to firefox – I’m not that impressed with the autoupdate facility for 1.5.0.2 – now most of my extensions don’t work and on my home computer they seem to have been ALL wiped out – not sure if that is because it’s loaded a new profile or not. I’ll look at that later, but having all the extensions disappear is very annoying. The other strange thing is that I wasn’t aware of there being any major patches or bugs in firefox – they’ve kept them pretty quiet unlike the latest MS patches – is there a mozilla security zine like the MS security posts that I should be subscribed to?
A utility to remove the bloatware on dell pc’s might come in handy – normally i’ve done this manually but this tool might help – note that I’ve not tried this myself – yet.
I got a quick response from TimeWarner, with contact details, about my complaint apologizing for the “delay”. I really don’t think 4 months counts as a delay, neither do the excuses that I was told. Will be interesting to see if the formal letter ever shows up. For anyone else having issues I strongly recommend complaining to the Better Business Bureau, after all they may actually do something if the entire customer base complains!
A couple of useful pages on troubleshooting accounts that have been locked after the password has been changed. Normally I find that leaving it 10 minutes normally cures the problem (due to user mistyping the password) but the tools from microsoft with the article on how to use the tools will come in handy. Thanks to Victors posting on Friends in Tech for the hints.
My tip on passwords was published in redmond magazine the other week and is available online. Shouldn’t be too hard to work out which tip I posted. Note to current employers – doesn’t mean that I’m using this function now – especially as Symantec Antivirus is crazy enough to think that certain tools are virus’s and deletes them!