Well, it was confirmed yesterday that my daughter's dancing accident at her mom's house was actually a broken (fractured) wrist.

She joins the year old "Club of the Broken Wrist" in our household.  See end of 2008 I broke my wrist when a table fell on it while moving, then in the fall of 2009 my son received a fractured wrist when in a football game he was clipped well after a play was over causing him to land on his wrist.

In each case there has always been some kind of real concern in regards to the placement of the fracture.  In my case it was that the fracture was close to a bone that showed signs of stress and houses a major artery of some type.  (Perhaps one of you medical types can fill in those details for me there).  I don't remember all the details just that for several weeks they were concerned about that.  Then with my son it was that this "twisted" fracture of his wrist was close to the growth plate.

Well in "club" fashion my daughter is also on the "concerned" list as her "buckle fracture" is close to the growth plate as well.  Seems like anything to do with a "wrist" is a concern.  "Hey Doc, it hurts ... let's focus on that first k?"

Anyhow, here is her picture.  She will be going to see ortho on Tuesday.

        

Here is today's chat with a Sprint Representative:


So what they are saying, without saying directly of course, is that Sprint doesn't know how to stock or help their customers (new and old) stay informed?  Makes you wonder if that is what sent many people over to their competitor *cough cough* (iPhone 4).  Or perhaps we are all just going to wait for HTC's Droid X on the Verizon network?  Perhaps Verizon's date of 7.15.2010 is accurate?

See:  http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/

True Verizon's Incredible (by HTC) is on back order for more than a month and even Verizon is asking people with back orders of the Incredible to switch to the X.  Perhaps this shows that HTC is having manufacturing issues and perhaps this isn't all Sprint's fault with the EVO.  However, the masses (me included obviously) want the EVO but our ADD/ADHD society doesn't like to wait long without some kind of update(s) before changing our minds and going to the next best thing.  If a consumer perceives ineptitude on a provider's part ... in what other ways is a provider going to prove to be troublesome for the consumer in the long run?

Verizon did the right thing.

Where's the updates from Sprint?  We have to pull teeth and the replies are always innocuous at best.

Wow, I'm sounding agitated am I not?

The more you look into this though the more I'm convinced it is a manufacturing problem from HTC.  Be it substandard parts or the Froyo update (as was the original plan to be loaded on this device by-the-by) or some other manufacturing issue.  I'm not sure it's all Sprint's "fault" but I "fault" them for not having a clear answer to the issue.  Again, seeing this same sentiment on many of the boards as well, meaning we don't think it's all Sprint but they have no way of setting expectations for anyone.

        

Okay, yet another post about "out of stock" complaints for the HTC EVO from Sprint.  (see my original post here).

We are now 9 days into adding to the "list" to receive an HTC EVO from Sprint.  The Corporate store is stating that they still have not received shipment of this phone and are still unable to provide anything close to an estimate.  The wait list at this store is growing still however no new phones are in still yet.

When you go to the site Sprint website (http://www.Sprint.com) and attempt to see about getting an HTC EVO you are greeted with the following:


So sorry, check back again later ...

Seriously?

This device was hyped long before it's June 4th launch, yes they have found some issues they need to patch ... is it really taking a month or more to get these out or is this really the first time Sprint has had to deal with "Supply and Demand" issues?

Sorry, I'm annoyed.  I know I'm not the only one:
Do a search for "HTC EVO out of stock?" lol and you'll see headlines matching that statement as well as the word "Again" added to it.

Guess those of us that want the Google Android experience will just have to complain and wait it out.  At the same time Sprint looks more and more incompetent me thinks.

Just another rant for your lunchtime enjoyment!

        

        

It has been a long time since I helped design a website.

New site is going up today as a barebones site.  More to be added soon.  Please click on it and let me know what you think.

http://www.EVTECH.us

        

20100529

        

See, this is just wonderful! 

Where states and cities feel they need to "do something" to express their opinions about another state's laws I have no idea.  Isn't there something more important ... like abolishing your own stupid laws? (see: http://www.dumblaws.com and choose the state you'd like to know more about.)

So before you go poking your nose in a sovereign state's business and threatening bans/boycotts you might want to think twice.  First, don't you have some stupid laws you need to work on?  Second ... what would happen if a major corporation/politician/commissioner told you ... "I see your bet ... and raise you ..."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/05/arizona-illegal-immigrants-los-angeles.html

To the Honorable Gary Pierce (Commissioner of the Arizona Corporation Commission), you have made my day brighter today, Thank You!!

        

As portrayed by 7th grade students for a class assignment.

Texas City Disaster Flood 1900 in Galveston

        

Well I've now been on line several times today to check my Sharebuilder account.  I keep getting that they are going to be doing maintenance until 4am EST.  It's not almost 11am CST on May 1 and the site is still down.

Wonder why orginizations don't update their support messages when they are having trouble?

        

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,  WE ARE AWESOME !!!! OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!       To Those of  Us  Born  1930 - 1979       At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please

read what he said.

Very well stated, Mr. Leno..

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's,

60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered

with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,

we had baseball caps

not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.  

 

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. (even more intersting is;  WHY WAS our

immune system in tact?).    

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank  FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.   WHY?

Because we were always outside playing....that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.

  We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them down the hill,

only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem

  We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's,

no surround-sound or CD's,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no Internet and no chat rooms.

things, but our kidswere born betwee 1969 and 1974

and they grew up with commodore64 and atari, donkey kong, pong,  pac man
frogger and we had cable).

and I was right there with them. 

   

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!  

   

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. 

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms and mud pies

made from dirt, and

the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes..

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. 


 

 Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn

to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!  

 

 The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!  

 

These generations have produced some of the best

risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all..  

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS! 

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

~ 

The quote of the month is by

Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' 

 

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this. 

 

 

For the rest of us...pass this on.

        

McAfee has developed a SuperDAT remediation Tool to restore the svchost.exe file on affected systems.

 

Q:   What does the SuperDAT Remediation Tool Do?

A:   The tool suppresses the driver causing the false positive by applying an Extra.dat file in c:\program files\commonfiles\mcafee\engine folder. It then restores the svchost.exe by looking first in %SYSTEM_DIR%\dllcache\svchost.exe, if not present it will attempt a restore from %WINDOWS%\servicepackfiles\i386\svchost.exe, if not present it will attempt a restore from quarantine. After the tool is run, the machine needs to be rebooted.

 

Recommended Recovery SuperDAT Procedure

1.     From a machine that has Internet access, locate and download the Recovery SuperDAT at http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/tools/SDAT5958_EM.exe and save it to portable media.

2.     Take the portable media to each affected machine and run the tool. If you are not able to run the tool on the affected machine, boot in safe mode

3.     Execute the Recovery SuperDAT tool

4.     Reboot in normal mode

5.     Use the product update to update to 5959

 

For additional FAQs and information, go to https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?elq_mid=2373&elq_cid=1475603&page=content&id=KB68780 which will remain up to date.

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UPDATE #4  (7:38pm US/CDT)

McAfee has published recovery procedures for the following two scenarios:

• Recommended Manual Recovery Procedure using the Extra DAT where DAT 5958 is currently installed
• Alternate Manual Recovery Procedure using DAT 5959 where DAT 5958 is currently installed

This information has been posted on http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm and will be continuously updated as more information and procedures become available. 

================================
UPDATE #3 (2:55pm US/CDT)

Emergency DAT 5959 has been posted and is available at http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security_updates/dat.asp. This file is available in English and is replicating in other languages. For MORE information, go to the 5958 DAT Report on http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm.

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UPDATE #2 (12:47pm US/CDT)

McAfee is aware that a number of corporate customers have incurred a false positive error due to incorrect malware alerts. Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant performance issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3.

The 5958 DAT has been removed from McAfee download servers, preventing any further impact to corporate customers. McAfee teams are working with the highest priority to support impacted customers and plan to provide an update virus definition file shortly. You can view information at https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?elq_mid=2373&elq_cid=1475603&page=content&id=KB68780 (NOTE: system is currently slow) or the McAfee Community at http://community.mcafee.com/docs/DOC-1374/

We will notify you of an emergency update when available, or in 90 minutes.

 

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ORIGINAL EMAIL (11:06am US/CDT)

McAfee is aware of a w32/wecorl.a false positive with the 5958 DAT file April 21 at  2:00pm (GMT +1). McAfee advises NOT to download this DAT. Please disable pull tasks and update tasks.  

        

This is a favorite of my kids. 

From time to time I subsitute 8-12 oz of the Vermont White Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese with Pepper Jack cheese instead.  Makes a nice tasty twist.

First here is what you need: 

        

Wow isn't that embarrassing?  Have you ever thought you had done something, swore up and down that it was so, only to have others tell you it isn't so?

Sadly, I pointed some of our developers to my blog.  They were looking for how to create service dependancies on a Windows server.  Normallyl I'd do this myself but didn't have the time.  I ended up having to email them instructions ... because ... as they pointed out to me, the instructions were NOT here on my blog.

Ops!

I had them in another article I had written for the office.

HOWEVER, I restate, these instructions can be found on my blog!

To create service dependancies you need to do the following:

1. Backup your current registry settings. (important step, well unless you're confident you "got this")
2. Run 'regedit' to open your registry.  (or if you prefer regedt32)
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and locate the service that you need to set a dependency for.
4. Open the 'DependOnService' key on the right side. If the selected service does not have a 'DependOnService' key, then create one by right-clicking and selecting New > Multi-String Value. (a.k.a. - REG_MULTI_SZ)
5. In the value field, enter the names of all services that the current service will depend on. Each service name must be entered properly (exactly as it appears as a service name in the registry) and on a separate line for each service.
6. Click OK, close your registry and restart your machine.

        

Having trouble seeing a newly attached USB drive or memory stick?

The reason usually is that Windows renamed the drive to a letter that is already in use. This can if you have several thumb drives or external hard drives attached, and multiple mapped drives.  Another reason is having multiple primary partitions created AFTER you have attached a USB device.

To fix this issue you will need to find the drive and then rename it.  Here are the steps to follow outlined below:

1.  Right-click on My Computer and select Manage.

2.  From the Computer Management screen, select Disk Management.

In this window you should see all of your connected physical drives, their format, if they are healthy, and the drive letter.

In this instance I am going to change the drive letter of my SecureGuard USB drive.
3.  Right-click on the drive in the list, and from the resulting menu select “Change Drive Letters and Paths…”

4.  Click on Change so we can change the drive letter.

5.  Select a new drive letter from the drop down list,
Preferably the one that you usually use for this drive.

6.  Click Yes on the confirmation screen and you are done

If you have auto play enabled you will get the normal pop up dialog asking what you want to do.

Please leave a comment if this has helped you out.

        

I'm really happy everyone is so giving to the Haitian people.  It is good to see celebrities, politicians, and the good ol'e regular civilians get out there and make sure we're giving a helping hand.

What about our own though?  What about those we first dishonored and then promised we'd watch out for them?  What about those that have not (be it by their own issues or unforeseen circumstances)?  Why can't we rise to those occasions within our own boarders?

Oh by all means, let's protect the boarder!  Don't let any "undesirables" in! Give me a break!!

Let's try sending some of that aid here to our OWN people!  To those of us in need in our OWN country!  Don't know where to begin?

Let's start by taking a very small look here:  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100202/D9DJV4800.html

        

Okay, normally I don't do this but this site was such a life saver I have to post.

If you are looking for Sharp or HP drivers, in specific "outdated" drivers, make sure you check out their site!  http://www.gfive.net

My case was something simple, and stupid in my opinion, such as a Win XP driver for a MX-2700N.  I have searched on and off over the past couple days to no avail for the proper PCL6 driver and it was driving me nuts.  Simple, where is the d@*n DRIVER!

Just when I about gave up I found the http://www.gfive.net site and my specific driver. 

Now truth be told, I don't know how long I'll keep this posting around but I had to show them SOME kind of thanks for easing my headache!

        

So what is it going to take to wake up government agencies?

What is it going to take to wake up the voter's ire?

Time after time for months now the whole Global Warming debate has "heated" up because it has finally been proved the IPCC manipulated data and LIED to everyone.

In the meantime constraints and policies continue to tighten down.  Taxpayers worldwide are paying for it and politicians are not listening.

Please don't read this wrong, I am not advocating irresponsibility.  Do we need to be more mindful of our environment? Yes, fossile fuels are not a sustainable energy source.  Eventually fossile fuels will run out.  All the restrictions we have placed on companies (especially here in the US) have affected our economy.

When will we get the message to our government's and tell them to stop enforcing based on a lie.  To disband the IPCC, and discredit those responsible for their stupidity.

Weather experts the world over who called "foul" on this years ago deserve apologies.  People who lost their career's due to not being in support of "Global Warming" deserve settlements and apologies as in most cases they lost their livelihoods.

At what point to we call for the IPCC's heads to pay for what has transpired the world over? Is everyone really afraid of facing down the LIE?

Global Warming ... what a joke.

Search for "The Sun Also Sets" and perhaps you'll learn a bit something new.  Search for tide cycles and perhaps you'll gain some more insight.  I'm no expert, but there is much more evidence that points far away from CO2 emissions. 

In the end, we need to focus our efforts on using LESS fossil fuels for the CORRECT reasons where applicable.  Stop punishing progress because you are afraid of the truth.

My two cents, what are you're thoughts?

        

Broke(n).

        

Interesting question today.

"Mike, I hooked up my Motorola Q phone to the new laptop IT gave me.  They downgraded me from Vista Ultimate to XP Pro SP3 and now it's not connecting."

"Um, ... did you install Microsoft's Active Sync or the device driver software from the Motorola Q CD?" I asked.

"Nope, should I do that now?" he replies.

"Why yes, yes, that would be an excellent idea."

For those of you that have found yourselves here you can find the link here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/getstarted/getstarted.mspx

The above link leads you to the general information (and Active Sync download) from Microsoft.  Please note that I chose this link instead of directly to Active Sync so that if there are updates by the time you read this you will be able to get the latest and greatest and not a older version. 

Current Microsoft Active Sync is 4.5 as of the posting of this ... um, ... post.

Another handy tip, if you are searching for a direct download try something like this in your Google search:  download active sync site:microsoft.com

That accomplishes two goals.  You are telling the engine what you want and the "site:" constraint tells it what site specifically you want it to search.

Questions, comments, just reply to the post.

        

We Wish You A Very Merry Christmas to All!

Now, what is your favorite part of Christmas?