College athletics to get stronger requirements

April 30, 2004

UNLV officials today lauded the new standards that will go into effect in the 2005-2006 season. In an era where sex and drugs have been the preferred recruiting tools of the likes of the University of Colorado it's refreshing to see schools like UNLV supporting what one NCAA official called "reforms that are critically necessary to ensuring that student-athletes are academically successful."

Wireless blues

April 30, 2004

Glenn Fleishman has a good article about wireless networking in PC World. In the article he suggests how to boost your network's reliability and tells why many problems occur.

It should not be a surprise that an article in PC World is largely focused on PCs and it does spend a great deal of time on the woes of setting up wireless networking on Windows. However it does have good tips and some ideas for users of other platforms as well.

This article follows on several days of wireless problems for one of my clients. Their connection with their Charter Pipeline cable modem has been pretty rock solid since December. For the period between December and April 21 they always had the same IP and things worked swimmingly. Just as they left on a trip the trouble started. Upon their return on April 27 a new address was assigned. On the 28th the connection was dropped again but with a reset of the modem they again got the new address. All of these had been in the same subnet. Then yesterday at about noon Pacific, the network changed to a different Class A network. No longer is it a 66.215 but its now a 24.205

Firing on all cylinders

April 29, 2004

National Public Radio's Morning Edition with Bob Edwards was firing on all cylinders this morning. We've come to expect a great deal of good in-depth reporting and this morning there were several good stories about topics ranging from the trend towards working for yourself to proposed spyware legislation.

StorageTek continues spiral

April 28, 2004

StorageTek is unleashing trapped profitability once again. What that means for employees is that they will be without jobs. It's a simple methodology that has been practiced for several years by the ex-Xerox Mafia at StorageTek. When times are tough cut your way to profitability. Maybe someday the realization that there isn't any fat left and that having already cut any scraps of meat off the bone that sawing, grinding feeling is cutting through the bones. There are many great people who are, or once were at what was

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Talk about electability

April 28, 2004

Interesting... I haven't seen any comment from Mike Miles about this poll. Maybe it does too good a job of squashing the idea that Salazar isn't as electable as Miles? I'm sure Miles long ago quit reading anything I have to say, and would write it off as something to do with state party leadership. However, I've never been a leader in the state party. I'm one of the "common people" who according to the Miles propaganda machine support his position. There are those of us who, although just common folk, are more concerned with

Amazing....

April 28, 2004

It's amazing that the Bush campaign is attacking the wartime record of Senator Kerry. A group of people who did everything they could to avoid serving their country on the front lines and who have the military so ill prepared for deployment that according to CNN "U.S. troops [are] buying own armor for Iraq duty., want to debate whether a soldier, injured in battle, was injured badly enough for a purple heart.

It's about formatting

April 28, 2004

WPvsWORD.com has an article about differences between WordPerfect and Word. According to their assessment it boils down to Word is Objectâ€‘Oriented, WordPerfect is Stream-Formatted. They go on to show how stream formatting can be easier (if that is what you are used to). The WordPerfect vs. Word debate is to the legal community what the PC vs. Macintosh debate is to many others.

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