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Scooby Doo can get behind the wheel again in Florida.

Not in real life, of course. The talking dog doesn't exist. But opponents of a bill to let Georgia's habitual traffic violators take court-ordered driving classes online signed the cartoon canine up for an Internet course in Florida, which has a similar law.

Ruh-roh. Not only did he pass, Doo got a certificate.

The stunt was pulled by Driving Educators of Georgia, a statewide association of driving schools trying to persuade Gov. Sonny Perdue to veto the legislation known as HB 1027. The group argues such a system would make it easier for reckless drivers to get their licenses back. It also would be prone to fraud, the group says.

[From Foes of Web driving class get Scooby Doo certified | ajc.com]

At least he gave me credit this year. At the bottom. Next year, I expect a general pronouncement of my greatness at the top of the document. It's the least you could do.

:)

I've been using Xobni for a couple of days and I'm really impressed. I'm a statistics junkie about stuff that I do, so email statistics are just fantastic. The search engine is nice, but the forwarding and reply controls from the Xobni bar make that much more valuable. It does duplicate some of the functionality that was introduced in Outlook 2007, so it you already are using 2007, it isn't as mind-blowing as it would be on 2003.

That said, statistics rule, therefore Xobni rules. People are ranked by the number of emails sent to and received from them, thought it seems that sent counts more than received. The Xobni Analytics feature is fantastic. It gives views on email by time of day and some other neat layers that I can't remember right now. Good stuff.

Outlook contact information is integrated, but Global Address List contact information, like phone numbers, is not integrated. There may be a way, but I haven't found it yet.

Give it a try if you haven't already.

I stopped subscribing to discussion lists long ago, but I decided to try it again with MyITForum. I was apparently missing something the last seven years.

Brian mentioned Xobni a few weeks ago. I just hopped over to the site and noticed that it isn't invite only anymore. I'll give it a try at work tomorrow.

Run out right now and download Wise Package Studio 7 SP3. You know you want to.

The second sentence is a little scary, isn't it.

Wise has announced the availability of WPS 7 SP3. You can get a copy from the License Management Portal.

It will also be available in a couple of weeks from the Wise download page when the guys who administer this site return from a sales conference.

[From Wise Package Studio 7 SP3 | Altiris Juice]

If you use Last.FM, Soundamus generates and RSS feed of upcoming releases from the artists that you listen to. Interesting stuff.

I just realized that I missed the Service Manager session. Did anyone go and take notes?

I was having this problem on my home computer. Yeah. that's it.

SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario:
• You have a multiprocessor computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows XP.
• The computer has exactly 32 processors.
• You resume the computer from hibernation (S4).
In this scenario, the computer stops responding on a black screen.

[From A multiprocessor computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows XP stops responding on a black screen after you resume the computer from hibernation]

My wife found this at Walgreens. Her response: "I caught you a delicious bass".

Sorry the picture isn't bigger.

Interesting trend in music.

In the spirit of Las Vegas, I present Casino News! I'm not terribly surprised. We walked past the Tropicana last week and it looked like it had gone down-hill a lot since my first MMS.

The owner of Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, nearly five months after New Jersey regulators stripped the Tropicana Casino and Resort of its license.

[From The Associated Press: Tropicana Entertainment to file for Chapter 11 protection]

My Enterprise Agreement was accepted by Microsoft today. I can actually deploy ConfigMgr now!

An excerpt from an email I had to write tonight, explaining why some folks in my group spent way too much time trying to do something that could have been solved for $1500.

Macintosh computers can access Windows file shares in a variety of ways. For many years, Macs communicated to all network shares using AFP, or Apple Filing Protocol. As such, Microsoft developed what is now known as Windows Services for Macintosh. Windows Services for Macintosh adds AFP support to Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server. This implementation, based on AFP 2.2, has several limitations, including a 31 character file names, 65,536 files per volume, as well as a 2TB volume size. Windows Services for Macintosh also requires an index to be built when a server is restarted and at other times through the life of the volume. Our Mac-specific volumes are shared using Windows Services for Macintosh.


The location was experiencing an issue where the index was not properly being rebuilt, due to the size and number of files in the share. This was preventing the plant from mounting the volume properly on the Macs using AFP. When mounted using SMB, the Windows file sharing protocol, additional detail was lost. This detail is stored as a resource fork that is automatically "joined" with the original file using AFP.

There is a lot more than that, but that generally details the problem. Group Logic has a product named ExtremeZ-IP that fixes many of the limitations of the Microsoft implementation of the older version of AFP. It does it by implementing the latest version (of course). It will also support Windows Server 2008 shortly.

In case you missed it, a Vista roundtable hosted by Mark Russinovich. I'm most of the way through it. It's good, but not terribly surprising.

Still undecided about Windows Vista? Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of experts for a discussion on adopting Windows Vista into a desktop infrastructure. The panel features subject-matter experts and IT pros from around the world who have tackled Windows Vista deployment—hear about the challenges, workarounds, and tips & tricks they have learned along the way.

[From Springboard Live #1]