3.31.2006

What can you do different?



Question:
What can you do different?

Thoughts:
Listen. That's the winds of change breaking into your car and driving it off as you wonder why you never took the bus to work.

Source:
LibLime | The leader in open-source solutions for libraries: "Severe budget cuts. Increased demand for services. Lack of adequate staffing. Sound familiar? At LibLime, we realize that your library is facing these challenges--and I believe we can help. We're not just your average library vendor in a highly competitive and heavily saturated market. We're different, our products are different and our business model is different."

What is in my control?



Question:
What is in my control?

Thoughts:
More than you think.
How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP: "How to assign a drive letter
To assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:
1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.

Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK."

When you wake up are you breathing in or out?



Question:
When you wake up are you breathing in or out?

Thoughts:
Sometimes, I'm nt breathing.
A rising star even Microsoft can't snuff out | csmonitor.com: "People can replace nearly all the major programs on a Windows PC with 'safer, less expensive open-source alternatives,' says Scott Granneman, author of the new book 'Don't Click on the Blue E!' - a kind of Firefox for dummies. Free e-mail programs like Mozilla's Thunderbird can be used instead of Microsoft Outlook Express. Open-source Apache already dominates the market for Web servers. Even the Windows operating system itself can be swapped for an open-source alternative called Linux."