I have often been accused of having little to no personal style, and my blog is now in the same boat. This is a combination of my upgrade to Movable Type 4.0 and some oddities of my hosting environment. I'll fix it eventually. Thanks for not piling on.
December 2007 Archives
Jason Henderson of Microsoft just turned me on to this book: Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services
If you're having an office, church, or family party, you may be struggling with what to give people-- especially if you have a white elephant gift exchange. Allow me to offer this excellent list of suggestions. Lots of potential here!
(n.b. Julie has written a wonderful tribute to our grandfather-- see here.)
Tim Bloch was born in Alexandria on January 30, 1919, the son of Raphael Bloch and Alix Kilpatrick,
and died on December 3, 2007. He was graduated from Jonesboro-Hodge High School and subsequently attended Louisiana State University until he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He was stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He also served in the South Pacific as a B-17 pilot and in the Italian theater as a squadron commander. He was highly decorated for his service. In May of 1943 he married Phyllis Gibson Barton of Napoleonville.
His business interests were many and varied. He served as state president of the Louisiana Realtors Association, and was proud that Tim Bloch Real Estate served the community for 50 years.
Tim was known as an affable, capable, responsible civic leader. His wit and humor were a delight to his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Bloch; his brother, Samuel Wheadon Bloch of Kansas City, Missouri; his first cousin, Virginia Wheadon de Gravelles of Lafayette, Louisiana; two daughters, Ann Bloch Robichaux of Perrysburg, Ohio, and Betty Barton Bloch of Metairie, Louisiana; two sons, Ray Beasley Bloch and Daniel Timothy Bloch of Alexandria, Louisiana; and grandchildren Paul Robichaux, Julie Robichaux, Tim Robichaux, Christopher Bloch, Clayton Bloch, Ashley Bloch, and Melissa Bloch.
The funeral was held at St. James Episcopal Church on Wednesday, December 5. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Rapides Parish Library, 411 Washington St., Alexandria, Louisiana, 71301, or to the charity of your choice.
Well, OK; I'm not rocking it yet, but I have big plans. The Ravens-Pats game is on TV; my dinner's on the way, and I got to ride MARTA from the airport to my hotel. I'm ready to bring my A game to the session tomorrow!
Now, this is just plain wrong. The two most recent versions of the Lotus Notes clients won't run when Vista User Account Control is enabled. This is despite the fact that IBM claims that Notes 8 is fully compatible with Vista. IBM recommends turning off UAC, which means you actually have to make your desktop less secure to run it.
Upon further investigation, it looks like nsd.exe is the actual component that doesn't work when UAC is enabled. It looks like the only necessary change would be for NSD to ship with a manifest that uses the requireAdministrator flag to signal that the executable needs to run with elevated privileges. This is pretty straightforward, so I wonder if there's some other issue that makes NSD, or another Notes component, fail under UAC. UAC support is required to get Vista logo certification, but I don't have a Notes box handy to see whether IBM is claiming the logo or not.
So, shame on IBM for missing this elementary requirement-- VIsta was out far enough in advance of Notes 8's release for IBM to have sufficient time to support UAC. Shame on Microsoft, too, for not taking proactive action to make sure that such a widely used application would work properly with UAC.
(Bonus vuln: this buffer overflow in the Notes client viewer for 1-2-3 files. It requires a patch, which you must get from IBM support. Too bad IBM doesn't make its patches freely downloadable.)
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I'd signed up for a Krav Maga-based gun defense class at our martial arts school. It sounded like a fun way to spend an afternoon, and indeed it was-- all the more so because, at the last minute, Arlene decided to join me! Instead of a typical date, we spent four hours pointing training guns at each other, then taking them away with a variety of strikes, blocks, and pins. She was definitely better at most of the techniques than I was, as we found out during the stress-based testing. It was definitely a different way to spend time together (and sorry about accidentally hitting you in the nose, honey!)
