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Re: Wherify GPS phone: locate your kids via the phone and pray that it IS pedophile proof!

Dr. J. Pisano — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:43:45 -0000

I didn't believe it at first, but I was contacted by a SHAREHOLDER from Wherifone. They told me that they addressed the concerns of my article to the marketing director of Wherifone and HE said that they will be making an "easy" to read site that will address the concerns listed in my article and help parents to understand their product better.

I can't wait to see the new site and read the updated information. I hope the site can clarify some of the security issues I was concerned about.

~J. Pisano

Re: Incredible Windows XP shortcuts and tips you WISH you knew before you read this! -Part I

Dr. J. Pisano — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:32:30 -0000

Just passing a trackback that was sent to me via this incredibly cool site all about quick links to noteworthy technical news... A MUST READ!!!

The site: etc.

The trackback:
http://www.fortysomething.c...

Re: IE7, Quick Guide to What’s New With Internet Explorer 7 and Handy Shortcuts

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:31:01 -0000

Daniel,

Hello and thanks for writing.

A couple of quick points to consider with Windows' Vista:
You need to have a fairly new computer to run it.
Because it is new, it may have a few kinks... you might want to wait a little and see how it goes...or until the first major service pack is released.

Personally, I am upgrading as soon as possible so I can work though the "bugs" as I see them. Unless you are very techincal with computers, I would wait awhile before upgrading.

I used to be a fan of Norton's Anti-virus, I no longer am. Their software is large and resource intensive... and quirky. -Especially their complete "network security" solution. For my buck, I would check out the http://grisoft.com site and download there Freeware Anti virus edition... and get my buck back! It's free and it works great!

If your hard drive is always running, I would bet that you have too many things "starting up" and you are into your virtual memory. Look at the lower right corner of your desktop and see how many icons you have in the system tray. If they are starting to make it to the middle point of your screen you have way to many. Usually you can right click on them and there will be an option to discontinue them. And you can always defrag... Open up your "computer" icon. Right Click on the C: drive and choose "properties". Then click on the tool tab and push the "deframent now" button.

That being said you may also have spy-ware all over your computer, which tends to also be a resource hog. If you download spybot from here http://www.safer-networking... and run it and "fix" the problems it finds... that may also solve your problems.

Spybot also has a pretty good "startup" checker in the advanced options so you can see what software is starting as you boot and can choose what to allow and what not to allow.

There are many other ways to do these things as well such as using the msconfig utility and, of course, you could always upgrade your memory.

As far as the Vincent Lopez method series, you can try to contact Christopher Popa at http://www.bigbandlibrary.com. I know he has it in his collection and may be able to further advise you.

I am working on my next large article "Windows XP Tips you wish you knew..." which will include ways to deal with some of the very things you mentioned above.

Good luck and spread the word about the site, again, I appreciate you taking the time to write.

Joe

Re: CME: Plug Mics, Guitars, MIDI Directly into USB

Dr. J. Pisano — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:26:58 -0000

Wow,

Thanks for posting about this midi device. I have not seen it before and it&#039s just what I was looking for. I just found your createdigitalmusic site and really like your content. Thanks for a great read.

Joe Pisano
http://www.mustech.net

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:24:33 -0000

Ricky,

Are you using IE7?

Joe

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:03:36 -0000

Ricky & Jason,

I am not sure as to why you don't see this after clicking the options tab in the left pane. It is possible that the tab is disabled by the security administrator. Anyone else?

J. Pisano

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:16:34 -0000

Jason & Ricky,

This is from our Network Engineer: Jim S.
It may give some further insight:

Joe:

With regard to your thread at:
http://www.mustech.net/2007...

I believe that the last persons on the thread may be connecting to an older version of Exchange Server OWA...
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"One of the new features of Outlook Web Access in Exchange Server 2003 is the ability to encrypt and digitally sign messages when using OWA. In order to do so, you will need to install the S/MIME Control in OWA by downloading it to the computer that you are using.
Note: These features are only available as part of the Exchange Server 2003 OWA, and are not available on previous versions of OWA."

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Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:43:13 -0000

Jeff,

I didn't get any message. Please repost.

Joe

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:56:25 -0000

Jeff,

I believe what you have downloaded is the server fix. This has to be installed on the server side. It appears that you installed the MIME update correctly but the HOTFIX to the server hasn't been installed yet. If this is the case, then you will be able to now see the WSYIWYG editor and the RED "X" will be gone AND you will be able to enter a message, but it will crash everytime you press send...

J. Pisano

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:19:20 -0000

Jeff,

I found all of your comments that were "not working". Askimet marked them as SPAM and moved them into the Spam Box. MS WORD hidden characters must have looked like SPAM to the filter. At least that solves that mystery.

Joe

Re: DRM And Copyright Legalities And Ethics

Dr. J. Pisano — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:55:28 -0000

Found another related article at the My Music Tech Site:

http://mymusictech.blogspot...

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:14:32 -0000

Chris,

Well, I have to tell you I'm not sure why. Try posting over here at Microsoft Technet, They have a long line of comments about this.

For some reason it almost seems to "arbitrarily" work for some and not others. If Firefox and Opera were smart they would be putting out ads like "Hey Look, Our browsers work with Vista and Micrsoft's Own product doesn't", this very issue may double or triple the amount of people torqued about IE7.... Maybe I should change the title of this post to "Possible 5 step fix"...

http://forums.microsoft.com...

Joe

Re: A Chance To Make A Real Web Log Killer App- Snap.com

Dr. J. Pisano — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:01:14 -0000

Yes, I know Self Promotion... :) It really is a good idea! :D

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:43:11 -0000

Hello all,

I believe what Dieter is suggesting is something that ONLY can be done on the server side. So those of you who don't control that will not be able to take advantage of this good advice. However, you can pass it on to your admins...

For more information about this check here:

http://technet.microsoft.co...

Joe

P.S. Any other good ideas, post them here!

Re: Music Education and Technology- a realist’s approach

Dr. J. Pisano — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:02:40 -0000

Owen,

What a great post! I too feel the need to encourage people not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" with regard to adopting technology too fast.

Sometimes my students are surprised to hear me say that "technology stinks" or "I can't stand this computer". It's not really because I don't like it but rather, because of the frustrations that can come with the "territory".

I often tell people that you until you try to teach an intensive "technology" class you really never understand how much there is to know, how much people really don't know, and how unreliable it can be at times!

Many times an "old-fashioned" solution is the easiest. Remember the good old days when you could shoot a "roll of pictures" drop them off and pick them up in a couple of days ready to go? Fast-Forward: How many of us have thousands of digital pictures waiting to be processed? :)

Cheers to a great post!

Joe Pisano

Re: Mustech.net Experiencing Difficulties

Dr. J. Pisano — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:05:41 -0000

Hello all,

I have the site back up to 80%, Hopefully, it will be fully functional by the end of the weekend. I am still having problems resetting the forums and the related sites.

~J. Pisano

Re: Mustech.net Experiencing Difficulties

Dr. J. Pisano — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:59:37 -0000

Well,

All that is left is the forum (sigh) and a couple of other tweaks to the sidebar. Then we save, save again and then save one more time to be sure...after we've saved one extra time. :D

Joseph Pisano :)

Re: DRM, Fair Use, Copyright and Ethics: Part II, Podcast E4

Dr. J. Pisano — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:45:42 -0000

Thanks Jason,

I have some of my strings/guitar students linking to your blog as well. Where is your podcast? Post a link here on the comments...

Joe

Re: DRM, Fair Use, Copyright and Ethics: Part II, Podcast E4

Dr. J. Pisano — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:19:37 -0000

Test of the new anti-spam plugin.

Joe Pisano

Re: WordPress Comment Plugins: Building A Fortress To Defend Against Spam!

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:07:18 -0000

Hello all,

So I did a "boo-boo". I non-malicously posted in the wordpress.com forum about this article and some of the people there thought it was SPAM! Now, I've got a good rapport with etiquette and try not to do wrong-things on purpose... So if you're here because your mad I posted this in a "wrong place". I,truly and humbly apologize! :oops:

This brings up a whole new thing called Human Spammers. Lorelle, as always has written a great post that talks a little about them. You can see it here:

http://lorelle.wordpress.co...

~J. Pisano

Re: WordPress Comment Plugins: Building A Fortress To Defend Against Spam!

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:53:00 -0000

I've gotten a lot of PMs and feedback about this from Wordpress.com now an article from Lorelle about this. After reading her response on her site to my questions, I may have to think about the Captcha type plugins a little more.

Perhaps, the best method for bloggers may be Spam Karma, Akismet and Bad Behavior. I'm still thinking... Have any of you had a good experience with HASHCASH?

Joe

Re: Mustech.net Experiencing Difficulties

Dr. J. Pisano — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:57:49 -0000

Hey All,

It looks as though, I finally have everything back up and running, including the tech-forum! :smile:

Let me know if you have any issues!

~J. Pisano

Re: Windows Vista Webmail (OWA) Fix For Internet Explorer 7- Five Step Fix

Dr. J. Pisano — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:36:53 -0000

Daniel,

Well, People Keep On coming here, for whatever reason... I'm glad we were able to help you. Most people don't post so I'm not sure whether or not their problem was fixed! Glad to have helped.

Joe

Re: Unbelievably Crazy Music Series #2: Pachelbel Rant

Dr. J. Pisano — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:39:39 -0000

Espie & Todd,

Thanks for taking the time to comment! I appreciate it and hope you'll comment again in the future!. Espie, I love your site, always have. I am going to be writing the next Noteworthy Site about your site.

Joe :razz:

Re: Link Love, Music Education BLOG Sites I Love To Visit; The Top Ten

Dr. J. Pisano — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:46:56 -0000

Hey, I'm serious about starting a conversation, if you made it this far leave a message! :lol: ~J. Pisano