Sync Toy Discovery… continued
As wonderful as it was to learn that Microsoft’s Sync Toy would in fact sync a PST file provided is was located in the My Documents folder, I’m running into a new problem. (By the way, Outlook 2010 seems to automatically store the PST file in an Outlook Files folder under your My Docs)
It is possible to use the Task Scheduler built in to every PC to have Sync Toy run automatically at any given interval, BUT it doesn’t seem to run pairs that require reaching over the LAN. So if you were looking to sync files located on your to an external hard drive and files from another computer on the network to the same external hard drive – the ‘scheduled’ Sync Toy will only run the pair with your files and not the pair involving the other computer. Even if you use the operator -R that tells the Task Scheduler to run all pairs.
I wonder how many people understood all that! lol
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Sync Toy Discovery
I was trying to craft a back-up system over my office network while using a free file sync application such as Microsoft’s Sync Toy. Of course I’m aware that Sync Toy reportly will not sync .pst files.
Turns out it has to do with its location and not the file type. Move your .pst file to your My Documents and have your Outlook look there for the file, then sync! Damn thing worked. I’m thrilled and I hope this knowledge helps someone.
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Novel Progress – Lack Thereof
It’s been a little disappointing that I haven’t been able to throw myself back into my novel. Never mind the fact that I told my fanfic friends that I would complete a few of my fanfictions that have been left in-process on Deviantart.
My only consolation is that I should have some time in the near future to put a dent in Chapter 3 of my book and finish those fanfics come March.
The novel has been a project of mine for at least 2 years now. The world building has been slow, especially because of the amount of science. Though I would not call it a hardcore Sci-Fi novel, it does employ enough scientific elements to be considered a Sci-Fi and I have been particular about the theories involved. I wanted real probable devices, creations, and vehicles. That has taken quite a bit of research and a lot of courage. Courage because it takes guts to pick an idea and stay with it knowing that there are people out there who might read the book and toss it because they don’t agree with the science.
All those who know me are welcome to apply to be beta readers. I only have one formally at the moment. Drafts of the novel will eventually make it onto the website as pages that only registered users can view.
Until that time I’ll keep on updating all of you from here.
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The Price of Technology
While I am still trying to hash out my networking project, I can’t help but be impressed by the price of technology these days. Oh yeah, a tablet can run you some big money, but look what you can get in a laptop for the same price these days…
I’m checking out an HP Pavilion for a new portable work station for my day job. I have a pretty tight budget, but I seem to be able to get a 17.3″ screen, 4gb memory, quality AMD CPU, 640 gb hard drive, with awesome screen technology and a very decent graphics card for under $500.00. My very first laptop didn’t cost as much and it had about one tenth the power.
Though I would like to have more memory in the unit, it is expandable up to 8GB, which I might take care of as time goes on. However, the real question is how long will this package last?
Technology seems to keep moving faster every day. Before you know it, graphics applications and websites are using up more and more of your computer’s CPU and memory, the files you’re working on are getting bigger, and you need more communication between your system and the web to run applications that make your world go round.
So how long would this affordable laptop be able to keep me going? I’d like to hope for at least 4 years – including the ram upgrade. Does anyone else have another guess?
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Bogus Comments
You know, I can understand aggressive marking in the form of leaving comments on people’s blogs so to generate clicks, BUT I REALLY don’t want the fake comments that are just barely worded properly and are so general that you can apply them to any blog. What irks me also is that they are usually flattering in hopes that you’ll leave them up since they only make your blog ‘look good.
That’s really low and annoying as all hell. Thank god WordPress offers you the ability to moderate any comment before publishing it.
So yes, the moderating of comments is another plus for WordPress. I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with the format. I wish it was just a tad easier to change the layout or add widgets, but overall it’s gotten much better than when I tried blog script 5 years ago.
Back then, WordPress didn’t seem to have any way to add ‘widgets’ without adding them directly to code. I still don’t like it that the code is broken up into so many separate files. It makes editing them a bit of an annoyance. Sadly, that hasn’t been improved upon.
I’m very happy with the new layout and controls though. It’s easy to add categories, tags, and modify the body of the post. I need to try out links and media though to get a full feel for the script.
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