After enabling Skype within Trillian, my Skype Voice Mail stopped working. Disabling Skype in Trillian and Voice Mail works again. It looks like Trillian has had this issue since February 2012 (version 5.1 build 18 per this post). I’m running version 5.3 build 16 (June 2013) and the issue still exists. Both Skype and Trillian […]
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. — John Gall
What company would I want to own and why?
When traveling on business and living out of a hotel room, Touchfit: GSP is an excellent iPhone application for a fantastic 20, 40 or 60 minute body weight workout.
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain: American author and humorist
While I have not used Microsoft Access for a long time (no serious work since Access 2.0 circa 1995), I can’t believe how the product has evolved. The Access 2013 interface is virtually unusable for simple data cleansing/mining tasks. I mistakenly thought Access would be right tool to take some Excel data, add some primary […]
“Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” —Mahatma Gandhi
If you receive this advice from Microsoft SQL Server: “You should correct this situation by resetting the owner of database ‘mydatabase’ using the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement.” I found the easiest solution is to actually drop the existing user account in the database and then change the owner to the server’s login account using the following […]
My main PC, which was running Windows 8, failed. Rather than repair the Windows 8 OS, I reverted back to Windows 7—and the desktop experience is much better. Just in case another fresh install is ever needed, below are the free software applications I install and recommend: VLC media player – VideoLAN is the best […]