blog maintenance (comments approval?)

July 11th, 2010

Due to other commitments (Moving house) – The commenting system will be UN-Attended.

Hence, replies to comments might be NONE to very minimal.

Comment(s) will be approved or deleted – (Depending upon appropriateness)

UN-Attended, does not mean spam comments will be allowed or approved, (Unless it serves a useful purpose to GRDblog)

UPDATED – Sat 24 July 2010 – (This sticky post will be “un-stickied“, .. once the moving is completed)

UPDATED – Tue 27 July 2010 – (Most comments (18 in total for Today only)  approved from the spam bay, .. ) -???- Why these comments are considered SPAM is mostly due to the nature of the comment (AND; The link to promote other websites ? confirmation required here) -ANYWAY – There was a number of comments asking for a response to various questions, … AT THIS POINT IN TIME; – the moving-house /shed is (Stage-1) completed – over the next couple of weeks I expect this process to be finalised. UNTIL THEN – my reponse will be VERY minimal to NON-Existant (approved comments only yes!) – Due to other work-loads and commitments.

THANKs for all the comments – (Normal posting and responding to comments will resume asap) – might be as soon as Thursday, … but it could be Monday next week.

I can tell you this, .. It will not be today (Currently 4:45pm) as I will not have Internet access over night, … AND; – It will not be tomorrow, … due to work-related activities. I dont even have time to read them all, OR vet out the obviously spam-content or otherwise.

WARNING – links to porn-site might appear in the commenter -/- links as a result, .. of neglect on my behalf – (You have been warned!)

New procedures / policies (Currently being developed) – to deal with this senario – As the comment will be downloaded to my Outllook email-client-software, … I will be able review-all-comments, … provided today, … and possibly respond -/- delete as required, – (the next day) – as you can imagine this process will place a 24-Hour delay on all comment-approvals and response(s).

Some comments will be difficult to evaluate without an internet connection, but I will get back to this soon, (I promise) – does that sound LIKE a person you could trust? – I did say it with a nice smile.

UPDATED – Thursday 29 July 2010 – NEW GUIDELINES: -
Delete comments OFF-Topic
Close all “Posts” with Automated-Comment(ing) software – spamming a post with the “same-message” more than once.
Existing comments are reviewed and DELETED according to guidelines 1 and 2

I might make an exception for this one – “Amusing comment on SophosLabs blog” – as it is on a post that has no comments on it – (HENCE; – here becomes the time-consuming bottleneck, please refer BACK to guidelines 1 and 2 – (No exceptions)

The problem with a comment LIKE this; -
#1: – There is a LOT of links, ..
#2: – It contains badly form sentence(s)
#3: – It has Numbers – (AND; no “English-text”) as the link-text
#4: – The links MIGHT be bad -OR- non-existant urls (I am not here to check your rushed comment)

GRD/blog comment management guidelines
GRDanson

ANOTHER UDPATE: – (Backlog due to lack of Internet access)

The commenter (Using Automated-Software -???-)

Post(s) nice compliments – hence playing to a perceived vulnerability.
The old adage – Flattery will get you everywhere – has a ring of truth, .. BUT off-topic comments are trashed.
AFTER receiving the same “TYPE” of comment again, and again, the novelty wears thin.
On the third and fouth comment(s) – it plainly becomes ABUSE.

RESULT = DELETE all comments from Automated-Software LIKE auto-spammer

Taylorism -/-

July 24th, 2010

FROM-URL – http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth101/taylorism_and_fordism.htm -

This defintion in block-quotes below taken from this url (above)

TAYLORISM

Frederick Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management

devised a means of detailing a division of labor in time-and-motion studies and a wage system based on performance.

Taylor’s gospel also known as “Taylorism” would become the standard for businesses worldwide

The main elements of the Scientific Management are: time studies (e.g., screw on each bolt in 15.2 seconds), standardization of tools and implements, the use of “slide-rules and similar time-saving devices”, instruction cards for workmen (detailing exactly what they should do), task allocation, etc.

Taylor called these elements “merely the elements or details of the mechanisms of management”

ABC/rn – By Design – Wed 21 July – (RE-Broadcast Sat 24 July 2010) – was talking about many topics today, (This was but one that caught my attention) – Adam Smiths – “Division of Labour”, has a similair theme.

This episode has the title – The office: a forum about workplace design – seems very removed from my post-topic here, … but it is a good listen – (Might go download the podcast so I can listen to it again)

preserve changes (persistent mode)

July 24th, 2010

This tool at “pendrivelinux” – looks to be a tool that will help resolve the persistent-mode (preserve changes) – on USB-Linux-OS(s), … (follow the link below)

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/casper-rw-creator-make-a-persistent-file-from-windows/

There is a number of other article(s) here on this topic – (Read and follow the tools required to do what you need)

The post might seem a little “Lacking explaination” – but I dont really have time to fillin all the details – (AND; I do NOT have to time to test and document, any of these things here)

Just like to post the links here for later reference when I MIGHT (Have the time) and, .. want to get back into testing USB-Linux operating systems – (more than likely, .. ? YES!)

some understanding

July 22nd, 2010

Homer Simpson said -

Just because I dont care
Doesn’t mean I dont understand

The Black Knight

July 22nd, 2010

FROM-YouTuber; – HopelessRomantic27 | 30 August 2007 | “It’s just a flesh wound!”

Unchurched

July 20th, 2010

An interesting term - ( Un-Churched ? – heard just now on RN ~ abc.net.au/rn) – Visit the spirit of things here – http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/ – Talks about the mega-churches not having “churchy-stuff” LIKE a cross, and stained glass windows

{ Insert blog post below } – { If you cant wait for the post, … follow the link above } – { other though bubbles? -???- none } – sorry, … you will have to listen to the audio -/- download to hear the little bit about the “Unchurched” term that inspired this blog post. – (Still moving boxes of stuff around from place to place)

Other interesting words found? – “raunchy old woman humour” in block-quotes below

FOUND THIS COMMENT – { http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2010/2952369.htm }
alison :

19 Jul 2010 6:31:04pm

Thank you, Marion Maddox. This was an edifying and terrifying program. I wish I didn’t need to know – but the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Now I know why those saccharine-sweet girls at the garage sale I went to a couple of weekends ago weren’t responding to my raunchy old woman humour; they simply didn’t have a category for me.

May 7, 1895 – birth of electronic era

July 17th, 2010

Some people might think wireless to be a recently new technology, ..

May 7, 1895, was to become the birth day of the ELECTRONIC ERA. On that historic date, the first wireless telegraph message was successfully transmitted, received, and deciphered. Russian scientist Aleksander Stepanovich Poppov sent a message from a Russian Navy ship 30 miles out to sea, all the way to his lab in St. Petersburg, Russia.

some people may dispute this – (After-all, .. it is written on the web – and I could write anything I like here)

THIS QUOTE; – (Taken from a webpage no-longer hosted on its original domain, but preserved on the wayback-machine here >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20060821010923/www.webstationone.com/fecha/popov.htm <<<

No one person “invented” wireless electronic communications, even though Guglielmo Marconi for over 100 years has been called the inventor of radio. Marconi did take the ideas and inventions of others and put them together in a workable form to allow people to send messages through the air, invisibly, on radio waves.

But, at almost the same time Marconi was making his “discovery” in 1895, a Russian professor made the same discovery. The main difference was that Marconi was an enthusiastic entrepreneur who rushed to spread news of his discovery to the world and to sell it to them.

Alexander Popov (also spelled “Popoff”), by contrast, was apparently driven by a different spirit and never had a desire to profit from his discoveries.

Money making approaches [with blog(s)]

July 17th, 2010

This site provides a nice simple overview, .. (Follow this link to read the complete article)

http://www.idoblogs.com/2010/07/16/how-can-you-make-money-with-blogs/

Sell Advertising:

Selling Other People’s Products:

Direct Sales:

Network Marketing.

This sentence (quoted-below) is the most relevant for me.

Be sure to recommend only those products or services that you know are reputable and that you trust in. Your blog’s readers will not be interested in tacky sales pitches or overstated promises, so avoid these by all means.

set the home page

July 16th, 2010

GOOGLE-SEARCH: – Make Home shortcuts

OBJECTIVE
tell customers how to set their homepage to http:// -{blah}- .com.

go to Tools | Internet options | and click use current (while on that page, make sure there is only one-tabbed page open. If you have multiple tabbed pages open, AND select the “use-current” option, is will list all the tabbed pages currently open)

but i would REALLY like to be able to tell them to press ctrl D or something to that effect for simplicity.

Some websites provide “a tool” – (to make this process easy) – Ie, Make Y!7 My Homepage

Make Y!7 My Homepage

Certification renewal

July 13th, 2010

FROM – http://www.certmag.com/read.php?in=3949

CompTIA recently announced that effective Jan. 1, 2011, certifications such as A+, Network+ and Security+ will be valid for three years and then will need to be renewed. – (Read the complete article on the url above)

I am yet to complete a certification – (Just watching the developments as they happen)

In revising its recertification policy, CompTIA brought itself in line with an overall trend in the certification industry of making certification not once and done but rather a continual process.

The computer says no!

July 11th, 2010

SENARIO:

Searching a large database – (NOTE; – You MUST (It certainly helps if you) create an account -AND- Login before attempting to search this database)

Stop searching for something that does NOT exist

Do you -/- I – know WHEN to stop searching -?-

SEARCH – (On the advert number) – on the det.nsw.edu.au/jobs website!

Advert-Number: – NEI/10/062 – NO RESULTs

SEARCH – Position Title – (What is the title?)

POSITION - Information Technology Client Support Officer (Helpdesk) Eligibility List

! –      Enquiry returned no results

SO – It is NOT there – (Stop searching for something that does NOT exist)
The computer says NO! – The search entry -/- enquiry does NOT exist!

JOB-ADVERT: – (Helpdesk) Eligibility List