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Lakers 91, Memphis 81

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The Los Angeles Lakers trounced Memphis today at Staples Center, improving their record to 5-3.

For the first time this season, KB24 led the Lakers in points scored, but Lamar Odom overcame his recent production malaise with 20 points and 15 rebounds.

Starters
Name Reb Ast PF Pts
K Bryant, G 6 6 2 21
L Odom, F 16 7 3 20
A Bynum, C 7 0 1 11
S Parker, G 0 6 3 10
L Walton, F 5 2 5 6

Bench
Name Reb Ast PF Pts
M Evans 2 0 1 9
K Brown 2 0 3 6
R Turiaf 1 0 1 4
V Radmanovic 1 1 0 2
S Vujacic 0 0 1 2
J Farmar 2 3 1 0
B Cook 0 1 0 0
© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Microsoft Sysinternals Process Monitor v1.01

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This is a great tool for monitoring processes running on a system, either for tech support purposes, or just plain nosey or paranoid.

From the product download page:

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.

It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.

Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.

Thanks Mark, and MSFT.

Windows Live Mail Desktop & DEP

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Well, Data Execution Protection, DEP, is no friend of the Windows Live Mail Desktop (or is it Windows Live Mail Center?) client.

For the past several Vista builds, WLMD has only been able to stay up, no pun intended, for about a minute, at best, on the test rigs at Unimatrix Zero-1 with hardware DEP capabilities.

This morning, I finally, in complete exasperation, disabled DEP for my Vista session, and voilà, WLMD, build 8.0.1083, works!

In fact 45 minutes have passed since I rebooted and no crash from the program.

Notes:

  • I had to disable DEP for my sessions on this rig since Vista would not allow selective disabling of DEP for WLMD only
  • In the past couple of builds, Windows Live Mail Desktop has become a TSR, (Terminate & Stay Resident program)? Why? And why isn't there an option to stop that behavior?
© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Lakers 95, Minnesota 88

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Behold the new Lakers star: Andrew Bynum.
He led tonight's LA Lakers win over Minnesota with 20 points, 14 rebounds, and 3 blocked shots.
Way to go, kid!

Starters
Name Reb Ast PF Pts
A Bynum, C 14 0 0 20
K Bryant, G 4 6 3 17
L Odom, F 9 4 3 15
L Walton, F 9 5 3 14
S Parker, G 1 2 2 11

Bench
Name Reb Ast PF Pts
V Radmanovic 0 3 0 7
M Evans 1 0 2 5
B Cook 0 1 0 4
R Turiaf 5 0 5 2
J Farmar 1 3 0 0

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

NTSB report on Feb 2, 2K5 accident at TEB

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Sometimes, the truth is way stranger than fiction!

Jet runs off runway, and thankfully, no fatalities.

NTSB comes in to investigate and finds:

  1. Jet was loaded to capacity with passengers and crew.
  2. Jet was fully gassed
  3. Jet was overloaded!
  4. Pilots, get this, made no attempt to determine the plane's center of gravity in order to either lighten plane or redistribute weight.
  5. Captain (chief pilot) could not produce a log book of his flight record.
  6. Captain's record is suspect.
  7. 1st officer (co-pilot) is foreign national with a tourist visa.
  8. 1st officer has not completed certification tests to enable piloting in the US.

And that is just the tip. The ownership and licensure of the aircraft is another comedy of errors as well

  1. more, more, more here

I sincerely hope that criminal penalties are forthcoming!

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Who asked you, David Stern?

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In the news was this titbit about NBA commissioner Stern having an opinion about the WADA and Floyd Landis.

Who asked your opinion on drugs, Davey?

Er, do you have an opinion of the armed force you call your players?

Better yet, why don't you fix that annoyance called the NBA Store?

I placed an order at the NBA store for the 3 colors of the new KB24 gear since my KO8E gear would be obsolete.

After a few days, I got an email stating that the stuff for Wifey on the same order had shipped. Rechecked my order to find out why the order was broken: no update.

Three days later, I got another email stating that my order had been canceled, no reason stated. Called the CS phone# but did not have the time to spend all day chasing the order so I hung up and troffed-off an email.

Reply came stating that the items were out of stock until January. Pissed-off at the fact that these clowns running the store didn't have a real-time inventory management system.

Two weeks later, while trying to pay bills online, found out that my ca$h had not been credited to me.

This time, I called with the intention of speaking to a CS droid.

After a mercifully short wait, lady comes on. Very polite so I cannot dump on her. Trip this: when I ask about my refund, she said, "We do not automatically credit you the amount of the cancellation, you have to request it!"

I lost it then!

"Are you freakin' shittin' me?", I shouted!!!

She then informed me that she would hasten the refund back to my credit card.

Despite a log like this in his eye, the self-absorbed Dave keeps coming up with imperious pronouncements like fines on owners, dress codes, the new Coke basketball, and other crap in order to deflect our attention from the real problems.

Daffyd, feel free to perform recto-cranial de-insertion surgery on the staff at your firm's eponymous store, and set things right.

Also, outside the NBA where the those self-made gazilliomaires feel the need to have one of their servants order them around, you are not a macher.

Keep your opinion on everything else to yourself, OK 'D'?