http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:00:28 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000679.html With Fall coming, it's time for Corn mazes. There are loads of them to find in Google Earth. Here are a few to get you started, including the Google Earth KML files. In England, they mostly do crop circles, and it'stoo late in the year, they're all harvested by now, but next year be sure to look for them. Crot's... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000371.html There is much happening in genetics it's hard to know where to start listing the highlights. Here are some of the more interesting items I've come across recently: Did DNA replication evolve twice independently? by Leipe DD, Aravind L, Koonin EV. in Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Sep 1;27(17):3389-401. DNA replication is central to all extant cellular organisms. principal proteins involved... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000275.html My name is Ellen Meiselman. I work as a web and elearning developer for the University of Michigan Health System. This site serves both as a place to explore my interests and as an extra memory space to store the solutions to the software and web development issues I encounter daily. I began writing these posts and articles to avoid... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000236.html After some recent experiences with selecting various assisted living and health services for seniors, I began wishing I had the benefit of Amazon.com -style reviews to help make informed choices. I've started a reviews site for any type of ElderCare services. Any service relevant to care-giving, healthcare for seniors, assistive products for seniors, etc. can be reviewed at ElderCareRatings.net No... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000177.html mail.app can't connect to mail server smtp server connection blocked port 25 SBC dsl http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000101.html According to the site: Cover the Uninsured Week.Org, May 10-16 is "Cover the Uninsured Week," a weeklong series of national and local activities that is part of a year-round, nonpartisan effort in support of securing health care coverage for every man, woman and child in the United States. The site is devoted to organizing and distributing information related to the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000059.html I realized at home I could not see .htaccess files or any files beginning with "." when using Fetch 4.0.3 for OSX, although using the same version at work I could. Haven't solved the "why" of that yet, but I did find a quick fix: Open AppleScript Editor, paste: tell application "Fetch 4.0.3" set use LIST minus al to true... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000058.html I've discovered a new use for twisty-ties: keeping the "precision engineered" clamshell halves of my Dell Precision workstation together. I have to say, I am not impressed with the fit and finish on this machine. I've had it for a year, and just had to have the USB and Firewire ports on the front replace, AND the ethernet jack on... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000056.html A tip from a friend that was too good not to pass along: __________________________ "Just passing on some info in case someone else (like me) doesn't know about Microsoft Remote Desktop. I just got my G5 and I was pissed that Virtual PC won't work with it. While searching the net, I came across a quote "I use a PC... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000055.html I had occasion to reinstall Windows2000 the other day and got a chance to see what the rest of the world endures when using anything but the most basic standard peripheral devices. I have a two monitor setup, one a Dell 17" flat screen, nothing special. The other is a 19" Dell UltraSharp. My reinstall was done from a ghost...