Annual Business Registration - State of Minnesota

Annual Business Registration - State of Minnesota

Businesses in Minnesota are required to register with the state every year. I have a consulting business that is very active some years, and does nothing in other years. This year it's inactive and I misplaced my registration form. I tried finding a form online, but I didn't know the search terms. The State Govt site was of no use.

I finally dug through some old files and found a prior registration form. Once I knew the search terms from that form I found this site in seconds. That's when the real shock came. I could register on the site! As far as I can tell, it works. It took no time at all.

I'm still stunned. I never expected this level of competence.

The problem with finding such a site, however, is another matter. Perhaps this entry will turn up in someone's searches and help them.

KW: LLC, company, registration, annual, business

Training SpamAssassin

Lunarpages Web Hosting :: View topic - How-to: Train SpamAssassin

Entirely too esoteric for me, but an unusually detailed discussion.

LaCie likes DriveSavers for data recovery

LaCie - External Storage: Hard Drives, CD-RW Drives, DVD-RW Drives, Tape, Monitors

Before sending a drive to a data recovery company, check with the drive manufacturer to verify that the company is authorized to perform data recovery. If it is not an authorized company, the warranty will be voided.

We recommend DriveSavers at 800/440-1904. They are certified by all drive manufacturers to do what is necessary to recover data from the drive.

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Good reference to keep. Never know when one will need a data recovery service.

OS X QA outsourced to Microsoft XP team: Another firewire debacle with 10.3.6

Apple - Discussions - 10.3.6 Possible Firewire Incompatibility

I just installed 10.3.6 using the software updater, and was surprised to find that my external firewire drive could no longer boot. I tried to mount using disk utility, but neither it or techtool can see the drive. The funny thing is, the system profiler does see the drive, but not the volume. Anyway, I'm sure it isn't the drive, as that works fine, and the case it is in is a brand new MacAlly external firewire 400 case (installed yesterday).

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A convincing series of user reports are coming in: OS X 10.3.6 has run into firewire compatibility problems.

Just like about 5 other OS X updates.

The most likely explanation is that Apple has outsourced OS X tech support to the Microsoft XP team. Note that XP SP2 ALSO breaks Firewire.

Or, alternatively, OS X Firewire support is profoundly hacked and broken.

Or, alternatively, Firewire is a botched standard.

Or all three.

It is astounding. USB 2.0 is a much better choice for peripherals on Macs that support it.

Firewire is a cool name though, maybe we can use it for some other standard.

This is seriously ridiculous.

Yahoo search: my new search engine

Yahoo Search example

Yahoo search is replacing Google on my pages. I can constrain search across multiple domains (as in this example that searches faughnan.com and jfaughnan.blogspot.com) and Yahoo's indices cover my stuff far better than Google's.

I was a very early Google adopter -- the first user at a cutting edge dot com startup when Google was a complete unknown. Now I'm moving on. Google may be heading for a spot of trouble.

Yahoo vs. Google: Yahoo is winning

Google

Yahoo indexes my google hosted blogs (blogspot/blogger) quite well. Google's search fails completely.

Weird.

World Computer Exchange

World Computer Exchange

Donate selected computers. I've got a few to go here.

PS. Blogger was thrashed today -- status.blogger.com has an extensive apology. They've been staggering for weeks.