Another "tech support" post: 2 months after I bought my new Acer 24" LCD monitor, I ran into the infamous "No signal" problem which seems to be a common one for Acer LCD owners. And I found the workaround from these customer reviews, i.e., unplug the mon for 1 min and try again.
It worked for me twice so far. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Outlook import workaround
My previous post "My X'mas Present" inspired me to write more "tech support" related post. Hopefully this is going to drive more traffic to my blog >:)
I'd like to share with the public a solution to this Outlook 2002 import problem I ran into: when I imported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 following this instruction, all my entries appears as last name followed by first name with no space in between, for example, "GatesWilliam", which just look strange! I'd prefer "Gates, William" instead. (BTW, importing from CSV file has the same problem too)
And my search for this solution wasted 3 hours of my precious time :( Apparently it is not a very common problem. (Or people just don't care!) Finally I found this USENET news posting, which led me to the workaround. It is based on VBScript but don't worry if you don't write BASIC. All you need to do is cut-and-paste.
Now I'm one happy Outlook Address book owner!
You might wonder why I couldn't just use the Outlook Express Address book and forget about Outlook. Well, it's because my new Pocket PC only sync with Outlook, but not Outlook Express. BTW, this step completed my long overdued personal project: address book consolidation. I no longer have to live with all slightly different and somwhat outdated info in my Palm/Phone/Webmail address books!
I'd like to share with the public a solution to this Outlook 2002 import problem I ran into: when I imported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 following this instruction, all my entries appears as last name followed by first name with no space in between, for example, "GatesWilliam", which just look strange! I'd prefer "Gates, William" instead. (BTW, importing from CSV file has the same problem too)
And my search for this solution wasted 3 hours of my precious time :( Apparently it is not a very common problem. (Or people just don't care!) Finally I found this USENET news posting, which led me to the workaround. It is based on VBScript but don't worry if you don't write BASIC. All you need to do is cut-and-paste.
Now I'm one happy Outlook Address book owner!
You might wonder why I couldn't just use the Outlook Express Address book and forget about Outlook. Well, it's because my new Pocket PC only sync with Outlook, but not Outlook Express. BTW, this step completed my long overdued personal project: address book consolidation. I no longer have to live with all slightly different and somwhat outdated info in my Palm/Phone/Webmail address books!
Monday, February 05, 2007
Queen Mary II
She is in San Francisco today. This is the biggest ship I've ever seen!
From Wikipedia:
"At the time of her construction in 2003, the QM2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and at 148,528 gross tons, was also the largest. She lost that last distinction to Royal Caribbean International's 154,407 gross ton Freedom of the Seas in April 2006, but QM2 remains the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built, and her height, length, and waterline breadth are unsurpassed by any other passenger ship. QM2's luxuries include 15 restaurants and bars, five swimming pools, a casino, a ballroom, a theatre, and a planetarium."
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