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Outlook fixed
After 10 hours of importing, exporting, and much other crap. I finally have Outlook working again. I still don’t know the cause of the original problem, though I did learn that when Microsoft puts a limit on Outlook file size, they really mean it.
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Innovations in Capital Punishment from Japan
As I wait for Outlook to archive it’s way to being fixed (hopefully) I peruse the web and see this post by Gene Healy about capital punishment in Japan. Basically it’s by hanging (no great surprise) but they don’t have a set date. The prisoner is on death row, and then some random day they come and hang him.
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This should be our national motto
As I wait for the Outlook repair tool to truncate my email file, here’s some stuff I’ve been meaning to get on the web. The below should be our national goal.
From Between the Devil and the Dragon by Eric Hoffer, the diary entry from February 11, 1959
I live in a society full of blemishes and deformities. But it is a society that gives every man elbow room to do the things near to his heart. In no other county is it so possible for a man of determination to go ahead, with whatever it is he sets his heart on, without compromising his integrity. Of course, those who set their heart on acclaim and fortune must cater to other people’s demands. But for those who want to be left alone to realize their capacities and talents, this is an ideal county. It is incredible how easy it is in this county to cut oneself off from what one disapproves–from all vulgarity, mendacity, conformity, subservience, speciousness, and other corrupting influences and infections.
Perfectly put.
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More SATA Madness
So I get the new hard drive installed after flashing the bios, and finding a not quite recent SATA driver for windows, after that it installs fine and seems much faster, all well and good.
However, for some reason my Outlook quits working (I cloned my C drive over the new hard disk.) by not displaying any new messages. By some weird coincidence my outlook.pst file has reached the maximum size and once it reaches that point you can’t delete anything nor see new emails (even though it says you can). So now I have to make a backup copy and truncate that, hopefully not lose anything, and see if that works. The backup is copying over now.