Staples Daily Deals Spam

I have been trying for months, if not years, to unsubscribe from Staples' emails without success. Today I am documenting the process.

I've been through this process many times. We'll see if this time it finally takes effect.

How to Edit file without checking it out from TFS

Try this option:
Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Environment, select Allow checked-in items to be edited.

Funny spam e-mail

Richard D Lenski

INSPECTION UNIT

J.F Kennedy International Airport New York

Tel: 1-718-734-5536

Dear Sir,

 

I am Richard D. Lenski, Chief Inspection Agent- United Nations Inspection Unit at John F. Kennedy International airport, New York- working hand in hand with Department of Homeland Security and U.S Customs and Border Protection. During our investigation, I discovered an abandoned shipment from a Diplomat from Africa via UN office-London UK and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a metal trunk box weighing approximately 25kg each. The consignment was abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the consignee as money rather it was declared as photographic materials and personal effect to avoid diversion by the shipping agent and also the Diplomat inability to pay for Non Inspection Fees.

 

On my assumption, each of the boxes will contain about $3Million to $4Million each and the consignment is still left in the airport storage facility till today. The consignment is two metal boxes with weight of about 25kg each. Apparently, the details of the consignment including your name and address are tagged on the Metal Trunk boxes.

 

Provide your name, phone number and full home address, to cross check if it corresponds with the name and address on the consignment including the name of nearest airport around your city and other details. You can send the requested information to me by email for onward delivery. All communication must be held extremely confidential. I can get everything concluded within 24 hours upon your acceptance and proceed to your address for delivery if you assure me of sharing the content 30%/70% with you on my arrival to your house.

 

I want to transact this business with you and share the money, since the shipper has abandoned it and disappeared. I will pay for the Non inspection fee and arrange for the boxes to be moved out of this airport to your address by myself. But I will share it 30%/70% with you.

 

Above is my direct telephone number. Call me as soon as you receive this mail and send me all the requested information to my email. rlen77@aol.com

Richard D. Lenski

Creating 32-bit ODBC Connections

To manage a data source that connects to a 32-bit driver under 64-bit platform, use c:\windows\sysWOW64\odbcad32.exe. To manage a data source that connects to a 64-bit driver, use c:\windows\system32\odbcad32.exe.

How to launch system configuration utility windows xp

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.

The program is Msconfig.exe so hit Start, then Run and type Msconfig and hit Enter

Subaru Outback Buying Experience

I was trying to buy a new 2013 Subaru Outback over the weekend. I didn't like the price much but maybe it is not too bad.

I went to IRA Subaru in Danvers, MA. From my experience and from my friends' experience they do not bargain. They give you a price and they stick by it. Here is what happened.


The vehicle I was looking at had an MSRP of $27865. The so called invoice price was $26551. IRA offered my $1500 below invoice - $25051. See the attached page.

I am confused - if the invoice is what the dealer's cost is then how can they sell it so low?

I went to Clay Subaru in Norwood, MA with that invoice and of course they said they would beat IRA's offer by $200.

I did not buy either of the cars and I don't know what to do? Am I getting a good deal?


A copy of the invoice:

Attention My Dear Friend.

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day to you. I hope you are doing well. On my honor, I want to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Douglas Asare, Chairman of Contract Award Committee of West African Health Support Organization (WAHSO). I operate at our headquarters which are located in Accra, Ghana, but our sub and area offices are in all member states of the organization. This organization is an arm of the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) which is the single largest organization operating here in the West African sub-region with 15 member states. In addition, my organization oversees health support related matters in the whole region.

I am contacting you based on the committee's need for an individual/company whom are willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer. The amount of $23.5 million (Twenty Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of ECOWAS for supply of hospital equipment from foreign contracting firms, which we over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid. We need you to help us by providing a durable account that will be used to receive this money for the benefit of all of us. We made up this mark up to take care of our retirement benefits because some of us in the committee are due for retirement soon and we believe this will help in no small measure to affect great change in our generations coupled with the fact that the project was a multi-million dollar one so it provided a very unique and great opportunity for us all.

Would you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 30% of the $23.5 Million, 65% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us to begin commencing, you should provide the following for immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you: Your company's name with its complete address, telephone number, and fax number. We are mature men in the highest cadres of our careers and would want to protect both our reputation which we have worked hard over the years to build, our family names, careers and grown up children, so we would want you to take this transaction serious and give it, it's desired attention if you accepts this partnership.

Please confirm the receipt of this message and let us know your position immediately.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Douglas Asare.

Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures!

Read this sad and ridiculous story about this frequent flyer who got kicked out of a plane from the US to Istanbul because of crazy flight attendant:
Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures!


Matthew, I am very sorry for your experience and I hope that United gets punished! I can't imagine how I would have reacted if I were in your position! Good luck! Don't let this issue die!

NITA 2008 Priorat

Excellent Spanish Red Wine! Thanks to the owner of Attrezzi, in Portsmouth, NH I got to try this wonderful wine. He claimed that the wine was on sale - it still cost $22 but was worth every penny. Attrezzi is a very nice shop in Downtown Portsmouth. The owner is a very interesting person - a chef, sommelier and much more.   I highly recommend you visit that store when you next visit Portsmouth, NH. It is even worth the ride from Massachusetts. They have a web site as well: http://www.attrezzinh.com

The registry settings used by the iTunes drivers for importing and burning CDs and DVDs...

I have been getting this error message every time I start iTunes for years:
"The registry settings used by the iTunes drivers for importing and burning CDs and DVDs are missing ..."
When I edited the registry following the steps outlined in the article below I found that the value for the UpperFilters key had the value of "Cdralw2k". I added "GEARAspiWDM" on the second line as Apple suggested.You can see from the snapshot of regedit that whatever program replaced the UpperFilters setting made a backup of it although that didn't help much.

Found this solution here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3299



Did this solution work for you?

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Sign the petition against the destruction of the mountain!

How to install Crystal Reports 7 on Windows 7 64-bit?

I was able to finally install CRW 7 (Crystal Reports for Windows) on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit workstation. The advice below was collected from many web sources and from my trials and errors.

Here is how to do it:

Copy the installation files off the CD to a new folder on your hard drive.


Edit the win32\x86\setup.inf file and remove or comment out the two lines in the section
[Database Access\ODBC\Microsoft SQLServer\@Winsys] that reference dbnmpntw.dll and sqlsrv32.dll

Create a shortcut to win32\x86\setup.exe, and change the properties of the shortcut (under the Compatibility tab) to
1.    Run program in Compatibility Mode for Windows 2000
2.    Run as Administrator


The installation should launch now but at the end you will get two error messages that the following DLLs are missing:

• crpe32.dll
• implode.dll

Find the files listed below from a working installation with functional installation of CRW and copy them to the following locations:
c:\windows\system32
c:\windows\sysWOW64

(You'd need admin privileges to copy to these locations!)

List of files to copy:

• Crpe32.dll
• crpe32.dep
• crrun32.exe
• Implode.dll
• msvcrt.dll - CAREFUL with this one! You probably have it so do not overwrite it! Only copy if you don't have it!

Open an admin command prompt and navigate to c:\windows\system32 and regsiter the DLLs:
regsvr32 crpe32.dll
regsvr32 implode.dll

I don't really remember if I registered them while being in System32 ot SysWOW64 but I think it was System32!

You might get an error message that the library was loaded but some entry point wasn't found. In my experience this does not affect the installation.

At this point I think that you are able to run CRW but it starts with errors about some files missing.

You would need to copy these two files as well to both System32 and SysWOW64:

• crpaig32.dll
• p2smon.dll

You DO NOT need to register these libraries.

I think that's all.

Good luck and let me know if you have any comments or questions!

Mitko

Spam from audio@ (msofficetrainingonline.com audio@msofficetrainingonline.com)

Here is the email from "audio@". I have been receiving this spam for year. I believe it is from the same source as the one in my previous post. My first name is misspelled in the same way.


From: audio@ [msofficetrainingonline.com audio@msofficetrainingonline.com]
Subject: Outlook 2007/2010: Calendar & Task Tips to Save Time & Stay Organized, 1/7 Webinar



Dear  Misspelled Firstname,

Join us for a 45-minutes training with live demonstrations, followed by a 15-minute of assisted exercises and a 30-minute interactive Q&A session that will drastically impact your learning curve and retention.


"Outlook 2007/2010: Calendar & Task Tips to Save Time & Stay Organized"
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 1:00-2:30 PM ET

http://www.msofficetrainingonline.com/2ER/4Y/2/f8DDWHP/q69JKGHYq/a0b/


In this 90-minute hands-on training, our expert presenter will help you unlock the secrets of using Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010 calendar and tasks to effectively organize your time and workload. Outlook has little-known organizational tools that can drastically help manage you appointments, projects and tasks, saving you time and frustration. In this comprehensive event you will
discover:

**   Survival tips for calendar & tasks: Get organized today
**   Your day at a glance: How to plan your day out in minutes
**   Project management: Create project plans, assign tasks & status reports
**   Recurring meetings, tracking responses, using categories: Save time today!
**   Ways to stay organized & on task with Outlook's Tasks & to-do

Get also these additional training tools for greater retention:
**   15 minutes of assisted exercises to boost your performance right away
**   30 minutes of interaction & live Q&A session!


Melissa Esquibel is a technology consultant, coach, trainer and speaker. Her experience includes:

**   Melissa has 25+ years experience in information technology with a
     background in training, technical writing and business risk analysis
**   Since 1991, Ms. Esquibel has assisted a variety of companies and
     industries with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access,
     Outlook) all versions through 2010.
**   She is a consultant, frequent speaker and Microsoft Certified Trainer


Register now for this exciting event by clicking the following link or calling 1-800-746-0680:

"Outlook 2007/2010: Calendar & Task Tips to Save Time & Stay Organized"
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 1:00-2:30 PM ET

http://www.msofficetrainingonline.com/2ER/4Y/2/f8DDWHP/q69JKGHYq/a0b/

We hope you'll join us.

Sincerely,

Information Technology Conferences
9465 Counselors Row, Suite 200
Indianapolis, IN 46240

P.S. If not satisfied, a full refund will be given from now until 7 days after the event.

If you do not wish to receive further notices about this conference or future conferences, please click here:
http://www.msofficetrainingonline.com/2ER/4Y/2/f8DDWHP/q69JKGHYq/a0b/

Please do not reply directly to this e-mail, as we are unable to process it. We sent this using a "send only" address.

If registering by phone, please refer to your priority
code: 1997759

Contact ID#: -9087234578

Spam from elearning@

I have been receiving spam from elearning@ (informationtechtrain.com elearning@informationtechtrain.com) for years now. Here is what one email says:

Subject: Get Ready for 2013: Featured IT Training

Body:

Dear XXXXX, (misspelled first name)

It's that time of the year again. Strategic planning for 2013 has begun, and budget requests are due soon. Be sure to get your required IT Training on the calendar now so you and your team can stay ahead of the game in 2013.

We offer a variety of training courses to keep you current, knowledgeable and efficient. Our cutting-edge technical training courses are designed with busy IT Professionals in mind - they will help you be more informed and effective, without wasting time.

Want to learn more about the courses below? Click the following link to request more information about the upcoming classes:

http://www.informationtechtrain.com (a personalized link that I deleted)

Below is a snapshot of our upcoming training schedule:

December Courses:

Advanced SQL & Enterprise Data | December 20-21 Java Web Developer | December 20-21

January Courses:

XHTML & Cascading Style Sheets | January 14-16 HTML 5 & CS3 | January 14-18 Web Fundamentals & Design | January 14-18 Intermediate & Advanced . NET Programming | January 14-18 Introduction to PHP Developer | January 14-15

February Courses:

Cloud Essentials | February 4-5

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for the Site Owner/Power User | February 4-5 Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services | February 4-6 Red Hat Linux System Administration | February 4-8 Crystal Reports 11.0 Introduction Course | February 4-8 Fundamentals of Relational Databases | February 4-8 Introduction to SQL and Reporting Services | February 12-14 Applications Development Overview for Managers | February 25-27

Don?t see what you need above? Click here to let us know what you?re looking for: http://www.informationtechtrain.com/ (a personalized link that I deleted)

We are here to help - if you have any questions, please contact us directly at 888-669-6067 and we'll be happy to assist you.

Sincerely,

Director of Enrollment

Executive Education

P.O. Box 31

Devault, PA 19432

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Not interested in receiving these training offers? Click here to unsubscribe:

http://www.informationtechtrain.com/ (a personalized link that I deleted)

This was sent using a "send-only" address.

Please do not reply directly to this e-mail as we are unable to process it.

Confirmation#: -123456789 (changed the number)

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End of Body

The same spammer sends another email from an "audio@" address.

My name is misspelled the same way and the email is about IT training again. 

I found another blog mentioning the telephone number used in this email. Here is the link:

http://silencetreatment.blogspot.com/search?q=888-669-6067

Spam: Hosted VoIP For SMBs: 9 Surprising Benefits

Same mailing address, different "company".

From: Enterprise Guide [admin@enterpriseguide.com]
Subject: Hosted VoIP For SMBs: 9 Surprising Benefits

Please add admin@enterpriseguide.com to your email address book to ensure proper delivery.  :)

 By clicking a link in this newsletter, you agree to the enterpriseguide.com privacy policy <http://www.enterpriseguide.com/privacy>  and terms of service <http://www.enterpriseguide.com/terms> .

Enterprise Guide

17 Main Street

Topsfield, MA 01983

What, if anything, is at 17 Main st in Topsfield, MA?

Do you receive spam from them?

Spam: Enterprise Essentials from admin@techproductupdate.com

Subject: The Immediate & Long-Term Benefits of a New VoIP Phone System

Supposedly sent by:

TechProduct Update
17 Main St
Topsfield, MA 01983

Look what they have on the bottom:

By clicking a link in this newsletter, you agree to the techproductupdate.com privacy policy and terms of service which of course can only be accessed by clicking on the respective links in the email. I can't believe that this is a legitimate and respectable business.

ITwhitepapers - I hate you, spammers!

I am constantly being bombarded by emails from itwhitepapers.com

I wish they'd stop!

Great red wine for $6.99 2010 Laya

LAYA 2010
Red wine Barrel 2010. 4 months in French oak barrels. 
Winery: Bodegas Atalaya
D.O.: Almansa
Variety: Garnacha Tintorera and Monastrell 
Volume: 75 cl. 

Beats many wines twice its price!

Cheers!

A very nice blog that also recommends this wine:
http://excellenteverydaywines.blogspot.com/2012/05/bodegas-atalaya-laya-2010.html

Campo Viejo Rioja Tempranillo Reserva 2007

My new favorite Spanish Red Wine for $12.99
Find it at Trader Joe's.

My previous $12.99 favorite wine was Borsao Tres Picos Garnacha but I forgot what year. Definitely not the 2010 vintage! Borsao Tres Picos Garnacha 2010 was a bit disappointing.

Very nice Spanish wine

Heredeos del Marques de Riscal

Rioja Reserva 2006