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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

Spam Killing with SpamNet I'll be checking this out right now: Distributed Spam Killing. Cloudmark has finally come out of the dark with their distributed spam killing idea (and somehow picked up Karl Jacobs as CEO along the way). There's been some hype around the idea because (1) everyone is sick of spam and (2) distributed computing ideas seem to get so much attention these days. Not that I'm not happy there's a new spam killing system out there, but I really wonder how much better it is that other solutions like SpamCop or SpamAssassin. Is this something that really needs to be distributed? [Techdirt]   4:55:35 PM     Please wait while Visio updates its directory cache I've been battling with this MS Visio problem for I don't know how long.  What has been happening (for no apparent reason since it used to work) is that it comes up with a dialog box displaying Please wait while Visio updates its directory cache and just hangs there at 80% forever.  The only way to kill it is to kill the installer that it spawns for no good reason. Today I decided to fix the damn thing.  After enough Google searching I came up with a MS knowledge base article Q263146.  Of course, searching on the MS site didn't find it!!!  In any event performing step 2 in the article seemed to do the trick. Update 20 minutes after the post above: Well it seems Visio loads but depending on what Visio document one tries to open it comes up with something similar to before trying to install something or other.  I just cancelled it all and then Visio freezes.  I suppose I should just un-install it and make sure I never use Visio ever again.   3:07:21 PM

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