In the debate over the inaccurately named "Ground Zero Mosque," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been one of the strongest and most consistent political voices in favor of it.

In what the AP described as an "impassioned speech" at an event on Aug. 24, 2010, marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Bloomberg said not allowing the proposal for a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero would be "compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom."

source:http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/michael-bloomberg/mayor-michael-bloomberg-argues-against-no-mosque-z/

 

Obama’s flip flop demonstrates no hope or audacity.

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If you do not want to do something that drastic, you can just stop the Windows Live Sign-in Assistant service before you install Business Intelligence Publisher.

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I knew I had the phrase in some file but Windows 7 search returned no search.

I even switched to Google Desktop Search(GDS). But GDS does not search contents of php, py files. It did search sql files because I set it up as a text file type.

So I reverted to Windows 7 Search.

Before I gave up on Windows 7 search earlier, I did notice that it indexes files that I have worked on before. So, Windows 7 guesses that I would be interested in files that I worked on. Surely Windows 7 does not expect me to open all of my files individually before it indexes them !

So I first ensured the folder and file extension are included in Windows Search and then tried this trick – copy the folder to another folder and then copy them back to the original folder. This seemed to tell Windows 7 that I would be interested in those files and after a while, the search results I was expecting, starting turning up!

I guess I only have to do this because I brought in a whole lot of file before I configured Windows Search which folder to index (Refer to the various screenshots on how to configure folders and file types for indexing).

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2009-11 5
2009-12 5
2010-01 8
2010-02 4
2010-03 5
2010-04 7

total crashes: 34

I have an active Microsoft ticket SRX1118765656ID - RFX\SEA\SEA\Win7

Don’t depend on Microsoft !!

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I keep sending Navaphon Surushniti v-26navs@mssupport.microsoft.com my dump files but he has not even bothered to respond at all!!

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I was using Excel and Windows 7 crashed.

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This time, I just clicked on Vim and Windows 7 crashed.

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Since Nov-2009, I have had 31 blue screen crashes. Everytime the culprit is always win32k.sys.

Here’s the extract of an analysis report (generated by WhoCrashed):

On Mon 4/12/2010 1:52:23 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: win32k.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x3B (0xC0000005, 0xFFFFF960000AB890, 0xFFFFF88009226450, 0x0)
Error: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\041210-19515-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\win32k.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Multi-User Win32 Driver
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.

I logged a report (SRX1118765656ID) with Microsoft Support. They initially told me the culprits were my 32-bit applications:

1. Firefox

2. Vim

Then I upgraded Vim to the 64-bit Vim.

But the crashes continued unabated and it could happen when I click on anything, be it Vim, Firefox and sometimes even Microsoft Excel XP !!

Microsoft Support has been working at the problem since Dec-2009 and has no solution at all besides asking me to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop. I have plenty of applications installed on my laptop and reinstalling will take too long and I will have to get a spare machine to keep a copy of my system for backup. In many cases, reinstalling is not a solution at all. I told the Support staff that and after that he does not even bother to respond anymore.

As far as blue screen crashes go, I have had more in the 6 months I have with Windows 7 than in the 8 years I had with Windows XP !

I would have switched to another operating system if I am not so attached to so many applications that work on only Windows.

This is a very good reason why a Windows-only world is BAD for for everyone !

Update on 20-Apr-2010:

32nd crash today – today’s happened when I was using Excel.

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Recently I had to review some very large registry files (.reg).

Trouble was when the file was large, VIM somehow displays also the control characters.

This made the file difficult to read.

The solution is to delete all the control characters with

:%s/[[:cntrl:]]//g

and voila:

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