Avoiding Common Employment Scams
It’s no secret that the current job market is competitive, if not downright rough. Unfortunately, a number of unscrupulous individuals are using this to their advantage in order to scam unsuspecting job applicants. The scam is simple: Post a (nonexistent) job listing on Craig’s List, ask for an application, and require a credit check.
The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.
If you’re a tech or sys admin, and you support Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 mailboxes on a regular basis, you are bound to run into the following message: The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action. This often occurs when attaching a new Outlook client to an Exchange mailbox in the mail control panel interface. This error is so common that Microsoft wrote a handy Knowledge Base article to address the issue: (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927481). However, the article doesn’t touch on what – in my experience – is the most common cause of this error message: improperly configured software firewalls. Now if you have a smart enough firewall, it will prompt you to either allow or deny access between Microsoft Outlook and the remote server when Outlook attempts to contact the Exchange server for the first time. Many firewalls, including every version of Microsoft’s Windows firewall I’ve used, will not prompt you or provide any indication that the firewall is blocking the connection. Of course … Continue reading
Talking to yourself can be a good thing
If there’s one thing that can can kill a great idea before it even gets out of the gate, it’s the likelihood that you won’t remember it later. I know it sounds stupid; I mean how could you possibly forget something so exciting and potentially revolutionary? I’ll tell you how. Because of everything else in the world that is seemingly there only to distract you and rob you of your productivity. Things like traffic and morning radio, and the fact that you didn’t bring along a pencil and notebook when you had that epiphany as you were jogging this morning. No worries. I’ll bet your cell phone is nearby.