Robert’s Rants & Rationalizations

When you start looking for an additional computer monitor to put next to your other desktop monitor, try to match, at the very least, the height of the new monitor.  If you don’t, you’ll end up with my situation…

It is really noticable when I open a window and stretch it across the two monitors, and I find that the bottom is cropped (or chopped) off.

Also, I can’t get the top of the monitors the same due to the menu bar on the primary screen…they are off just a little, and moving small dialog boxes get caught up as I slide and position them at or across both monitors.

I don’t address or have tips or concerns on the width.  If you get the height the same, the width only affects the total width of your entire desktop space.

BTW, I’m going to keep my new monitor…it is nice.

Robert

I am dictating this with Dragon dictation with the iPhone. Thanks

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A former user of one of my sites requested I remove her record. Afterwards, the user wrote, again, stating her info still shows up in Google results. This is a common issue.

I replied . . .

“The search engines (Yahoo, Google, Bing, etc.) crawl through sites and store what they see. As people search for the info, the info is stored in a temp memory, also known as a cache. When the search engines search through, again, their records will change, but the cache can remain for some time.

You have to wait till the next time the crawler goes through the site
wait till the cache clears (unknown amount of time)

The other way is to contact the search engine companies requesting the removal or updating of their records. It is up to the individual search engine’s policy how they would deal with your type of request. And, that’s only for the info you put on their site. If you did not put the info there, they won’t do anything…like, you don’t own that info, sort of.

The way I see it, you are doing the very first thing, requesting removal from the sites that are crawled. Now, it’s just a matter of time before your disappears from search results.

Patience.”

Today, I heard on Leo Laporte’s radio show, The Tech Guy, a commercial app, Image for Windows. Just gonna kick into IT-mode, do one, then train the other guys. (I suggested IT show us how to do it…)

[UPDATE]
We contacted the IT manager, and the manager was not aware the project had not been started. jeez