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Posts from February 2005

Thunderbird is going to r0k my world…

I’m still reading blogs the old-fashioned way — I have a list of links on my web site that I open in Mozilla in individual tabs. I’ve been going through my bi-yearly “Anything but Outlook” phase; Outlook fscks up on me Yet Another Time, I look at alternatives, then get too lazy to deal [...]


Ex-Caribbean Zone

The Caribbean Zone was a pinnacle of tiki-ness - waterfalls, rum drinks, a DC-3 providing campy, retro mezzanine seating, and rum drinks. I went there several times in the mid 90s, and wondered what had happened to the place. I walk by there on the way to work, but outside of their business hours the [...]


Nice speed bump…

My home network has two segments - my office network, which consists of my desktop machine, laptop, and DSL router, and my server/lab segment, with the <a href=telnet://bbs.kataan.org>BBS</a>, mail server, and testbed boxes. The 10/100 switch in the server segment was negotiating to 10 megabit for for reason; I sawpped it out and things are [...]


Trade junkets

I went to a educational/sales seminar today re: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration; I think I can do this instead of paying the people who put on the seminar to do it for me. Don’t think that was their intention.
In a raffle, I won a 25 seat copy of Windows Server 2003 Advanced edition, [...]


Locusts

We have a big software project in the works. There are 7 contractors in a room, all walking out in to a cubefarm to talk on their cell phones - they don’t want to disturb their co-workers, but disturbing the salariman like me is OK.
And, they print! Reams and reams of printouts! Man, if I [...]


Surprising…

Windows 2003 server actually runs OK on low-end hardware. I’ve got a PII-300 with 300 megs of RAM, and it’s running OK. Eventually, I’d like this to be a home storage server. I’m finally going to bite the bullet and get a couple of big IDE drives and a RAID card.
I’ve wanted to do [...]


The evening that won’t stop f*scking up.

My night thus far:
I ordered a new camera, realized my $50 gift certificate expired YESTERDAY.
I got an email back from Amazon telling me that they can’t extend a coupon, but feel free to use them in the future! Gee, thanks.
The Amazon order was cancelled because of random credit auth issues, so now I have to [...]


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