Odd Dell behaviour

Date September 11, 2006

The other day, I somehow stumbled across a video of a Dell Optiplex GX520 being turned off by a cell phone. Most amusing. I even tried copying it for some giggles with the guys at work (I was bored after all). Usually I don’t post silly things like this, but I [...]

Outlook and cached contacts

Date September 11, 2006

Ever updated a domain record, and found that your Outlook still caches the old record? I was hit with this last week while on vacation (everything happens on vacation). I had been emailing my boss, when our corporate office changed his record (actually deleted it), and made “live” his actual email account, rather [...]

Windows cannot find /idlist,:#:#,. Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.

Date September 11, 2006

Half way through my vacation last week, my computer started running a little sluggish. Started taking longer to boot up, logins were taking significantly longer, and I started getting a weird error message right after logon.