They don’t run so well, when somebody changes all the passwords they run as, without notifying you… grumbles

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Earlier this morning, I received an email from “The CapitalOne Fraud Department”, claiming to have been trying to reach me concerning fraudulent activity on my email account.

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Well, I am apparently unable to take a vacation… ever.

As I previously mentioned, Thursday last week, at about 0200 our main line went down. It was down for about an hour until I got it back up again. Later that morning, I spoke with our line provider SpeakEasy, they did some line tests, [...]

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Late Monday afternoon, we were notified by AT&T that our fiber connection was active, and they were ready to turn it over to us. Unfortunately because I’ve been snowed under with about 50 million projects, not much of an exaggeration honest, I hadn’t had time to rack mount the pix, and router. So [...]

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In a sane environment, you set limits on the sizes of attachments you can both send, and receive. However I’m not in a sane environment. The corporate types complain when they cannot do what they want, and being just a meer Network Admin I have to follow their orders albeit with reluctance, and [...]

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Sunday afternoon, we received a call from building security reporting that they’ve had a power outage lasting 1.5 hours, and power has now been restored. This means hell for me. 1.5hours is quite a long time. Our UPSes are able to sustain the servers for approximately 30 minutes, and longer if we [...]

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So I admit, I’m all for torturing the hell out of people that sexually assult children, but what parent would let their 14 year old daughter go to meet somebody they met online without being with them? Seriously? Any takers? No, didn’t think so… At least not the sane. But apparently somebody [...]

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Who better to represent England in the World Cup than two bald gay guys… you know… the ones from the early 90s with the song “I’m Too Sexy”… yes yes… Right Said Fred are representing England for the world cup.

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I don’t know what the hell Microsoft were thinking when they did this, but they need to be shot.

Notice the extra option at the bottom of the MMC window? That should be a “close” like it is on every single application except mmc… argh wtf? I’m forever clicking on it instead of close. [...]

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Weird, I know, but I think most people probably already knew it.

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