This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

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

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I did some AD cleanup yesterday, including removing some accounts that have been disabled for over a year. This is all part of our migration plans to move to integration .

What I didn’t notice was one of those accounts was for an employee that hadn’t been with the company for several months, [...]

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I have a terrible memory, which is why I’ve started keeping this blog, so I can remind myself on how I’ve fixed stuff, and if somebody else finds it useful, then an added bonus. As I mentioned in my previous post, I mentioned that I was cleaning up our images server. This lead [...]

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Part of the work I’m doing while I’m out had me add a collection of test users. This could have been quite a task, had it not been for the nice features of vbscript.

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I’m out of town this week on a business trip, and it seems no mater where I look, there are subtle reminders of home… Like the menu for breakfast.

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I can’t but help chuckly when an email encryption project crosses my desk, and the slogans are selected from…

Think different, think protection Don’t forget your protection Feel good knowing you are protected Protect yourself AND your E-mail Protection - empowering people The power of protection Protection? Yes Please. Saved by protection

Maybe it’s because my mind seems to be perpetually in the [...]

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I’ve always been in favor of removing the standard Sendmail install on most Linux boxes, in favor of Postfix. I’ve found it easier to use, and easier to configure. Having a simple configuration file that doesn’t need compiling is always helpful too. However, in some cases, you really don’t like to touch [...]

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Earlier today, somebody mentioned not being able to get to the internet, but didn’t seem to be having any issues getting to local resources (file server, printers, etc). They also mentioned that they had seen a meesage about IP address conflicts with another computer. This is a little interesting trying to debug, because [...]

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Whilst attempting to debug some work issues with a vendor today, I stumbled across some amusing comments in the code..

We need to find a model for you. Easy there tiger, we’re talking cars here…

We need to stop here to ask a few questions to Bubba!

We (what is this we shit) I know what model you [...]

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