I think it’s about time to clean out this mailbox (no, it’s not mine):

65,944 unread items is a bit excessive, don’t you think?

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This is another odd screen shot – looks like a corrupted external drive:

It reminds me of  something I saw a while back:

Gotta love ‘plug-and-pray’. And while we’re sharing screen shots, here are a couple more:
WatchGuard screen pop-up goof…

Ye old MySQL server…

The file with no name violation…

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Not sure if I should click OK or Cancel?

Source: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9
(Scott said, “Hit OK, it’s fun”)

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Spotted on a server today:
That’s 522 TB, for those of you playing the home game.
Props to Bo Bracey for the screen shot. I asked him how big that hard drive really is, and his response was:
That reminds me of this classic TechTV video, circa 2001:

The funny thing […]

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Apparently Disk 0 is having a bad day (or a split personality)
Two partitions on Disk 0 both show as drive letter “D:”
Apparently this happens when trying to extend a partition. Props to Cory for this screen shot.

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I’m in Seattle this week for some SBS 2008 training and for SMB Nation, and I just checked into my hotel in Issaquah. As usual, I popped onto Microsoft Virtual Earth to see what’s around here. Imagine my surprise when I saw this swimming pool:

Yep, the swimming pool is in the shape of a […]

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One of our techs was on-site and snapped this pic of a poorly placed I-beam in front of the entrance to the server room.

And yes, that’s permanent. Reminds me of Tommy Boy:

Tommy Boy

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This must be the week of crazy screen shots. My first IM spam from MSN Messenger:

No thanks!

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Since some of my blog readers are end-users, and not IT pros, I wanted to pass along the following info.
The hot malware infecting machines lately seems to be "Antivirus XP 2008". It starts simply enough:
(I especially like the typo of "aviailable" - nice).
The unsuspecting user clicks […]

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This screen shot comes courtesy of Cory Rammer:

OS: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with an S3 ViRGE DX/GX.
That equates to a grid of 640×480 monitors 15 wide x 20 tall (300 of them). That’s a lot of bling for a BDC.  Actual setup is a single 800×600 monitor. 

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