Sender complains that when they send an email the recipient doesn’t get it until 5 days later. Inbound email works fine. This is on a POP3 account (with no Exchange involved). The source of the problem was located in the Outbox: Yep, that’s right, a 95 MB email attachment (sent twice). Once those items were [...]

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Regarding the previous post, I was wrong about it not getting any better…  …you can play Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man at the same time. I might faint. Rating 3.00 out of 5

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Today I have been to geek heaven… and it’s full of stars!! Where exactly is geek heaven? Here: Playing Pac Man In a Safari web browser Which is on the www.google.com home page Running on a Mac Which is a virtual machine Running on VMware Running inside Windows 7 64-bit Folks, Geekdom does NOT get [...]

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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? Rating 3.00 out of 5

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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… Rating 3.00 out of [...]

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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”) Rating 3.00 out of 5

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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 is that today no [...]

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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. Rating 3.00 out of 5

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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 Rating 3.00 out of 5

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