December 30, 2008Spotted 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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October 20, 2008Apparently 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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September 28, 2008I’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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September 5, 2008One 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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August 14, 2008This must be the week of crazy screen shots. My first IM spam from MSN Messenger: No thanks! Rating 3.00 out of 5
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August 14, 2008Since 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 on the ‘e-card’ hyperlink, runs the [...]
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August 13, 2008This 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. Rating 3.00 out of 5
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August 12, 2008First, the crazy screen shot – check out the service category LOLZ. Wonder how long the hold time is for "*Coming Soon*" category of support? Silly web-programmers Now for the sticker-shock price per minute: Fees: For those of you playing the home game, that’s $5 per minute, or $300/hour. Not exactly chicken feed. Initial Impressions: [...]
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August 7, 2008Dear ‘hackers’ of the world; If you’re going to try and pretend to be Microsoft and fool people into downloading your malware / IE 7, at least come up with a better domain name! "tierarzt-andersen.de"? Seriously? Punks! Rating 3.00 out of 5
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July 4, 2008More iTunes weirdness today: Sure, I’ve got a lot of songs but, Wow! It stuck like that until I restarted iTunes. Rating 3.00 out of 5
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