I got provisioning techs asking me about installing Windows 2003 SP1. When the heck did SP1 go release? How is it that I don’t have any messages about this in my NTBUGTRAQ folder? I depend on Russ Cooper to keep me on top of these things. Where the hell is Russ?!
A 330MB freaking Service Pack… […]
Archive for March, 2005
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31Mar05The Planet is Down
31Mar05Blogs all over the place are down this morning because The Planet / Server Matrix experienced a UPS failure. A brief note from their COO appears on page 60 of that thread, supposedly the power issues were resolved by 06:45 CST.
Having gone through a complete data center power outage at work last year, I do […]
DVR Clog
30Mar05How come DVRs don’t have a vacation mode? The first Tivo box launched in like, 1999. Surely I’m not the first person in six years to fear coming home from three weeks vacation to find my DVR deleted a first-run episode of The West Wing to make room for a 24-hour King of the Hill […]
Praise Murphy
28Mar05So I cancelled Tivo the other day, and today I come home to MCE recording failures. It didn’t even appear to “know” that it missed the recordings — they still showed in the schedule for earlier in the day. Only after I re-scheduled one of the recordings did they miraculously disappear from the Schedule and […]
Farewell
26Mar05Last night I cancelled my Tivo service. Like most companies, Tivo forces you to call them to cancel. I hate that. Thankfully I only had to wait on hold for about 5 minutes.
The rep didn’t try to brow-beat me into staying. He didn’t trash Microsoft when I said I got an MCE box, and […]
Rejection
24Mar05An e-mail from the lovely automated HR system says that my vacation request for May was rejected, without explanation.
I booked my flight to Germany yesterday.
Tomorrow’s forecast: Partly sunny with 90% chance of yelling.
PSP
24Mar05Got my PSP last night, had to visit three 24-hour Walmart stores to find one where the electronics department was stocked, open, and staffed. For games I went with Need for Speed Underground Rivals and Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 Remix. Most of the titles that really interest me seem to have been pushed back to […]
Mobile E-mail Wanted
19Mar05The bummer of my A630 saga was that I am desperate for a device with a keyboard that does decent e-mail, web, and IM (without SMS). I love my SMT5600 but T9 doesn’t cut it. If only someone made a compact thumb-keyboard with Bluetooth and some sort of retainer to hold a phone…
So I contemplate […]
