Please stop re-using acronyms. Yesterday I saw some “WDS” articles come thru Google Reader. Excited to learn something new about Windows Deployment Services, I clicked only to discover some dreck about Windows Destop Search.
Tonight I’m searching for Windows Preinstallation Environment and getting results for Windows Portable Executable format.
Automated Deployment Services vs. Active Directory Services.
I could […]
Archive for October, 2007
Dear Microsoft,
26Oct07I CAN HAS IMAP?
25Oct07Gmail now has IMAP. W00t!
Seven Down
23Oct07Finished paying off seven credit cards this week, with at least four going into the to-be-cancelled pile. With two more cards and three grand to go I ought to be “debt free” by Christmas. Minus the 30 payments remaining on my car.
Herbstdult and Oktoberfest 2008 are looking very promising…
Dear Microsoft Silverlight,
22Oct07How dare you fucking restart my browser without prompting first. Just as soon as I finish cursing the jackass that locked up some interesting content in Silverlight video format instead of something more common, your sorry ass will be System Restore’d into oblivion.
Sincerely yours,
Patting myself on the back
22Oct07I’ve been officially named the Team Lead for my merry little band of Windows Engineers. This is mostly a distinction without a difference — I’ve been acting lead all along — but it’s always nice to be recognized.
And I thought last week was gonna suck…
I still can’t help feeling that we didn’t make the best […]
Solaris lands another hoster
22Oct07LayeredTech has announced Solaris-based offerings. According to their product page there will be dedicated Opteron, Xeon, and UltraSparc platforms along with a virtualized product.
Whenever I bring up Solaris at the office people look at me like I’ve been afflicted with word salad.
Misc
14Oct07I don’t want to go back to work. Take my job, please. Half of this week I will be (unsuccessfully) trying not to fall asleep in project roadmap meetings instead of accomplishing anything useful with the first ever face-to-face gathering of our entire Engineering staff. Somewhere in the planning process a good idea went horribly […]
iPods for Everyone
10Oct07Over at the day job we’re giving away iPods again — a 4GB Nano with most servers, an 8GB Nano if you sign up for a big package.
At the Miami office we finally got our spare generator moved into place. It took a forklift, flatbed trailer, crane, and a bunch of strong dudes. Plenty of […]
