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- Adobe is buying Macromedia. Where the hell did that come from? Rumour has it Adobe decided to buy Macromedia in case Microsoft was interested. Umm, okay.
- Just when I thought it was impossible to find good resources on performance monitoring for Windows servers, I stumbled upon this little gem. Check it out.
- I’ve been working with computers for more than 15 years, and I still can’t seem to do anything useful with SNMP. It’s probably because I’m not a UNIX god.
- I just spent the entire day, literally all 9 hours of my work day, dealing with my McAfee ePolicy Orchestrater database, which had blown up in my face. Around 3:45pm I decided to toss in the towel and rebuild my ePO server. 69 days and counting until I upgrade to Trend.
- Every couple of hours, Firefox simply refuses to copy anything to the clipboard. I have to completely close the browser and restart it to regain the functionality. It usually seems to hapen when I have multiple tabs open, as well as remote desktop sessions. However, since my workstation is like this pretty much 99% of the time, I can’t really assume it only happens under those circumstances.
- The Alpine iPod integration kit calls to me. I must resist!
Over the last 4 months I’ve been attempting to track down and solve a problem with ISA Server and an SSL web service we were using. Initial access to the site was fine, but about 3 or 4 pages in, access would become painfully slow and page elements or entire pages would fail to load. This problem was most evident in Internet Explorer, but would also appear in Firefox. It was also most visible on this one particular web service we use, but at times showed up on many other SSL-enabled sites. Last Monday I finally figured out what was happening and solved the problem. It was right in my face the whole time.
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iPod 15GB 3G |
iPod Photo 30GB
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That’s right, I’ve "upgraded". Best Buy had the iPod Photo 30GB as an open-box buy for $70 off retail, and I couldn’t resist. My 15GB had been looking dated, and had certainly grown too small for 20GB+ library of music (all legitimate, thank you very much). Now, for the first time since iTunes came out for Windows, I’ve been able to use the "sync" feature. It’s nice to have ratings and such just transfer over without my having to think about it. I think it’s time to start going nuts with smart playlists.
Now I just have to get a new car adapter, as my old Transpod FM doesn’t quite fit the new iPod. I’ll probably go with a cassette player for my car and an adapter, although a Denison Ice>link Plus would sure be nice. Maybe when I get my next car.
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I’ve been watching a fair amount of TV this week, thus the common thread…
- Have you seen that Popeyes Naked Chicken commercial where the guy comes to the counter naked to order the chicken? I thought the whole point of a television advertisment was to attract more people to your resturant. Personally, I can’t imagine many people wanting to eat at Popeyes now that they can associate their food with that image.
- Speaking of disturbing commercials, there’s a chewing gum commercial that begins with a nice girl bringing an equally nice guy home to meet her parents. Out of now where, the girls jumps the guy on the couch, right in front of mom and dad, and begins to round 3rd base. I had no idea that the chewing gum industry was so competitive as to warrant such sexually explicit commericials during dinner time.
- Remember DangerMouse? That cartoon was the bomb.
- I’ve been TiVo-ing (is that a verb?) Futurama on [adult swim] this week. Why on Earth did they ever cancel that show? Monday’s episode made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants.
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Just stumbled across this site with a bunch of free, very high-quality fonts. Check it out.
Now, if only I knew what happened to Daniel Midgley’s wonderful font collection. His domain was taken over by some domain squater.
Seeing as how I’ve taken a renewed interest in my blog, I figured it was probably a good idea to start paying attention to my comment spam filter, Spam Karma. It’s been working well, deleting at least 20 spams a day, but I’m worried it might start eating legitimate posts. Unfortunately, seeing as how I’m the only one that reads this blog, I have no way of testing that just yet.
However, Michael Heilemann over at Binary Bonsai seems to spit on Spam Karma (and many other comment spam plugins), claiming they’re too aggressive. I respect what Michael has to say, and I too am worried, but I’m not yet ready to pull the plug. Instead, I decided to read everything I could find regarding Spam Karma, and tweak it to find that sweet spot of spam-eating goodness and comment-friendly environment. Here’s what I’ve found so far…
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I tried writing this post like a Dear John letter, until I realized I’m a geek, not a writer. Plus, having been with one woman for more than half of my life, I have no experience with such matters. Thus shall commence the geek-speak.
Its with a sad heart that I report my fling with the Macintosh platform has ended in rejection. I purchased an Apple Powerbook in November of 2004, and quickly fell in love with the platform. Wonderful beauty and simplicity lying on top of the power and flexibility of unix. I could code to my hearts content in a bash shell, use Microsoft Word to write work proposals, sync my Palm with bluetooth, and effortlessly switch between network configurations with the click of a mouse. This is it, I thought, technology nirvana.
However, I kept going back to my PC at home. It was comfortable, familier, faster. I was, and still am, hopelessly addicted to RTCW, which ran like a dog on the Powerbook. I worked on a PC all day at work, so my brain was hard-wired to use Windows XP and all its shortcuts. Little things about the Mac began to bother me, like its uncanny ability to lockup when switched from a “docked” configuration to an “undocked” one. Plus, it was so slow compared to my PCs. Still, it was pretty. Very, very pretty, and oh so hip.
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I spent about 2 hours on Friday trying to tweak the address lists that show up in Outlook at work. I initially thought this would be simple. One list for faculty/staff, pulled from a couple of OUs, and one list for students, pulled from another OU. Much to my dismay, I quickly discovered that you can’t use OUs as a basis for address list membership. Okay, kind of annoying, but I can live with this. I’ll just search on a few fields and be done with it. Oh, if only it were that simple.
An Exchange 2003 address list is dynamically created from an LDAP lookup you compose using the Exchange System Manager. However, this is a very, very limited LDAP lookup. You must form your queries using AND statements; other forms of boolean logic, including ORs or NOTs, are not allowed. To make matters worse, you have to compose your field search seperately for users, groups, and query-based distribution lists. So, I can’t create an address list that includes both users and mail-enabled groups with the word “faculty” in the description. It seems the description field of a user is different from the description attribute of a group. If I create a search that looks for a user description of “faculty” and a group description of “faculty”, I’ll get no results. Since Exchange is AND-ing my terms together, and since a user can’t contain a group attribute or visa-versa, my search will NEVER be valid.
This reminds me of a web search engine from 1994. Then, when WebCrawler came out, remember how cool it was that you could do very complex boolean-logic searches? Soon after Altavista appeared, and then we could use things like NEAR or WITHIN to further expand our searches. A few years later, Google apepared at Stanford and took searches to another level. Are you noticing a forward-moving trend here?
It seems the Exchange team has taken a step or two backwards.