You know, spam is stupid, that’s one thing. It’s quite another to send me 160 copies of the same spam message, and it’s even stupider still when it’s an offer to refinance my mortgage and I don’t own a house! #$%@!&* Morons!
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The latest edition of In The Treches has a few minutes of discussion between Kevin and your’s truly about working at the helpdesk and my own experiences working in the field. Go give it a listen, especially if you’ve never listened to Kevin and George before. They do an excellent podcast! Tags: InTheTrenches Follow these…
I’m trying to come up with a creative use for the acronym WMF, but they all wind up something that wouldn’t be exactly G-rated. It’s that MF at the end, it’s too easy… Anyway, we were full on trying to get things secured against the WMF exploit in the office today. Our network folks threw…
It’s been a pretty busy work morning, between figuring out why the backup didn’t run last night (turned out to be my fault, you really gotta be careful when you change the scripts to account for a schedule change so that you remember to change them back later! Go figure!) and helping correct some database…
I’ve been linking early reactions to the beta of Microsoft’s anti-spyware tool over on the link blog. I haven’t had a chance to download it yet, but perhaps later today I’ll find some time. (I worked out my work schedule to be home today to meet the gas meter-reader guy to try and get the…
According to this article the new version of Open Office is available for download. I tried out 1.0 a long while back and found it a little too limiting for what I use Office for, I wonder if it’s worth a look at the new one? Might make an interesting comparison to the Office 2003…
Today is one of those perfect convergence days, where the first of the month, and therefore month-end reporting, falls on the same day as the first Monday of the month, which means the bi-weekly website database updates, with the added bonus of today being the last day before the election, spurring all sorts of last-minute…
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