If I didn’t have music at work, I would have killed myself a long time ago…. [12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just dropped [13:50] mrelectro37: why [13:51] djdefunkt: you know what [13:51] djdefunkt: it was just my net [13:51] djdefunkt: i have been on the phone for the past hour [13:51] djdefunkt: our t1 dropped [13:51] mrelectro37: [...]

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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July) 8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day [source] Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect [...]

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Note: if you are intimidated by geekspeak look away from this post. I spent the better part of a few hours this morning trying to figure out why I could not get a virtual appliance to boot on one of my VMware Server boxes. I would start the guest OS, but would get nothing but [...]

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I need to write a nasty letter to the vending machine company here at work. They always seem to put the Butterfinger bars so high up in the machine that when the machine drops the them to vend, the candy bars inevitably break. That’s almost as good as the time they put the pop-tarts all [...]

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Ever wanted to put together a VMware virtual machine host without using windows, but were too intimidated? If you�re like me, you like the idea of using a low overhead OS on your host boxes to maximize the resources available for your virtual machines. Unfortunately, up until now any *nix system install had a bit [...]

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While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused. The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list. Oh and trogdor. [...]

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I think this pretty much describes how I like my work days to go to a “T”. Let them work when they want Geeks work almost every moment they are awake. They are online before they go to the office. They are home working after the office closes. They work weekends. They are even sometimes [...]

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I had to deal with an issue yesterday of how to get a very computer illiterate person in my workplace setup to be able to FTP files to another company who is doing work for us. While I would not normally recommend anyone to use the built-in FTP functionality of Internet Explorer, at the time [...]

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Picture this: I walk into the copy room at work. It’s jam packed with 6 people furiously hitting buttons, pulling out drawers, and various punching/smacking of the copier. Every single one swearing under their breath and complaining how it always breaks down when they have the most stuff to do. I walk up and read [...]

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I’ve helped to pioneer a new trend at work. Thursday is the new casual Friday, and Friday is the new & improved more casual Friday. Just an observation…

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