Friday, September 20, 2002

Call me Egon! Ghosted a whole bunch of PCs yesterday. ('Ghosting' is a method of writing an image or snapshot of a hard drive onto a computer in one shot instead of running the installer for each program sequentially). What would have taken 24 hours conventionally, was done in one afternoon. Now if only we could teach people that way... :)

Saturday, September 14, 2002

Whelp, another weekend night with the servers. (They're not that great company). I really, really wish they made rackmount KVM switches that support USB instead of just PS/2. You should not have to reboot a server for a keyboard and mouse change.

P.S. No, the Linux and Netware boxes did not need a reboot. (Natch).

Thursday, September 12, 2002

Back to work, woo! Back to fixing crappy hardware and software. Ergh.

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Microsoft Exec admits: "Our products just aren't engineered for security" Thanks for clearing that up. (Slashdot discussion.)