I stumbled upon this blog entry about a poor fellow whose domain name was stolen by someone breaking into his gmail account and requesting a domain transfer. The thief wants to be paid to return the domain to the rightful owner. Very well written with lots of details about the theft. This is happening right now - Christmas Eve 2007.
‘Twas the day before Christmas…. and I’m finally taking some time off. Things have been crazy lately. I worked Friday night, 7 hours on Saturday and 10 on Sunday. Now it’s Monday, Christmas Eve 2007. Enough is enough. It’s time to stop and smell the Christmas trees.
Merry Christmas!
What a bear! In some ways Exchange 2007 is incredible, in other ways it’s just a pain in the neck. It almost feels like they just gave up and decided to release it before they finished building the user interface. Many things that were done with a GUI interface in Exchange 2003 now require archaic commands using the “PowerShell”. What were they thinking?
Yes - it’s nice having the PowerShell, but it would be nice if you didn’t NEED it for things like moving the public folders, adjusting spam filtering and a few other things that should be a couple of clicks. So far I haven’t even found any help in the PowerShell. I had problems moving public folders - it generated some warnings and some errors, but not much info on how to correct the problem.
I’ve become a huge fan of Bloglines. I find that there are many blogs that I’m interested in, but don’t want to have to go check them out via bookmarks or some other silly stuff. I tried the RSS reader in Outlook, but wasn’t too happy with it. Bloglines makes it simple.
If I stumble upon (another “tool” that I love) a blog that catches my eye, all I have to do is click on the RSS icon in the address bar and it adds it to my feeds on bloglines. Check it out - even my site will let you subscribe.
When I click on the icon it takes me to the bloglines page to add feeds. I can put it at the top level or organize my feeds into folders. Super Easy! I can tell at a glance how many new posts are available for each category and each blog.
Sites Mentioned:
www.bloglines.com
www.stumbleupon.com
This blog is starting to grow into the story of building a computer consulting business. Along those lines, I found a relatively new website today where freelance techs can post their availability. Check it out:
Of course I listed myself and commented on one of the blog posts. Right now there aren’t any jobs listed, but I’m the first network consultant in Illinois. I’m only aware of two others from Illinois at this site, but they’re not small business consultants at all.
Being a freelance computer consultant has its ups and downs. I sometimes get so busy I think my head will explode if the phone rings one more time, then I go through periods of sitting around and wondering if the phone will ever ring again.
One of my clients is a truly gifted photographer of people and events - James Harvey. We recently did a barter where I did some computer repairs for him and he took some photos of me to use for marketing.
I’m very rarely happy with pictures of me, but I like these. They’re gonna be great for promoting my business.
Thanks, James!
A few months ago I renewed my cell phone contract and got a new Razr V3xx. At first it seemed fine except everyone complained that when I used a bluetooth connection it was horrible. Then I started getting complaints about the quality even without bluetooth.
That’s right! I’m creating this blog entry in Microsoft Word 2007. Did you know it could do that? I didn’t until just a few minutes ago.
Just select File | New and choose Blog Post:
Cool, huh?
So the big project is gaining momentum… Last night I was finally ready to install the first server. (There will be 5 new servers in total - an SC860, 2-PowerEdge 2950’s and 2-PowerEdge 2970’s [64-bit].)
I fired up the first 2950, told it to boot from CD and began the Server 2003 install. It got to the part of asking where to install it and gave up the ghost because it couldn’t find a hard drive. Hmmmm…. I rebooted and used the Dell CD where it prepped the drive and gathered information, then it asked for the Server 2003 CD. I gave it the CD and it spit it out. I gave it a DVD and it didn’t like that either.