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So I have gotten a couple of emails (and an IM) along the lines of “So what’s up with the laptop?”

Go Hewlett-Packard… Go Federal Express…. You will recall I posted *yesterday*, yes YESTERDAY that I received notification of my laptop shipping…. I just got it… 10:15AM EST the next day…. I selected the 5-7 day shipping option… I looked up the fedex tracking info and it left China yesterday, was in Achorage Alaska last night, […]

Well the HP laptop I ordered was not supposed to be built and shipped until next week but I just read a notification that it was shipped this morning (EST). Not sure where it is coming from but it has 5-7 days to get here which means I will probably have it in my hands […]

I have broken down and bought a new laptop. I like to do a lot of my dev work on a laptop as I like to be able to sit anywhere I want when I type code. Sometimes I sit at the kitchen table, sometimes I sit against a tree, sometimes I sit a tree, […]

Very interesting read at http://www.zimbra.com/pdf/Zimbra%20Fixing%20Email%20Whitepaper.pdf Open source email/calendaring. Time to see if I can make this work on BSD… It works on OSX, perhaps there is hope. I would LOVE to see a Windows port too… Oh and the great part, it isn’t GNU…. http://www.zimbra.com/community/documentation.html Also, a very cool demo at http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php You don’t have […]

I often find “oddities” in various programs and systems and tend to work with the vendors to get them corrected. Something I tend to run into a lot is the whole “bug” vs “by design” issue. Vendors like to say things are by design so that you get to follow a different method to get […]

On a listserv I am a member of recently someone asked about the app that could be used to convert applications into services. I realized that this is probably good for all sorts of people to read because many don’t understand it. Here is an adjusted form of the note. Question: I need an app […]

If you have old computers and users laying about your AD and you haven’t found it yet, there is a tool on my website that I built with the input from many bright folks from the activedir.org list. The tool will look for old users or computers and allow you to do several actions to […]

Attention Microsoft. Your left hand has announced that you will ONLY be releasing Exchange 12 (vaporware date of late 2006) and SBS Longhorn in 64 bit editions (vaporware date of mid 2007?). Your right hand has indicated you won’t have Virtual 64 bit guest capability until the Longhorn Server Wave (vaporware date of mid 2007?) […]

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