Rants

Man, sometimes I really hate the internet. I mean really hate it. Seems that someone has decided that using <random name>@arcterex.net was a pretty good idea when sending out spam to just about every .br domain out there. So for the last 3 or 4 days, in addition to random normal spam that sneaks past […]

To anyone who bitches about the current state of the MS offerings of server software such as windows 2000, windows 2003, hell, even windows xp, (such as I have on ocassion 🙂 go back and work on an NT 4 system for a while and then see how you like the modern equivelants. Wow. That

For the last month or so I’ve been working on an install for one of our customers. An unusually long time for a relatively simple (and cheap (for them)), task. Various factors contributed to the length of time, some I don’t remember, some which were unavoidable, etc etc. However, in this time some odd problems

I’d forgotten why I don’t like doing support. I have to deal with things like this: [company]just called and they can’t get into the admin section. They saythey keep getting a bug or line error. Please take a look at it today when you have a minute and advise.. This came from my contact at

The title is of course a play on John Stewart asking the guys on crossfire why they hate America, but I guess it’s not really that funny. Once again I’m prompted to action by something Scoble said, in a way anyway. Robert has done great things by getting various facets of Microsoft to put up

Ah, just what I needed to restore my faith that mankind, in general, are morons and have no right to continue living in this universe. No wonder aliens haven’t visited us, they probably looked down and saw the crap that we do and posted a huge “bio-hazard” warning sign. Seems that Alabama had to vote

Ok, this is just bad. I’m looking for some info on server monitoring services and find noscito remote services and check it out. It’s got, well, a couple of big problems. the text on the main page that you enter on (from the google ad anyway) has frames (which is evil in it’s own way,

Installing an application from Office should not replace my current default email program settings, and replace the icon in my start menu with that of Outlook. That’s rude. I know that MS wants me to use nothing but it’s products, but please, that just pisses me off. Windows Media Player 10 should: Know if there

Because I have no life and I’m a bitter old man I found this amusing. I got some life insurance paper spam today which contained this as the second sentance: Did you know that accidents are the 3rd leading cause of death for people under the age of 65?* The * pointed out to a

Dear Bill. Thank you again for adding scripting support to such wonderful programs as Microsoft word, allowing someone else to pass me a lovely W97M/Marker Word macro virus, which helpfully asks me if I’d like to wish Shankar a happy birthday twice each time I open or close a document. This has let me not