Living the dream
October 17, 2006
A hot-air balloonist had drifted off course. He saw a man on the ground and yelled, “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?”
“Yes,” the guy said. “You’re in a balloon.”
“You must work in I.T.,” the balloonist said.
“How did you know?”
“What you told me is technically correct, but of no use to anyone.”
“And you must work in management,” the man on the ground retorted.
“Yup.”
“Figures. You don’t know where you are or where you are going, but you expect me to help. And you’re in the same position you were in before we met, but now it’s my fault.”
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Let’s get started here
October 17, 2006
The last few patches for Windows have done something bad to my version of IE (version 6). It crashes constantly until I clear out the cache or reboot. More than ever I am ready to move to Vista and all the newer versions of the various components I have grown accustomed to like IE.
My Vista machine remains incomplete since I still have not re-ordered a new processor. I need to try to get that done in the next 24 hours…
I am still struggling with a weird MAPI issue. I was finally able to get the issue of the user mailbox from locking by giving him view only permissions to the Information Store. But it hasn’t really resolved the MAPI issue since he continues to get knocked off of AOL Instant Messaging (IM). I need to download some sort of sniffer and start reviewing the traffic to see if I can see what is traveling along the wire. Maybe try TCPview.
