Author Archives: Vlad

In Dilbert Again

Vladville
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Every day I see myself illustrated in Dilbert is another day I die a little inside.

No, there is no Exchange 2007 SP2

Exchange
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There is no such thing as a publicly available Exchange 2007 SP2, just a reporter poorly paraphrasing press releases. And Exchange has supported Direct Push since Exchange 2003 SP2 which is available as a free update for both SBS 2003 … Continue reading

Great to Meh

IT Culture
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One of the more unpleasant parts of running a business is that you get introduced to a ton of business drivel books that pick an outcome and find specific cases to work backwards to somehow prove a theory. People reading … Continue reading

Bits and Bytes

SMB
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I’ve finally almost caught up with my email. That seems to be the perpetual state of my existence lately, I guess I’m famous. But almost, yes, almost got all my mail and issues all taken care of. Training up the … Continue reading

Inspiration

Awesome
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To all those of you that wondered if the entrepreneurial spirit will get squashed with the idea of higher taxes, wonder no more. Just hit Play below and tell me you aren’t going to work just a little bit harder … Continue reading

Predicting The Next Apple Commercial

Microsoft
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It’s (almost) Friday so let’s try a little humor. Who wants to predict the next Apple commercial? You can see them all here, as Apple’s PR and marketing are as big of a product as the iPhone and OS X. … Continue reading

Role Hires

IT Business, IT Culture
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Thanks to the elections in Unites States a fair amount of public discussion has taken place over just who should be the leader. The smartest? The most competent? The most experienced? The toughest? Or someone that reflects the average man … Continue reading

Mission Asscomplished

SMB
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What a lovely profane, filthy road it has been writing this blog for the past year. I would like to thank my friends Chris and Susanne, for helping with the notion that no matter how something sounded there was always … Continue reading

When Live isn’t so Live (Wave 3)

Microsoft
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Microsoft made a lot of noise about Live last week, but some MSN tricks never die. For example, the new wave of Live apps is beyond broken, but they won’t let you download the old stable ones. So what to … Continue reading

Just lie to me Jerry

IT Culture
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Last week the hard drive on my Dell XPS M1530 got put on life support. Bad blocks, unreadable system files, etc. After an hour of trying to repair Vista and failing on one system file after another I gave up … Continue reading