Not Quite Ready for Internet Explorer 8?

Yesterday the IEBlog announced the availability of the IE8 Blocker Toolkit. For those who aren’t quite ready to get Internet Explorer 8 on their home machine(s) or on all the machines they manage at work, this is a blessing.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not quite ready for this one – haven’t had the

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Profile Hell

My lone windows 2003 domain controller died today. The boot/OS/App drive appears to have decided it didn’t want to live anymore. No warning, just dead. Won’t power up, won’t even make a little whine.

Ok fine. I’ve mentioned enough times that 2k3 and Active Directory are rather overkill for the home office.

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Windows AD migration

What a weekend at the “days, nights and weekends” job. Partner and I did something we’ve been dreading for several years: Migrate a very well entrenched Windows NT4 based domain network to Windows 2x Active Directory. Not only that, but we met the goal of zero disruption as we managed to do

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An evening of geek adventures

Tonight I finally decided I’m comfortable enough with Active Directory that I should wade in and “un-orphan” my poor little web server. He’s been stuck in a busted domain for almost a year when I last reconfigured the home network around AD. Pleasantly, it went smoothly and everything still works. I’m leaning

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Served..

Last month I had some challenges with my home domain server. At the time, I recall thinking that I really should get another machine going to mirror that one. If it ever were to die, I’d be kinda hosed.

It died last Sunday night.

I pretty much ignored it all last week in some vague

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