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Virus’d - The Follow-up
08.Feb.08 | 1 Comment
I mentioned a couple days ago that we had a small virus outbreak at the office this week. Thought I got it all cleaned up Wednesday night, but I ended up chasing it a bit more last night as well.
Tip: Turn off the Windows System Restore thingy before chasing viruses. Turns out ours got saved [...]
Virus’d
06.Feb.08 | 11 Comments
Here’s how it all started. A simple little message in Live Messenger from a co-worker:
hey is it really you on this pic? http://msnprofiles.ms.funabc.de/viewimage.php?=billy@email.com
(of course I’ve munged the URL and email a bit, but the email address would be your Live ID address)
From there a day went from pleasant to crappy pretty quickly.
In the Beginning
One [...]
Ma & Pa Get a New Computer
01.Nov.07 | 3 Comments
At the beginning of the month, I helped my father-in-law pick out a new laptop and then set it up for him. He was way overdue for an upgrade.
My folks have also been a bit overdue. Their work horse has been a PIII 450 with (upgraded) 320MB of RAM for quite a few years. They [...]
Oh, the Silly Things We Get Stuck On
14.Jun.07 | 4 Comments
I spent over 7 hours today attempting to get a Cisco VPN Concentrator to establish a lan-to-lan VPN tunnel with a Symantec Gateway Security appliance (aka firewall). Now, you’d think IPsec wouldn’t be so difficult — after all, it’s an “open” protocol, right? But dang, I burned a lot of hours on this [...]
New Role / New DSL Line
03.May.07 | 3 Comments
I’m going to start with a personal Note:
I accepted a new role at work this week. In hindsight it is a role I’ve been doing on and off for quite some time (especially the last few months), but now it is formalized and I get a spiffy new title. No longer is it a “when I [...]
