Note: if you don’t work in I.T., this post might be a little too cynical for you. In that case, you will just want to move on to the next post. For the rest of us, however…. Every profession has its own list of rules for succeeding, and I.T. is no different. Unfortunately, our …
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Mar 31
Thanks, fatties
So because America decided to be a nation of big fat fatties, I can’t get a soda at work. Back in 2009 my company cracked down on smokers, eliminating the last on-site outdoor smoking area, and relegating smokers to the bus stop across the street. I wondered how long before they cracked down on other …
Mar 27
Event ID 4010 with LPR printing
If you ever have to set up LPR printing through Microsoft Windows, you may experience a problem where the print job leaves the host computer, hits the print server, but doesn’t make it to the printer. Checking the event log on the print server may return the following error: “The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service …
Mar 20
Griftin’ and griftin’
“Excuse me, sir, but I’m from Atlanta, Georgia, and my ex-wife passed away and I’m on my way to Omaha, Nebraska to pick up my girls and I need some gas and they kicked me out of that gas station over there so if you could spare some gas….” Look, buddy, I guess you think …
Mar 16
Kansas City Snow Update
For years I have publicly criticized Kansas City and Jackson County for doing a poor/inadequate/shoddy job of clearing snow from their streets and roads, especially when smaller and poorer Lafayette County could seem to get theirs cleared. I make no apologies for that. However, when I went to work last Wednesday it was Lafayette whose …
Feb 27
Warning: WD Caviar Blue 500GB
Where I work we have a lot of computers that have Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GBhard drives–and we are getting a lot of drive failures. If you have one of these drives in your computer, you need to back your data and/or get a new hard drive as soon as possible. I will show you …
Mar 02
An Isadora Duncan
“This is what they call giving somebody an Isadora Duncan.” –Filmmaker commentary on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, from the scene where Eddie Valiant gets information from R.K. Maroon by feeding Maroon’s tie into a Moviola film editing machine. I actually had to look that one up. Isadora Duncan was a dancer in the early 20th …
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