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I now have Windows 7 on my home computer and my work computer and I think I have to say that Vista was less of a hassle.  Win7 might have some slick fanciness but Vista had a lot of the same features but people were too busy complaining that Vista ran slow on their POS [...]

RIT – Webcams

Driving in today put me in a better mood(I wasn’t necessarily in a bad mood but its morning, lets be honest) because I think that RIT’s campus looks awesome. Now of course, you might think I was biased because I went here and now I work here, but don’t give that idea [...]

Chili & Cheddar Burger
via RIT – Dining Services : Brick City Catering & Café.
I had a Chili & Cheddar Burger with fries for lunch and it was delicious.  It was from the SAU Cafe; RIT may try to tell you it is now the “Brick City Catering & Cafe” location, but I call bullshit on [...]

I hate printers.  Most of the stuff that gets printed doesn’t need to be printed anyway.  No one needs to print every e-mail they get or every webpage they visit.  And if you think you do need to keep them, that’s why Adobe created PDFs and Microsoft created PST files.
Long story short:

LaserJet 4200n crashes with [...]

We got back around 3pm yesterday, we had beach volleyball @ 6:45 so we didn’t have much time to unpack, do laundry, buy food and eat it before it was time to go kick butt @ the beach.  The games were close, but the other team managed to stay undefeated.
Camping was fun, Dexter was mostly [...]

Enjoy filtered water at your sink with the Kenmore Elite Advanced 2-Stage Drinking Water Filter. The system reduces lead, cysts, MTBE, VOC’s, chlorine taste and odor, and sediment. The convenient ‘twist and pull’ encapsulated filter design makes filter changes easy, fast, and sanitary. Exclusive ‘no-mount’ space saving-design allows for system placement vertically or horizontally to [...]

romaine, cabbage, green onion, green pepper, celery, carrots, hard boiled egg, cubed: turkey breast, ham, Colby Jack
via salad for lunch on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Ugh, I wrote this post but wp screwed it up once again so here is a “mostly accurate” re-write:
Kev and I made salads last night for lunch today so we didn’t [...]

If you’ve upgraded your Vista client to SP1, you’ve found that installing Windows Vista SP1 removes GPMC; installing RSAT will put GPMC back on your client.  You can install RSAT from the following locations:
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FF6E897-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1(x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D647A60B-63FD-4AC5-9243-BD3C497D2BC5
via Group Policy [...]

ATTENDANCE
9,059 participants from 414 companies
via JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge ®.
Yesterday was the 2009 Rochester JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge, and it poured!
The race series happens all over the world as a way to get companies together outside of work and to “promote fitness and well-being in the work place.”  See their History page for more information [...]

HP Products? I like them.  Their LaserJet line of printers? Love em!
We have a bunch of HP laptops at work.  We always buy the extended warranties because well, it just make sense to on heavily used laptops.
HP always manages to find a way to screw up the warranties.  We bought the most recent batch of [...]

Not much time today for the internet, upgraded from SQL 2005 to MS SQL 2008 Standard Edition.
Microsoft has come so far, we have an active-passive cluster for our SQL server and basically all I had to do on each server was start the installer and click next a bunch of times and then I had [...]

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager software provides centralized, automated storage management and data protection.
via IBM – Tivoli Storage Manager – Software.
TSM is where my time has gone.   No longer can I browse the web because all of my work is done; for there is always more work to do when figuring out how to use incredibly [...]

Making my sweet sweet vacation just a tiny bit longer, a whole extra second will be inserted into the space time continuum in less than an hour.
On December 31, 2008 a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to [...]

So, because I work in Higher Ed there is no reason for my work to open between Christmas and New Years.
So, updates will probably be slow because I have work to do around the house.
Like dealing with all this freakin snow