For those of you who loved dack.com's Web Economy Bullshit Generator back in the day, you will be pleased to know that there is a new BS generator for "Web 2.0". Web 2.0..hmm.. this O'reilly-infused buzzword was probably generated over at dack.com now that I think about it. So go on and play. Before you know …

I recently used "tar" improperly and inadvertently created a file which seemed near impossible to delete. The file started with two dashes; it was named --exclude.tgz. I issued each of the following commands with no luck: boudreaux:~ # rm --exclude.tgz rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for …

My friend Dave pasted this awesome code to me. It comes from The Daily WTF, a website dedicated to whack coding. I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false); otherBrothers.canDeny(false); when (girl.walksIn()) { if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE) { you.getSprung(); } }

Update: You can now download Windows Server 2003 R2 here: microsoft.com. Today I attempted to install Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack (adminpak.msi) but the installer instantly quit with the message "Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack can only be installed on Windows XP Professional with …

I'm setting up Gallery2 for my other blog and I had the hardest time finding the binary directory for ImageMagick. a 'whereis ImageMagic' returned nothing useful. Then I ran rpm -ql ImageMagick | grep /bin and saw the following: /usr/bin/animate /usr/bin/compare /usr/bin/composite /usr/bin/conjure /usr/bin/convert …

I recently installed Microsoft CRM Server in a lab environment. The install went smoothly.. every test passed successfully. But when I loaded up the Deployment Manager, I kept getting the error: The specified Microsoft CRM Server is not responding. This might happen if it is currently unavailable or is not a Microsoft …

This is a bit recycled from the last post but I'm reframing it so that Googlers can easily find the solution. I've gotten Bluetooth to work in Windows Server 2k3. Here's are the steps: Download the bt_stack_rtm.exe and extract to a temporary directory. Navigate to that directory and, within the ENU directory, copy …

The US Government, as requested by the MPAA, threatend the Swedish government and forced them to break their own laws by seizing a pirating website. It is now being reported that the Swedish Department of Justice received what amounts to orders from the U.S. Administration, who had in turn received 'requests' from the …

I found this gem in Addison Wesley's Inside WIndows Server 2003: A simple way to remember the order in which TCP/IP uses these tools is the phrase "Can We Buy Large Hard Drives?" The first letters are keys for cache, WINS, Broadcast, Lmhosts, Hosts, and DNS. Update: I just found the DNS query resolver …

The Macbook keyboard layout maps "Delete" to backspace which effectively makes it impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete unless you have an external USB keyboard. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit comes with a handy tool called remapkey.exe but if you don't want to download it, just save this code to a .reg …