Dang, Gina! My black Macbook has been a pain this past week. I'm having unexpected shutdowns galore. Called Apple about 5 times and they offered to replace it as it is a DOA.

I've read around the Internet that others are experiencing this problem... Many have concluded that it is a faulty logic board. Here are a few of …

This snippet has come in handy quite a few times for me...

Call ListFolderContents("C:\Windows\System32\Drivers")

Sub ListFolderContents(path) set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set folder = fs.GetFolder(path) Msgbox folder.path

For each item in folder.SubFolders …

I'm using Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool to migrate users from an NT 4.0 Domain to a Win2k3 Domain. The process seems mostly flawless so far except that the password settings (not the password itself) are lost after migrating the users and their passwords. Suddenly, all migrated users on the new domain …

UPDATE 12/18/06: The startup script has been modified slightly (cscript.exe was changed to wscript.exe). Now, console users will no longer encounter a blank black box upon login. UPDATE 11/21/06: Now that banning at the IP level has been added to the script, offending users are completely banned before they can even …

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 …