Vendor Hell

A vendor that shall remain anonymous (for now) has almost guarenteed they won’t be getting future business for me any longer. The sad thing is that it wasn’t directly related to any mistake they made, but how they follow up on mistakes made by their suppliers. Frankly, I don’t care who makes the mistake – […]

“Tubes” Senator Indicited for Lying to Feds

Today, Alaska Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens was indicited for lying to federal investagors. Apparently he falsified some information on finacial records. Stories like this reaffirm my belief in karma. Senator Stevens became famous for his explanation of how the internet works by comparing it to a series of tubes, but also explaining that […]

Shocking… well, not really.

The last few months at my new job I’ve been squishing small and medium bugs to get systems up to par. Service packs, patching, firmware updates, software upgrades, or just organized to make life easier for everyone involved. Our server room has been one of those infested areas… I’ve been squashing the easy bugs but […]

TrendMicro Appliance Randomly Blocking

I’ve been fighting an odd issue and finally found a resolution with the assistance of TrendMicro’s support. A few users (six out of 22k) reported that they weren’t getting email from anyone outside of the network. A few test messages from my web mail accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, and my own domain) revealed an interesting issue. […]

Life update.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, the real life has been keeping me busy but I try to get to the forums every day or two. My new career has kept me hopping. The college is busy and turn over has lead to an open position that I’m going to try to […]