I’ve been using Vista on my desktop since it was officially released at the consumer level. I didn’t blog about it, but my upgrade on my desktop workstation did not go well. Generally, unless you have a large IT department doing the work, my advice is get Vista with a new machine. Yesterday I caved and…
Month: August 2007
The (in)famous Ted Pattison has just announced that The Ted Pattison Group will be hosting a new training class for Sharepoint 2007, starting August 27th. This class will focus on creating solutions in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, without using programming. See the details at: http://tedpattison.net/Courses/SSE301.aspx. I’ve been to Ted’s training and found it very helpful. …
When I say "in your hard drive", I mean that quite literally. We are destroying some drives for a medical customer. Since we do not have the proper SCSI card to actually connect the drives, we’ve decided to physically destroy the drives. One of them had a stripped screw, and we ended up folding back…
Recently, while installing CRM on a client’s server, we discovered a "broken" SQL Server installation. Enterprise Manager wouldn’t run, and certain SQL Services were no longer working. In order to clear this up, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall of SQL Server. Unfortunately, during the uninstall, it errored out. So I was left with a SQL…
Once again I went down a rabbit hole on the Internet. Eventually I ended up at http://www.actsofgord.com and read about a video game store owner’s experiences… Many of those revolved around being sued, or suing people… Here’s the great quote: "I remember a happier time when people used to threaten to sue because they were in…