Thursday, December 28, 2000It is going to be ONE LONG DAY. "How can you say that sooooo soon?" you ask...
 Problem number one for this morning: It seems this "user" has quite a bad case of the VeryFunny.vbs virus.
Nice.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2000The school district that I work for has it's priorities WAY out of whack...
 Burning a CD at 1x?! My Lord!
Thank God it's budget time, because someone needs a faster CD-R drive...
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Monday, December 25, 2000What a busy holiday! I just barely took a second out of my crazy holiday schedule of laying around watching TV, eating WAY too much and drifting in and out of a deep sleep to squeeze in a small post.Happy Holidays to all!!
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Friday, December 22, 2000I have been too nice for too long. Bitch session commencing.
Merriam-Webster defines the word asshole as: Today, there is only one asshole in the entire world, the person that designed this computer case:
 It looks harmless. It seems simple enough to remove the case to get some work accomplished on the hardware inside. Guess again... To remove the shell, you first remove one screw from the very top part of the case.
 Next, pull on the top section and remove it. The top locks the two side sections of the shell to keep it tight. So far so good...
 Pull up on the side sections to unlock them from the main chassis.
 And finally pull backward to remove them completely.
So far I believe you may be thinking, "What's the problem??"
 No longer did I consider the "F-word" even a word, but more of a comma. "What the F*&k!? Who the F@*K?! Why the F*^K."
And what is most sad? No, not the fact that I had enough time to take all these damned
pictures... It's the fact that
the case is made of such cheap metal that it bends too easily, and the tabs NEVER fit back the way they
were intended. If I knew whom made said case, I would send them a little note telling them exactly how much
I love their friggin product...
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Thursday, December 21, 2000You may never notice how pleasing to the eye something is until you stare at it for hours straight...
Due to a goofy SCSI tape drive, I was able to sprawl out on our server closet floor and mess with
the webserver all morning.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2000Insomnia is a wondrous thing...For once, the nice people at the National Weather Service have finally made a correct prediction:
 Let's just hope the school district that employs me decides to close tomorrow.
If not, they are in for a long day. A LONG day...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2000According to the National Weather Service, we should be receiving our first real now storm sometime this afternoon.
 Four to six inches are supposed to accumulate by this evening.
That's what I'm talking about...
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Monday, December 18, 2000I finally broke down and purchased a Uninterruptible Power Supply.
I personally feel that a UPS is something you just don't realize how much you need until
you actually use it for a while and recognize the headache it saves you...
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Friday, December 15, 2000Holiday Greetings sure do make me smile...
A group of students handed out flowers to the faculty this morning. How lovely....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2000 Hi! My name is Michael Capellas. I am the C.E.O. of Compaq Computer Corporation. Please, stop laughing, this is serious. I just wanted to thank you for your interest in Compaq. I also wanted to inform you of Compaq's goals to make our name foremost on everyone's mind when it comes to home PC use. I also want to take this opportunity to let you know about some of our home computer design ideas. With these new and improved ideas, we want to directly screw you; the home user, in every way possible. We want to take this chance to research the best possible way to design our systems for expandability and upgradeability. After this research is complete, we will be sure not to use ANY of our findings. We like making you suffer. We think it's rather enjoyable to see you try to squeeze another hard drive in your computer. We have also taken the time to carefully design ALL of our cables and wires to be EXACTLY one inch short of what we know you need. I again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Bastards! All of them!
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Ahhhh, the excitement of reinstalling Windows... You know you are in trouble when you notice that while gathering the latest versions of drivers and software you come upon something amazing.
You discover that the "latest version of drivers" on the manufactures web site is actually an earlier version then what was shipped on the CD almost a year ago!
Fun fun fun!
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Tuesday, December 12, 2000 Seeing my poor system with the case off and a temporary hard drive hanging out of the side brings a tear to my eye...
Due to a mix of power problems and Windows royally sucking, it seems that it's time
to perform a fresh install!!
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Monday, December 11, 2000My Internet connection at work sure does spoil me rotten...
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Friday, December 08, 2000I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Webcams sure are fun!Especially when you have students with a sense of humor!
 Luckily, I have a good sense of humor as well...
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Thursday, December 07, 2000Being extremely busy at work sucks.I assure you, I won't let it happen again.
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Wednesday, December 06, 2000I hate ignorance.I can't count the number of telephone calls that I receive a week where some clown wants me to either buy something, sign up for their credit card, or add an additional service to something I already use. I really don't mind these calls actually. I rather enjoy messing with these people when they call. It just really annoys me when they can't pronounce my last name correctly. A lot of them can't even get remotely close! Daubenspeck. Say it with me. Daaa-bin-speck. We aren't talking quantum physics here.
"Daa-pin-speek." Nope And they wonder why I hang up or say something like, "He's kind of busy right now. The 2nd floor of the house is on fire and he's trying his best to put it out. Can I take a message?". They usually stammer and then I hang up.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2000I hate America On-Line. AOL sucks. I tried the service a few years back when there was really no such thing as other Internet Service Providers. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. Over billings, constant harassment about trying new services; and when I could take it no more, it took literally months to finally be removed from the entire mess. But recently AOL has completely redeemed itself.
Since they began shipping their Demo CD's in FREE DVD CASES, I actually LOVE to receive
their satanic propaganda!
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Monday, December 04, 2000
Cookie day just plain old rocks...
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After much griping and groaning about cable modem problems, my ISP has finally
decided to send sometime to look into my connection problems. They have determined
that our cable lines are old and need to be replaced. So for the next few days,
the cable company will be digging up my front yard to replace the cable line to
the house. I'm glad I didn't already mention this to them in the past about being a
possible solution. I hate always being right... Hopefully, this should take care of the intermittent connection problems. Hopefully.
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Friday, December 01, 2000You know you need to receive some serious professional help when...
 ...you bring a subwoofer equipped speaker system to install on your WORK computer.
And it's not for music...
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