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| As the inauguration of our hopeful and full of change Commander in Chief looms, I think it is good to look back at another elected official who ran on a platform of change and new hope, and note how Obama's policy is like his in one particular aspect by presenting the following quote:
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safe, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
Sounds great. A gun free or incredibly regulated police state provides for the safety of all citizens, right? Problem is, the quote is from 1935, and is by one Adolf Hitler.
I'm not saying Obama wants to kill anyone, much less commit genocide. However, various groups do want to put down certain groups, such as those who are successful without the help of the government, Christians, Libertarians, folks with morals, Second Amendment Activists, etc. Some of us are in all these groups, and we are scared, with good reason.
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| I'll be back late Thursday. We'll only be in Lancaster for a few more weeks, and we will be traveling to Lock Haven and Pittsburgh in there, so make your appointments now. I want to spend time with as many people as possible, so please get in touch with me or the wife.
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| And now, for something completely inappropriate:
Why did the... ahem... "woman of the evening" cross the road?
a. To sleep with that side of the street.
b. To pay her pimp.
c. Because that's where the STD clinic was.
d. Because she had finished with the odd numbered houses.
e. Because she hadn't had sex with the chicken yet.
Humor is funny.
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| Dear Microsoft:
Fuck you.
Ok, that was mean. I suppose I should explain why I'm that angry.
It started when our Exchange 2000 server hit its storage max of 16gb. Of course, the box it is running on has about a 100gb in a RAID 5 array, so it isn't a real disk space issue, it's some arbitrary limit on the global email store. 16gb. Why 16gb? I haven't a clue why Microsoft chose 16gb. It seems to be some number they chose in order to get more money out of us. Thank you Microsoft. Fuck you.
Ohh, and by the way, when Exchange hits that limit, it dies. No more email. No more access to the mail there, thus no way to delete messages in order to get back under the arbitrary 16gb limit. Fuck you, Microsoft.
So, we have a few options. We can spend some massive amount of money to upgrade several hundred licenses to Exchange 2003. But that alone will not do it. Exchange 2003 Plain Version still has the 16gb limit. So we would have to spend another massive amount of money to upgrade to Exchange 2003 Enterprise. Fun fun. Not an option, we don't have said massive amount of money just sitting here. Thanks again, fuck you.
The other option is to archive the employee's old emails, using Outlook's handy AutoArchive system. Very well, I can do that, I'll set it up to archive to a network share on the Exchange box, you know, to use up the other ~80gb of perfectly good storage sitting there. Cool cool, this seems painless enough, just configure Outlook to archive automatically every week, through everything older than 6 months into said archive, hit the "Apply now to all folders" button, and let it rip. Go to Mailbox Cleanup and get it to AutoArchive now. Cool, that was easy... but it didn't seem to work quite right, there are still old emails in the "Completed projects" and "Stupid coworkers" folders. WTF?
After some examination, I find that "Apply now to all folders" doesn't apply the settings to all the folders, just "Inbox", "Sent Items", and some of the junk ones, "Tasks", "Calendar", etc. It does not apply to anything else, not to any of the 15 odd nested folders I have inside "Inbox". I have to follow a 5 click process for every stinking folder: right-click folder, click "Properties", click "AutoArchive" tab, change from "Do not archive items in this folder" button to "Archive items in this folder using the fucking default settings" button, click "OK". Terrific.
I'm guessing I'm having this problem because I created the folders before I set up archiving. Surely no stupid sadistic moron of a programmer would make the default archive action of a newly created folder be anything but the default archive action. So, I'll create a new folder, and that one should be set up correctly, cause it will notice the new defaults, or, please please please be sane enough to inherit settings from your parent. Nope, no such luck, new folders still have "Do not archive items in this folder" checked. Thanks again Microsoft, fuck you.
Ok, surely there is a fix for this. I'm just doing something wrong, right? Google is the answer, I'll get answers off Google. And I find answers, every AutoArchive related story says "Hit the 'Apply now to all folders' button, and you'll be good". So then, it must be something else. Maybe my system hasn't been patched properly. So off I go to update Office. This is a relatively painless process, that I've done a few times before, no problem. Until, that is, it is finished updating Office, and tells me to reboot my computer. WTF? This is Office, not some subsystem of the OS. Why the hell do I need to reboot in order to update freaking Outlook? Or, more importantly, why is Office so dug into the OS that upgrading it requires me to burp my OS? Or is it that we peons are too stupid to listen to a "changes will not take place until you close and reopen the updated applications" message? Personally, I think that is more likely. You assume that I, a Windows/*nix admin that has been up to my neck in computer hardware, software, programming, fixing, and throwing since I was 3 am as stupid as some stupid non-English speaker who as never touched a computer before (I'd say "as stupid as my grandmother", when it comes to computers, but she can read). Thank you, Microsoft, for wasting more of my time. Now I get to close my 20 odd Firefox tabs, the open shell sessions to the *nix boxes, and the RDP's to the windows servers I was working with while you were taking an hour to update Office. Fuck you.
*insert 5 minute wait here*
Surely the updates fixed this stupid bit of retarded programming. But I find that the "Apply now to all folders" button still does not do what it says it does, new folders still don't adhere to defaults or logical inheritance, and I'm still minorly PO'd. Hmm. There are more updates. May as well get started. Ohh look, it wants me to reboot again. Will my problem be solved after this attempt? I'm not counting on it. Fuck you, Microsoft.
*insert 5 minute wait here*
Nope. Still doesn't work. I'm screwed. Not only do I have to follow the 5 click process discussed early for every. stupid. folder. for every. single. user. in the freaking company, it won't apply to any folders they create after I'm finished. Wonderful. As if I didn't have enough fun with whats-her-name in accounting's account yesterday and her 200 odd folders named for every person in this company and every company we do business with. Lovely. Fuck you, Microsoft.
You provide a server that has an artificially small maximum storage limit, and a piece of shit client software program that does not do what it's freaking button says it will do. So not only will we be moving to a non-Microsoft based server system in the very near future, but I will be pushing to use a non-Microsoft based client as well, so I don't have to deal with this amount of shit for the crappy pay I receive.
Thank you, Microsoft, for a lovely week. I only wish that games worked consistently on *nix, cause then I could tell you to fuck off for good.
Signed,
An Admin with Sore Fingers and a Sorer Ass
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