Monday, June 05, 2006
TV notes, Monday edition
So, WHDH has a new weather guy! I missed seeing him because I have Sadie, but hopefully he’ll be good.
We’re the next to last people in America without cable, which makes things sort of interesting since what comes in on any given day can vary quite a bit. Plus, when the people upstairs moved out it totally changed our reception. We get ABC now, which we’ve never gotten at this apartment. LOL. I totally got to watch Grey’s Anatomy last night for the first time. Not bad. Everything comes in better without interference from up there. Got my fingers crossed that we don’t lose *all* of the better reception when somebody else moves in.
Ummm...I think that’s it. There’s not much on the weekends, really. Well, and being summer, there’s not much the rest of the week, either. Though Hell’s Kitchen starts again next Monday...woo-hoo!
Exchange Migration
Before I even give the client prices for servers and software, I am trying to get an idea just what will be involved and whether there are any showstoppers in doing the upgrade and migration I have envisioned.
I was pretty alarmed when I saw that there is no direct migration path from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, and that you had to either go to 2000 first or use something called exmerge, which I have never used.
It also sounded like Exchange 2003 is so tied into Active Directory that I’d maybe have to worry about having any remaining workstations that are not running Windows 2000 or XP.
The weird thing is that reading all this material; the KB articles and whitepapers and such, it’s like studying. Or even a bit like programming or doing accounting work, where it works best if you “zone” and otherwise is marginally productive or doesn’t “stick.”
So. Anyone have any thoughts on whether such an upgrade might be as painful as I fear? It’s only a single Exchange 5.5 server, not counting the proxy install for the sake of the internet mail connector. There are about 50 people, plus a variety of other mailboxes, and residual mailboxes of people no longer there, some of which could perhaps be purged. The network is NT4, with a PDC and BDC, plus the other, standalone servers, and the Windows 2000 server where Exchange currently resides. Another goal is to upgrade to Windows 2003 and no longer have NT running the network, but obviously to do so as gracefully as possible. Ironically, this is probably a bigger change than when I migrated them from Novell to NT, which was easy because they were able to overlap, and because Exchange was new in conjunction with that. But I digress.
I just don’t want to order a particular server and software combo, only to find that I am unable to port things to it fairly readily.
Happy Birthday
To my father! He makes seventy-something look young.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Almost There! (Updated: We’re There!)
We have fewer than 100 hits to go to reach 250,000. Woohoo!
Depending how late I am up and how traffic is, probably it’ll happen in the wee hours, but perhaps before I go to bed.
Update:
Visitor number 250,000 was on shawcable.net, from British Columbia, Canada, using Windows XP and IE6, at 12:44 AM, referred by Google for a search of:
erica durance stats figure
Best invention ever?
Washable crayons.
Seriously.
And the Valerie? We put her down yesterday and she rolled again. And again. And again.
We’ve since lost count.
Yay!
We Don’t Need No Constitution, We All Prefer Thought Control
Via John Cole via Radley Balko, here is the latest case coming in a couple years to a Supreme Court near you. That should be completely unnecessary. It’s a cut and dried, cast in stone, no brainer case in which idiot California justices ruled 6-1 to castrate the Fourth Amendment.
Yup. Now if cops suspect you’ve been drinking and then driving, or can even pretend to suspect that, they can break and enter without a warrant, drag you from your bed, extract and test your blood.
Tell me the cops will never do this just because they can. Tell me they will only use it in hot-pursuit style, arriving at your house not long after you, having followed your sleepy drunken ass home from working late the bar.
Yeah, right.
So in a couple years we can look forward to the Supremes wisely correcting this clear Constitutional pillage, just as they did with Kelo.
Oh wait…
And hey, since I mentioned Kelo, let’s recap:
Kelo-related posts:
Will The Supremes And Bad Lawyering Perpetrate A Constitutional Travesty?
United States Constitution, 1788 - 2005: Promise Unkept
Bad Precedent
Additional Kelo Fallout Thoughts
Will the Money Be Followed?
Kelo and Raich: The Root of the Supreme Court Problem?
Olek V. New London Case
Kelo and "Fair" Value
Boycotting Can Be Hard
Becker and Posner on Kelo and Eminent Domain
Kelo, IOLTA and Drugs - Oh My
Sama on Kelo, Disney, and Boston's West End Tragedy
Was Kelo The Lost Battle That Won The War?
You Thought The Kelo Outcome Couldn't Be Worse?
Happy Birthday
To blogger Frank J.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Sadie and Valerie
CotC in Times Online
Carnival of the Capitalists got a nice mention in Times Online‘s The week on the web column, along with past host Truck and Barter.
Valerie’s First Word
No, not one she says, but one she unquestionably, enthusiastically understands.
Bath.
Well, she appears to have learned her name, but that’s not a “word.” Nor has it been obvious until I just tested her response.
If you say bath she gets all excited and giggles and assumes she is going to get a bath ASAP. If this is not forthcoming, she gets unhappy. We now have to avoid using the word casually around her. We figured this out yesterday when she managed to get herself a second bath in the same day.
In other antics, she managed to get herself most of the way out of her car seat, which she spends a lot of time sitting in, unstrapped, in the house. When she was to the point of only her shoulder blades and above still in contact with the seat, Deb helped her sit up on the floor and scooted the seat so she could be on the carpet. Where she roams surprisingly far for not even being able to crawl yet (though that’s a close thing, when she does tummy time).
I have a bunch of pictures I should post soon, including when she did her first rollover, from above showing her on her belly, then at floor level showing how mad she was about being stuck face down.
Probably Most Accurate…
As to how others see me than to reality, but it’s not horribly far off either.
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Slow and Steady |
 Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It’d really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it. |
Via Jen, my results-twin
Happy Birthday
To blogger Wayne Hurlbert.
Friday, June 02, 2006
But Do I Have To Leave My Heart There?
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You Belong in San Francisco |
 You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You’re half California, half NYC. You’re open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you’re the best. People may dismiss you as a hippie, but you’re also progressive, interesting, and rich! |
A Silly Quiz
For CTG:
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You Belong in San Diego |
 Laid back and friendly, you were meant to live most of your life on the beach. You usually think everything is “all good”... except when the weather dips under 60F. You stay classy - especially when you’re in Tijuana! |
Oh No!
It’s the Phillips Screwdriver Paradox!
Happy Birthday
To blogger Kathy Kinsley.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Pejman Yousefzadeh.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Suman Palit.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Bill Hobbs.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Narnia
We just watched the first Narnia movie. It was astonishingly well done. Highly recommended.
Windows Vista Review
Kurt Hutchinson at Ars Technica has an excellent, detailed review, with lots of pictures, of Windows Vista Beta 2.
Fox News Spam
Well, we got hit with another Fox News comment spam. The e-mail address of DDFV@LINA.COM is probably bogus, and lina.com is a parked/link-farmed domain with pop-ups. I searched the IP address:
Search results for: 68.175.32.64
OrgName: Road Runner HoldCo LLC
OrgID: RRNY
Address: 13241 Woodland Park Road
City: Herndon
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20171
Country: USReferralServer: rwhois://ipmt.rr.com:4321
NetRange: 68.172.0.0 - 68.175.255.255
CIDR: 68.172.0.0/14
NetName: ROADRUNNER-NYC-4
NetHandle: NET-68-172-0-0-1
Parent: NET-68-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNS1.RR.COM
NameServer: DNS2.RR.COM
NameServer: DNS3.RR.COM
NameServer: DNS4.RR.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2002-11-25
Updated: 2004-03-26OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@rr.comOrgTechHandle: IPTEC-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Tech
OrgTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgTechEmail: abuse@rr.com# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-05-31 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN’s WHOIS database.
This appears to mean someone doing this from home, or maybe from a business using RoadRunner service. My guess is someone or some group does this comment spamming of Fox News article URLs in an effort to make Fox look bad.
Happy Birthday
To my fast-growing grandniece Emily.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Chris Noble.