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Kernel Debugger? Is that a German version of Windows XP

I was setting up a laptop with XP Pro this evening on the kitchen table (as you do) and Faye walked past when it was doing the initial file copying phase. She saw Kernel Debugger down the bottom and said 'Kernel Debugger sounds like an officer in Read More
posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:58 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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we're off to the Zoo!

It looks like a fairly nice day today so i'm taking the kids to the zoo. Keep an eye on the moblog for pictures :) Read More
posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:30 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Some 80's videogame nostalgia for Friday

Just looking for some java games for the v600 as Faye now has it when I came across this I just spent 30 minutes playing Space Invaders. Cool! Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 6:04 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Exchange Stuff

I just noticed that I haven't posted any Exchange related stuff in a while. I'll try and stick up a whole bunch over the bank holiday weekend. Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 5:11 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Sandisk Ultra Tough Memory card survives exploding bridge!

Just saw this on Gizmodo.. Pretty amazing. Read the full story here. Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 2:14 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Paperformers - Envelopes in Disguise..

Paperformers is a Transformers fansite that lets you download PDF copies of cut out models of your favourite transformers. Cool! Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 1:34 AM by adam | 2 Comments
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My MS Parking Citation

I'm sure you're all far too busy, but I uploaded my Microsoft Parking Citation for you all to see. they were minutes from towing me which would have made for an interesting journey back to the hotel ;) Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 12:42 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Sender ID is dead?

Larry Seltzer has an interesting piece about the apparent demise of Microsoft's Sender ID standard thanks to a bunch of lawyers. It seems to have stumbled at the last hurdle (IETF ratification) due to stringent licensing conditions from Microsoft. So Read More
posted Friday, August 27, 2004 12:18 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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More Microsoft UK Events

28 September: Active Directory Basics (level 200), Reading Join Thomas Lee, Microsoft Most Valued Professional, for a two hour technical 'how to' evening and discover the basic concepts of the Active Directory. Thomas will look at the logical Read More
posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:38 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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UK EVENT: ISA Server Network Design and Trouble shooting and Inside Application Layer Fire walling and Filtering

*Update: This event is presented by Fred Baumhardt - an excellent speaker and very knowledgeable on ISA* Just got this via e-mail. Well worth attending for anyone considering an ISA implementation ISA Server 2004: Network Design and Troubleshooting          Read More
posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:37 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 available on CD and other related stuff

You can get your very own copy on CD from here. Better still, get 10 copies and leave some in your local library/supermarket/school/other place for someone else to pickup. Microsoft Solutions for Security have released the Windows XP Security Guide Read More
posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:11 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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New Moblog

Now that I have a Windows Smartphone again, I thought I'd try out the Atomic Lava Moblogging service My new moblog is at http://www.atomiclava.net/mindspace Read More
posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:32 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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Orange SPV C500 - First Impressions

I know a lot of people have got these recently and I just got mine. Nice to see they give you a larger memory card this time (16mb as opposed to 8mb) - does anyone know if there is any sort of adapter so you can put a Mini SD in a normal SD socket? Read More
posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:29 PM by adam | 4 Comments
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More Laptop Stuff - Laptop Bag

A good laptop bag is always important to me. The last thing I want is a bag that says 'Hey - there's an expensive computer inside. Please take me'. It's beyond me why manufacturers like Dell emblazon their logo all over their laptop bags. I also Read More
posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:19 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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More Laptop Stuff - Doom 3

I got a copy of Doom 3 with the Laptop. I played it a little in Circuit City when I was in the US but this is the first time id played it in the 'comfort of my own home'. First off, it comes on 3 CD's - Why not a DVD? Second, the install takes a while Read More
posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:08 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Guess who just got a new Notebook?

Me.. It's a Toshiba Satellite M30 and it's the first Centrino device i've used. The first thing i've noticed as I'm running it here on the desk next to the cRock of eXtra Pants is that it's virtually silent. Before I let it anywhere near the internet, Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:35 PM by adam | 4 Comments
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Note to Self..

Repurposing existing documentation is ALWAYS a bad idea, even if the source material is published. Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 5:12 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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What Kind of Social Software are you?

Here's one for Mr Scoble.. Apparently, I'm just like Usenet You are Usenet You remember when alt.lemur.frink.frink.frink and alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove was distributed on reel-to-reel tape strapped to a carrier pigeon. Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:20 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Jazz in Seattle (Belltown) this Sunday

Just received this on my MS mail account from a member of the team I'm currently working with who used to be a professional singer in the UK Check them out if you're in the vicinity.. Jon Krueger's Fairly Honest Jazz Band Extraordinary Tulas Show Read More
posted Monday, August 23, 2004 11:24 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Looks like I'm going to be an MS Smartphone User again...

I got rid of my last MS Smartphone because, to put it bluntly, it was crap. The OS crashed a lot, the audio quality of the handset was poor, and it annoyed me that I had to buy software to do things that came as standard on most other phones. However, Read More
posted Monday, August 23, 2004 10:58 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Am I Blog Lazy?

William just IM'd me and said I'm getting 'Blog Lazy'. To be fair, He's right - Im not as prolific as I once was. There are several reasons for this, which I will let you in on: The notebook I have at the moment is a Rock Xeno XP - The Rock part Read More
posted Monday, August 23, 2004 1:25 PM by adam | 4 Comments
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Another Systray applet to add to the collection

or Notification Area to give it the MSTP name.. ;) Anyway.... Google hired the guy who wrote the Gmail notifier and it's now been officially released Read Melissa's post to get the link Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 10:54 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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SP2 Flaw Report falls short?

Larry Seltzer believes that the 'flaw' in SP2 discovered by Heise is unjustified in being called out as an SP2 hole. He's 100% right too. The attack requires that a user MANUALLY fire up a command prompt and run a file that IE considers untrusted in Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 10:35 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Only nutters use SBS?

Dana Epp, a security guru and great blogger, has posted his reasons for using SBS2003 in his own environment after getting several flamings and he makes a very good case. If I was buying it for my org and had to justify the cost, I'd use it too but im Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 11:09 AM by adam | 4 Comments
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An end to my connectivity misery?

Looks like there may be light at the end of the murky tunnel that is satellite broadband.. BT have announced that they are removing the distance limit on 512kb ADSL connections and increasing the distance on 1mb connections to 6km. From 6th September, Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 11:02 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Blogging Survey

Via Alex Barnett A student at the University of Portsmouth is doing a survey on blogging. It only takes a few minutes to complete and it ould make for a much better sample if more people completed it. I am a student of University of Portsmouth in UK. Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 10:00 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Easy as Dell??

I'm just looking around for a new work notebook (and a new personal one if Dixons Insurance Services don't get their finger out!) and I went do the Dell site. I'm not a fan of Dell as I'm historically a server admin guy and Dell poweredge were always Read More
posted Friday, August 20, 2004 9:31 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Test your Phishing IQ

Here's one for Mr Scoble, Mr Winer and all the other people I was discussing this with at the BBQ.. I got 9/10.. see how you get on Think you can’t get caught in the “phishing” net of online fraud? Dive into our Phishing IQ Test and Read More
posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:34 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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MS.com newsgroups

John Eddy is a newsgroup admin at Microsoft and he wants to know how you use Microsoft newsgroups and how they could be better. He also writes haiku: The USENET newsgroups Flames, trolls, and helpful people, A circle of life. Check out the full post Read More
posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:54 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Some cool Outlook posts

I love Outlook and I'm not afraid to say so.. KC has a great post on where the whole Outlook attachment blocking came from and Gil has a post about the history of Outlook on the Mac. For anyone not already subscribed, Gil is a PM in the Mac BU at Microsoft. Read More
posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:32 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Scobelizer Design Comp

Robert is having a design competition for his blog. The rules are that it has to be just a straight modification to his CSS that he can just sit on top without any more tinkering on his part. The winner gets $100 dollars worth of stuff from the comapny Read More
posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:50 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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I'm back now..

No thanks to US Customs though.. I had to take of my shoes, my belt, take my laptop out of its bag, take the bettery off of my mobile.. :S Flight wasn't too bad though I've just added a Chatango chat control to the blog on the RH side Read More
posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:38 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Sailing on the Puget Sound

We had an awesome day's sailing today. There wasn't much wind so most of it was on the motor but we came a good 5 or 6 miles out from Elliot Bay Marina. We even saw some seals swim past which was very cool. Read More
posted Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:40 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Put your blog on the map

Just saw this via Andy Multimap now lets you associate a map with your blog. You can do it by entering the latitude and longitude of anywhere or, if you're in the UK, you can use a full or partial postcode Mine is here - I live right on the tip Read More
posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 9:06 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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XOWA

The guys from the exchange team have created the parts you need to make an XBOX themed OWA front-end. Check it out here. Read More
posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 8:45 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Nearly time to go home..

The past couple of weeks have been fun but I'm headed back home on Sunday. I've met some cool people and done some cool stuff. This is a fairly long running project so I'll be back in a few months for more. We're going sailing on the Puget Sound tomorrow Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2004 10:50 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Next time i'll get a parking permit..

I came back to the office last night to finish some stuff off. When I came out, I had a Microsoft parking violation notice on the windshield and they were getting ready to to me. During the day, you can register as a visitor but at night there's Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2004 4:20 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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VPN Quarantine in WS2003

If anyone has any experience of live deployment of VPN quarantine using WS2003, i'd be interested in talking to you for a project I'm working on right now. Use the contact form to drop me a mail with your details Read More
posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:49 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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He must have picked the short straw

I just had to drive back across the SR-520 bridge to get some discs from my hotel and saw some poor guy rowing across Lake Washington. On my way back, he still hadn't got to the other side :) Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:08 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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MS Research Paper on uncovering Rootkits

MS Research have released a paper on a tool called Strider that can be used to find hidden rootkits on your PC that cant be discovered using standard tools. It's a fairly good paper and is also the first Microsoft tech paper i've read that contains references Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:01 AM by adam | 5 Comments
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Office 2003 Service Pack 1 installs successfully but not all Office 2003 programs are updated

Just got this via Slipstick RSS feed.. If you installed the junk e-mail update at the same time as Office 2003 SP1, but before August 5 and are using Windows installer v3 (included with Windows XP SP2), see KB 884186: Office 2003 Service Pack 1 installs Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:48 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-026 - Vulnerability in Exchange 5.5 OWA

It's security patch time again. This month's batch includes one for the Exchange 5.5 version of OWA Issued: August 10, 2004Version: 1.0 Impact of Vulnerability:  Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating: Moderate Recommendation: Customers Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:41 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Survey for Office 2003 Users

The Microsoft Office team have a survey for Office 2003 users about Business Contact Manager. It's open to all users of Office 2003 and you can enter a draw to win a copy of Streets and Trips. Read More
posted Monday, August 09, 2004 8:54 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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More Microsoft Security related stuff

Just found this interview with Jesper Johanssen, a security PM at Microsoft. It gives more insight into the work that Microsoft are doing on security across the board. This topic was discussed fairly heavily at the BBQ and geek dinner last week. Read More
posted Monday, August 09, 2004 7:38 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Group Policy Problems with XP SP2

So, you wait for ages for XP SP2 to finally be released so they iron out all the bugs right? Well, not quite. Not so much a bug, but certainly a potential issue for anyone using XP in a commercial environment. This KB article describes an Read More
posted Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:09 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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BBQ at Scoble's

It was an excellent day The weather turned out nice after this morning's rain, which is always good for a BBQ. There was a fairly high ratio of Microsoft to Non-Microsoft people but it was OK as they were all nice ones :D Dave Winer took some Read More
posted Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:02 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Anyone know any good archive utils

I have a virtual PC image that winzip can only get down to 770mb which is too big to fit on a CD-R Im just trying WinRAR but if anyone has any other suggestions.. Read More
posted Saturday, August 07, 2004 8:22 PM by adam | 5 Comments
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Another Selling Point for Skype?

I'm sitting here, using my free Internet in my hotel room when it occurs to me that these hotel chains providing free net access might be missing a trick. It says on the phone on the desk that their long distance carrier is AT&T and that they charge Read More
posted Friday, August 06, 2004 8:12 AM by adam | 3 Comments
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I survived my first Geek dinner

It was actually rather cool It was a fairly small gathering with a few familiar faces and a few new ones (including me!) Best of all, John Porcaro brought along some Halo 2 goodies for us :) Thanks John We had a good old chinwag about everything from Read More
posted Friday, August 06, 2004 8:02 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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Geek Dinner tonight at Bellevue

I'm probably going to head on up to this if I finish what I'm doing in time. Is anyone else going? Read More
posted Friday, August 06, 2004 12:27 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Windows Startup Monitor

Every time I boot this laptop I have something running Windows Installer that seems to take 100% CPU and disconnect any internet traffic. Anyone know of any utils I can run to find out what it is thats running this?  Read More
posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:10 PM by adam | 7 Comments
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Free SPF Filter for Exchange Server

Michael Brumm has written a free SPF filter for IIS and Exchange Server. This SPF filter is an Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol event sink that responds to service events from the Windows SMTP service. The Windows SMTP service is used by Read More
posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:03 AM by adam | 5 Comments
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Meme Propagation part II

If you're reading via WWW, the new CSS doesnt seem to like that long GUID If you're reading via RSS, you should be OK Read More
posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:18 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may Read More
posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:09 AM by adam | 6 Comments
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My proudest moment

My 5 year old just sent me her first text message (using Faye's phone) and now she wants her own. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:31 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Scoble is having a BBQ on Saturday..

.. and yours truly is invited :D Read More
posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:38 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Approaching the 400 mark..

I'm due to cross the 400th blog posting mark any time now.. Here's to the next 100 (and 5) :)   Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:51 PM by adam | 1 Comments
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Made it to MS Campus

I made it to MS Campus Im still waiting to get my network password so I can get on and do some work ;) The drive over here wasn't too bad but i'm still getting used to having exits on both sides of the road If you're in the vicinity of 44/3692 (where Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:14 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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I gotta get me one of those..

KC has some cool SMS addons for your mobile.. ;) Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:43 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Mitsubishi Outlander

This is the car I got from Hertz Firstly, it's quite funny looking.. Second, I have to get used to driving an auto again Lastly, no remote central locking?!?!? Surely this is standard on all cars by now? Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:15 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Event: Exchange – Management, Auditing & Enforcement

Just got this in e-mail... Free Seminar Exchange – Management, Auditing & Enforcement FREE Microsoft Partner Workshops presented by Quest Software TVP, Reading - 22nd September 2004Manchester - 23rd September 2004 London - 12th October 2004 Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:45 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Yawn!

It's been a long day.. Take-off was delayed for 3 hours while they fixed a broken seat belt on the flight deck. This meant we landed 1.5 hours late in Seattle. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing though.. Hertz only had mid-size SUV's left and there Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 4:39 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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In Redmond from tomorrow

I'm working out of Redmond for 2 weeks from Tomorrow. Skype (online) or Cell (offline) are the best ways to get hold of me. Read More
posted Sunday, August 01, 2004 12:00 PM by adam | 3 Comments
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Dilbert Tech Support Funny

This pretty much sums up most helpdesks I've ever used.. Read More
posted Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:56 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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