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Dilbert and real life

Scott Adams wrote:

Yesterday I was creating a Dilbert comic that will run in August. In the first panel, Dogbert needed to describe his job as VP of marketing. How do you do that in the fewest words? Here was my solution.

Feel free to leave your own comments..

In the Novell SuperLab

I’m in the Novell SuperLab for the night – don’t ask. I’ve got the run of the place – there are thousands of machines in here – and I’ve got 500 workstations to play with. It’s a geek playground.

I’m running some tests, collecting data and writing notes for a set of white papers about ZENworks Configuration Management.

Written at: Provo, UT

Google ads

I run adsense on the blog – it keeps a few pennies trickling in. All of the content is context driven.

I keep having to filter stuff I don’t care about – baby formula, dating agencies, a whole load of Chinese ads from when I was in Beijing. Newest one is ‘Mormon Ringtones’.

Sigh.

SNAG-0578

Spam and firewall server upgrade

More memory for the firewall and spam server – it’s been getting hammered recently – over 1000 spam emails per day.

Hopefully this means email for Grandpop, Rachael and everyone in Utah will be working better.

(Just a clarification – it’s just the family in Utah who gets mail through this box – not the whole of Utah..)

Hardware retirement..

It’s always sad when old hardware dies.

Time to kill off the last old Compaq box:

cpq_proliant_800

A bomb proof Compaq Proliant 800. Running as a backup server for six years now.

I’m on the lookout for a replacement – anyone from Dell, IBM or HP offering some eval kit?

Vista, HP and drivers for a HP Photosmart 7150

At last HP have released basic drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150 for Vista.

They describe these as “basic” – I’ll report progress later.

This download includes a Print Driver only. This driver makes it possible to use the basic functions for the printer. HP will not be providing a Full Featured Software and Driver for this product; therefore, some functionality may be lost when you use this product with Windows Vista.

Driver is available via www.hp.com – the direct link is here.