Apparently Immigration Canada has received record traffic to their website following the results of the US Presidential elections.
The quote in the article from the Ottawa Citizen is priceless.

Yep, shiticane season again in ye olde 11th floor server room.

Working on a Saturday, trying to install two developer workstations for Monday... normally RIS would do that for me and allow me to actually get it done in a decent amount of time... Except the NICs don't support PXE.

Why do managers/purchasers cheap out on capital expenditures so they can spread salaried labour thin? Did I just answer my own question?

And yes, also have an Exchange Server 2003 install to get done... I have the Fear with that one.

Not anything instrinsic to Exch2K3 mind, I just have zero faith in the Exchange org that the interns and/or the partners set up before my time. No sir, I don't like it. I freely admit it is held together with blood, spit and duct tape - mostly my own.

Well, back to the README and to see if I missed anything important the first 500 times...

The Fear, I tell you...

...I picked this handle after 6 years of working at one level or another in ye olde IT backoffice, and about 1 year before I ever read *any* BOfH posts...

Sitting in the eye of the shiticane and waiting for it to hit the fan.

Well, after almost 2 years of a /. account (I think anyway, I have been reading for years but have always been spectacularly lazy about setting up my account) (the fact that I fail miserably in remembering how long ago I [metaphorically] got off my lazy ass and set up said account speaks volumes about how little I have done with it since) I finally really get off my duff and start redoing my prefs, writing in the journal and all.

This should be interesting...

Yarr...

What a SNAFU.
Got SPS installed on the intranet box, and tried to install Project Server afterward.

Unfortunately, WSS/STS/whatever the hell ths canonical name is these days, cannot connect to it's config DB. I am not sure I can change the STS setting without breaking SPS. An SPS installation that has just been populated.

Yeah, I think this is what it feels like to be up shit creek without a paddle.

BBC News reports that MessageLabs has found spam that includes an embedded virus that can "open up a backdoor in the machine through which spammers can send out junk mail."
Lovely, so the next time some unsuspecting Outlook user views a spam in the preview pane their box becomes an open relay.