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Steph alerted me to the existence of a very cool product -- a dock for Macbook Pro laptops that stands them vertically. This has two advantages: saves desktop space and promotes better cooling. Macbook Pro machines are industrious heat generators and Read More...
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2008 05 13

Devin

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Am I hot or not?

Stupid website, but it gives me a chance to taunt my co-worker Kevin. This morning I got a puzzled e-mail from him, asking me why this picture of me in Sydney from February (yes, that's Sydney, Australia; we were there for training for work) was the most-viewed Read More...
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2008 04 25

Devin

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A few thoughts on email

Email clients need to be more intelligent. For example, I can appreciate the Request Read Receipt feature that Outlook/Exchange and other email systems offer; it makes sense in a corporate environment, or when sending correspondence with business partners. Read More...
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2008 04 21

Devin

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Interesting definitions

The speaker just said, and I quote, "regular expressions, which are fairly straightforward." That's, um, well, interesting. And wrong. Read More...
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2008 02 4

Devin

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I guess I'm just not a real Mac geek

I've been using Mac OS X for a couple of years now and I just today learned about Quicksilver , thanks to an offhand comment in a friend's blog. Holy crap -- Quicksilver is so incredibly scrumptious and I'm not even running it yet! Haven't even downloaded Read More...
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2007 12 2

Devin

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Upgrading a hard drive in a Macbook Pro

Okay, I have a question for you Mac users out there. Say you've got a Macbook Pro with an 80GB hard drive. Due to the accumulation of data, including a 30GB Boot Camp partition, you'd really like to upgrade the hard drive. Let's also say you can (or have) Read More...
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2007 10 23

Devin

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How not to do customer service

Apple sells gift cards that can be redeemed online or in their physical stores. So far, so good. Apple sells gift certificates for iTunes -- both phsycial and email versions. So far, so good. A friend got me a $50 Apple Gift Card for Christmas. So far, Read More...
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2007 04 8

Devin

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Using Macs

I refer you all now to the truth about switching , a nice little blog post that is refreshingly clear of hype and hyperbole. Now that we're all on the same page, on to my additional commentary. Too true. It's a lot more friendly, though, than Read More...
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2007 03 4

Devin

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The SAFETY Act. Not.

I wrote up a posting yesterday for my work blog about the recently proposed SAFETY Act, a lovely bit of proposed legislation from some Republican Representatives who basically are handing the Attorney General's office an open license on the Internet. Read More...
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2007 02 13

Devin

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bps

Big conference, lots of geeks. With two laptops and a Windows Mobile cellphone, I'm not at all unusual here. The conference organizers have wisely established free Wi-Fi for us all. Well, guys, that's a great start, but how about you give us some Read More...
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2007 02 12

Devin

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Boy, I wasn't kidding...

...in my last post when I said this was the year of the outage. About the time Steph and I tried to get the domain controller back online, we had a completely unrelated bit of breakage take down the blog server for another several weeks. Finally tracked Read More...
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2006 12 9

Devin

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2006 is the Year of the Outage

It's been an awfully long time since I last posted, hasn't it? As you may have guessed by now, it is because of, yet again, another computer outage at home. In this case, my Windows domain controller hard drive died. Dead. Kaput. Spins No More. Read More...
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2006 11 21

Devin

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Another upgrade

While I'm waiting for the last test to finish up (late night at work, but sometimes that's what you do), I upgraded to Community Server 2.1 Service Pack 1. SP1 was just released Monday. So far, so good. My Mac is sure being awfully slow, though Read More...
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2006 11 1

Devin

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An amusing typo

I just discovered an amusing typo in a technical document. Instead of a section on prerequisites , it has a section on perquisites . Okay, so it's not earth-shaking, but I got a much-needed chuckle. Now off to brew a pot of peppermint herbal tea to Read More...
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2006 10 3

Devin

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Batten down the hatches

Oy vey. We've been Slashdotted . Let's see if our T-1 and web server can hold up. Read More...
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2006 09 28

Devin

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3Sharp releases an anti-phishing study

Today, my company released a report comparing several anti-phishing technologies , including a beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. I note this because I was one of the researchers and authors of the report. Needless to say, we're Read More...
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2006 09 28

Devin

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Back!

Boy howdy, that was quite an excessively long break.That'll teach me to patch my servers! You see, back in late August, I was being a good server admin and making sure all of my servers had the latest patches on them. The last server I updated was my Read More...
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2006 09 27

Devin

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People Whose Asses I Need to Kick #3: Geek Flamewar Zealots

"My computer can beat up your computer." What a load of horse hockey. I've long been tired of the whole PC vs. Mac vs. Intel vs. AMD vs. RISC vs. Windows vs. UNIX vs. Linux rat race, and was finally motivated to sum my precise feelings yesterday when Read More...
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2006 08 4

Devin

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That went well

The current project I'm on at work? I've decided it needs a new name. I'm henceforth calling it Operation Zeno's Paradox . You know you're in trouble when you've finally found a solution to a roadblock that is keeping you from finishing a major portion Read More...
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2006 06 23

Devin

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The next step of my Master Plan

I've reached another milestone on my personal plan for world domination: my first tech magazine article has been published. I talk more about it over on my work blog . Read More...
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2006 04 1

Devin

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Should have known

I should have known, from first thing yesterday morning, what kind of day it was going to be. Starting with sleeping through the alarm I'd set so I could get up and get a headstart to a long day, right through trying to change the roll of toilet paper Read More...
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2006 03 10

Devin

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Yeah, that would do it

When I did my last round of server and desktop deployments here at the house [1] , I tried to set up each of my servers (Windows Server 2003) with at least 256MB of RAM and each of the desktops (Windows XP Pro) with 512MB. That may sound backwards, but Read More...
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2006 03 8

Devin

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Kids, don't try this at home!

Today, I did something I'd never done before. It was risky and a bit scary, and I don't recommend it as a general procedure for everyone. Yes, I upgrade my new Window Mobile Pocket PC. What made it risky was that I upgraded it to the ROM images that didn't Read More...
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2006 03 7

Devin

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Multitasking

Dang. I just pulled off something tonight that makes me wonder if Apple wasn't in fact smoking crack when they decided to drop the PowerPC processor in favor of moving to Pentiums. My little Mac mini -- 512MB of RAM, 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 CPU, was able Read More...
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2006 02 23

Devin

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Mac Humor Break

Back last year, I got my first Mac . I've been using it for the better part of a year now and am pretty happy with it overall. I'm using Microsoft Entourage for my email/calendar software instead Apple's mail and calendar software, since I need to interact Read More...
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2006 01 30

Devin

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Oh, yeah, Chapter 3 is up

Chapter 3 of my DCAR ebook is now online, details on my work blog. If you need to read about these things, enjoy. Read More...
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2005 12 22

Devin

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Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to PowerPoint slide decks

If you're wondering what I'm going to be up to this spring, wonder no more! Get thee hence to the Looking forward to Exchange Connections Spring 2006 post on my work blog and find out! Read More...
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2005 12 7

Devin

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Sick days and publication news

Both kids woke up with an excess of phlegm, so we kept them home from school today. Sounds like a good day for them to work on updating their web sites and blogs, especially since I just handed out the URLs to the members of my family. In other news, Read More...
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2005 10 25

Devin

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404 Requested file \Ganger\Devin\Brains.html not found

I was looking over my Exchange server at home today, getting ready to upgrade it to SP2, and opened Outlook to see if there were any messages I needed to take care of first. The following folder caught my eye: If you're now laughing to yourself, able Read More...
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2005 10 20

Devin

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First brush: Amazon reviews

I finally remembered to check the Amazon reviews for the Exchange Server Cookbook tonight. I was amused by this line: Other recipes [I guess that's the preferred term] assume you have an Active Directory server on your network, and show how to integrate Read More...
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2005 10 7

Devin

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