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not sure which ad company is causing it. When you calculate directions in mapquest it just spins and spins. Verified on a few machines in a few states so far. I may investigate, probably will just say don’t use mapquest. The argument with users should go like this – We block malware/adware. If Mapquest has [...]

OOOPS. I meant this one- How did I miss that there was that new charlie the unicorn video AND one they got paid to do for Hot Topic?

I got my openvpn clients to map to machine names. I was running into a problem with dfs roots. Had to be able to map to \\domain\root  instead of \\serverip\share through my untangle firewall and nat using openvpn. Open your network connections and look for the TAP adapter. Mine is v9 from the upgrade a few [...]

My main laptop is an M6300 running Vista Ultimate dual booting to Fedora. It currently has a fried power supply that crackles and a dead battery. Until it gets fixed I’m running on the Ubuntu laptop. Problems keep on keeping on but a few things have worked well: Keepassx – I was able to download [...]

chat is broken for my users in multiple states. It has been down since we started work around 8am MST

On multiple networks we have confirmed issues with Gmail corporate contacts and chat. Mail is also loading very slowly. Maybe it is time to start paying instead of complaining when the free corporate version has problems.

Funny when your monitoring service goes down. I wonder how bad it is going to be when it comes back up. Get ready pingdom users

Top ten stars that will get you a virus. And not by being a fan at their hotel. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/24/celebrity.computer.virus.biel/index.html

To connect to the console of a windows box: start> run> mstsc.exe /console /V servername