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Yup - It’s going to be a long week. I just checked into my hotel at around 12:30am local time and had two priorities - Internet and beverage, in that order. I walked into my room and found the Internet access to be a dialup connection - lovely. Fortunately (sarcasm), there was a list of fine dialup providers next to the phone such as AOL, MSN, and even Juno. Giving up on that, I went in search of beverage. I saw the red glow of some vending machines across the lobby and headed out for some exorbinantly expensive refreshment. Coming up to the “Ice and Beverage” area on my floor, I discovered mine was the one floor they put a snack machine on instead of a soda machine. No problem, I’ll just run up to 7. Oh, that machine doesn’t accept dollars. shrug 8 it is, I guess. What? Sold out? Well 9’s not that far, but…there isn’t any machine at all on 9! Hustle on back down to 5 only to put in my dollar and hear the machine grind for a good 15 seconds before my soda gets dispersed. ...

I’ve spent a decent part of today trying to figure out how in index PDF documents in SharePoint Portal Server. I finally found a site that pointed me in the right direction - Eric Legault’s post Indexing Adobe PDF Files in SPS 2003. There is also a Microsoft KB article regarding it that I didn’t bother to search for. What a pain.

I have a new QOTD entry:The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. –Robert FrostThis seems to be particularly apt in today’s society.

Today has been so right on. I had a wonderful night out last night. I got to sleep in this morning because I’m on vacation. I left my place to go grab something and the FedEx truck pulled up to my door right as I walked up to my doorstep (I ordered another gig of ram for my personal workstation). I walked in, updated the FedEx tracking which told me it had been delivered - simply an amazing system if I don’t say so myself. One of my current favorite Dave songs, “Oh”, was playing as I walked into the server room. ...

Well I had a somewhat interesting 4th of July in Chicago this past weekend. It began fairly slow, with me just piddling around and trying to program a Trillian plugin. I then headed down to the Taste of Chicago in hopes of scoring a turkey leg and seeing the Counting Crows and They Might Be Giants. The first 30 seconds of TMBG was a bit of a letdown, so I went off in search of my turkey leg. Fat and happy a half-hour later, I wandered around the taste for a bit more watching all the people. Then it was time for Counting Crows - they were pretty good. There were people swaying and dancing all over the place, but alas - I merely rocked back and forth. ...

Awesome! Somebody actually went and made a non-profit Certificate Authority. Now I don’t have to munge around making my own damn certs! kewl.

Two or three years ago, it used to be the latest vulnerability that would get you into a network or box on the Internet. Whether it was IIS 4 or an old Red Hat 6.x box, you could be sure it was missing a patch or two that would allow you to sploit it. Today, Microsoft’s latest revision of it’s web server, IIS 6.0, has not had one security bulletin issued for it. Enough organizations have gotten slammed by worms that patches are kept mostly up-to-date. What remains the weakest link? The human element, and I’m not even referring to social engineering. I’m simply referring to people and their passwords. ...

…is about eating the good parts of the cookie. But you still gotta finish the whole thing!

Monad is the new shell that will be included in Windows Longhorn, and it looks like it’s going to be awesome! A beta test is available for your pleasure! I just signed up for it - I can’t wait to get the download information. I love my command line interfaces.

via Matt Hawley:You might be a geek if… …you go to a fancy resturaunt and tell them your name is “Lan” in hopes that when they call your name they say “Lan party of 3”.I’m definitely going to have to try this sometime.