Something techie I can do...

Part of my slight lack of posting over the Christmas break was due to my stressing over a wee project to install Small Business Server 2003 for a small office. It's basically Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003 bundled together in an "easy to configure" package. Add to that the fact that HP were offering a small server with it preinstalled, and it should have been simple. Alas, no, it's a big fucking disaster, actually. I've spent nearly 16 hours working on it (twice what it should have taken for the WHOLE job) and I can't even connect to an Exchange mailbox. It's driving me insane, and it's bloody embarrassing. Anyway.

What I have managed to do this evening is install Ubuntu on my laptop, dual-booting with Windows 2000. Since my Windows 2000 partition took up the whole hard disk, I was having mild qualms about using ntfsresize to try and shrink down the partition in order to create new ones; imagine my delight when I found that it's bundled as part of the Ubuntu installer. Some tweaking later, here I am happily composing this on my new Linux OS.

How ironic I can get Linux working when I'm a Windows/Exchange admin, and I can't get that working... It just kills me, ho ho.

The "girly" meme...

I had to do this for a laugh:
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45. DO YOU HAVE A LOT OF MAGAZINES?
Hell no. I have books. Although I do enjoy Metro magazine (Auckland) and I used to like The Face before they started writing only for 16 year olds.

Who's funny now?

Apparently we Cancerians are the funniest star sign. "The survey by UKTV Gold showed 11 per cent of our favourite funnymen and women are Cancerians." Each sign is 8 1/3% of the zodiac, so that's a statistically significant number. Eee!

And, in keeping with my non-grokking of Aquarians in general, the Aquarius "comedians" they cite are two whom I find deeply unfunny.

And of course Leos are at the bottom of the list. God forbid that anyone laugh at them! :-)