Rolandes Ramblings

So, a little over a week ago I get the email from Microsoft that they are having a local Launch event for Vista and Office 2007. Knowing there would be freebies involved and the fact that I have been completely out of touch with M$ latest developments, I signed up.

I chose the half day morning event for what they called “IT Pros” covering Vista deployment, Office 2007 features and benefits, and Exchange 2007. The Vista walk-through was totally as expected. Lots of cool eye-candy, marketing, and some value-add functionality. Ooh…aahh…

However, to their credit, they actually have done a little more than the superficial repackaging of XP SP2 and started to take some steps in the right direction. They have incorporated Read more »

So, having sent our failed hard drive off to the Data Recovery Group in Northbrook, IL to try and recover the data, after a couple weeks we were finally told that there was no recoverable data. The official excuse was that the head hit the platters which pretty much negates any chance of recovery. They had to open the drive in their clean room and replace the damaged head which still did not help. I asked a few questions and the response I got just didn’t add up in my mind. I was sure that they just didn’t have the necessary tools or expertise to get the job done. So I decided we had to get a second opinion. Read more »

So, after having a catastrophic hard drive failure over this past weekend and being stupid enough not to have a current backup, I decided to beat the problem to death with a sledgehammer. This propels me into the strotosphere of ultra-geek-dom. Read more »

So, in the past year and a half I hadn’t done much but study for the stupid CCIE Exam. That led to an inevitably long list of things to do, once I finally re-entered life again. One of those things on the list had been to backup all of our important data Read more »