The calm before the storm. Actually, it's not too quiet - Microsoft got slap-happy, and changed their way of doing businesss with the automatic updates. This morning several users logged in, only to be presented with a lovely dialog box that resembles so many of the fake warnings, telling my folks that their machines were vulnerable. How sweet of Microsoft not to mention that little tidbit in the description of the patch, because if they click Yes to have it check for vulnerabilities, it sends them to the update page, and prompts them to update Office, which we don't want them to do because that requires a CD. Plus, the "vulnerabilities" in Office are so minute in our environment, it would be pointless to bother going to all 240 machines to do it. I guess we could do a reg hack and change the install location to point to a share, but the heck of it is, we have three or four different corporate install disks, and the update requires the CD Office was installed with. I hate Bill Gates. He should run for President - he certainly knows how to screw things while maintaining job security for all us tech types.
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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