Bad Tigger
/No! Bad Tigger! Naughty Tigger! Wow, can you say "Public Relations Nightmare"?
Imaging an Optiplex GX270
/Tom Turner, one of my co-workers at UNI, has posted a good tip for anyone experiencing problems attempting to image a Dell Optiplex GX270 with DeployCenter/ImageCenter:
If you have a Dell OptiPlex GX270 with integrated Intel Pro 1000 MT (i82540) networking and a SATA hard drive, you will likely have problems imaging the system with PowerQuest's ImageCenter 5.x (5.51 and 5.50 tested). I spent several hours trying every trick I could think of with various boot disks and many versions of both MS NDIS2 and Novell Client32 NIC drivers, but ImageCenter (as part of DeployCenter) - PQIMGCTR.EXE - would always hang at various stages. I never got past the part where you name the image you want to create, though; it would always lock up, before getting to the final screen.
Star Wars on DVD
/If you know you're going to want Star Wars on DVD, I'd advise you to head over to Amazon and pre-order it, at a savings of 40% off, as it's surely going to go up when it's released!
Monitor Calibration?
/Does anyone have any good tips for monitor calibration? I've hooked up a CRT and an LCD to my work machine now, and the picture between the two is vastly different in terms of brightness and intensity, and I'm looking for tips on the "right" way to calibrate all this stuff.
Barely functioning
/I hauled my carcass into work today, I was out sick yesterday, and have been feeling pretty crappy since Saturday afternoon. I'm at least functional today, and had some work I needed to get done, so with the power of Sudafed, I'm going to try to last the day. Most of the congestion seems to have left my head, so I'm not quite as miserable as I had been, though I'm starting to get a nice hacking cough going...
