Congratulations to my old college roomie, Kahn Evans, and his wife Holly on the birth of their son, Payton Dean Evans yesterday after a long labor. 7lbs 12 oz, 21.5 inches long. Congratulations also to my old boss John VanDyk and his wife Tina on their new daughter, Bethany!
So, where does all this daylight that we're saving go? And when can I cash it in for something? My body did not want to get out of bed this morning, I was so deep in REM sleep that my wife claims she hit snooze on the alarm twice before I woke up, then had to scramble to make it to work on time. I'm betting that I fall asleep watching the NCAA championship game tonight, even though it is in HDTV...
No! Bad Tigger! Naughty Tigger! Wow, can you say "Public Relations Nightmare"?
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.
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!
