The DreamLand Express - Charles Oppermann's Software Blog

I'm selling my first item on eBay this week, a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse with a tiltwheel.

As I've alluded to in other posts, I'm now working at Cisco Systems doing consulting on their Active Directory infrastructure.

I never thought I'd be doing this.  As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop.  Egads!

Is Google an infallible power?

I hate rebooting.  Most people do.  All too often though, it's the only way to get running again.  Think it's a problem only to Microsoft Windows?  Imagine having to do 130 reboots before you could get working again. That’s what NASA’s Mars rover Spirit had to do when it ran out of memory on January 21, 2003. 

As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming.  When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000” into the title of the book, as it would seem obsolete when the next version of the Windows Server came out.