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Ballmer: Microsoft will power the mobile devolution

Someone should let him know he is too late. And devices that can use this won't be out for another 8 months… at least… wow.

Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Management SCMDM 2008. Rolls of the tongue huh? In another demonstration as to why marketing cannot be allowed to run amuk, Microsoft has once again developed a fully branded letter and word jumble. Since it's from microsoft… it must have microsoft in the title. They are also pushing system center hard at the moment… so it has to be there to. Mobile is a key marketing term for the windows mobile division… they probably tried and failed to throw windows in the title. Of course we can't forget the year. Without adding the year… how will people know they need to upgrade!!! Gotta have that churn. Why would you want to run any thing from last year?

It's just too simple to name applications what they really are.

Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill – washingtonpost.com

Could someone please explain to me why you would need to grant legal immunity to the phone companies if they are not breaking the law? 

UPDATE – Looks like someone woke up and stopped this madness for a moment.

Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill

We having been using VMware here at work for quite a while now. We have the full setup, and it all works really good. But we have had a very annoying problem with VMware convertor for some time now. It migrates virtual machines to ESX server from Virtual server just fine. Also handles Physical-toVirtual great as well. But after you get the VMs on to your ESX box, and you want to reconfigure them, or move them back to virtual server, you can't. You get this error "unable to determine guest operating system". After search the forums and such, we found little advice. But a small line at the bottom of a discussion board on a third party site had the answer. "unplug your usb drives". What? Bullshit. That can't be it. I took a look around my computer, and sure enough I had a USB floppy plugged in. I removed it and tried again… It worked.

So. If you use VMware convertor… UNPLUG YOUR USB DRIVES BEFORE RUNNING!

Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners – CNN.com

The response from our fearful leaders is, "Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that."

Indeed. 

White House: Genocide resolution would hurt relations with key ally – CNN.com

Incredibly… Well… I guess nothing is incredible from this government… is that they do not deny the genocide. It's just inconvenient. For them. I guess that sums up quite a bit about how these people work huh?

Kinda like the revelations that the bushies don't "torture". That's with torture being defined as something that kills you or leads to organ failure . So we chastize and impeach a president for playing with the meaning of the word "is", but redefining the entire lexicon of internal law and our constitution is ok. 

This isn't my country. It must be yours. Can I have mine back?

I got my iPhone for work back in june for a few reasons.

• I really wanted a touch screen ipod.
• I wanted a video ipod with a larger screen.
• I wanted portable email on my phone.
• I wanted a phone that didn't suck.
• I needed to test out our new external mail system at work.

You can see that none of these issues were related to cost. Good PDAs cost tons. My last ipaq was almost $700.00. A 400 dollar iPhone was no big deal to me. Imagine my surprise when I  went over the phone bills with my boss, and discovered that comparable service through verizon on our Q's was almost $120.00! I currently pay around $70.00 for my service.  Over the lifetime of the service, this really adds up and more than covers the added cost of the device it self.

I'm really confused now about why people are claiming the iphone plans are expensive. Maybe they should double check their overages. 

I think that's about everything.

Jenn… neverwhere.com is coming, but you blog is back up at jenn.mcbeen.com.

Joe… Your blog is back online at joe.mcbeen.com

The BBS is backonline as well. Complete miracle.

I'm staring at CPG right now trying to figure out how I want to attack it. We'll see.

Everything is finally coming back online. I'm in the process of restoring the site, but some of it may be a complete loss.

For things like coppermine, I have all the photos, but the since the db crashed on the old server, I cannot move the meta data over… kinda important. Same with the BBS. Not sure what I want to do about it for now. Ugh.

Anyways… Joe… your blog will be back online soon.

Jenn… I'm working on it. 

So it seems that godaddy and netsol don't like each other much. I tried going the easy way, and just pointed network solutions at godaddy. No go. either email worked or the website….not both. So…what the hell… we'll just move the domain right? Nope… I updated my contact info a few weeks back, so netsol won't let me. It's for my own good you know.

It looks like I'll be able to function for now… I went ahead and move authority for my domain to netsol for the first time, and I am now managing all entries on their servers. So far so good.

What's more fun, is that I have been wrestling with this for a couple days now… and no response from netsol or godaddy for assistance.

Sink or swim right?