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:: Saturday, September 13, 2003 ::

It's finaly happend.

This week I came home from work and couldn't face turning on my PC. I'd had enough of computers and if one more thing went wrong with one more machine that day no matter how small a problem, I would never be able turn one on again in my life (which would kinda fuck up my career).

The past few weeks I've been doing what is known in sysadmin circles as "a domain migration", basicaly changing the operating system on _every_ machine in the organisation (7 servers, 200+ desktops and 70+ laptops in my case).

This is not the first time I've done this, and this is not the first time things have gone pear shaped.

To cut a long, boring and very very geeky conversation short, Micro$oft still suck.

But virii writers suck more.

I'd worked very hard getting XP on to all those boxes (well me and a monkey) but I didn't get a chance to do two very important things: patch and install AntiVirus.

I was just setting up an AV server when I noticed the network slowing down. I feared the worst.

I suppose I deserved all I got.


But I think I've beaten it now, and am looking forward to work once more.*




* Though this could be attributed to discovering a new workplace activity: stealth disco

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