A few weeks ago someone had asked to purchase iishacks.com from me. When I declined, he became quite irate. Granted the price was good, but money really doesn’t do it for me. After all, Sysadmins aren’t in it for the money…

Immediately after I declined, I started getting hundreds of spam messages, then thousands, then millions. In the last few weeks I’ve gone from a couple spam messages to hundreds of thousands per day.

So the plan is to track where the messages are coming from, and then get him back. Hope he’s listening.

On a side note, I’m quite impressed Wordpress and MySQL were able to handle the load. I mean, it is a Windows Server!

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A bit off-topic…I came across G-Fox: the mascot for Firefox China. It’s so cute that I might convert.

Found here: http://www.mozillaonline.com/products/gfox/

I bet everyone knows where to download Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

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With a fresh install of Windows 2003 on the Intel SE7221BA1-E server board, no default graphics driver is loaded. This causes an “out of range” message to appear on most monitors after the LOAD screen finishes, when the logon screen is supposed to appear.

The solution is to press F8 when the server loads up and either enter SAFE MODE or VGA MODE.

Then install the Intel Chipset drivers found here and the Intel Graphics drivers found here.

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