And we're back

We resume normal broadcasting.

Today we went to revisit one of our clients from ten days ago. Seems the printserver doesn't like to reconnect to the network - it falls off and won't renew its IP address, even though its static. Power cycling does the trick. I googled the problem and it seems that the manufacturers all agree - power cycling does the trick. Great.

They also have an issue of not being able to print to a printer other than the default from Outlook 2003. Microsoft is aware of the bug, but I'm sure we won't see any fixes. Its a minor issue, after all, and how long can we expect them to support a product that's all of five years old?

In unrelated news, I got a call from a colleague. He, under a heavy time constraint, had downloaded a spyware removal tool that turned out to be worse than the spyware itself. Be advised to avoid a piece of crap called SpyWatchE. It is malware and will make you hate life itself. The recommended cure is a little gem called Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware. You can get it from malwarebytes.org. Go get it now.