complich8’s journal

I swear …
Some things are timed mind-bogglingly badly…
Like … my router/fileserver’s os drive completely dying. In catastrophic and horrible ways.
Yeah … it’s not pretty. Not pretty at all. Basically it just completely nuked itself.
I didn’t lose anything particularly important, but rebuilding the configs is incredibly irritating, and there’s some minor importance stuff [...]

So, the irritating Wordpress database/admin flakeout has come back. It was about … maybe 10 clicks of the “save” button.
I’m trying to track down what could be causing this, and looking into wordpress’s guts. Which is probably not a great idea, because I don’t know php for squat. But anyway …
I’m sort [...]

HKCR/Directory/shell
That is all.

A couple days ago I set up an AD domain controller for my workplace. I was faced with a dilemma that I still am not 100% decided on: what should I do about passwords?
See, the passwords my users are using right now are really, incredibly, disturbingly weak. They’re short, they’re bad, they’re all-lowercase [...]

Allergies kicked on today.
Seems like they were later onset than they were last year. Glad I had some sudafed.
I think I’ll probably have to pick more up tomorrow though … I don’t have a whole lot left.
So yeah … kinda sucks. Ok, more than just kinda … really sucks.
Last year they went on [...]