User Acceptance

March 16th, 2010 by sirslur


Getting one of my deployments of CRM fully rolled out has been a slow process. When I started, they only wanted to use part of the sales functionality.  They wanted  to use Accounts, Contacts, Orders, Invoices, and Leads (orders and invoices were being integrated over from Great Plains).  As you can see, not very [...]

Windows Server 2008 – Missing Drive Space

February 6th, 2010 by sirslur


The story begins with me needing more drive space on my backup drive.  I allocated the extra space from our SAN.  Then I went into the server and told it to expand the drive with the extra space.
This is where it gets weird.  I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and [...]

Microsoft Is Slow

October 26th, 2009 by sirslur


I don’t know about you, but Microsoft’s site is slower than sugarcane syrup on a cold Saturday morning.  I was even getting timeout errors earlier today when I was trying to search the site.  I have not found out why it is slow, but will and then I will let you know.

Hohm and powermeter

October 19th, 2009 by sirslur


Well, Google and Microsoft are at it again.  They want to know more information about you.  This time it is how much power you are using.  Honestly, it does look pretty cool to know how much power you are using and when.  The bad thing is the unknown.  What are these two companies going to [...]

No Controller Needed – XBox 360

June 8th, 2009 by sirslur


My daughters might never learn ‘up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A, select, start’ codes.  They will more than likely have to do some weird dance or movements to get the secret codes for games.
If you do not know what I am talking about, it is project Natal from Microsoft.  They are [...]

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