mike's musings

Oh hey look, I’m a moron and when I did my redesign I gave no links to my other pages. GO ME GO. Anyhow, I’ve half assed fixed that by adding pages on the side. I also added twitter on the side, cause I actually post stuff on there.

So for the last week or so, my Embarq DSL has been acting wonky. Multiple outtages, now stretching into multiple DAYS worth of outtages, and they seem completely unable to resolve this.

I’ve finally given up, and am trying out Clear WiMax.  Since my DSL was stagnant at 3MB/768kb anyhow, Clear is saying they can offer 6MB/1MB Home AND Mobile internet for LESS than I’m paying for Embarq’s DSL service, and I’m getting it for half off for 6 months.  My equipment should be arriving this afternoon, so hopefully I’ll actually have internet again at home tonight, and then I can just cancel embarq’s craptastic service.  I’ll post some updates as to how Clear’s service is.

I just really wanted to mention how much I <3 the win7 installer.  I’ve got a GX620 optiplex in the house that I realized had no cd-rom, and wouldn’t boot from a flash drive, so i copied the win7 install files from my flash drive to an NTFS formatted usb hard drive, and it installed wicked fast.

Win7 is full of win and love and butter.

Ok, so after many days of frustration and troubleshooting, I think I have this problem licked.

First off, setup your network to enable RPC over HTTP, and confirm it works with Outlook 2k3.

Keep in mind you WILL need a valid SSL cert from a trusted authority.  I recommend a cheap cert from godaddy, as they can be had for between 13-30 bucks if you catch a sale.

Once you have your cert, follow the instructions here:

http://www.petri.co.il/how-can-i-configure-rpc-over-https-on-exchange-2003-single-server-scenario.htm

And make sure you test your exchange connectivity, and make sure RPC over HTTP is working for a standard Outlook 2k3 install.

Once you’ve followed those steps, test your configuration here:

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

All green? Gooooood.

Now, this is where it gets weird. In your Outlook 2k7/Vista machine, go to control panel-mail, and setup your new profile. 

For your Exchange server, enter the INTERNAL FQDN of your mail server, ie servername.domain.local, selected cached mode so you can get decent performance out of your setup, and enter your username.

Select more settings, go to Security, and set it to Kerberos for now. (We’ll come back to this.)

Go to the Connection tab, and under Outlook Anywhere put a check in “connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP”, and then click the Exchange Proxy Settings button

Under connection seetings, enter the URL for your OWA server, and put a check Connect using SSL only.  Also check both “On fast networks”… and “On slow networks…”  Set your Proxy Authentication settings to Basic authentication.

Click OK, and then OK again, at which point you should get a pop up warning about using Kerberos from outside a firewall.  Hit ok and continue.  Go ahead an open outlook, enter your username as Domain.local\username  and password, and outlook should probably fail.  At this point go back to your exchange settings, and change you Logon security back to NTLM instead of Kerberos.  Reopen Outlook, and you should now connect.

Stupid and crazy compared to every other version of Outlook\Entourage, but there you go, it worked for me

See this? This is the beginning of things that lead to awesome.

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Yeah, I changed the layout back, but I updated the header. I’ll probably buy another domain name soon, under the pretext that it will make me update it more. Even though I won’t, cause I’m lazy.

Since the munchkin is now living with me, I’m working on putting together a Jawa costume for her so she can go trooping, and I’ll be putting up pics as parts arrive and it gets assembled. Robe is being custom made right now, blaster will be ordered Friday, and the bandolier is on its way. Now to replace my TK helmet with an RT-Mod, and mod my blaster, and start on my Tusken, and finish my imperial officer, and Darth Revan….*sigh*

And finally, my daughter has given me an excuse to upgrade to a DSi soon, her old original DS Fatty is dying, so I’m gonna pass on the DS Lite, and get a DSi for myself. Got a classic NES styled Gameboy Advance coming for the old school goodness since DSi has no GBA slot J

1:33 PM

i like meatloaf

Chris 1:34 PM

I like meatloaf

Mike1:35 PM

i don’t like it with gravy though

1:35 PM

i never have liked gravy

Chris 1:35 PM

I like gravy

Mike1:35 PM

its icky

Chris 1:37 PM

you’re icky

Mike1:38 PM

oh yeah?

1:38 PM

well

1:38 PM

WITTY RETORT

Chris 1:40 PM

comment about your mom

Mike1:40 PM

BARBED REPOSTE

Chris 1:40 PM

questioning your sexuality

Mike1:41 PM

query regarding familial sexual relations in your lineage

Chris 1:43 PM

discussion on you listening to dashboard confesional.

Mike1:43 PM

confrontation regarding your britney spears listening

Chris 1:51 PM

damn it!

Mike1:51 PM

i win

Is it normal to hate life for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? I am finding that it feels rather pointless that I even show up at my job as no one listens to what I recommend, no one cares about what we do, and everyone just complains over things we have no control over.

Seriously, what’s the point?

Is it normal when you approach 30 that you realize just how utterly ridiculous and pointless your employment is. How much no one would notice if your job or company just *poof* disappeared. It wouldn’t really effect anything at all.

Is it too much to want your job to mean something, to have some sort of impact on the world around other than promoting straight greed?

Am I asking to much?