The Daily WTF posted this great story today.  It reminds me of some of the issues I troubleshot a long time ago when I first learned the First Rule of Troubleshooting.
For as long as anyone could remember, there had always been two server rooms: the Cool Room and the Hot Room. The Cool Room was [...]

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Muerte on June 24th, 2008

Thanks to Information Week, we know that Microsoft plans to extend Windows XP support through 2014 and will, it seems, continue allowing .  From the article
“It’s true that we will stop selling Windows XP as a retail packaged product and stop licensing it directly to major PC manufacturers [after June 30],” wrote Veghte. “But customers [...]

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