This morning I was scheduled to demote a domain controller that I replaced last week. Sounds easy enough. I've done it hundreds of times.

All you need to do is go to a run command and type "dcpromo". Isn't it funny you always have to start something to shut it down? Why not type "DCdemote"?
After typing in the command I clicked for all the prompts to finish.

While it was going through its demotion I thought I would catch up on a little reading....

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A month ago I asked our Scott, our service manager, if he would purchase a video editing system.

We record all our radio shows in our studio, which is located in our office, but I wanted to add video to our show.

We started recording our radio show using a mini DV camcorder made by Sony a few months ago. It worked out pretty well but after posting it online it seemed kind of boring just watching two guys talk for an hour while sitting at a table (despite our witty...

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For the first time ever, I have decided to attempt to use speaking instead of typing to get my work done.

I purchased a Logitech USB headphone and microphone combination. I then used Windows Vista to setup the computer to use my voice for writing this blog.

Although there've been typos, for the most part it's doing a great job. I even set it up to run windows commands, such as starting and closing programs. It's a little clumsy, but I think he will be a big time...

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You know when someone really upsets you (this sounds like Andy Rooney) that you feel like lashing out against them? But when you do lash out in anger you sometimes burn a bridge that cannot be fixed.
That happened to me over the weekend.
Rather than give specific details someone said something that made it look like I was being betrayed by what I thought was a friend.
When I actually confronted him I had some time to cool down and give him the benefit of the doubt. It turned...

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We had a hugely successful show at the Portland Convention center. It was the annual Innotech Show and this was our first year.
We recorded our show onsite and did some great interviews. To hear the show we recorded just go to alltechradio.com and click on the latest show to listen online.
We had so many people who wanted to be on the show we are going to have to split it into two weeks.
We also did an IBM demo of the Blade Center S Class and the ISCSI storage device.
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