Yeah, Microsoft wants to move to more web based services, yet they can’t even keep their Windows Live ID Service online. Ray Ozzie, do yourself a favor and give up your Cloud pipe dream, it’s not gonna work.
Look at the screenshot below, and awe at the awesome reliability of Windows Live ID:
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Seriously, you just gotta love em. I’ve had their FiOS service for over a year now, with speeds of 50mbit/s down and 5mbit/s up. This was all great and everything but I recently got a letter stating there would be a price increase this coming month of $5/month. So I was thinking maybe they had a better package as paying what would be $95 a month for internet was a bit much IMO.
I found out today that Verizon has introduced a new package in NY that sports a symmetrical down/up speed of 20 mbit/s for a very reasonable $65 a month. Granted I had to sacrifice a little on the download side, but with an upload that matched the download, I just couldn‘t resist it, and I saved money in the process!
 So like I said, gotta love Verizon. They should officially call this Tier the “Cablevision Killer” on Long Island as cable will NEVER touch upload speeds like this.
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Thanks to Kristan Kenney I have a new banner up on the site. This one fits a little better and has a bit of comic relief. So to those of you who thought this blog was completely serious, sorry to disappoint :).
 Anyway sometime tomorrow I’m gonna post an overall overview of SP1 and write about my experiences with it so far (which are somewhat interesting lol).
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I was just looking at my bandwidth stats and noticed that I’ve used a whopping 15 GB of bandwidth in 13 days.
After further looking I realized it was happening because some douchebag (who shall remain nameless for the sake of their safety and well being) decided to hotlink a 600KB wallpaper I had sitting on the server. 600KB in itself isn’t all that harmless but take into account that one file had over 35,500 hits and accounted for 14 of the 15 GB consumed, I had no choice but to enable hotlink protection. You can still link to pages and posts, but hotlinking images is no longer allowed.
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I’m sitting here thinking of ways to get more content onto this blog and I wanted to get some feedback from the readers. I was wondering how many of you would be interested in consistent posts containing tips for Vista and Longhorn Server. I’ve got a whole list of things, probably enough to do a guide of sorts but I think it would be better to post one a day or every couple of days to keep the page moving. What do you think?
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Well I have done what needed to be done to fix the absolutely horrendous MySQL load times, so everything should be better. I swear, 1and1 must outsource their MySQL servers to a bunch of casio calculators because it is THAT bad.
Well, enjoy the speed now, I know I am :).
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Well I found a way to (slowly but surely) restore all of my old blog posts, well most of them at least so you may notice some weirdness over the next day or so as I do this. I’m just glad that I have a way to get it all back :).
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Where do I begin? I still can’t believe that this has actually happened. It just seems so surreal to me, looking at my MSN list and seeing the name Utakz which will be offline from here on out. The beta community has lost a truly great contributor. I am really going to miss talking to him.
I can honestly say that I never had any bad run-ins with Utakz and for that I am thankful. He was a good friend and someone I could always talk to if I needed advice, or just someone to talk to. I could trust him with virtually anything and he never betrayed that trust. I do regret sometimes that I caused him to question his trust in me but I am glad that we made ammends in the end. Aaron (as you preferred to be called), you were a great contributor to the beta community, and even more, you were a great friend. You will truly be missed. RIP Buddy :(.
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Yeah I know, getting old isn’t it? 
I moved my operations to 1and1.com. Much faster and more reliable than who I was with. I would like to apologize for all of the downtime over the last 2 months. The host I was with had many issues that they seemed unable to fix. Those should be in the past now though 
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I’m working on something and we were importing a DB but it inadvertently overwrote my DB LOL. Well I don’t have a backup (because I’m a retard, I know, shut up). With that said it will take a little while for me to get everything back to normal again, but don’t worry, nothing of too great a value was lost :).
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