Yesterday I finally got it together to do the reinstall on Deanne’s macbook. She had a 60GB drive which blew up 8 days ago and may be beyond repair. Pisser. The Mac store wanted $220 for a new drive installed. WTF?! I was able to get this off of newegg for $66 rushed. So, set up the hard drive, reinstalled, ran updates. All that’s left is office install. Done.
Next up was the SharePoint 2007 server install that I was hoping to get doen this weekend. I had managed to pull down the office and WSS updates and get them into the install updates folder, commonly referred to as a slipstream install and got the installation going. Going to check back on this in a while.
Next up is the HP media station box that I am handing off to Deanne’s brother – it is a beast of a box with 2 230 GB drives, firewire, rca in and outs, 8 USBs and 2 GB Ram. Heck, it will run the heck out of Ubuntu 9.10, but I figure I am going to put Windows on there as not everyone is all about the *nix, fair enough.
So I install Vista and come back to Ubuntu as usual, but it looks like this process hoses the menu.lst file, meaning it is not easily modified (subtext, I can’t find it). So, the dual boot Ubuntu / Vista box is more than likely going to be an XP / Ubuntu box. Run patches, setup users, I will come back to the office install. Done

My living room is a hardware graveyard
All this is going on while I am taking care of Deanne, who is a bit under the weather, going to the home depot and checking off sundry honey-do list items.
It looks like the service account I was doing the Content Admin service account I was using to setup the SharePoint install does not have an Service Principal Name setup – F@rgh..! So, I dish a ticket to my colleagues out in Chicago and send a nice note to follow up so they have something other than a ticket from me waiting in their inbox. Thankfully, they are very good at what they do.
So today, what is going on today? We’re heading off to Target in a bit for new menorahs, Hanukah candles and some fun new wind up dreidels. Hopefully, going to catch some of the Chargers and the Browns today down at Stephan and Jen’s house and maybe even get some gifts wrapped and clean a little house.