As Digg has grown so has the range of advertisers selling their content on the site. Unfortunately some of these advertisers don’t feel we pay enough attention to their sales pitches and have begun to use flash ads that will cover a good portion of the site content on mouse over. This is exceptionally frustrating, especially when it’s content that 99% of Digg users couldn’t care less about.

Make your voice heard and let Digg know we will not tolerate this type of intursive marketing. If something isn’t done soon I suggest using other options.

When trying to edit user profiles on an Active Directory child domain the action would cause the Users and Computers MMC interface to hang before displaying the following Exchange Extension error: “The operation failed. ID no: 80004005 Microsoft Active Directory - Exchange Extension”. Clicking OK then opens the profile without the Exchange tabs.

This is caused by the way the Exchange snap-in looks for the DC of the child domain. Instead of using the FQDN it’s trying to resolve the host name. For example if your parent domain is contoso.com and the child domain is sales.contoso.com with a Domain Controller of DC1.sales.contoso.com make sure you can resolve DC1 without the domain suffix. If you are using WINS then add it to your WINS server, if you are straight DNS then add a HOSTS entry on your local machine resolving to the IP of the child domain DC.

Today I received a promotional marketing mailer from HP that had a combination lock/safe inside. The box instructs you to contact your HP partner for a face to face meeting where you will get your combination to the safe to find out what the prize is. I really don’t have a current need for HP products and didn’t want to bother any of my vendors with something so trivial but was currious to see what was inside.

Inside is a very simple 3 place, 10 digit per place lock. The thing is mostly plastic so if you really wanted to crack it you could use a stick of dynamite or a butter knife to get into it. I simply pressed the open button while rolling each dial until I could feel the tumbler click and was able to open it in 2 minutes tops. There were no unique codes on the lock or the box that would indicate the padlock to be a unique combination so they are all probably the same. The magic numbers they used to secure the device? 1-2-3. Yup, sounds like they took a page right out of Spaceballs. Inside mine was a link and a code to a website which promises me a $25 Amazon gift card. I haven’t gotten a confirmation email back yet so we’ll see if they hold true on this promise.

Update 4/8/08: Unfortunately the actual promo site and code has been leaked to Dealspl.us. HP has taken down the site and it now redirects to a “Page Not Found”. Thanks for killing this for us user coupcoup on Dealspl.us. Jerk

My site gets a trickle of traffic each day. On average I have approximately 40 unique visitors to the blog with most of the hits coming as referrals coming from Google search. On April 1st all the computer pranksters were looking for Sysinternal’s Bluescreen Screen Saver as my traffic increased by a factor of 7.

Glad to see I could help with some April Fools debauchery.