No, I’m not talking about racial profiling or other law enforcement debates.
I’m talking about the problems that occur when I note to our tech guys that I don’t seem to be logging into our local NT Domain at the office. Being a Novell shop, that’s not a huge problem, and I’ve been able to log into various servers directly (like our Exchange server) with no problems.
“Here, I can take care of that. We just need to set you up here logging into the domain as well. No problem.”
Well, except that all the frickin’ settings, files, cookies, favorites, registry entries, documents, etc., are all carefully lumped by XP (et al.) into specialized folders for the local user profile. And there’s no easy button that says, “Oh, you’re going to start logging into a domain now? Would you like to point to all your old settings, files, cookies, favorites, registry entries, documents, etc. with your domain account’s profile on this machine?”
I.e., I’m sort of half-reinstalling, re-pointing, re-customizing things on my notebook. Again.
This, I am informed, is progress.
I keep thinking to myself, by the way, “I’d better be sure to back up my system.” That is followed up by two thoughts:
1. “Back up what? I keep having to make fundamental changes every couple of days.”
2. “Well, gee, Dave, you’ve done it all so often now, you can reinstall the frelling machine from scratch.”
Grrrrr ….
Poor baby. I pity you.