Well, the internet is starting to get back to normal finally (although UUNET looks like they still have problems). This one can't be totally blamed on Microsoft though. They released a patch for SQL Server last year, there's just a bunch of admins who don't patch (which MS is sorta responsible for by claiming they don't need "expensive admins"). The fact that MSDE is installed by everything, listens on the nework when it probably doesn't have to, and is vulnerable even though most people don't know it's installed is something Microsoft and other vendors who install it probably should have dealt with better though (it should have been listed that half of their products install MSDE).

I think I've finally caught up on sleep... After upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 (successfully, but with little sleep) in 2 days without playing around with the software at all first, and then 2 tests and a bunch of homework during the week, I came home last night and slept for a good 15 hours. Much better now. BTW, if you're planning on upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000, beware that depending on the migration method some extra mailbox permissions may be lost, and that MS reworked the way permissions are applied now (the integration with active directory means permissions to additional boxes are applied based on user rather than based on primary box). And now k5 is slow, so can't catch up there very easily...