Started off the day by deciding to not bother with the LDAP domain at all since we're getting the AD domain up so soon anyways. Then after a bunch of routine stuff managed to get out for lunch with Raadt (the new webmaster). Finished up a bit early so figured I'd get my utilities straightened out. Xcel was nice to deal with, they're pretty good about the fact that they don't need an SSN to establish service. Comcast on the other hand not only has some really weird policies but is a company you want to have as little personal information about you as possible. The crazy policy as mentioned before is they have to physically disconnect service before you can schedule replacement service. As for the personal information, I was given the name of the current resident just in passing without even being asked, and offered and given the phone number without having to ask either. Both without needing to identify myself in any way other than "I'm buying this house". All in direct violation of their privacy policy (yes, I looked) unless I can somehow be considered a "potential business transition partner" and had some sort of obligation of confidentiality (I'm pretty sure the "this call may be recorded" doesn't help that any). Very comforting to know, huh? :( I'll have to talk with them a bit when I set up service I think... Later on in the afternoon I set up another windows domain/forest and set up trusts with our current domains. That all works great for the most part, but there seems to be some sort of problem with the domains seeing each other fine one second and then saying it doesn't exist the next. Since they share a DNS server that has the complete data I'm not sure what's up yet, but hopefully it'll stabilize with replication and start working normally. It'd be nice to have the ability to add to groups normally and not only one way randomly. Most of the evening was spent reading slashdot (what else is a geek to do). Apparently lots of bloggers have problems with spam. I guess that's one advantage of a totally custom system (although who knows if more and more people start using it).