Taking the day "off"
I'm doing my annual laptop rebuild today (workstation, firewall, and fileserver will be later this month) along with some other sys-admin duties. For the most part, this means that my higher brain functions will go largely unutilized as I de-volve into a button-monkey. I've got new cell phone, a game-boy micro, and City of Heros to keep me occupied between running installs and config scripts.
For those curious as to what the general procedure is, I'll refer you to this little gem composed by Mark in '03.
Sadly, not much has changed on the XP side of things other than the additional steps of disabling some of the 'features' in SP2.
Happy, happy, joy, joy.