Well, it's now middle of the week, our IT guy finally come around to configure my notebook to join domain¹. It went well, the fella took nearly about 2 hours just to go through my security configuration! And after he joined domain, he forgot to put my name under the administration group. I called them up but they said the ticket has already been closed and if I need their help again, I have to log in another call.

Now you'll understand why we call them the IT monkeys!

I don't need their help. I just pop over to NT Offline Password to get the latest Linux bootdisk to reset the administrator password. And guess what? The website was banned! It was listed as CRIMINAL! I guess true to their modus-operandi: "If you cannot control it, ban it". Luckily I have one old copy of the software.

Load it up, reset the password, add my name to the administrative group and it took me less than 2 minutes.

¹ Domain is a security network within our network to give priviledged access so that we have greater access to our network resources.