Had a weird client problem trying to connect to our servers this morning. She switched her machine on and was unable to lookup the address’s of our unix servers, pings came back with host unknown.
Doing a ipconfig /flushdns and a ipconfig /registerdns and it all worked again – I can tell its going to be one of those days again.
I’ve dropped the MSN feed for Absoblogginlutely as everytime my reader updates the feed it adds another X number of entries to the feed – again – even though the results are the same as the last time the query was run.
We went to see The Incredibles tonight. Kristen purchased her ticket and I got in free as I was doing a cinecheck. The film was excellent – very well drawn, funny and a good plot line too. The only down side is that there wasn’t any funny bits/blooper reel at the end of the credits, much to the disappointment of the 30 or so of us who had stayed to watch all of the credits.
I’ve been changing some more user profiles in outlook this week as we’ve moved users across to a new server. On almost every machine I’ve had to blow away the user profile in outlook and recreate a new one.
The latest error message I got was on a client machine connecting to the lan via a VPN connection and getting a message “The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is down for maintenance.” The weird thing is that I could telnet to the server, ping it, resolve names – just not open the mailbox on the server. After checking various things such as firewall configs,rpc ports I created a new profile – and it worked. Deleted the old one, tried to recreate it as best as I could and now the user is happy.
The Zoomquilt has a recursive set of pictures similar in principle to that which you would see when looking into a mirror looking into a mirror. Some of the art is rather dark but the technique used is great. I’d recommend the flash version for viewing.
I did a search for absoblogginlutely on MSN Search this morning and on checking the results found that another blogger has used this blogs name as a category in her blog. Not sure why there is a category called that, but I guess imitation is the best form of flattery 
Cool – I now have pop3 access to gmail AND I can have my email forwarded to another account. Not really sure why I’d want to do that though with all this 1gb of space to play with. (jk). The pop3 access will be really handy though as it is much easier to check with a pop3 client than use the web browser or gmail notifier. The pop3 access will also make it easier to check multiple gmail accounts as the various gmail notifier programs that previously existed didn’t seem to like swapping between accounts very often.
Oh – and if you haven’t got access to pop then don’t moan at me, its a phased implementation.
I’ve seen this on yahoo this morning, but the sequence of photos at realroot is really funny. But where does the man in blue in picture 3 go to in picture 4? The attitude of the guy in red in picture 4 is funny too. Blue man turns up in picture 6 (phew0
There’s a trojan out for symbian phones called skulls trojan. Along with a photo of an infected phone comes the rather obvious quote “the most obvious symptom of the trojan in that the typical programs don’t work and that their icons get replaced with a skull”
I registered for the beta of Windows Update Services today. This is the successor to the OS only patching tool and will also include patches for office etc. Not sure whether I will get a chance to deploy it here as they want to minimise network changes (and we’re doing enough interruption as it is) but we’ll see. I may even deploy it at home for updating friends pc’s quickly.
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