If you get a message “System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or Assembly name xxxxxx.dll, or one of its dependencies, was not found” where xxxx is a random name then you need to add the Network Service account change permissions on %systemroot%\Temp as per the readme for wsus
After changing my default outlook login setup on a mail server, I realised that the SUS server was complaining that the SelfUpdateTree was not working. Fix in extended entry.
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This list of smarthosts for the major isps in the US should come in handy if your dsl ip address gets on a blacklist. Hopefully the isp’s are more concerned if their own smarthost gets on the blacklist. A quick change to exchange’s smtp server and a restart should get mail flowing (to roadrunner for example) again.
Or that is certainly the impression that the US Government seems to be giving to me.
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If you’ve not see the trunk monkey ads, then watch all of them
Found my 400th cache yesterday – a great day out caching – thanks for the company Team Lefor!
I decided that I needed some more memory for the pc at home as the performance is really sluggish and slow – switching between newzcrawler, thunderbird and firefox takes about 5-10 seconds. The pc has 512mb of memory already but it obviously needs more so I’ve purchased 2 sticks of 512mb memory for $80 (including postage). Considering this is less than the price of one stick from compusa I’m pretty pleased with the price and hopefully the pc will start to behave like normal – especially as I plan to set up a LAN party in the near future, I need a decent performing pc! I got the memory from NewEgg but I have to wait a couple of days before it gets here.
In a meeting today I got asked if I knew what Sunday was – I had no idea until it was pointed out to me that it was my 6 month anniversary of working for the company. There is still some discussion over whether this is a bi-annual event or not (as noone can agree on whether biweekly means twice a week or every other week – personally I solve the problem by saying a fortnight but people have no idea what that means). Anyway, I’ve been there for 6 months so now have my review coming up. I must say it’s been a very fast 6 months – I’ve learnt a lot, gained several qualifications, had a couple of late night pages, had some good laughs and been very productive. I wonder whats going to happen in the next 6 months……..
Symantec’s Save & Restore should be out any day now – this was some software that I attempted to betatest – the feature list is pretty impressive with incremental ghost-like images that can be merged back into a master ghost image is pretty useful – a bit like having full and differential backups but never having to create more than one full backup. In the case of my home system that is really handy as I have 130gb of data – an awful lot to backup more than once onto a hard disk (let alone dvd’s)
I’ve finally had enough with the trackback spam and have disabled trackbacks on the blogs – It’s very rare that I get a valid trackback so I’m not missing much – by all means link to me – I’ll see it by checking the referrer logs.