The fix to the onboard AMD Ethernet adapter fails after upgrading to Microsoft Windows 2000 did the trick.
Needed to burn some software onto CD for a server that I’m rebuilding that will not let me install the network card for. I downloaded a 22mb file onto the laptop and then somehow had to get it onto the server. XP would let me go through the motions of burning the file onto cd but then kept telling me to put a blank disk in (it was a brand new (expensive) one I had purchased from Tesco). Booted into Mandrake and ran through the k3 burn wizard in Gnome. This detected the cd drive and all looked hunkydory until I tried to burn the cd when it decided that I didn’t actually have a cd device available. Logged into KDE and same result. However right clicking on the cdrom icon on the desktop gave me the option to burn to cd – lo and behold that worked. So I’ve now got the Raid software on the server….now to get the network card working. Anyone know how to get round a “parameter not correct” problem when installing an AMD PCnet card into an IBM X-Series 230 and upgrading the box from nt4 to w2k?
I installed a trial version of Office 2003 that runs out Feb 29th 2004. Will be interesting to see if I’m totally hooked on Outlook2k3 by then. First impressions are that it looks good. However I’ve vpn’ed into the office and connecting to outlook remotely 2 mins after activating the software online. The annoying thing is that I get a systray popup message saying that its trying to get email from my mailserver. I’m sure (i hope) that I can turn this off after all when you hit the “connect” button it does normally mean that you want to get email from the server so why tell you? Like I say this is posted a couple minutes after installation and I’ve not read any documentation, manuals, help files or menus – I’m a techie remember!
Count the number of people, wait a few seconds and then count again. Then scratch your head and work out how on earth they’ve done this.
Cracked the problem with Feed on Feed not detecting gotdotnet blogs and posted the one (simple) line change to the Feed on Feed forum along with a suggestion on what to look for with radio pages so they could also be autodetected. That would take a bit more work but I reckon I could do it….someday.
If you go to the Microsoft Office homepage in Phoenix it tells you that you need to be running ie5.01 (which isn’t supported by Microsoft anymore!) or Netscape Navigator 6 or later. NOw I would have thought Phoenix is later than NN6 as it comes from the same source originally (i’m sure Neil will correct me if i’m wrong). So you click on the “more information on supported browsers” where they pop up a message saying people may get problems even when using a supported browser. Then asks you if this page helped. When you say No it asks you WHY ….after selecting “information is wrong” the Next button doesn’t do anything. Unfortunately if you use ie6 then you are unlikely to see the error message and therefore can’t go through the wizard.
GFI have updated their Email Anti Virus and Security Testing Zone with some more checks for recent vulnerabilities. Well worth a scan on your exchange server (as long as you have the approval of your administrator as some of these tests may trigger security notifications). I’ll be testing our server tomorrow morning.
Lisa writes an open letter to her pets which i’m sure all animal lovers will agree with.
Microsoft’s technet website is getting worse and worse. I searched on the technet site for 0x00000050 and it came back with no results found. Search all of Microsoft and it comes back with 4 results plus links to more results (4 of them). NONE of these results brings back article A “Stop 0x00000050” Error Message Occurs During an Upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. Surely the Indexing service should find results. They can’t disable number searches as most of MS errors will have a number to query against (otherwise whats the point in putting in on the screen in the first place?) If you use the google interface and search for 0x00000050 it returns 1790 results with the first 3 being different microsoft articles all with 0x00000050 in the subject.
If you remove IIS from an exchange server then you are really going to be in trouble and you will need a reinstall of ii2 and then exchange. A Technet article, 323672, explains what happens when the Exchange Routing Engine Service Does Not Start Automatically or Manually After You Remove IIS and Then Reinstall It which normally happens after you get a Event id 7000 When Attempting to Start Exchange Services (and no it wasn’t me who did this but I did have to recover from it)