Tried to uninstall SUS on one of the servers at work and came up with the error message “could not set file security for c:\config.msi” as part of the install. This is fixed by stopping the installation and then creating config.msi on the root of c:\ and granting everyone full control. Restarting the uninstallation and it works fine.
Just got back from watching Oceans 12 and the film really is naff. Not worth watching so save your money. At least we only paid half price due to it being Orange Wednesday today.
There’s a work around for the idn flaw which involves creating a file on the local machine. Looks complicated for a non-techie to install but works by only allowing alphanumeric (a-z and 1-9) as characters in a url. I guess it won’t be long before an official patch comes along though.
Just finished reading Dave Gorman’s googlewhack adventure. Its a very good story of how he flies around the world, several times and is especially interesting as part of his journey takes him to Columbus and to areas that Kristen knows about.
Google now have a local page which enables you to search for local businesses. Only seems to work for the states though – or at least it doesn’t work for uk address’s (and its not in google.co.uk)
I installed Windows Update Services on a new server this morning (the old sus server did not have the free disk space or software requirements) and I edited group policy on my laptop to make my machine talk to the new server. However when I then tried to use group policy on the servers I got a “string is too long” when editing the policies. This is a known bug and is fixed by installing an update kb842933 (which needed a reboot)
The good news is that my green card has now arrived at home, the bad news is that it isn’t green. Weird eh?
I actually saw this a couple of days ago but didn’t get round to blogging it but it is now possible to spoof urls in non-ie browsers by using special encoding of characters. A lot of us know that &20 is actually a space, but there are a lot of numbers higher up in the thousands that also look like characters and this is partly to do with the problem. The problem is something called idn.
The link i posted above is reporting on the original website that discovered the problem
Update URL fixed and warning removed. (thanks for the comment Jeff)
Well I’ve discovered a weird “feature” in internet explorer where half the time the logo in Cuptealuv only half appears and sometimes it only does the top 10% – but only in ie. The same page in firefox displays just as I want it. The problem is that ie doesn’t have webdeveloper extensions so I can’t turn on the borders around div’s to try and work out what is going wrong. Even in html kit in an offline copy it seems to work in ie in the preview window (which uses ie) but then doesn’t when you view in the browser itself – very frustrating and any clues appreciated. I’ve been using the tips at wordpress guide to get the look and until i had the height of the graphic correct it wouldn’t even appear correctly in preview but now that it does I’m stumped.
Update Well I’ve given up on the css style of doing the header but as it was just a graphic it was “easier” to just load the graphic in place of the header information for the webpage. I say easier as I had to edit the individual templates in MT and add the line in and then rebuild all the entries but it now seems to work. If you are still only getting half a pic or one and a half pics then press refresh.
Neil – thanks for the info, it didn’t help me solve the problem but will be of use for further development, thanks.
I’m amazed that some of Microsoft’s MVP’s on Security are 14 and 17 years old. Just how do they manage to know all this stuff and get all those qualifications by their age?