I think I’m getting a bit closer in my hunt to work out why the computer seems to spontaneously combustreboot when I am doing certain things. A lot of the time it seems random but there are certain things I do that make it reboot. Viewing a certain gif file in a certain package, or going to www.merzo.net in Phoenix. The quick answer of course is to stop doing those things. However I logged on as a new user on the w2k box, went to the merzo site and it didn’t reboot. Therefore I think its a corrupt w2k profile that is causing problems. I tried creating a new Phoenix profile in the normal w2k profile but this didn’t solve the problem. Incidentally the Merzo website has some pretty cool artwork on it and when you move the mouse over the pictures something happens.
I’ve been hearing loads about the PDC conference that various MS bods have been too yet nowhere, until now, have I seen what PDC stands for. It has nothing to do with Primary Domain Controllers or blogging. It actually stood for “Professional Developers Conference”
Brought the Outlook2k3 laptop into the office to synch all the changes I’d made whilst out of the office this week. Interesting to see that Outlook 2k3 doesn’t show the email marked as spam (as I deleted it whilst offline). However the outlook2k desktop, which looks at the same exchange mailbox still sees the spam in the inbox. o2k3 shows 2 unread emails in the inbox, o2k shows 4. Now either this is because you can’t have two versions accessing the same mailbox (don’t see why not) or due to the fact that when I synch I get a “Microsoft Exchange Server reported error (0x80040600) : ‘Unknown Error 0x80040600’. There are loads of articles in google about 0x80040600 most of which talked about corrupted pst files. I cleared out my deleted items, resynched and everything worked and my inbox unread messages match.
Chris blogged about Fixture Ferrets which gives details on deals in various supermarkets in the uk. Looks like a good deal – shame they don’t provide “new deals” as an RSS feed. That would be a great service.
Oh great – the day after I actually use Mandrake to do some stuff with my cd drive, the register reports on an update that prevents Mandrake possibly destroying LG drives. Fortunately my drive is not an LG one, but it was a bit of a scary read.
It never really fills you with confidence when a website that is meant to extol the values of how wonderful their ScriptLogic – system administration program – is returns an error message. Especially one that says “Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ‘80020009’ [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. /go/caffeine-free.asp, line 2”
A system admin company which talks to a server that doesn’t exist?
Interesting crash screen from a gotdotnet blog. Apparently the owner of this blog writes some good exchange security articles.
A bit late (as it was updated in July) but I noticed that BGInfo, the utility that displays system information on your wallpaper was updated. It looks like it has more integration with Terminal Services as it can refresh everyones desktop whenever it is run.It also has logging to a sql server too.
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?