http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000440676b,00.htm Xwindowsjunkie's Blog - Home Server Projects - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:06:17 +0100 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:06:17 +0100 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Installed Debian 4 (etch) on Debbie's hard drive and this time I did it the easy way. My DSL line is twice the speed it was at the time I started this whole thing. So it loaded and installed almost faster than installing the CDROM ISO version of SP3 on on... zdnetuk/10008608 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008608o-2000440676b,00.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:58:31 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) In these first 2 days of the week, I've managed to install XP SP3 on about 4 different systems using 3 different SP sources, on-line, using the ISO and then using just the executable. In all cases it installed perfectly fine even the one I installed on Vi... zdnetuk/10008607 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008607o-2000440676b,00.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:58:51 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) I've run out of things I can do to fix her. I keep getting the same error message, #100. I still haven't found a way to manually or automatically patch what's busted with dpkg, apt-get, aptitude or Synaptic. I've used su and gedit to get into the files a... zdnetuk/10008595 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008595o-2000440676b,00.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:54:36 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Believe it or not I don't work in IT, haven't for 7 years. Yes I work with Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded and as a result I have to know a lot about the OS, the kernal, Win API calls etc. But I don't have to support networking day in and day out. So I'v... zdnetuk/10008568 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008568o-2000440676b,00.htm Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:34:01 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) I generally follow a dispassionate investigative process when trying to discern what happened when a project goes bad. Although its a low priority item, it gets done simply because I'd like to learn what I may have done wrong and hopefully not do that aga... zdnetuk/10008532 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008532o-2000440676b,00.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:05:29 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Was going to the nearby (actually nearest) grocery store to pick up hamburger meat for my almost famous gringo tacos. (Its one of my 5 recipes deemed fit for family consumption.) I had just starting pulling into the parking lot and I had 2 strikes of ligh... zdnetuk/10008496 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008496o-2000440676b,00.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:49:39 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Microsoft, I admit defeat. I'm giving up on trying to install Service Pack 3. You guys won. I will NOT however recommend to management that we need to go to Vista. You can take that to the bank. Worker droid status in the Zombie armies of the Internet ... zdnetuk/10008494 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008494o-2000440676b,00.htm Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:54:34 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) BTW this is being entered into the blog using FireFox 3, I managed to get one of the 24-hr downloads, but sadly not on this machine. Well we finally figured out the magic cookie for SP3. Assuming that you're an IT/IS guy and you spent a lot of time ... zdnetuk/10008460 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008460o-2000440676b,00.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:43:50 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) I stupidly went at it again. This time I installed all the idiotic updates and security patches to bring the SP2 machine that wouldn't update to SP3 to SP2 up-to-date. In other words I took the RED PILL. (Cue the slow-motion, ripply video effects a la Mat... zdnetuk/10008446 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008446o-2000440676b,00.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:44:32 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Sometimes I think I am a masochist. I just finished installing a volume license of Windows XP Pro with slipstreamed Service Pack 2 on it onto a computer for which I only had to supply a Video driver. All of the relevant drivers are part of the operating s... zdnetuk/10008442 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008442o-2000440676b,00.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:34:05 +0100