Land of the Lemmings, v2

(So that this gets into google and maybe someone else can learn from it.)

HP Insight Remote Support, when running on Windows Server 2008 has some irritating undocumented “features”.

1. You need an entry in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for the local machine and it’s IP address. If you don’t have this, the RSS Insight Admin Console will not be able to resolve the IP of the local machine and you will get “Unresolved” in the IP Address column of the Systems tab.
2. Remote Support Software Manager does not like UAC. Since the Manager app is an hta application, the way around that is to Right click an Internet Explorer icon and select “Run as Administrator”, then browse to “C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\CM\RSSWM\GUI\swmui.hta” and open it.

To update an old post, here’s some SQL for listing out BIOS versions per model from WSUS 3:
SELECT COUNT([tbComputerTarget].[IPAddress]) as Count,
[tbComputerTargetDetail].[ComputerModel],
[tbComputerTargetDetail].[BiosVersion]
FROM [SUSDB].[dbo].[tbComputerTarget]
JOIN [SUSDB].[dbo].[tbComputerTargetDetail] on [tbComputerTarget].[TargetID] = [tbComputerTargetDetail].[TargetID]
group by [tbComputerTargetDetail].[ComputerModel], [tbComputerTargetDetail].[BiosVersion] order by [tbComputerTargetDetail].[ComputerModel]


No video yet, but Jonathan is crawling kind of regularly. And he’s walking with the laundry basket, just like his brother did.

Hopefully he’ll cooperate and I’ll get some video soon.

Rest in peace, you are and will be missed.

HOOPESTON – Florence E. “Floss” (Nelson) Betka, 89, of Hoopeston passed away at 6:05 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.

Mrs. Betka was born on Dec. 6, 1921, in Granite City, the daughter of James E. and Florence (Story) Nelson. On Sept. 20, 1946, she married Kenneth Betka. Her husband preceded her in death on April 4, 2006.

Floss is survived by two daughters, Sue Betka of Washington, D.C., and Jean (Tom) Skoza of Champaign; one son, Bill (Melva) Betka of Cissna Park; three grandchildren, Corey (Alisha) Betka of Champaign and Rachel and Warren Skoza of Champaign; two great-grandsons, Robin and Jonathan Betka of Champaign; and two sisters-in-law, Kathryn Nelson of St. Louis and Margaret Hurliman of Martinton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Robert; a daughter, Lois; three brothers, Willie, Clyde and Harold Nelson; and a sister, Selma Nelson.

Mrs. Betka graduated from Eastern Illinois University and taught at the East Lynn High School for several years. She and her husband lived on the centennial family farm for nearly 46 years.

Floss also taught Sunday school for the high school children at the East Lynn United Methodist Church. She was also a homemaker who especially enjoyed tatting, sewing, crocheting, quilting, reading and sports.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, at the Anderson Funeral Home, 427 E. Main St., Hoopeston, with the Rev. Janet Eggleston officiating. Burial will be at East Lynn Cemetery, East Lynn.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, at the Anderson Funeral Home in Hoopeston.

Jonathan rolled over several times today, according to the wife. Now, if he’d just get over whatever is keeping him up at night…

It’s too early to be losing college friends. In random happenstance, Doug moved into the dorm room next door and fit right in with the group. I have fond memories of late nights of pizza, pepperoni rolls, WarCraft II, Ski and all kinds of other silly things.

I don’t know what else to say, I’m just going to post links to the obituary and the note that got posted to procrastinators.org.

So, like with Robin, there are a few stories I should write down before we forget them.
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