I just finished reading Red Rabbit, by Tom Clancy. While reading, I got a little confused by the timeline. Using the power of Google, I found that others are just as confused as I am.
Oh, and what I thought was the last of the Jack Ryan series isn’t, so I need to go find The Teeth of the Tiger.
But, I think I’ll switch to Joel on Software first, I need some non-fiction in my book diet.
We got another .9 inches of rain last night, and we lost a tree in the front yard. Looking at the stump/trunk, it looks like there was an injury of some sort to it at a young age that weakened it pretty badly. Now I’m glad I didn’t bother trimming it earlier this year.
Looks like MS had some issues with the initial release of the Win2k SP4 Rollup package. They have expired the original update and released a new one, so if you think you’ve approved it, you haven’t.
It only took me 10 minutes of searching around on the web to figure out that I wasn’t going insane.
Updating a previous entry, Mom and Dad insulated the garage last week and I took Friday off to help hang the drywall on the walls. 12’x54″ drywall makes things go real fast when you only have to trim the bottom of the bottom sheet and make a few other cuts. It took us just over a day and a half, including several delays due to rain on Friday and the sweltering heat both days.
Now, somebody has to tape, mud, sand, tape, mud, sand, prime, paint and paint everything….
Thanks to what’s left of hurricane Dennis, Champaign is getting something like real rain. I’ve had nearly 2″ so far. And, like ck, I’m worried about what mowing my yard is going to be like once it dries out.
Reading over this weeks Carnival of Education, a few things jumped out at me:
It was perhaps the most awkward six minutes of my life. Everyone just sat there, crammed into the little student-desks in the bare-walled, stifling hot classroom, staring at the floor.
Looks like the rumored changes are in the pipeline from the FIA, pending discussion by the teams. I’m suprised they didn’t suggest a jelly-bean template based on some overproduced, drab fleet car body or a mandatory engine design that last evolved in the 70s….
If you are integrating the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 into a network share to install from a DOS boot floppy, you are going to get
Setup was unable to copy the following files:
errors for several files. The way to fix this, according to knowledge base article 890206 is to edit DOSNET.INF and remove all the lines in the [Files] section that have d1,UNIPROC in them. You might also want to remove the lines that have d1,wms.
You’d think someone would have tested this before shipping this out the door….
Didn’t I mention refunding tickets? Just kidding, they seem to be trying to do the right thing. The funding of some tickets for next years race is also a nice gesture. We’ll know later today how the teams fare in front of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris, but even the statement from Michelin includes some rather loaded political-looking parts. And, of course, the FIA can’t let that go.
I’ve been playing around with WSUS recently for use in Housing. Primarily, I’m testing it with student site computers as the targets for automated installs, though the reporting we get from the “download and wait to install” mode also works well on our servers.
A few things bother me though:
/integrate: option always works.I guess, when all is said and done, WSUS is a better solution than our current homebuilt Winbatch file version checker feeding into a SQL database. And WSUS is free, so no complaining allowed!
Other updates to, hopefully, come for the labs this summer: Acrobat Reader 7, McAfee VirusScan 8.0i and all the newest versions of all the free stuff we run (GAIM, Firefox, putty, etc). I’m also investigating McAfee’s ePO server, but that may have to wait until fall to get done.