• Email sucks.
• Don’t believe everything you get in email.
• If you get an attachment, DON’T OPEN IT!

Info here

When installing amavisd-new on Gentoo with McAfee’s uvscan, you need to install:

• Before you emerge amavisd-new (which installs clamav), emerge dev-libs/gmp, as mentioned in the clamav FAQ
• This patch to Net::Server

• emerge libcompat

That is all.

So, I’ve been chasing this annoying bug where Firefox will use the Windows Media Player 6.4 plugin instead of the WMP 9 one. Then it only gets the decoders from WMP 6.4, not all the spiffy new ones from WMP 9.
Well, seems I should have been searching the mozillazine forums more, as it’s answered on this page.

Of course, these come with their own set of bugs: #193883, #201843.

In trying to roll out the new Firefox 0.8 to our student sites, I went searching for an unattended install method. Most modern apps support this, and it makes how we distribute applications MUCH easier. Hell, even GAIM and the windows port of the GTK support this.
There does appear to be rudimentary support for unattended installs, once you grab the exploded archive out of the temp directory (this is common practice). Flip a couple strings in the well commented CONFIG.INI file, and should be ready to go. NOT! It still pops a dialog asking where you want to install to. So much for unattended. There is a bug report about it, maybe it will get fixed.

Well, one less production box running on RedHat. We’ve only got 1 RedHat box left now, and I’m not sure how to handle it.

I’ve had the luxury of doing swaps instead of in place re-installs on all the previous conversions, so this one will be a little more work.

Getting ready to cut another box over to Gentoo, and just wanted to record the uptime :

[xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx sysconfig]# uptime
9:43am up 387 days, 23:22, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 1.48, 1.46


Well, my SQL 6.5 -> SQL 2000 migration was successful this time. (I’ve got a draft entry to finish before you can see the horror story that was my first try.)

Suffice it to say, this try was much better than the last, about an hour of downtime total. Yay. Only 1 production SQL 6.5 server left now, with projects in progress to remove it.

I’m trying to migrate an NT4 SQL 6.5 server to Windows 2000 and SQL 2000 using the SQL Server Upgrade wizard. We’ve got lots of data on the old server and some tables structures that I’d really rather not have to recreate by hand. Below is the horror story that was the attempted upgrade.
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So, we are getting ready to forklift a file server from old hardware to new.

Trying to reduce the amount of data we need to haul over, I went through and looked at what’s there. There were several database apps that hadn’t been used in years, for several gigabytes of data. And all this gets dumped to tape once a week.

Joy.