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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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September 2006 - Posts

Exchange 2003 will not uninstall with error 0x8000ffff
Ok, I have a development server that runs Exchange 2003 as a testbed but I wanted to try Exchange 2007b2 on this box. I thought about reinstalling the box but feeling slightly lazy I decided to remove Exchange 2003 and install Exchange 2007b2. Except Read More...
How to control OWA spell checker in Exchange 2003
Microsoft KB article 825430 details registry changes for controlling OWA. I came across it when looking for a solution to the error message "The spelling in this item can't be checked. Please try again later." I think this problem is caused Read More...
SuSE 10.1 "eth0 renamed to eth1"
After playing with the bcm43xx wireless module I noticed my eth0 had been renamed to eth1, indeed the message also appeared in dmesg output: dmesg | grep eth1 eth0 renamed to eth1 After a bit of poking I found duplicates of my network card mac address Read More...
How to enable remote desktop.... Remotely!
I recently removed terminal services from my test server as I was through with it and the evaluation license was about to run out. When I tried to connect to my headless server using remote desktop I found that it was disabled by the removal of ts. Thanks Read More...
Using the bcm43xx driver with SuSE 10.1 and Dell Inspiron 5100
As of Kernel 2.6.17rc a native, reverse engineered, driver is available for bcm43xx range of wireless cards. I have had my bcm4306 rev 02 (Dell Truemobile 1300) card working in my Inspiron 5100 using ndiswrapper for some time but wanted to get the native Read More...
Test Blog From Word 2007B2TR
Just thought I'd test "Publish to blog" from Word 2007B2TR. We'll see if it works! And what about pictures? Read More...
Windows Genuine Advantage - Internet Connection Problem [0x80080293]
It's all well and good having Windows Genuine Advantage so that only licensed users can download products and fixes but surely the servers should be highly available or it defeats the purpose? I have a problem with Windows Defender not carrying out Read More...
Disgusting Keyboard
When my keyboard has got really bad in the past I just bought a new one. Today I decided to clean it: After I took all the keys off After I cleaned it All back together again Read More...
Blog Updated to CS2.1
I did a couple of trial runs on this and found the best option was to do a complete in place upgrade. I first upgraded the database: CS1.1>CS2.0 CD2.0>CS2.1 ASP1.1>ASP2.0 Then just extracted the new website over the old one. I initially tried Read More...
Windows Live Messenger Setup Problem
I was told that a new version of Windows Live Messenger (v8.0.0812.0) was available so I downloaded it. Problem is that I had to cancel setup for setup to continue because the "Windows Live Messenger Setup Wizard" tells me it can't run whilst the "Windows Read More...