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Any of you sciencey types noticed the Google homepage today :-)

Cool! Next mission: try to convince someone that they're worth more as a complete set.

Suddently not being able to send to a domain that's always worked before is often related to spam blacklists. Have a look at the page referenced in the email: Troubleshooting and scroll to the entry for 550 SC001, which says: Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics To check this out, get the public IP address of the mail server and head on over to Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted and look it up.

This happened to me on Sunday. The machine I was working at (and not viewing any particularly objectionable websites, I hasten to add!) suddenly opened Adobe Reader (an old version) and then started showing the warning. Immediately disconnected from the Internet . . . . . As Localzuk says it just hit my profile (Win7, running as standard user), and I fixed it by logging in as a different user and running a bunch of different AV applications.

If all the gear belongs to you then try your account manager - when we had a smaller-scale problem a while ago one quick phone call (admittedly it was a different vendor!) got me a nice spreadsheet with purchase dates, warranty expiries and the matching service tags. I like Hightower's idea better though :-)

It looks like a spoof, it is to notation what Stanley Unwin is to English. All the bits are real, but you'd never put them down like that. The scoring breaks a lot of rules - easy example, the first bar should be four beats but there's more than that in it. Plus, clearly it's taking the p, a lot. In fact, you could say it's taking the ppp.* Notation is like writing, it's set of rules that govern the noises you make. The fact that the letter A makes an 'a' sound is just a convention, and in the same way it's just convention that a circle with a hole in the middle is worth a count of four beats. over the years people have developed alternative ways of writing music down (check out Graphic notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an example), and given that the score here is 'wrong' from a technical point of view you have to treat it more like a graphic score, which is more like a statement of intent rather than a clear and unambiguous set of instructions on how the tune should sound. And that's pretty much how Witch's Youtube choir have performed it. * Did that work? I'll get my coat.

Just to give you another option :-D You can control the session timeout settings by going to Admin Tools > Terminal Services > Terminal Services Configuration, in the 'connections' box right click on RDP-Tcp, click properties and go to Sessions. The main disadvantage I've found with this is that, depending on how many people access the server, you can end up being locked out as a result of disconnected running sessions.

Hi. I have also had success removing damaged SQL (2005) instances using the uninstalled utility, though it really is a last resort! MS have an article which has some info on manually uninstalling SQL 2008: SQL Server 2008 installation fails when you try to install SQL Server a second time . . . which may help.

You'll just have to think Caerphilly before you answer then . . . . .

Depending on the setup he may be able to connect to the company VPN and then send/receive. It depends on the type of VPN (assuming there is one!), and whether 'use default gateway on remote network' is set.

Something resonated here . . . . . we have people who don't use the VPN because they don't like the performance of it. Similarly, there are people who don't understand the full range of groovy things that can be done with it, so they don't use it. While it's tempting to interpret this log as folks not being bothered to work, it could be that the staff prioritise network-based activity to do while they're on site, and then do their random surfing looking for mateterial etc. while they're at home. You could see this as a prompt to improve service - is there a training need? Are there tech/usability issues with the VPN that you're not aware of? Sorry, that was off topic! @TonyJF - every 3 years here, within reason we have bulk purchasing. Kit is covered by warranty and dealt with by Dell, so gets fixed next day, not when the tech is next free/in/not firefighting something else. Morale is better as staff see that they are valued and not being given tatty tools to work with. Staff's time is one of the most precious things we have, so keeping everything up and running (and quick!) is good. Also helps the techs - as SteveBentley says you get to know the foibles of kit (not easily measured for the beancounters I grant you) but by having like-kit as opposed to whatever was cheapest in the catalogue that month it also means that when it gets to end-of-life time you stand a chance of cobbling together 'frankensteins' and thus extending the life of kit. By scheduling a bulk purchase and provisioning you can use your time more efficiently, and who knows even get a discount.

Is it XP? How about XP's Remote Assistance plus Skype?

Yes, the e-safety people here got quite hot on this last year, the stated reasons being: - attempting to keep school information/data 'in house' as much as possible - ensuring that all staff email communications are logged - this is sold as a benefit to the staff, not as a big brother thing (though how it's perceived I don't know!)

Yes - though in this case the benefit comes from being able to easily duplicate a base build for testing multi-server setups. Looks like it's back to Virtual PC we go . . . . Cheers.

Hello, thanks for the input. In fact it's a fresh install of Windows, a retail version (not OEM) installed straight to the VM.

Hello I'm quite used to using Virtual PC, but am intrigued by the thought of running a 64 bit OS on a 32 bit host and so have installed Virtualbox. Fun fun fun so far, but the problem I am finding is that if I clone a Windows machine it asks to re-activate. I am nervous about running out of activations, so was wondering if anyone has a workaround for this?

Hi Exactly what behaviour are you seeing when you telnet, and what are you expecting to see? Some services will talk back to you immediately (SMTP is an obvious example) whereas some will just give you a blank screen upon a successful connection. Nmap might be a better test of whether a port is open.

Sorry, not familiary with this particular model, but it reminds me of a PC we used to have here that had a BIOS option to halt on keyboard error or just get on with the boot - may be worth a poke round in the BIOS....?

do you get the same problem with a local user, as opposed to a domain user?

I'd say that your server is SQL Server 2008 R2, and you're trying to restore to SQL Server 2008.

I think that must have been the upset they were warning us about.

Difficult one, and depends on what you like doing. My previous job was an hour's drive, and by the end of it (2 years) I was really getting sick of it. It wasn't my main reason for leaving, but it was significant enough that the journey was high on my priority list for the job search. My current job is 30 mins on public transport or 45 on the bike - the former doesn't require me to be awake, the latter wakes me up :-) Having said that my Dad has done a similar journey to your one for many years, and doesn't mind it at all (though he does leave early and get home late to avoid rush hour, and thus has free time only at weekends. If you've not done so, weigh up additional cost (petrol, additional mileage on car), realistically how good this job is and whether a similar thing might come up locally, plus your 2 to 5 year plan (promotion? training? moving on?). Have you got young kids? I did a spell of commuting 1.5 hrs by train recently and quickly got to hate the fact that I only saw my kids awake at the weekend. @LosOjos - 7 miles is a nice ride and will take you half the time of your current journey - get the bike out and some decent riding clothes and you'll be fitter, richer and happier :-)

Not asking a question - just recording for posterity I guess. Can't find much on this subject on the web, so hope someone finds it of interest ..... I've been setting up an rsync server to allow some of our laptop users to backup across our VPN. This has all gone smoothly so far, except for one user, who is getting a message that a module could not be found (i.e. he can't authenticate against rsync) - but only when connected via the VPN. It works fine across the LAN. The error is: @ERROR: Unknown module 'Fredbackup' rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.7-1/src/rsync-3.0.7/main.c(1506) [sender=3.0.7] I've tracked it down to an oddity with how the environment variable %username% works if you've got a capital in the Windows username. So this guy uniquely for us, and I've no idea why, has a domain account with an initial capital letter, called Fred. If I sit at the (XP) client machine while it's logged in to the domain and type echo %username% it comes back with: fred If reboot the client and log into it while it's disconnected and type echo %username% it comes back with: Fred As I am using %username% in the batch command that runs rsync on the Windows client, this is causing my authentication problem.

Have you tried {IPAddress},{port#}\{InstanceName} ? Not familiar with SIMS these days, but an app I support here that uses ADO accepts IP,PORT as the address.

Pet Shop Boys: Always On My Mind. However, they blew it with Where The Streets Have No Name . . . . .