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§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 7:11:40 am PDT #4060 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From what I can tell, LeN, they're sending it out scattershot. It's still in beta, I think.

You have desktop 2.2? By the time I got around to clicking on that link, it was pointing to 2.1. To which I'm upgrading (does anyone know what other than tighter DRM is different between that and 2.0?) anyway.

tommyrot - Aug 17, 2005 11:57:20 am PDT #4061 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Frak.

We've got a Windows 2000 server that's screwed up. Printing is screwy, some web-pages don't load correctly, etc. The event viewer won't run - it says the disk is full when there's half a gig free. Windows automatic updates don't install. I downloaded two different windows patches (both .exe files) and it refuses to run them, saying they're not valid 32-bit applications.

Anything I can do, besides take it out back and shoot it?

Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2005 11:58:14 am PDT #4062 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The worm that's going around is specifically targeting W2K systems.

tommyrot - Aug 17, 2005 12:03:49 pm PDT #4063 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The worm that's going around is specifically targeting W2K systems.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You know what the worm specifically affects? or have instructions on how to check for it/kill it?

tommyrot - Aug 17, 2005 12:24:47 pm PDT #4064 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Based on a check of the registry, it's not the zotob worm, although it could be a variant (there are at least seven now).

Numerous applications are reporting they can't run because the disk is full, whereas Windows Explorer and the DOS window both report half a gig free. My boss is thinking it's the drive that's screwed up, so that certain applications think it's full.

DXMachina - Aug 17, 2005 12:32:38 pm PDT #4065 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Tom, I've had the opposite, where the disk space was being misreported by the OS, which I had to use Disk Doctor to fix. That was Win98, though.

Meanwhile, I'm sitting here applying critical updates to our Win2000 servers.

Sean K - Aug 17, 2005 3:32:06 pm PDT #4066 of 10003

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

ND, I could frelling KISS YOU!!!!!! The fixes you suggested have worked. I ran chkdsk from the recovery console and it worked.

I'll now be spending some time back up files to CD and running disk utilities on the hard drive to see if there's something serious here needs worrying about.

DXMachina - Aug 17, 2005 3:33:03 pm PDT #4067 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

ND, I could frelling KISS YOU!!!!!!

Don't forget the popcorn...

Jessica - Aug 17, 2005 3:33:09 pm PDT #4068 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

ND, I could frelling KISS YOU!!!!!!

Wait, I need to get my camera!

Nicole - Aug 17, 2005 3:47:52 pm PDT #4069 of 10003

I'm getting the pig!

Jess, don't forget to use the zoom feature. There might be tongue.

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