August 2004 - Posts
The official line or Jim Allchin speaking on Channel 9
Previously; Hey, I am going to build a new great whizz bango OS. (trumpet fanfare)
Today; Hey, I need to drop a number of the features.
Future; OK here it is, XP SP3
LOL
Here is a different way to look at the medal tally.
Now what I really want to know is, medals per dollar spent on sport.
That would make interesting reading.
Medals per Capita
It seems there are plenty of people out there running Prescott processors without the latest BIOS code. Seems that a number of vendors were putting out boards with pre production microcode versions. And XP needs to see version 8 or later
So go get the latest BIOS update. Unless your mobo manufacturer hasn't yet released one (which is the case for a couple of them) In that case a workaround is available here
It seems quite surreal to see Australia in 3rd place on the medal table.
I am sure by the end we will be a bit lower.
We tend to win more in the first week due to our swimming team.
Still, it is a fantastic result so far.
Consider, there a 20 million people here, proportionally we are doing extremely well.
Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect
If your using loopbacks and have issues after installing XP SP2, you might like to read this KB Article in Windows XP Service Pack 2
I am getting growing amounts of data that suggests there are issues with XP SP2 and Prescott CPU's on some chipsets.
So far the list of affected motherboards reported by end users
Albatron PX865 PE Pro
Shuttle SB61G2
Jetway i875P
Soyo P4I865P
Aopen AX4SG Max
Asus P4P800-E deluxe
You should make sure you update the BIOS before trying to load SP2 on these systems
I have been runing a mail server for a few years now on a dynamic IP. I have had no real problem. Until today that is. It seems my DNS provider who is also my backup email server has gone missing in action.
All attempts to ping the 6 nameservers is failing. I did a troll of the newsgroups and found a few references to the issue. Who is it? Dynu Systems
Up until today they have been 100% reliable for me, for nearly 3 years. Now I can't find there website or nameservers. I don't mind so much that they are having an outage, its not knowing why? Have they shut up shop and done a runner? Was there building burnt down? I don't particularly want to redelegate the domain, but commercial reality will drive me to do so in a few hours. I am hoping I hear something from them in the meantime.
Yes, I know, your going to tell me to stop fooling around on dynamic DNS and get a fixed IP. Well it's easier said than done. I did have one but the ISP's performance wasn't up to par. I am very happy with my current ISP, Internode but they don't offer dynamic IP at my plan level. Oh well, I might have to shell out a few more bucks and get a static IP and run my own DNS.
I heading interstate to install a LAN some PC's and a telephone system for my sister.
She has just bought an abattoir out in country Victoria.
I am in the wrong game, seems there is some good money in the meat exporting business.
Oh well, at least computers don't smell so bad.
microsoft have released details and a tool to allow you to stop SP2 from being installed by the Windows Automatic Updates service.
microsoft has made a public download available from this site
There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few "A-List" blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don't get noticed. The reason is that the smaller blogs don't have enough links pointing to them. But this posting could solve that. Let's help the smaller blogs get more visibility!
This posting is GoMeme 4.0. It is part of an experiment to see if we can create a blog posting that helps 1000's of blogs get higher rankings in Google. So far we have tried 3 earlier variations. Our first test, GoMeme 1.0, spread to nearly 740 blogs in 2.5 days. This new version 4.0 is shorter, simpler, and fits more easily into your blog.
Why are we doing this? We want to help thousands of blogs get more visibility in Google and other search engines. How does it work? Just follow the instructions below to re-post this meme in your blog and add your URL to the end of the Path List below. As the meme spreads onwards from your blog, so will your URL. Later, when your blog is indexed by search engines, they will see the links pointing to your blog from all the downstream blogs that got this via you, which will cause them to rank your blog higher in search results. Everyone in the Path List below benefits in a similar way as this meme spreads. Try it!
Instructions: Just copy this entire post and paste it into your blog. Then add your URL to the end of the path list below, and pass it on! (Make sure you add your URLs as live links or HTML code to the Path List below.)
Path List
1. Minding the Planet
2. Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream
3. Mark Dormer Windows MVP
4. (your URL goes here! But first, please copy this line and move it down to the next line for the next person).
(NOTE: Be sure you paste live links for the Path List or use HTML code.)
The final build 2180 went up on the beta site today.
You can also download it from MSDN if you a subscriber
It will be added to Automatic Updates on the 16/8/2004
I found this over at the MS Exchange Team Blog
Exposing Spam Confidence Level in Outlook
This is a handy tool, it lets you see what rating the mail is being given, allowing you to adjust your Intelligent Message Filter level more appropriately.