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After all the problems I had with Cryp-TAP-2 (here) I’m going strait for the COMBOFIX option! I’ll update with how I get on.

UPDATE: Everything looks good so far, booted into safe mode, and ran combofix, the system is now rebooting normally, now waiting on the log report.

UPDATE2: Combofix did the job YET again! getting a popup or too still about the system restore volume, from the look of the report this little bugger hooks itself into system processes (explorer.exe svchost.exe)

Oh dear oh dear, MS at it again.

Accoding to this story: here

SP3 has caused a huge rollout headache including screwing MS’s Point Of Sale application …

See now this is what happens when you FORCE users to have to install SP3 before they can get any more updates ><

Admitedly the users experiancing the problems all using Automatic Update …

So my advise is to grab the complete Network distribution (about 319mb).

Update if you are having problems and are using an AMD machine read this: here

So I have a concept for a 24 node cluster, I want to build to run folding@home and other cancer research projects

The spec is to make it as “green” as possible, the lower the watts/ghz the better, whilst still maintinaing performance.

The downside is the pricing of pico-ITX at the moment, I’m getting quotes for about £200 / node … and that’s without ram, or storage …

What I need is the following.

pico-ITX form factor motherboard with ~1ghz CPU, in quantities of 5 or more

So please leave a comment or use the contact me form if you think you can help, or have any information on suppliers.

Well it’s finally here!

And I get the fun task of testing this service pack and then rolling it out over a few hundered laptops located all over the place!

Oh well, I’m using my laptop as the test subject at the moment (poor thing), I’ll post updates with any problems I run into along the way.

UPDATE:

Well I realy do suggest you set aside a good hour per machine for this update (bare in mind I am using the Netoork rollout pack 316mb), especially if the client machine has windows live messenger installed, which seemed to need some sort of update entailing 30 minutes of wasted time.

If you have an antivirus running during the install it will take even longer.

Other than that _thusfar_ I have had no problems with SP3. Post a comment if you get stuck though.

Just a quick blog about this …

Ever had the problem of having to assign a DHCP reservation with no mac address resolving software on your laptop? (NOOB! haha)

Well … you have software built in if you are using windows XP anyway …

Start > run > cmd

“arp -a” (without quotes)

this will list your current local interfaces and thier MAC addresses.

“arp -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” (without quotes) Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the target IP address on your LAN, this will resolve the MAC address for that interface.

Nice quick and simple.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: If you get an error “NO Arp entries found” when doing this, just ping the IP address first, assuming you get a response you _should_ be able to use arp to lookup the mac address!