Silicon Patch Work Journal

Journal For Week of August 16, 2004

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Monday August 16, 2004

Back in the salt mines after a great relaxing weekend. Emma and I went camping and did nothing but sleep, read, eat and play with the dog.

My Microsoft Software Update Services box downloaded WinXP SP2 today so we should be seeing SP2 on the Windows Update pages any day now. I was able to point a WinXP box a one of the newer Windows Update pages and it updated the updated software on the PC but did not offer up SP2.

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Tuesday August 17, 2004

Busy with a vmware setup and other admin stuff.

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Wednesday August 18, 2004

Two laptops walked out of the building last night. One was in a office that I think should have been locked, though I doubt it is ever locked. The other was off a desk where a laptop should never be left over night. Both laptops belonged to owners of the company who are also department heads. Never mind the cost of the laptops, there is likely information that cannot be replaced on the laptops. I have always thought and have voiced my opinion a few times that the physical security in the building sucked. Maybe now that two heavy weights in the building have been hit they will rethink the way they are doing things. I have my doubts about that though.

The thieves got 7 laptops in total. 4 company owned and 3 personal.

Once again reading another daynoter's page provides me with a little jewel. Dave Farquhar mentioned Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks and it was just the tool I needed today. I could not get a ISA nic to work on an industrial computer and the Realteck 8019 that was on a daughter card I have had problems with in the past. I tried a Bart's boot disk and it locked up after loading the NIC driver. The Universal Bootdisk worked like a charm and I was able to Ghost the industrial computer.

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Thursday August 19, 2004

I finally got around to working on a part of the backlog of Jazmine pictures. You can see the pictures here.

Yesterdays link to the Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks was no good. thanks to Dan Seto for pointing that out. I have fixed the link for those of you who are interested.

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Friday August 20, 2004

When I checked my Microsoft Software Update Services box this morning the following was in the synchronization log.:

Automatic Sync Started- Friday, August 20, 2004 3:00:00 AM Successful 
Updates Added: 
 None 
Updates Removed: 
 None 
Reissued Update(s): 
 Windows XP Service Pack 2 - xpSP2_f8e85320da933bb0ec76a2ba3a2f7a8.exe 
 Detailed item description files (Read This First and End User 
 License Agreement for all items) - aurtf1.cab 
Sync Finished-Friday, August 20, 2004 3:02:17 AM

I have not done much hunting but so far I have not seen any info on why SP2 was reissued.

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Saturday August 21, 2004

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Sunday August 22, 2004

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