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Error 14724 Cannot add, update, or delete a job (or its steps or schedules) that originated from an MSX server

Vlad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:21:32 +0000

Error 14724 Cannot add, update, or delete a job (or its steps or
schedules) that originated from an MSX server.

UPDATE msdb.dbo.sysjobs
SET originating_server = CONVERT(nvarchar, SERVERPROPERTY('servername'))
WHERE originating_server <> CONVERT(nvarchar, SERVERPROPERTY('servername'))

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Windows XP Service Pack 3

Vlad — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:48:53 +0000

Now available for download.

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Bill Gates No Longer Richest Person

Vlad — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:23:27 +0000

Bill Gates fell on the third place on Forbes’ richest persons list, behind Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim.

Via Bloomberg.

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IE8 Beta Available For Download

Vlad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:33:11 +0000

Internet Explorer is available for download as a beta 1 release:

This beta release is available to everyone, but is primarily for Web developers and designers to test the new tools, layout engine, and programming enhancements.

When not developing your web site, you can click the Emulate IE7 button in the command bar to browse the web like you did in IE7.

Source: Microsoft.

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Vista Price Cut

Vlad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:05:47 +0000

Microsoft cut the price on US boxed editions of Vista.

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1337 Fine For Microsoft

Vlad — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:31:06 +0000

The European Union fines Microsoft the record amount of 899 million EUR.

Big Lazy Sysadmin notices that at current EUR2USD conversion rate that’s about 1337

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(Almost) Weekly Roundup #2

Vlad — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:21:03 +0000

Here goes:

TechRepublic
- 11 Ways To Motivate Geeks
- Outlook 2007 preview & review
BoingBoing
- Zotero – Firefox for scholars and infovores (link)
Engadget
- DIY HD projector
- Clear polycarbonate car wheelzzzz
- Microsoft supports Linux via Novell; Satan phones Gates regarding temperature (loved the title)
Lifehacker
- Firefox extension to remote control uTorrent (ok, the uTorrent web interface has been in public beta for a while now, but then there’s the extension)
Yahoo! Biz
- Cloudbreak strikes gold in Romania
Google
- Gmail mobile client (excellent, if only I could use it to get all my mobile email, via POP3)
CNET News
- Security hole in Visual Studio
Google Blogoscoped
- eBay/PayPal bombed
- TODOs in Gmail?
SvN
- Cooking with comics

There were some more but my ISP ate my homework, that’s all I recovered from Drafts.

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Uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta From A Different User Account

Vlad — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:57:43 +0000

I’ve been struggling a while tryin’ to figure out how to upgrade a beta version of IE on a computer (the 7.0 official release failed to update because it couldn’t uninstall the previous beta version). It seems that normally you need to uninstall IE from the same user account from which it was installed. This was impossible in my case and the uninstall kept failing. Luckily in the end I finally read the release notes and (who would’ve thought?) it was covered there:

Internet Explorer 7 Fails to Uninstall from Specified User Account

If you see an error message saying that you cannot uninstall Internet Explorer 7 from this user account, you can bypass the check by following these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.

Right-click the Internet Explorer key, click New, and then click DWORD value.

Type InstalledByUser as the name, and then press ENTER to finish creating the new registry value.

Try to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 again.

And it works! Gosh, what would we do without regedit…

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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Not That A Big Improvement

Vlad — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:56:46 +0000

Everybody is talking about it – the public beta for Internet Explorer 7. Here’s my 2 cents: not that a big deal. Microsoft has failed again to put the end user in the equation. Or the developers.

The installation file is 11,2 MB, more than double Firefox is. And wait till you run it. Here’s the good news: it appears IE7 is unable to install over itself. So if you had IE7 beta 1 (MSDN subscriber) you’ll need to uninstall it before installing beta 2. Quite a pain as it involves uninstalling and rebooting. So we’re back to IE 6. But then Microsoft decides it’s time for my IE 6 to be updated and starts downloading and installing updates. Which require another reboot.

Finally, I get to start the installation of the beta 2. First it extracts the file it needs. It does that straight in c:\ and not in TEMP. And in the end I have to reboot. That’s 3rd time. Will I get anything done today?

Did I mention IE7 is unable to install over itself. I can’t wait till the final release, then I’ll be able to reboot my machine a few more times again :p

So, three reboots down the road, a lot of warnings from Microsoft Antispyware (MS, they’re both your damn products, why can’t they just get along?) and it started. First it needs to ask me some questions about fishing and stuff which it repeats just as soon as I say “No thanks!”. And then it crashes – some internal problem with frames. Arghhhhh!!!!!

Second time is luckier, it manages to start and not crash. Yet! So what’s changed? Not much from the beta 1. A bit of polishing on the GUI. Supposedly better feeds handling though i still haven’t completly understood how it handles them and why is everybody so keen about MS supporting feed parsing. Instead of relying on MS, an open source, standards based library could be put together for everyone to use.

But then again, that wouldn’t suit programmers who think all you need is a mouse and MS wizards to create great software. Anyway, so far IE7b2 doesn’t suit me, I’ll stick to Firefox for browsing. Get Firefox!

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programmers humour

Vlad — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:38:46 +0000

Naturally born killers… or.. was it programmers?
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The future of C#.
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