If you do that, you run a (small but real) risk of a versioning problem with DLLS touched by more than one hotfix. This can result in early patches being overwritten by later patches, which leads to live vulnerabilities on machines you thought were secure.
In the spirit of hfnetxchk.exe there is now a tool to apply multiple hotfixes without rebooting, qchain.exe
To use this, you write a.bat file to apply the hotfixies from the command line with the "no reboot" switch. Them qchain.exe does the cleanup and ensures that the right files end up installed before rebooting once.
Or at least that's the theory. The hotfixes I was working with didn't all honor the "no reboot" switch. I don't have the list handy (I've since been laid off and don't have access to the network directory with the.bat file I was working on), but I had a roughly 40% fail rate. Your mileage may vary.
The really keen thing to do, for desktops anyway, is to use hfnetchk to identify machines needing hotfixes, a script to customize the.bat file for qchain.exe, and SMS to push the file into a login profile managed by Active Directory. This wouldn't be too great for servers, since you don't want random reboots, but much of the deployment can be automated - just keep the reboots within your existing maintenance schedule. For bonus points, have every patch logged to your maintenance log (you do keep one, right ?).
I'll second the recommendation for hfnetchk.exe. It's a great tool. It dumps to delimited text, and will tell you why it can't tell if a hotfix had been installed.
KTEH ran at lest a few episodes subtitled (1-2 for sure). But sadly, after missing 5 minutes near the beginning of episode 2 I decided that I was completely lost.
Use hfnetchk.exe to scan you network for machines needing hotfixes. Then use SMS to push them out. Terminal Services will come in handy for rebooting servers that need it. Can't reboot a machine ? Why do you only have one of a mission-critical server ? At least maintain some scheduled downtime for maintenance if you can't put up a backup machine.
Book recommendation:
Allen Steele, Orbital Decay. A fine book. I also recommended his other works to anyone reading this article. Its mostly blue-collar in space. Orbital Decay deals mainly with construction workers putting up solar power satellites. And some recreational growing in space. And a communications-snooping spy satellite called Big Ear.
So "Innovation" is putting in features that users have been demanding for years ?
Here's a tip: innovation means coming up with something that no one else has thought of. If shareware utilities ahve it, and consumers know to want it, then it isn't innovative, it's missing.
From www.m-w.com
Main Entry: innovation
Pronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : the introduction of something new
2 : a new idea, method, or device : NOVELTY
The Gundam Project is reporting that the change is due to lower ratings for the original series. And, unless its a WTC reaction, they'll start running The 08th Mobile Suit Team (a pretty good wartime romance) in the Gundam slot.
If you're into Gundam, the gundamproject.com site is very good.
Word is a decent outliner, but not a good one. And StarOffice needs a good one. It's a great opportunity to do something better than M$.
Here, looking for an outliner ?. Sadly, this page is all antique software and mostly Mac stuff. But the dream is there; there's even an OS/2 version of ThinkTank.
Well, Firewire just got an Emmy. The professionals are using it.
And just try and find USB devices that aren't candy colored (ok, there's a few). USB was standardized long before the iMac, but until that hit the market very few people had even heard of USB.
Monitors with ADC aren't common enough for the price to have dropped. Adaptors cost money. The original poster probably had a monitor picked out for the G4, then needed an adaptor to get it to work.
This isn't new, Apple had their own monitor connector before they adopted VGA. When I ordered my Quadra 700 and an NEC monitor, I made sure I had a VGA adaptor on hand before large, expensive boxes started to arrive.
These days, I occaisionally need an adaptor to get an old Apple monitor working on a machine with just a VGA port.
That article was about Columbia - certainly a Worst Case scenario. And, on the basis of that article - and allowing for exageration - I'm not going anywhere near Columbia.
Rogue Leader looks like it will fix every problem with Rogue Squadron: AI, graphics and controls. The screenshots for this (screenshots) look terrific.
This should get the taste of Battle for Naboo out of my mouth. And, Nintendo will finally manage to sell me something.
You're mixing wars. Tuchman described the start of WWI and a double-pincer variant of the von Schlieffen plan in the Guns of August. In WWII the Germans use a weak left pincer to push through the Maginot Line after the main breakthrough on the right had gotten through the Ardennes and broken the French left.
Dell has shipped a few systems with bad USB controllers before. the workaround is usually to use a powered hub. That's less-than-practical for laptops, but it's all you can do.
I didn't bookamrk the tech note on this, as our Latitudes don't suffer from this problem.
Absolutely. MS saved a huge sum in licensing fees to Spyglass by giving the browser away. Now that the browser is part of the OS, I'd say Spyglass shoudl definitely be talking to a good contract attorney about a percentage of the sales from Win98, Win2K, and WinXP.
I think you mean "raw, searing hate of Ewoks." My favorite rumor about RotJ was that it was supposed to involve the Wookies: set on Kasshykk (sp?), big furry Wookies fighting the stormtroopers instead of cute furry Ewoks (yeah, that was a plausible battle sequence), and a connection to an existing character instead of being something pulled from the same spot in Lucas' ass that later yielded Jar Jar.
I'm not bitter. But to hell with The Phantom Edit, I don't care what parallel universe they have to dredge for it, I want to see Revenge of the Jedi just once. But it'll probably be on DVD - region coded to 42529. Then we can also see Robocop 3 with the original Frank Miller script - rated X for violence.
Ahem. I'll also note that some of the background material mentions Wookies being used as labor on the Death Stars (some of the RPG material from West End iirc).
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In the spirit of hfnetxchk.exe there is now a tool to apply multiple hotfixes without rebooting, qchain.exe
To use this, you write a
Or at least that's the theory. The hotfixes I was working with didn't all honor the "no reboot" switch. I don't have the list handy (I've since been laid off and don't have access to the network directory with the
The really keen thing to do, for desktops anyway, is to use hfnetchk to identify machines needing hotfixes, a script to customize the
I am Gnucleus.
If you manage Windows, use this tool religiously.
It was gone for a while, but aqccording to www.gundamproject.com (see my previous comment for links.
KTEH ran at lest a few episodes subtitled (1-2 for sure). But sadly, after missing 5 minutes near the beginning of episode 2 I decided that I was completely lost.
hfnetchk is available here
Funny thing is, the search engine returns broken links to the KB article. I submitted feedback to get 'em fixed.
Book recommendation:
Allen Steele, Orbital Decay. A fine book. I also recommended his other works to anyone reading this article. Its mostly blue-collar in space. Orbital Decay deals mainly with construction workers putting up solar power satellites. And some recreational growing in space. And a communications-snooping spy satellite called Big Ear.
Orbital Decay. Barnes n' Noble link, no referral.
I've been trolled, but...
So "Innovation" is putting in features that users have been demanding for years ?
Here's a tip: innovation means coming up with something that no one else has thought of. If shareware utilities ahve it, and consumers know to want it, then it isn't innovative, it's missing.
From www.m-w.com
Main Entry: innovation
Pronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : the introduction of something new
2 : a new idea, method, or device : NOVELTY
The Gundam Project is reporting that the change is due to lower ratings for the original series. And, unless its a WTC reaction, they'll start running The 08th Mobile Suit Team (a pretty good wartime romance) in the Gundam slot.
If you're into Gundam, the gundamproject.com site is very good.
Word is a decent outliner, but not a good one. And StarOffice needs a good one. It's a great opportunity to do something better than M$.
Here, looking for an outliner ?. Sadly, this page is all antique software and mostly Mac stuff. But the dream is there; there's even an OS/2 version of ThinkTank.
Nobody ever would tell me who ordered a non-HP printer for a network.
For my money, they can have a Hugo just for making reading cool again.
On a personal level for Sklyarov, this gets him (another) possibility for appeal.
And just try and find USB devices that aren't candy colored (ok, there's a few). USB was standardized long before the iMac, but until that hit the market very few people had even heard of USB.
This isn't new, Apple had their own monitor connector before they adopted VGA. When I ordered my Quadra 700 and an NEC monitor, I made sure I had a VGA adaptor on hand before large, expensive boxes started to arrive.
These days, I occaisionally need an adaptor to get an old Apple monitor working on a machine with just a VGA port.
That article was about Columbia - certainly a Worst Case scenario. And, on the basis of that article - and allowing for exageration - I'm not going anywhere near Columbia.
No, he just doesn't want to get caught reading Wired.
This should get the taste of Battle for Naboo out of my mouth. And, Nintendo will finally manage to sell me something.
Gnu is Now Unix.
Funny. Funny. Funny.
It just took a sec to remember how we got our latest president, then I fell out of my chair.
I wouldn't mind seeing Crouching Tiger style effects.
You're mixing wars. Tuchman described the start of WWI and a double-pincer variant of the von Schlieffen plan in the Guns of August. In WWII the Germans use a weak left pincer to push through the Maginot Line after the main breakthrough on the right had gotten through the Ardennes and broken the French left.
I didn't bookamrk the tech note on this, as our Latitudes don't suffer from this problem.
That should be worth a few billion.
I think you mean "raw, searing hate of Ewoks." My favorite rumor about RotJ was that it was supposed to involve the Wookies: set on Kasshykk (sp?), big furry Wookies fighting the stormtroopers instead of cute furry Ewoks (yeah, that was a plausible battle sequence), and a connection to an existing character instead of being something pulled from the same spot in Lucas' ass that later yielded Jar Jar.
I'm not bitter. But to hell with The Phantom Edit, I don't care what parallel universe they have to dredge for it, I want to see Revenge of the Jedi just once. But it'll probably be on DVD - region coded to 42529. Then we can also see Robocop 3 with the original Frank Miller script - rated X for violence.
Ahem. I'll also note that some of the background material mentions Wookies being used as labor on the Death Stars (some of the RPG material from West End iirc).