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Here is a link to a how to on making a really big and cheep 4U storage server. I am hopping to make a similar system only I am planning on making a 1U solution obviously with less disk storage but as I don’t need quite that much and I pay for hosting per U 1U would be great. When I get round to it I ill post pics.

I have stumbled upon a great demolition game to be found here. Its really quite good as you can design your own building and then position explosives to raise it to the ground. It’s only 5 euro’s so give it a whirl there is a free demo.

I have been working on producing a method to update the kernel within the altiris DS PXE. Here is my how to for compiling a new kernel and integrating it into bootwiz.

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I got a new iPhone this weekend. I have had a touch for a while and this is a lot faster. It was the original touch I had. I don’t need to go on about how good the new phone is its well documented all over the place. But if my word does hold any wait I would well recommend getting one.

I recently had an issue with sharing violations benig reported by Ultra Sound with issues within my sysvol replica set. I had a look at the tech net article on this problem (kb822300) but it did not help with the problem I was having as when I installed the surgested hotfix the files that were in a locked state were no loged in the event log as advertised. I decided to use the old fashond way to fix this.

First I ran:

ntfrsutl inlog > c:\sometextfile.txt

This creates a list of the items that are being inbound replicated on the problem server. I went through the file looking for the line IBCO_INSTALL_RETRY as described in the KB but it did not find it. Then I decided to go through the file manually reading the hole thing. I found that I had a slight variation on the KB article on some items I had the files marked with IBCO_DEL_RETRY and IBCO_RENAME_RETRY. I then ran the GUID’s for these files through the following command to find out what they were.

ntdfsutl idtable {GUID} > c:\someothertextfile.txt

This relieved that some folders that had been deleted would not replicate off the server and also a file that had been renamed would not replicate the change. I found that I had a permission issue with these folders and files and was able to fix it.