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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 \drivers within the Altiris DS PXE image. Here is my how to for compiling a new kernel and integrating it into bootwiz.

Update: I have recently had problems with the latest HP DC 8200 elite desktops that are using the new Intel Q67 express chip sets. from what I have found you need to be using a quite modern kernel 2.6.38/39 ish. I personally have had success with the 2.6.39 kernel. This was not spported in the linux boot that was relaesed for DS SP 5.

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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.

Here is my take on the single line word press upgrade I saw at hack a day.
The bellow will download the latest version and unpack it. IT then removes the new plugins and themes as to not over wright your installed ones. IT then copies the new install over the old one and resets the permissions on the files.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip && unzip latest.zip && rm -rf ./wordpress/wp-content/ && cp -r ./wordpress/* ../

You may need to change the paths for your installation but this should work quite well.
As allways take a backup before you run this just in case.