My house is basically a Joss Whedon alter. Tori picked up this shirt on slashdot recently and saw the “10 kinds of people tshirt.” She and Tanya figured I’d get it, and asked me when I got home. Of course I chuckled. “oh ho! that’s so classic!”.
A couple days later what do I find across the road from work? The next day I used it as an example in one of my A+ classes as a good reason to know binary. You get dork jokes.
My life is full of troubleshooting windows problems. Day and night. There’s no end. Anybody know how to make the address book template for word’s letter and envelope wizard match that in a normal word document (that you can modify in the default template)? Anyways…
I recently used the File And Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST) to copy a profile from one XP computer to another. After I started up the new machine, and ran FAST again to restore, it said that the files were created using another version of FAST. And it dies. How useful… especially if you dumped the old data for some reason. I took a screen shot but forgot it at the customer site. Anyways, it all had to do with this update (kb 307869) that gets sent down that fixes a few FAST bugs but lacks backwards compatibility. I got around this by going into the windows folder and showing hidden files (tools / options). You’ll see an folder for each hotfix. Find the one for KB307869, go into the folder and run the spuninst.exe program to remove the hotfix. Rerun FAST. Reinstall the update.
What a pain. In other news, I’m settled in my new house. Been camping a couple weekends and working a lot during the week, so I haven’t had much time off otherwise, thus nobody really seeing me. We’ll see if things calm down as a couple people at work come back from vacation.
Offline files and folders, windows 2003 small business server, windows xp
Group Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Offline Files
Subfolders always available offline -> Enabled
So when you make a share “available offline”, it makes the existing subfolders available offline, but not new ones. Because that’s usefull. I understand if you’re only trying to make specific folders available offline, but there needs to be a “make share available offline” option, because that is _obviously_ what I was trying to do.
