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Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Warning

Well I got a new error today other day on one of our domain controllers after doing a restart. A bit of a bug in Windows 2003 SP1 and easy enough to fix. The error is:
Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    MSDTC
Event Category:    SVC
Event ID:    53258
Date:        05/01/2009
Time:        08:23:06
User:        N/A
Computer:    APOLLO
Description:
MS DTC could not correctly [...]


Investigating! See, I have these feet…

“I’m telling you about my feet! My investigating feet.”
Feet in the sense that i have just installed ubuntu on my laptop which comes pre configured with gnome which has a footprint as it’s logo - yes very loose link but i felt the need to reference red dwarf and it’s my blog so i [...]


Outlook failed to start correctly last time. - and it goes on forever!!

I had this problem a about half a year ago where Outlook 2003 on terminal server would come up with a safe mode message for every user everytime they started it. At the time i solved the problem however a few weeks ago it came back and I couldn’t for the life of me remember [...]


Google Chrome - Google joins the browser race

Google have joined the web browser race by releasing the beta of their upcoming web browser today: Google Chrome.
Based on open source technology, the browser brings in some new ideas to offer increased robustness and speed such as a task manager for the browser so that you can monitor what sites are hogging your bandwidth, [...]


Terminal Server protocol error

Sometimes we have a problem with Windows Update and Terminal server that messes with the protocol causing the following error:
The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol. Please try connecting to the remote computer again or contact your server administrator.
To fix this simply do the following:

On the client, [...]


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