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Archive for March 7, 2010
Windows update error
Mar 7th
I have a laptop that dual boots XP and linux. It is getting a bit old and slow running XP these days and doesn’t often get used unless I’m away from home.
I used it at my mother’s house the other day and thought I’d better run through the usual Windows update routine as I had a net connection and only a BT HomeHub between the world and me – update error 0xC800042D
I gave up after several attempts but have just tried again at home with the same result. I couldn’t find much help in a quick read of the MS links provided, so I turned to google. Seems I am not alone and it’s quite a common error and soon sorted following advice given in several links.
The latest updates seem to include the new browser chooser option, which I’ve applied but not seen as I shut down immediately after applying the patches. However I have the IE8 upgrade disabled as I use Firefox except for when I check for Windows Updates using IE7, wonder if that’s why it failed.
Typical Windows user patches every 5 days – a related and interesting link I came across the other day.
IPv6 – when
Mar 7th
Yesterday I reinstalled my server with ubuntu 9.10 as a vm using virt-manager, less than an hour’s work I guess. Next I started to set up mail using dovecot and postfix but for some strange reason they seemed to default to IPv6 settings so I couldn’t connect using IPv4. Not a major problem and easily sorted, but when are we going to see widespread use of IPv6 in the UK?
Within a few years the remaining IPv4 addresses will run out. It may happen very quickly given the increased internet use in countries such as India and China.
My ISP, AAISP support IPv6 tunnelled or natively, google offer IPv6 searches, but there’s not much about. There are few, if any, widely available IPv6 capable routers. No soho firewalls that are easy enough for general users to configure. Apparently BT have no plans to support IPv6 on their 21cn network – supposedly fit for the new century.
Could be quite a mess when it does all happen.
Elm tree reintroduction project starts – Google News
Mar 7th
Elm tree reintroduction project starts
Telegraph.co.uk – Stephen Adams
The first step to re-establishing elm trees in Britain is being taken this month with 250 schools receiving saplings to plant. By Stephen Adams From the …
via Elm tree reintroduction project starts – Google News.
Good news for future generations, for centuries the English landscape was populated by elm trees until Dutch Elm disease killed most of them in the 1970s. It has been estimated that some 20 to 25 million trees were lost in all.
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