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  Want to Win a Free Drobo?

  Mirco 14:54 on Saturday, 28. March 2009 | View Comments Permalink | Reply
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  If you cannot shield yourself from the current Drobo hype and want to get your hands on one of these, here’s your freebie chance:

  Welcome to Managing Your Digital Life. Thanks for stopping by. We’re giving away TWO free Drobos in March. To be eligible to win, simply link to MYDL.ME from your blog or website. If you don’t have a blog or website, you can get a free blog from Google/Blogger.

  We’ll check our referral logs and randomly select two winners. You must be 18 years or older to win and you must live in a country where Drobo ships. Contact Drobo to find out which countries are included on that list. We’ll give away one Drobo late next week and another on the last day of the month. Good luck.

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  What Kind Of Language Is This?

  Mirco 15:10 on Monday, 10. November 2008 | View Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anoyance, apple (4), bugs, correction (2), error (4), fail, google, iphone (6), meme, text

  If there is one thing on my iPhone I could kill someone over it would be the auto correction.

  Since my phone is set to German I do expect it to correct my German typos, instead it create new ones. The first three lines represent a german and the latter three a english version of roughly the same sentence.

  

  Neither is spelled right. I don’t mind that Caps are not corrected, but i do mind that it automatically changes correctly written words into something that doesn’t even exist.

  What the Hell is “rächtachreinkorrektur”? You can’t even find a word like this on Google! But what I did type was: “Rechtschreibkorrektur”. So why autocorrect something that’s not misspelled?

  It gets even better if I try typing English text. “Äre” would be Swedish, Quedt turned out to be a family name, THW is an organization like EPA, that actually does help, and the only reference to “fünfion” I found is in the book:

  Oekonomische Encyklopädie

  By Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski.

  Published in 1805.

  Remarkably I did find a reference to “Sehepoper” on Google… about the iPhone auto correction.

   
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  Shiny new Browsers

  Mirco 7:27 on Wednesday, 3. September 2008 | View Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: application, browser, browserwar, chrome, css (2), explorer, firefox, google, internet, internetexplorer, microsoft (10), mozilla, opera

  So now we have Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome along with some mashup browsers competing for their marketshare of Wíndows users.

  I’m running Firefox 3 for a few months now, and so far I like that they finally decided to ditch the Bookmark.htm after nearly 15 years. But it’s still clogging my machines memory and keeps crashing down if there is no free RAM left. Remember when we all switched from Netscape Navigator to Firefox, because it was a small minimalistic browser with a tiny footprint both in size an memory consumption?

  Last weeks big news was the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta2. After using it for a few days I found some quirks, like crashing when processing some JavaScripts or that it’s painfully slow at some points. And Why did they separate The Favorites Bar from the favorites Menu? And why can’t I place them both left of the page tabs? I guess I just have to wait for the next release.

  And now it’s Google’s surprise browser. And at first look it reminded me of something I liked several years ago. Firefox 0.9x. It’s again small, fast, and doesn’t come with a bunch of useless features. It’s still Beta, so I won’t be expecting too much, but for the time it serves it’s purpose of reminding everybody else, that a small fast browser is possible and will be used by the masses.

   
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  SCOM Agent Trouble

  Mirco 13:16 on Thursday, 28. August 2008 | View Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: -2130771964, agent (2), console, error (4), google, install, manager (2), msi, operations (2), restart, scom (4), service (2), solution, system center (2), troubleshooting, uninstall

  Two weeks ago I installed the KB954049 on our Operations Manager servers. This “allows” me to update all of our 1500 agents, that are currently deployed.

  Four days, some Alerts form the IDS and multiple retries later there are still 60 agents left and refusing every attempt to be updated to version 6.0.6278.32. I’m still not sure why a domain administrator gets an “Access Denied” when trying to initiate a remote installation but I will figure this out, eventually.

  Today I noticed something new. Several, already updated Agents are grayed out on the status view. The servers are up an running, according to ping. A short look at the Computer Management shows the Agent is running too, but when I try to restart the service I’m prompted with some error message and the ID: -2130771964.

  Unfortunately Google isn’t a great help finding this error. There are only a handful results that focus on installing agents, but I have trouble restarting the service.

  My next thought was to try the Change/Repair option in “Add/Remove Software”, which stopped with the same Error code as restarting the service. Somebody must have been very creative in defining error codes for these agents.

  OK, if I can’t repair it, maybe I can uninstall it… and it worked, with the slight limitation that the uninstaller was unable to remove the installation folder.

  The next step was redistributing the Agent from the OpsMgr console, which went through with no errors at all.