An Engineer’s Guide To Cats

Posted in Videos on April 24th, 2008 by Jan


Handy codes for Nokia E65

Posted in Gadgets, Nokia E65 on April 23rd, 2008 by Jan

Mostly because I keep forgetting…

Type in the following codes to find out:

  • WLAN MAC address: *#62209526#
  • Bluetooth MAC address: *#2820#
  • Software version and release number of the device: *#0000#
  • EMEI: *#06#

To do a hard reset (full erase + reset to factory settings); type *#7370# (look in your manual for the default access code)

Strange problems with windows 2k3…

Posted in Windows on April 16th, 2008 by Jan

I’m wondering if anyone out there can help me with this one…

On one server, running Windows server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, service pack 1, I’m encountering this problem:

The machine often grinds to a halt, responding very slowly, and the event log is filled with:

Application log:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: PerfOS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2012
Date: 9/04/2008
Time: 7:41:53
User: N/A
Computer: XXX
Description:
Unable to get system process information from system. The status code
returned is in the first DWORD in the Data section.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: a1 00 00 c0 ¡..À

System log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 333
Date: 16/04/2008
Time: 10:36:36
User: N/A
Computer: XXX
Description:
An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The
Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that
contain the system’s image of the Registry.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 6c 00 ……l.
0008: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ….M..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ….M..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..

The only thing this machine is running is Platform Symphony, GRID computing software. This setup is identical on 4 other machines, which don’t show any problems.

After numerous googles I still haven’t found a reason or a solution. I’ve tried:

  • reinstalling machine - problem comes back (it’s not clear before or after installing the GRID software…
  • increasing pagefile size
  • checked main drive
  • tried UHCleaner - doesn’t seem to work on 64bit
  • checked registry settings - all are identical

Meetings…

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 13th, 2008 by Jan

This is sometimes so very true:

Sloe death.. by a boring meeting

Spam!

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 9th, 2008 by Jan

Woohoo! Another milestone reached:

10,051 spams caught

Thanks to Askimet, the blog is 10,051 spam messages poorer! :p