May 31

Hello,

I have not being posting as you readers have probably noticed for at least 2 months. The main issue there simply was a lack of time to blog.

What I have been involved with for the last two months were:

(1) Setting up a datacenter for VPS (Virtual Private Server). This is not for Protocol Solutions, this was for a client.
(2) Configuration of the management software for looking after all the containers (of the VPS)
(3) Testing and hardening down of everything

Windows SP3:

We got a test machine to install SP3 onto Windows XP Pro (corporate version). The installation went well, however this is the only thing that actually worked. There were multiple issues with the computer we installed SP3 into after a reboot:

(1) We had intermittant USB connectivity after the install of SP3
(2) Several BsoD

The installation was tested on another computer as well, the only difference between the first computer and this one was that the above testing was running an Intel processor and this computer was using an AMD AM2 chip. Both computers had 1Gb of ram as per standard staff configuration computers.

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Jan 13

The installation of SP3 went well on the test computer. I have organised for detailed testing and also to apply the SP to a virtual machine, just in case there is any inconsistancy.

 So far it looks good but I am not happy about the 3rd service pack.

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Jan 07

We are installing Windows Service Pack 3 tomrrow. The plan is to install it on a test windows XP Virtual machine. I will be posting any problems or issues here.

Please leave your own comments about Windows XP Service pack 3 if relevent.

This was meant to be done yesterday (8th January) but is defered till thursday 11th.

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