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Paul Colquhoun  
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 More options 19 Oct 2001, 07:00
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From: postmas...@andor.dropbear.id.au (Paul Colquhoun)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:00:27 GMT
Local: Fri 19 Oct 2001 07:00
Subject: Re: Linux Rocks - film at 11
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On 18 Oct 2001 23:12:56 -0600, Craig Kelley <i...@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
| "[H]omer" <u...@ftc.com> writes:

|
|  [snip about invincible Redhat installation]
|
|> It's still standing !!!
|
| Funny you should bring it up; just today I was talking with a buddy of
| mine and she told me the story of her box that is running Slackware 2.
| It began life in '96 with a 1.2.13 kernel, and it runs a 2.4.x kernel
| now complete with glibc 2.2 and everything in between.  She killed the
| box once doing an upgrade of libc (and ever since, she's kept every
| version of libc inbetween -- its probably the only Linux box in the
| world capable of running *any* Linux binary dynamically linked).
|
| No packages, no Xconfigurator, nada.  Amazing.
|
|> Ok, so it's moved from one disk to another then back, but it's still the
|> same installation of RH.
|
|:)  Yep, she did that too.  Her system has >100gb of storage now, but
| its running on an older K6 (lost her posh machine in the dot-bomb).
|
|  [snip]
|
|> 'The configuration information of the performance library
|> "D:\WINNT\System32\w3ctrs.dll" for the "W3SVC" service does not match the
|> trusted performance library information stored in the registry. The
|> functions in this library will not be treated as trusted.'
|
| I can add another hundred, or so, like-wise error "messages" to that
| one.  My favorite is a WINS error we got and the error message in the
| event viewer went like this (I kid you not):
|
|  "WINS encountered an error.  The error is in the data."
|
| Nice.

My fave "error" message is from win2k. A service hadn't started at boot
and I was investigating why. I attempted to start the service manually.
The error that this generated was something like:

"The service is not running because no attempts have been made to start
it". (paraphrased, from memory, as I am not near the box in question)

Remember, this error was *caused* by an attempt to start the service!

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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.    http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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