I tracked this down to it sending Expect: 100-continue in the headers of the request it sent to its server. However, it was going via our web proxy at work, which is Squid. Recently I upgraded Squid to 2.7, and this seems to be the cause of the problems. Squid 2.7 is less forgiving about that particular header (which is apparently an RFC violation on the part of the client).

It’s easily fixed by adding ignore_expect_100 on to your Squid configuration.

You’ll need PsList from SysInternals in your path somewhere.

Change the three SET lines to point to jkdefrag, give the parameters you want to use, and the name of the program to avoid. (Get the name of the program from PsList.)

The “>2 NUL” sends stderr to NUL to avoid printing the PsList banner. It works on Vista, not sure about XP/2003. If it doesn’t just remove it and live with the PsList banner showing up.

Making this check for more than one process is an exercise for the reader. Also, you could use this with PsExec to check for the process on a remote host and then launch JKDefrag over there.

@echo off

REM Only run jkdefrag if another process is not running

REM Path to jkdefrag
SET JKDEFRAG=c:\jkdefrag\jkdefrag.exe

REM Options for jkdefrag
SET JKDEFRAGOPTS=-a 3

REM Process we don't want running
SET AVOID=explorer

 
REM Here we go!
 
pslist %AVOID% > NUL 2> NUL
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto skip

REM If we made it here, pslist didn't find the process
echo Couldn't find %AVOID% running, starting jkdefrag...
%JKDEFRAG% %JKDEFRAGOPTS%
goto end
 
:skip
echo %AVOID% is running, not running jkdefrag
 
:end

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
 
"FullPathAddress"=dword:00000001
"Use Search Asst"="no"

Log off and back on again and the dog has been slaughtered.

Stupid yapping thing. :fuckoff:

(For the uninitiated, Exchange Recipient Policies tell Active Directory how to automatically generate email addresses for your users.)

If you want to tell a recipient policy in Exchange 2003 (and presumably 2007) how to generate the localpart other then just username, use these expanos:

%s : Surname (last name)

%g : Given name (first name)

%i : Middle initial

%d : Display name

%m : Exchange 2003 alias

%rxy : Replace all subsequent characters x with character y in username. If x = y, the character will be deleted.

There are other things you can do like chopping the string to a certain number of characters, see the full article for details.

No longer will I have to manually add first.last@domain.com to every user I create :D

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=822447

The disc is created.

Remove the disc and label it

“VGN-SZ3VMP_X Application Recovery Disc”

That’s easy for you to say, Sony.

What is brown, has a head and a tail but no legs?

The girls agree it’s a one or two pence coin.

The consensus among the boys seems to be that it’s a turd.

I’m not sure if an error is a feature I do or don’t want, to be honest.

Oh, I went to school in Aylesbury

“Me too!” I replied, “Which school did you go to?”

Aylesbury Grammar

:fry: This might seem a little odd since AGS is an all-boys school, and Viv isn’t any boy at all. However, all is explained by the fact that she started there before the girls split off and formed Aylesbury High over the road.

It’s a small world after all.

(That last line was added especially for simsea.)