Ben Kevan’s Blog

Uninstalling SQL Embedded

So I was having a hard time with WSUS 3.0 and wanted to do a full uninstall but SQL Embedded wouldn’t uninstall with the package. So how do you uninstall?

–> Regedit

–> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

—->Search GUIDS for that have the display name for SQL Embedded

—-> Copy the Uninstall line

–> Open command prompt (Start — Run — CMD)

—-> Paste the Uninstall line and append ” CALLERID=OCSETUP.EXE” (Without the quotes of course) to the end of it.

—-> This should uninstall it. Reboot and then your clean

UFC 65, I have tickets.. TOO MANY OF THEM

Ok ok, so I said I wanted to go to UFC 65 and well I am, in quite the fashion. I have Floor Section 5 tickets and am amp’ed and juiced to go, only problem is, I also have row 3 section 104 tickets. I am planning on selling those very shortly and well, then off to UFC 65 on November 18th it is.

Windows Vista RC2

So tonight I downloaded Microsoft Windows Vista RC2, I am still not very impressed, but the “Visual Effects” over XP are still good. Other then that, I much rather stick to my Linux Distributions of choice SuSE Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

Why did we decide to name him Benjamin Jr?

So, you may be wondering why Sarah and I decided we would go with the name “Benjamin Kevan Jr”. The last name is pretty obvious (or so I hope), but the 2 reasons for Benjamin Jr are listed below:

• Benjamin means “Fathers Right Hand Son”
• Benjamin means “Son of Benjamin”

So, there you have it 2 simple and quite funny reasons to name him Benjamin Jr.

Winchester Mystery House on Friday the 13th

Sarah, her cousin Katie, her Dad and I are all going to the Winchester Mystery House on Friday the 13th. They are having a lights out (Flashlight Tour) since it is a “special day”. They do the flashlight tours on Friday the 13th, and a few days leading to Halloween. If you have not heard of the Winchester house, or story, I would recommended checking it out. It’s an awesome story.

sorry my hard drive died

So on Monday my hard drive in my Tecra M1 decided to take a shit. I have replaced it and loaded SuSE 10.1 back on, patched it all up and just need to get wireless and sound working (I would have had it all done by now, but time has not been on my side).