Ben Kevan’s Blog

openSUSE 10.3 coming to a computer near you

So i’ve been dabbling quite a bit with Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon (7.10)  (Tribe 1 - Beta 1) and as always openSUSE 10.3 (Alpha - RC1). I must say it’s good to see other distributions put things in that openSUSE has had for years, but with that said, I guess i’ll just touch on some of my basic likes and dislikes.

One thing I just dispise about Ubuntu, is Gnome. Sure, there is Kubuntu, but come-on people, I would imagine by now you’d realize Kubuntu really isn’t Ubuntu with KDE. Glad to see Ubuntu FINALLY has a GUI to configure Xorg (saX has been around for a LONG time in the suse distro). The other added features of Ubuntu are cool, other then some small configuration things that should have been in the distro along time ago, nothing is much different then 7.04.

openSUSE 10.3 on the other hand, is leaps and BOUNDS above what 10.2 provided. Most notabily is the decrease in boot and shutdown speeds.  Currently on my production box I run openSUSE 10.3 and will be upgrading to 10.3 on the day it’s released (may do a clean install and remove my Windows partition, and continue to just use Windows in a VM, where it belongs). On my MythTV box, I currently run Ubuntu 7.04 but may be migrating over to openSUSE 10.3 also, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t going to check out MythBuntu.

Sorry this is all over the place, and kind of short, but little guy was a bit fussy and going to go tend to him now. Stay tuned for a kick ass openSUSE 10.3 MythTV How-to

Microsoft Repair, now you can’t run Windows Updates? How to fix

So, have you recently had to run a Microsoft Windows Repair on a machine using the Windows XP CD and then were unable to do a Windows Update? Well, you can thanks M$ for that. What happened? Whelp first off, your Windows XP Version is now 7.0.6000.381 and that is where the issue stems. WU’s have changed quite a bit from that version and to be updated the 7 core WU files need to be registered which are NOT registered when WU is updated (How stupid is that?). So what do you do to fix this?

Create a text file, and add the following:

regsvr32 /s wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 /s wucltui.dll
regsvr32 /s wups2.dll
regsvr32 /s wups.dll
regsvr32 /s wuweb.dll

Save the file as RegisterWU.bat and save it on your desktop. Double click it, and let it do its thing.

If you would like a comprehensive script that will fix multiple Windows Update issues, feel free to email me and i’ll post one up.

Ben Jr practicing the Jits (Jiu-Jitsu)

Looking at his corner after hitting a pretty nice armbar. He still has some work to do to fix it, but not bad for 8 months old.