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OIT posted a kb article updated April 12 entitled The Top Ten Reasons Your Computer Will Get Infected With A Virus and What You Should Do About It. It works from the premise that your OS was made in Redmond.

“You are Running Windows” and “Dump Windows” did not make the list.

I needed to reimage a machine that I got from Dell. I was using an old
version of g4u (1.13 I think). I ran into multiple problems with disks not being
seen and the ethernet card not working. I know the disks and ethernet card were
good because Windows was able to see them…
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Microsoft Office for Mac OS X has been removed as a disk image (dmg) from the macsoft page and its contents have been dumped onto ntfileshare.

You cannot connect to ntfileshare for the purpose of installation of Office on a Mac without installing the Microsoft UAM, available on the macsoft page.

All-Microsoft products belong on all-Microsoft servers I guess?

A default Fedora install on an IBM Thinkpad 600E autodetects the Horizontal and Vertical sync rate values incorrectly. They should be:

HorizSync 30-64
VertRefresh 50-100

respectively. You can simply paste these two lines over the existing ones in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

[addendum]

For some strange reason, the Horizontal Sync had to be changed to 31.5-57.0 KHz for FC2.

Reinstalled Acrobat Pro, Distiller and Reader on a DeSC machine today because the applications were reporting that their respective installations had not completed. The installers are in \antigone\pub. Note that there is also a directory called 6modi which contains an additional installer. It seems that this installer will make the necessary changes to the system so that Reader is launched by default for viewing PDFs.

Its worth noting that I had to do this manual reinstall because Distiller and Reader would not launch as part of the DeSC image from March 18. I have other DeSC image installs that are also dated March 18th so I’m not quick to blame it on the image revision or install.

Get an application to hang in Mac OS X. Force a system shutdown without quiting the application. If you are unlucky you will have corrupted /sbin/mach_init and /mach.sym. Disk Utility and Disk Warrior will report both files as overlapping files. Disk Utility will lie to you outright and tell you they are fixed. Disk Warrior will at least report that they are unfixable, or at least obviously fail to fix them. Single user mode will halt at a /sbin/mach_init, errno 2 prompt. Replacing the files via target firewire disk mode and repairing permissions should be enough to remedy the situation, but it won’t be. And an Archive and Install will refuse to work on a drive without an intact mach.sym. Searching the support boards and talking to multiple tech support personnel will leave you with dead ends and solutions you don’t want to read or hear.

After you’ve done all this back up the user data, prep your Erase and Install disks, and don’t forget to give Apple a piece of your mind.

There’s a great hint over at macosxhints that contains a script for removing mail messages with deleted0.txt attachments. If you plug the script in as a rule to incoming messages, it will cut down on those worm-laiden messages that the gateway has cleaned.