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Minimum maintenance roads…

… SUCK.

So I was scheduled to go out to a customer’s house this morning to look at their DSL connection. Pretty typical shit. I got a map off of Mapquest and headed out, making my way for a county road south of Blair. County roads, as you well know, have several different meanings. They can be paved, gravel, dirt, or they can be a trail between two corn fields lined with signs that say TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT.

This morning I was on a county road that was all of the above. It started paved… then became a gravel road… then turned to a dirt road… then turned into a muddy path with a sign that said MINIMUM MAINTENANCE ROAD. But I’m a trooper – I was literally almost there, I figured a little mud wouldn’t be too bad. I made it through about half a mile before I got myself stuck in a rut.

Long story short, I had to walk about a mile and a half back towards civilization before I finally ran into someone who lived at a house back where the road was paved. Had to call the boss to bring his hugeass pickup out to tow me out of the mud.

Moral of the story: If you see a sign that says minimum maintenance road, turn your ass around and find another way. It’s not worth it.

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Yar

So a day after posting that longass walk through I found a program that not only integrates Service Pack 2 but also goes through and lets you cut out all the crap you don’t want off your Windows CD. Shit. I’ll still be posting more parts to that as I get the time, since it’d be nice to have a walkthrough for the hard way too. 😉

That program can be found here: http://nuhi.msfn.org/nlite.html

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0x800B0001

These steps should be followed to try to resolve error 0x800B0001 in Windows Update:

1) Clear cache
2) Disable firewalls/proxy settings
3) Click Start -> Run, type “services.msc” (without quotation marks) in the Open box and click OK. Double click the service “Automatic Updates.” Click on the Log On tab, ensure the option “Local System account” is selected and the option “Allow service to interact with desktop” is unchecked. Repeat this step with Event Log and Background Intelligent Transfer Service.
4) Click Start -> Run, type “net stop WuAuServ” in the Open box and click OK. Then click Start -> Run, type “%windir%” in the Open box and click OK. Rename the SoftwareDistribution folder to SoftwareDistribution.old or something. Then click Start -> Run, type “net start WuAuServ” in the Open box and click OK.
5) Reregister these .dll files:

msxml3.dll
wuapi.dll
wuaueng.dll
wucltui.dll
wups.dll
wuweb.dll
qmgr.dll
qmgrprxy.dll
jscript.dll
softpub.dll
mssip32.dll
initpki.dll

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Shit.

So after bragging to my brother about how he’s had all this work done on his car (engine had to be remounted under the hood, axle boots, timing belt, etc), I finally had something happen to mine. Last year it was the brake cable that basically broke in the dead of winter, this time it was the ignition lock. I got into the truck and tried to start the shit – and the key wouldn’t turn. I figured it was just cold and tried heating up my key with a lighter. That didn’t work. Gave it some WD 40. That didn’t work.

$200 for the repair and at least 1 day missed from work, depending on if I can get a ride tomorrow. Great.

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