Life Burner

Microsoft updates, not really something that you can rely on, downloads updates, reboots to install, and then gets stuck in a continuous loop! I thought the first time this happened back in SP1, it was something conflicting with my system, but after fixing that and upgrading to SP2 months later the continual reboot has struck again!

The system message when updating gets to “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 100% complete”.

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Iv jumped back to using my home media server as a web server for testing, and realized that apache2 wouldn’t recognize .htacess files, after some googling i found the answer, you need to open a terminal or putty session:
navigate to
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
and open “default” up in your editor or choice
sudo nano default
Default for AllowOverride is none, it should be All, so your overall “default” file should look like this;

NameVirtualHost *

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# Commented out for Ubuntu
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

Then all you need to do is restart apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Thanks to this Ubuntu Forums post

So today i installed FireFox 3.5 onto a machine at work, later realizing that you have to have admin privileges to install flash! daym! but with a few quick steps, flash was working in 3 minutes.

1. Download the XPI of the Flash Player plugin. An XPI is generally a plug-in for FireFox which is in fact a ZIP archive.
2. (Rename to .zip if you want and) extract the files in the XPI.
3. Go to Start » Run » enter “%APPDATA%” » OK
4. Navigate to Mozilla\Plugins\, if this directory doesn’t exist, create it.
5. Copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll from the extracted files to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins.
6. Restart FireFox and flash will be installed!

Thanks to ce3c.be.