SQL Server error: sqlboot.dll December 17th, 2007

After several administrative steps over a few months, we suddenly found the following error coming from an instance of SQL Server on a virtual machine:

Your SQL Server installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (unable to load SQLBOOT.DLL). Please uninstall them re-run setup to correct this problem.

Nobody had been keeping an eye [...]

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Percussive maintenance, with a twist October 8th, 2006

Seen the “sad iPod icon” recently on your iPod? I was greeted by it yesterday on my 4th generation podlet:

The sad iPod icon (SII). Usually accompanied by a generic, unhelpful apple.com URL, which just makes it all the more sad.

Unlike most people who see this, I didn’t seem to have the symptoms of [...]

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