Month: March 2006

To Kaylan, With ∞ Love.;

When I think of my love for her, it's hard to quantify it in words...

I love her more than the number of sands on the beaches of the world.

I love her more than the number of stars in the sky.

I love her more than the size of the universe.

I love her more than the time it takes to get to the edge of the universe.

I love her more than the number of raindrops in the ocean.

If you were to take the largest mass known and divide it by the smallest particle of matter, I'd love her more than that.

In the words of the Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy: "Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we are trying to get across here.". That's how much I love her.

If I were to make a program that were to caclulate how much I love her, it would look like something like this...

while ( "black" == "black" && "white" == "white") {
$infinity++;
}
$MyLoveForHer = $infinity + 1;
print "I love her this much: $MyLoveForHer";

...but, of course, my love for her is so great it would take forever to calculate that kind of value, so you'd have to wait that long for it to finish. Unless of course you had a computer that was infinitely fast, in which case... um, nevermind.

Only God really knows how much I love her, because I love her so much it's beyond human comprehension.

That's how much I love her.

Why SQL Server Won't Log In

Have you ever changed the logon password for your SQL service account and found that the service no longer starts up after a reboot on it's own? You look through the event log and you see the error:

The service did not start due to a logon failure.

OR


The MSSQLSERVER service failed to start due to the following error:
The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account name specified.

But when you go into Services, re-enter the login info, and restart the service, it comes up just fine. Reboot and the problem comes right back.

I've seen this issue and dealt with it for years now, since the release of 2K, probably. It's really annoying because you have to manually restart the service every time you reboot. And of course the change never sticks. Guess what. In true Microsoft fashion, they put the login info elsewhere in the OS, and in this case, it overrides the Services tab login info.

To get the login info to stick, you have to right-click on the server instance in Enterprise Manager, select Properties, enter the security tab, and re-enter the account password here. This setting apparently overwrites the Services setting upon each reboot.


Thank God I won't have to babysit that server any more. All I have to says is: FINALLY!

Postfix/Exchange Unknown User Filtering HOWTO

Annoyed by Exchange's lack of SMTP features? Tired of thousands of NDR messages to invalid email addresses for unknown users plugging up your mailserver? Try my new HOWTO on setting up an Exchange/Postfix mail filtering server on Ubuntu.

Vegas Baby!

Off for the week(end) to spend some time in Vegas with the most wonderful woman in the world! More details (and pictures) to come.