Tom Bennett

A spot on spoof of the current Mac adverts from the guys at TrueNuff.

Further spoofs can be found on YouTube.

For the past few months, the flickr uploadr explorer shell extension has been crashing explorer.exe with

an unhandled win32 exception occurred in explorer.exe [2384]

message whenever I try to send two or more photos to it (a single photo seems to be fine).

I put up with it for a while, but then got fed up. I used ShellExView to disable all non-Microsoft shell extensions apart from the Flickr uploadr, and bingo, it was working again. Reenabling them one by one and testing, I found that the culprit is the excellent Notepad++ (i’m running version 3.8).

Maybe this is fixed in a future version of Notepad++, but until I’ve tested it I’ll keep the shell item disabled.

Just came across an article in todays Computing magazine saying that it was worthwile asking Google Maps for directions from New York to London. The picture below shows Google’s suggested route.

I particularly like the following instructions

20. Turn right at Long Wharf
21. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean

Suggested journey time is 29 days 10 hours. Love it.

The Tate is currently allowing the public to contribute to an exhibition that it is currently running, How we are: Photographing Britain. You can submit your photos by joining the group How we are now. Limit of four photos per person.

I was under the impression that once the deadline has passed, 40 photos would be selected to be displayed in the Tate as an exhibition. This is quite true, but also, right up until that deadline, all the photos that are currently in the group are being displayed on 4 screens in the exhibition and on the Tate website. To quote the Tate:

The group’s photographs will be displayed on screens as part of the exhibition at Tate Britain. The photographs will also be posted and shared on Tate’s website and on the website of the exhibition’s media partner, The Observer.

In the final weeks of the exhibition, 40 photographs – 10 from each of the four themes – will be chosen by Tate to form the final display in the gallery from 6 August – 2 September 2007. A panel of curators, artists, photographers and others will select the final 40 photographs. The final 40 images will also be archived on Tate Online as part of the exhibition’s website.

Managed to take a quick screenshot of a couple of my images being displayed on the slideshow, Mucky pups and Captured moment.

The other two photos that I submitted are Stonehenge and London eye in colour.

What a great idea from the Tate, I’m certainly going to try to make the effort to get down to the exhibition over the next few weeks.

So, i’ve been experiencing the following error with exchange system manager

The operation completed successfully.
Facility: Win32
ID no: c0070000
Exchange System Manager

The error’s thrown when trying to expand the ‘Public Folders’ node in exchange system manager. Clicking ‘ok’ gets rid of the error and everything seems good and well until you restart ESM, where the same thing happens again.

Details for the server in question are

• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2
• a recently installed Internet Explorer 7

Microsoft puts it down to the following:

a conflict between a newer version of the Psapi.dll file that Internet Explorer 7 uses and the older version that Exchange System Manager uses

Here’s the fix from Microsoft (knowledgebase link at the bottom):

1. Stop all Exchange and Internet Information Services (IIS) services.
a. Open the Services snap-in.
b. Stop the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service.

Important Note the list of dependent services that will be stopped. For example, the list of dependent services may resemble the following:
• Microsoft Exchange Information Store
• Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks

c. Stop the IIS Admin Service.

Important Note the list of dependent services that will be stopped. For example, the list of dependent services may resemble the following:
• World Wide Web Publishing Service
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• HTTP SSL
• AntigenIMC

2. Rename the Psapi.dll file. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Navigate to:
Drive_Letter:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin
b. Change the name of the Psapi.dll file to Psapi.dll.old.

3. Restart the Exchange services and the IIS services. This includes the dependent services that were stopped.

Further details can be found here:

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932513
• http://www.petri.co.il/ie7_crashes_when_opening_esm_help.htm