First things first I wish Authorize.net team the best of luck and speed in fixing there network.

Lessons for etailers though is to *if* possible build a second payment provider into the online checkout system. www.dabs.com are great example of site that has multiple paymet options at checkout. This not only gives consumers choice but also provides resilences into your online payment solution.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7932816.stm

Last time I looked it was illegal to do this type of thing either for profit or demonstration purpose.

"Almost 22,000 computers made up Click's network of hijacked machines, which has now been disabled."

"If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law. "

What ? using other people machines to send traffic and there bandwidth is not already a misuses of there network ?? Does that not break the Computer Mis Use act ? What if some of those machines where on mobile networks where they were paying by the meg for there bandwidth ??

WSUS database by default tend to be on the C drive, which is all good until you start to run out of space.

The problem then comes in moving the database from C: to often your data drive in my example D:

The biggest problem people have in doing this is actually connecting to the database.

Most people like point and click tools like SQL Server Management Studio or Express edition
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C243A5AE-4BD1-4E3D-94B8-5A0F62BF7796&displaylang=en

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU START THIS.

To connect to the database you need to use the following address as the Server Name:

file://pipe/mssql$microsoft##ssee/sql/query

I connected through using this address as Administrator which seem to work ;-) Once you have a connection in the database.

The rest becomes alot simplier in terms of moving the SUSDB . Expand the database list and you should see SUSDB .

Before you do this though make a note of were the files are !! ldf and the mdf ;-)

Right click on the database

Task -> Detach

you will need to select the option "Drop Connections" otherwise it will normally fail to detach.

Once you have detached the database. *COPY* ldf and mdf file to your new location.

Once copied you simple need to Attach the database back in again. Right click on Database -> Attach

Locate the mdf file in the new location and attach the database back.
Once you are happy that database is re-attached correctly and you have checked the system is working, you can delete you old mdf and ldf file. Personally I just copied them off onto a USB drive just in case. You should then have some space back on your C drive.

[UPDATE]
Make sure you check the permissions on the database before you start this procedure just in case.

Happy new year to all.

Had a few people run into IE8 beta lately by mistake. As most people look for Microsoft Internet Explorer in the add / remove programs, they get stuck. It is actually called "Windows Internet Explorer 8" why they cannot follow a naming standard they have setup I will never know...

Removing IE8 on Windows XP:
1. Click the Start Button and select Control Panel.
2. Select Add or Remove Programs.
3. Find and select Windows Internet Explorer 8 from the list of available applications.
4. Click the Remove button.
5. Restart your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en

I just found this the other day and will save me purshasing a conversation tool for word to PDF.

Hope this helps someone else in the future, Not sure Adobe will love MS for this but it is great for consumers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7707016.stm

The last time I saw 3.x was actually last month.. my dad still runs it for a flight sim!!

James