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		<title>Could not load file or assembly &#8216;Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/office-2007/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-office-interop-word</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone at work wrote a .NET add-in for MS Word 2007 but when the test user tried to install it he got the following output in a dialogue window. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. ************** Exception Text ************** [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part P Regulation For IT ?&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/it/part-p-regulation-for-it</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/it/part-p-regulation-for-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read an article last year by Steve Cassidy on PC Pro. The article was a light humoured piece about an argument he got into with an electrician over wi-fi. The electrician was clearly ignorant or misinformed about the subject matter, but this didn&#8217;t stop him spouting off about it. In his article, Steve mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Error &#8220;The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)&#8221; Solved&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows-error-the-application-failed-to-initialize-properly-0xc0000135-solved</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows-error-the-application-failed-to-initialize-properly-0xc0000135-solved#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[0xc0000135]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sysinternals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I would add my own personal &#8220;The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application&#8221; story to the masses out there, seeing as mine was not what it seemed to be at first glance. I guess it started as it did for many, something broke on a server. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello James&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/friends/hello-james</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/friends/hello-james#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James McIntosh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been promising for a while now to plug/mention the website of my good friend James McIntosh (not that he needs it, he gets way more hits and traffic than me, but then he is slightly cooler then I am, so stands to reason). He writes rather fantastic cookery books, so fantastic he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Nagios NRPE To Monitor Windows Services Via WMI Part 2…….</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/using-nagios-nrpe-to-monitor-windows-services-via-wmi-part-2%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/using-nagios-nrpe-to-monitor-windows-services-via-wmi-part-2%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nrpe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vbscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wmi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have realised my first attempt at using NRPE to monitor Windows services via WMI is in fact badly thought out and badly done. This is what happens when companies want everything yesterday and rush things :o( Having thought about it, the following has come to mind: The service string to check should not be hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Nagios NRPE To Monitor Windows Services Via WMI&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/using-nagios-nrpe-to-monitor-windows-services-via-wmi</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/using-nagios-nrpe-to-monitor-windows-services-via-wmi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nrpe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scripting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wmi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are setting up Nagios from scratch, install the NSClient++ agent on your Windows servers and get the increased flexibility that it offers. My predecessor at my current work place has only installed the NRPE addon (the same guy who installed the core datacentre router with a duplex mismatch&#8230;.that made my first week fun), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Passwords for An Easier Life&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/making-passwords-for-an-easier-life</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/microsoft/windows/making-passwords-for-an-easier-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pound]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heals of Companies Make VPN Easy For Yourselves&#8230;&#8230;. comes another gem from the school of &#8216;kinda obvious if you think about it&#8217; ! If you use the UK pound &#8216;£&#8217; symbol in any passwords, at some point it will bite you in the ass when you are on an American keyboard (especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apache Header Byte Range DoS Exploit&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/security/apache-header-byte-range-dos-exploit</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/security/apache-header-byte-range-dos-exploit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Grrrrr, looks like there&#8217;s an unpatched exploit in *all* versions of Apache web server. Is to do with using header byte ranges which allow http responses to be broken into smaller chunks before sending. You can read about them here and here. There are multiple workarounds for mitigating the issue that can be read here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thou Shall Not Covet&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/friends/thou-shall-not-covet</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/friends/thou-shall-not-covet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not terribly religious&#8230;..in fact not at all really. But I am aware by way of popular TV and movie culture of the commandments passed down to Charlton Heston, specifically the 10th one, &#8216;Thou Shall Not Covet&#8217;. &#160; However, seeing this at a friends place when I went for dinner the other weekend, I must confess to a brief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recursive Grep For Solaris&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/recursive-grep-for-solaris</link>
		<comments>http://www.sporticia.com/blog/unix/recursive-grep-for-solaris#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unix]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sporticia.com/blog/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Solaris doesn&#8217;t seem to have a &#8216;-r&#8217; switch to perform recursive string searches (at least not on version 10 on Intel x86 anyway) :o( The following works as a workaround/substitution find -type f &#124; xargs grep -i &#160; That is all&#8230;&#8230;.. &#160;]]></description>
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