Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy.
Here’s the fix/workaround,
Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go.
#> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
add lines into /etc/squid.conf
# Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header
acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com
header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com
#> service squid [...]

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Like everything else with Astro, it did not work they way they said it would.
Received my new Astro gold smart card in the mail today. Came home and decided to start the upgrade.

The attached manual stated that when the new card was switched out with the old card while viewing a program a dialog box [...]

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I am facing the same annoying beep issue which I experienced on my Linux notebook before on my XP machine now.
Most users don’ t fancy having sounds turned on their OS. In XP turning off your sound schemes will turn off all notification sounds but then all beeps get channeled to your pc speaker instead [...]

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openSuse has released the X.Org patch 7.2-143.11.
The patch fixes the shared memory issue which was causing applications to crash. I fixed my installation by running the Beta fix 7.2-143.10.
I received my update up through the openSUSE updater today and so far everythings been working fine.

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We had a DC shutdown last night, been in the office for almost 20 hours now. I’m sleepy,tired,sticky,red eyed and the damn 10 year old RS6000 box running AIX 4.3 decided to stay down.
The box was trying to connect to a NFS share on the network before the network services came up. This cause the RS6000 to stall [...]

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