Huh.

Entirely unrelated problem: our development server is slow as can be when asked to do SQL tasks like backup, restore, or changing of SQL code. It works relatively okay when this is not being required of it. This problem has happened for, apparently, about a month or two. I have generally scrupulously avoided this server because I am not the developer and did not want to mess it up.

Funny, though, that the last two batches of MS updates I installed on it were on 6/17/06 and 7/12/06. Before that? Nothing since February. It's the only configuration change that's been made to the machine in that time. I've scanned the drives for errors, I've tested the network, I've chkdsk'ed, I've defragged- but that's all that's been

Just me, or are you thinking maybe 6/17/06 is 'about a month or two ago'? 'cos, see, Julio at HP feels it is.

I'm gonna do me some rolling back.

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Possibly it says something about me that, after a morning spent wrestling with terror at my inability to coax a server to work at reasonable speed, worry that tech support wouldn't be able to either, and actually removing multiple Windows Server updates from the machine, my idea of a comforting, happy-making book to read in line at the Post Office was At The Mountains Of Madness. Granted, I've never read it before and the Arkham boys are still pretty early in the expedition, but still. Something about the Lovecraft just makes for the chilling out, y'know?