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Yay, I just upgraded my nspluginwrapper and everything broke. Again. Couldn't use youtube or any of my other favorite sites anymore.

Running firefox from the console gave me some feedback:

<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">***</span> NSPlugin Viewer  <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">***</span> ERROR: NP_Initialize<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#41;</span> get args: Message argument mismatch

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I recently discovered that one of my most annoying users has found another way to frustrate the WSUS update process: First, she simply didn't shutdown the computer when she went home. Now I've installed a psshutdown script on the SBS Server that forces a shutdown every evening, she found out… Read more

(This article is an update to this original page from march.)

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In order to keep my users from getting windows update messages, I try to install any client updates at night. I have a few tricks to make this possible:

1: Boot up at night

Most computers can boot up automatically at night, using Wake-On-LAN. If your computer or… Read more

I recently installed a new Microsoft WSUS server. Most of it went just fine. Except for a few… Read more

The last year or so, Adobe Reader has had a whole lot of leaks. Trend Micro published a blog yesterday about the fact that Adobe released an out-of-band update to plug yet another security hole.

If you want to use Adobe Reader, update. But I have a… Read more