If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

I just started looking into ustream.tv recently and I was interested in using my laptop to stream from but I had no such luck. When I got the screen that was supposed to show my local camera is merely blank

The fix was easier than I thought but was hard to discover, anyway here is how.
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I was trying to run my web browser (Iceweasel) on my netbook as root through the Konsole but came across the following:

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 KeyError: error cannot open display: 0:0

The fix is simple, just follow the steps below.
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After recovering a failed web server, one of my jobs was to add WSUS back onto the new server. All went well apart from the above stated Event ID 364.
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Ok, so Google has released Buzz, twitter killer? Better than Google Wave? Facebook threat?

Decide for yourself.

Before you begin, log onto the server that running SQL Server and check that ‘SQL Server VSS Writer‘ service is started and the startup type is set to ‘Automatic‘ as this is a requirement. Also, you will need to create a shared directory for the backup and set the required share permissions. In this example I’ve created BACKUPDIR on server BACKUPSVR.
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