According to reports the update released to fix a vulnerability found last week in WebDAV, and now acknowledge to be much more serious, is causing some Win2k server to fail on reboot.  The problem is traced to incompatibility with certain versions of ntoskrnl.exe.

The best description of and solution to the problem is in this post to microsoft.public.win2000.general and  microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin as archived on Google Groups

"Subject: Re: Hotfix 815021 Blue Screen SESSION5_INITIALIZATION_FAILURE

As per microsoft :

"If you are running Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2), before you install
this update you must check the version of Ntoskrnl.exe on your system:
  1.. Browse to the %windir%System32 folder.
  2.. Right-click the Ntoskrnl.exe file, click Properties, and then click
the Version tab.
Versions of Ntoskrnl.exe between 5.0.2195.4797 and 5.0.2195.4928 (inclusive)
are not compatible with this update. These versions were only distributed
with Product Support Services (PSS) hotfixes."

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ajc.com | Metro | Metro counties enter Net era - Now a tech-savvy Cherokee judge wants to take the idea a step further. Magistrate Court Judge Charles Robertson is proposing a new way for the court to notify defendants of court papers -- by e-mail.

Very interesting.  Basically the plan is if you file a civil suit in Cherokee county and provide the court with the defendant's email address, the court will email the party requesting that they come to the courthouse to sign for and pick-up the papers.  Otherwise a deputy is sent to the party to serve the papers.  Sounds like a winner to me.

Something intersting about the article is the comment from an Emory University business proffessor.  That's right, business prof, no comments from a law proffessor, though Emory has a number of those.  To me it is interesting because it would seem to highlight the insular nature of law school from the actual practice and procedure of the law.

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