Dear Final Debug: I’m having trouble getting Microsoft Site Server to work in a vanilla NT environment. I’m using other BackOffice products with no problem, like Exchange Server and SQL Server 6.5, but the server freezes every time I try to call up Site Server. I’ve got the necessary system requirements: a 266 MHz Pentium system with 64M bytes of RAM, and half a gigabyte of free space on my hard disk, and I’ve installed the Service Pack 2 for NT 4.0. Help!-Owen Smith, Chicago.
Final Debug Responds: OK, we’ll be honest. Owen has us stumped-so far. We installed Site Server on a machine with exactly the same specs and our machine crashes when we run it too! We’re going to spend some time on the phone this week with Owen and some of our pals at Microsoft and MSDN. We’ll come back with an answer next week. At press time, though, we’re stumped.
We have some good news, though: We have received a copy of Site Server from Microsoft that we will award as a prize in a future contest-after we are certain it won’t freeze your computer.
Speaking of prizes
We’re not the only ones who are stumped this week. Last week we started a contest (prize: Borland’s Delphi 3) in which we were looking for the correct answer to this question:
Where can you purchase a battery for a Compaq LTE Lite 25c laptop computer?
We acknowledge that this is a trick question. But it’s not as tricky as some of the responses we’re received. We won’t print the email addresses because we want to protect the innocent.
Someone wrote, “There is no battery.” This is a laptop, folks! How do you use a laptop without a battery?
Another person wrote, “The computer never existed. Model number wrong.” Sorry, but we’re looking at one right now. It may be obsolete, thanks to its 25MHz 386SL processor, but it does exist. We’ve dropped it enough times to know it’s real.
Finally, someone wrote, “There is no such thing as a Compaq LTE Lite 25c laptop computer. The Compaq LTE Lite 25c was a notebook class computer.” Technically, this answer is correct, if you pay attention to the minutiae of PC names. But it’s the answer to a different question than ours. We want to know how to get a battery for the little box, whatever you want to call it.
Send us your answer and win Delphi.
