Aaron Tiensivu's Blog

Looks like they are ramping up Grand Rapids for a November launch. I am really curious just how north and how west the coverage area will reach because that is where our house is located, relative to downtown Grand Rapids.

I'm excited! I really hope our house has coverage.

I was on the fence whether to put this in 'Gaming' or 'Spyware'. I chose 'Spyware' for now. I am, at best, a casual gamer from time to time on my PC and on the X-Box. I typically will pick up a title after it has dropped in price quite a bit and there have been a few patches put out since RTM.

Sure, you don't get the latest games but you end up with a nice 'cheap' way of having fun with last year's big hits, and you most likely have a video card that supports all the high end features of the game that was 'bleeding edge' in the past.

If this current trend of putting ads inside games and using tracking software to detect which ads you view more becomes more popular, I might end up not buying the newer titles. "Vote" with your dollars. It would be nice if there was a $25 version with ads and a $50 without. I don't plan on picking up BF 2142 due to this.

I think what bothers me the most is that they are 'backporting' the IGA software into patches of already existing games. For instance, in the release notes of Battlefield 2 v1.45, there is mention of adding support for "IGA server/client".

Read more about Battlefield 2142's bundled "IGA" client software here.

Also, if you move the affected mailboxes back to the original server, Outlook no longer crashes.
If this is the case, check to see if the Guid-Replid cache is the root cause.

Exchange 2003 SP1 has Guid-Replid caching disabled by default.
Exchange 2003 SP2 has Guid-Replid caching enabled by default.
Exchange 2003 SP2 plus KB 922617 has Guid-Replid caching disabled by default.

You can achieve the same results as the KB 922617 fix by manually disabling the Guid-Replid cache for each information store. Details on how to do that are documented in the KB.

Here is the reason why the Guid-Replid cache sometimes has incorrect contents (taken from the mentioned KB):

This problem occurs because of a difference between the ReplidMap table in the memory on the server and the ReplidMap table in the Jet database. This difference causes a stack overflow that causes Outlook 2003 to crash. When Outlook 2003 constructs an entry identifier for an item, Outlook 2003 combines a GUID together with the item counter for the item. The GUID is determined by using an index for the item. In this case, Outlook 2003 uses different methods to request the entry identifier. These different methods return different entry identifiers. One entry identifier contains data that was returned from the Jet database. The other entry identifier contains data that was returned from the memory cache.