A PSA.

Microsoft rushed out a critical patch yesterday, and didn't test it well enough with some hardware configurations. As in, common hardware configurations. Like one of the more popular integrated onboard sound card setups.

If you're running XP SP2 and the Realtek HD Audio Control panel, and you applied yesterday's critical web surfing vulnerability patch, you may receive this message on reboot:

Rthdcpl.exe - Illegal System DLL Relocation

The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\Windows\System32\Hhctrl.ocx occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

Don't panic.

There's a simple fix, also available on MS's site.
I bring you this PSA because I love you all, and because my mother and one of my friends have already called me up about this message worrying that it's a virus or their system is going to explode or something.

Hat tip, netdef, who watches Microsoft so I don't have to.

Don't shoot! It's MY bamboo! It's NOT STOLEN!

SoBe Lean is not suitable for coyotes!

Baby fox.

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Any idea what you're looking at?

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Deeply screwed up clock.

What if the Globe Theatre had an internet message board?

"Of course Shakespeare wants his characters to be miserable. He's the last person I'd go to for something fun. All he writes is gorey garbage like Titus Andronicus and continuity porn like the Henry plays."

Where else? Florida!

State forces sex offenders out of their homes, makes them live under a bridge.

"The Julia Tuttle Causeway, which links Miami to Miami Beach, offers no running water, no electricity and little protection from nasty weather. It's not an ideal solution, Department of Corrections Officials told CNN, but at least the state knows where the sex offenders are." Nearly every day a state probation officer makes a predawn visit to the causeway. Those visits are part of the terms of the offenders' probation which mandates that they occupy a residence from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

With the roar of cars passing overhead, convicted sex offender Kevin Morales sleeps in a chair to keep the rats off him. "The rodents come up next to you, you could be sleeping the whole night and they could be nibbling on you," he said.