When installing Sharepoint 3.0 Service Pack 1 onto a fresh Windows Server 2003 installation, you can sometimes fall foul of Sharepoint complaining that ASP.net 2 is not installed:
“This product requires ASP.NET v2.0″
I found the solution over at Sharepoint Blogs. Run the following command on the server:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\Aspnet_regiis.exe -i
This will register .NET 2 with IIS [...]

Windows Vista. It’s big, bad and insists its new technologies upon unsuspecting users while not actually working quite right.
The Vista Sidebar is one such culprint. Ever since the early previews of Vista (aka Longhorn), there was a giant box hanging around the desktop on the right side that had a giant clock in it.
Of course, [...]