I’m working on an HP pc with the stock NVIDIA 8400 GS video card.  On 9/5/2009 Microsoft Automatic Update installed a Microsoft Silverlight update (KB970363) that stops the NVIDIA video driver from loading.  I’ve gone back to System Restore before that update twice to see if it’s something else and the Silverlight update is the one that breaks me.  It’s shown as an “important update” so Automatic Update will continually attempt to reinstall it.  It looks like my only option is to uninstall Silverlight.

my all-time fav letter-to-the-editor was in computerworld about 20 years ago. it was titled "congratulations on your one millionth article on the demise of the mainframe". the blogosphere's prolific opinionizing may have topped that feat in the 12 hours following microsoft's live mesh announcement.

I worked some with Oracle 6, 7, and (early) 8, skipped 9 entirely (apparently a good thing) and now am back in with version 10.   In between I've mostly worked with Microsoft Sql Server, but also with DB2, MySql, and PostgresSql.  I'm not religious about any of them, but re-familiarizing myself with Oracle 10g has given rise to this analogy.  Think of sql server as a new Corvette. the leather interior smells great.