SQL Server 2005 maintenance plan fails and service pack fail to install

I needed to setup a maintenance plan for a client to backup their databases and remove backups older than 4 weeks. They run SQL Server 2005, so I created the maintenance plan with a Back Up Database Task and a Maintenance Cleanup Task to remove the old backups, which is straightforward enough. When I tried to test it however I got the error: **“Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: line(1): Syntax error). The step failed." ** I had a quick look at the version of the server and it was 9.…

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Black Screen After Updating Battlefield 3

EA released an update today which fixes a problem with black screens at start-up. After it updated however, I started getting black screens when I tried to enter a multi-player game. It took me a while until I found a post on a French blog that explained that if you bought the Russian language version for a lot cheaper like me, the update broke the files we installed to change it to English and gives updated language pack files which fix it. Here is a translation (and files below)… Updating…

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