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Give a geek a hug
News Ted Kekatos has created System Administrator Appreciation Day, a time to honour the people who neither rain, nor snow, nor bizarre "illegal operation" errors can keep from fixing your machine. Kekatos, a droll system administrator in Chicago, was...
[July 23, 2002, 8:19]
Ex-IT worker charged with sabotage
News A former system administrator for UBS PaineWebber was arraigned in a New Jersey federal court on Tuesday on charges of sabotaging two-thirds of the company's computer systems in an attempt to crash its stock price.
[December 19, 2002, 8:08]
Celebrate your sysadmin today
News Businesses have been urged to celebrate their systems administrators today — the eighth annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Remember this is one day to recognise your system administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote...
[July 27, 2007, 11:29]
Intel Platform Administration Technology and Intel Platform Administrator White Paper
White Papers It includes an overview of Intel Platform Administration Technology, Intel Platform Administrator introduction, the system architecture, and the system configuration. The objective of this paper is to help users understand the system architecture...
[March 4, 2008, 0:02]
Sys admins get their day in the sun
News But once a year, on System Administrator Appreciation Day, they can get the credit they deserve. Being a systems administrator is a tough job. Let's face it, system administrators get no respect 364 days a year," claimed the Sysadminday site.
[July 30, 2004, 17:10]
WinFlash Administrator
Downloads WinFlash Administrator complements the award-winning* capabilities of the WinFlash/WinFlash Educator flashcard-style computer-based learning system with complete administration, scoring and reporting functions.
[June 1, 2000, 8:00]
Request Access
Downloads In that case we use to request our system administrator to whitelist that site. Your System Administrator's e-mail-id and your full name are configurable through Options button in extensions dialog.
[September 26, 2007, 17:32]
Changes to user security in Vista
News When a task or application requires administrator privileges, the system notifies the administrator through a pop-up. If a user doesn't know the local administrative account password, he or she can request remote assistance from an administrator.
[October 10, 2006, 16:50]
Romanian hacker bombs chat network
News One IRC server system administrator who spoke on the condition of anonymity, so that his servers would not become a target, said that the attacks appear to be coming from hundreds of remote machines taken over by a single hacker based in Romania.
[January 9, 2001, 10:24]
Second Exchange patch runs into trouble
News This is the same exact problem as the first patch," said Chuck Myntti, a system administrator at the University of Utah, who had to rebuild the mail server to rid it of the pesky patch. We had the same problem with this new patch, it just took...
[June 13, 2001, 10:31]
Veritas Storage Foundation in a VMware Environment: Linux and Solaris x64 Platforms
White Papers Deploying Storage Foundation in a VMware environment makes storage easier to manage and use by creating a functional storage management layer that the storage administrator or system administrator can access and use as it is not hidden inside the...
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
Microsoft's security strategy pilloried
Talkback The default operating environment of having the default user as a System Owner or Administrator is fool-hardy in the extreme, and trying to restrict users to un-empowered accounts doesn't work for a lot of products, including some market leading...
[February 18, 2005, 8:43]
Norton AV flaw may put PCs at risk of virus attack
News The VBS scripts described can only be successfully run on the target system with administrator rights," the spokesperson said. However, a Symantec spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that the flaw was not a threat to users because it only affected...
[November 9, 2004, 9:28]
Hotmail flaw may have been admin tool gone awry
News An admin script is a high-level programming command compiled by a system administrator to automate certain processes. The problem was laziness on the part of an official Hotmail administrator. According to the source, Hotmail could prevent similar...
[August 31, 1999, 11:26]
KryptoSpace
Downloads In the same way, the system administrator has no access to your data. You do not need to be administrator to use KryptoSpace. If you choose to store your password in the system KeyChain and to automatically mount encrypted directories at login, you...
[April 6, 2008, 8:00]
Developer tool sheds light on Vista bugs
News LUA lets Vista users run their system with fewer privileges, as opposed to the administrator mode that Windows XP typically runs in. For example, a malicious program that makes its way onto a PC running in standard-user mode can't do as much damage...
[December 19, 2005, 11:40]
System restore
Talkback If you are not logged in as an Administrator, the System Restore tab will not be displayed. You must be logged in as an Administrator to do this. Disabling System Restore on Windows ME Uncheck Disable System Restore.
[June 7, 2006, 19:41]
British hacker shines light on poor IT security
News He claims that in one system he found that the local system administrator's password was blank. That’s 5,000 machines all with a blank system level administrator password". So you don’t even need to become domain administrator.
[July 13, 2005, 13:35]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback It would seem they have even dropped the link on the website to support/faulty hardware, so as the System Administrator for a large company, what am I going to do! System Administrator Dell appear to have dropped their hardware failure support for...
[September 21, 2004, 20:08]
Spida bites Microsoft SQL servers
News Even though SecurityFocus is currently tracking almost 100 infections per hour, the worm's only way to infect a system is if the Microsoft SQL Server system administrator password is left blank -- which is the default setting.
[May 22, 2002, 10:02]
