Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback My WIN2K system has been infected with the blaster worm, but I don't see the msblast.exe or mblast.exe in my Task Manager. THere are strange things happening. I ran the fixbalst Tool from Symantec but I get the message "W32.Blaster.Worm has not...
[August 16, 2003, 10:04]
Smart Security: Network Scanners
Talkback I saw a mstask.exe as "Guest" mentioned, but I don't seem to have access to get rid of that. Removing it from the desktop is addresses just one of the wounds this causes. This one is definitely a f***er.
[June 17, 2004, 1:07]
Windows 2000 Source Code Posted Online
Talkback I don't think this is a "managed leak" by Microsoft, but consequently and certainly it pushes users of Win2K or NT into upgrading their current OSes to Win2K3 Server.
[February 14, 2004, 7:43]
JavaScript - A Flash Competitor?
Blog Comment I don't think its the answer but it is pointing in the right direction. I'm sorry this has gotten off subject but perhaps its not that far off. Although I think a lot of "virtualisation" is still snake-oil, there are some benefits to be gained from...
[September 1, 2008, 10:29]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback So basically, I don't want to see any OS with the same market share Windows currently enjoys, including Linux. Perhaps the reason the UKUUG has not commented on these other knighthoods is because they're areas that have no bearing on the UKUUG...
[January 27, 2004, 23:40]
Cygwin Smuggles Unix Shell Commands Into Windows
News Software and hardware deployments within most IT shops don't usually occur all at once. Rather than spitting out the usual "I don't understand" messages, it produced the unexpected output of a directory listing of all EBAY associated images.
[June 24, 2003, 15:16]
SAMBA, Microsoft And The Real Issue
Blog If you don't play games or watch movies, why have those chunks of code in the OS? I don't think many users would scan all that printed source code into their computer, correct all the errors the optical scanner made, compile the OS and then try to...
[December 29, 2007, 15:59]
Vista Versions Are So Last Century
Talkback I don't want a per module base model which is revenue driven.packs - 1 for home, 1 for buisness & 1 for server control - end of story. Again Micro$oft miss the point - a revenue based model of functional groupings.
[February 28, 2006, 0:34]
Cluster Aware WINS And DHCP
News Administrators often don't devote enough energy to making sure critical services such as these have high availability measures in place. Windows networks rely heavily on services such as WINS and DHCP, as you've no doubt discovered if you've ever...
[October 22, 2002, 13:47]
The Game's Up For Windows 2000
Talkback I am no fan of linux, it's too chaotic, but there are excellent alternatives (I don't mean drop in replacements) out there for those willing to look and invest the time and effort, check http://www.freebsd.org for one alternative to Windows Server...
[August 20, 2005, 12:05]
The Manx Turn From Unix To Windows
Talkback If people don't upgrade more than once every 8 year they will not be able to keep their prices at a reasonable level. "I am a technical person," continued Paterson, "but this is not a tech decision. It is a business decision.
[December 2, 2004, 18:14]
Vista, Like In Out In Left Field.
Talkback I actually think the sales figures for Vista reflect, as the author indicated, most buyers don't have a realistic choice. Maybe Microsoft has made a more secure product but everybody I've talked to who's actually run Vista say they don't like it...
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment You are right Frank I totally don't understand Gentoo or any other Linux distro. To Phred14 and Frank: Thanks for your comments. I've also found that there are likely hundreds of them. Debian I have had some passing experience with 2 years ago.
[May 31, 2007, 20:27]
Calling BS On That!
Talkback Current storage on the Mini is around the 2Tb mark if I don't include the NAS drives available to it. I don't think many users will push this little system to its limits and if you are then you're not likely to be in the 200 quid (400 dollar...
[May 22, 2008, 9:07]
.Net Certification - No More Mix And Match
News The change we made to go from mix-and-match to a clear upgrade path was because customers said--every single person I talked to in the last six months said very clearly--I don't want to take new exams and count them toward my old credential.
[January 10, 2003, 20:41]
Figuring Out MS Certifications
News The change we made to go from mix-and-match to a clear upgrade path was because customers said -- every single person I talked to in the last six months said very clearly -- I don't want to take new exams and count them toward my old credential.
[January 10, 2003, 15:48]
Dual NICs For Niftier Networking
News But if you're already running Win2K Advanced Server, you don't have to spend extra money for the necessary utilities to take advantage of using multiple NICs. For one thing, they represent bottlenecks that can slow the transmission and processing...
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
The FBI's Top 10 Online Security Threats
News Klez, Sircam, and Nimda all spread around the world so quickly because many systems don't properly configure network shares that allow a host to remotely access files. If you don't need or use SNMP then the fix is simple -- disable it.
[January 28, 2004, 13:30]
Bill Gates 'will Blow Your Mind' At Win2K Launch
News The interesting thing is that I don't think anybody believes Microsoft will be split up," she says. Bill Gates will make six announcements, which will set "Windows 2000 head and shoulders above everyone else in the marketplace", at the official...
[February 17, 2000, 13:27]
