A post on the Windows Vista team blog promises that the new OneCare will come with 10GB of online storage to be used as a backup location for digital photographs(at a cost). The post provides a short demonstration of the feature. Wow,10GB. Online backup,kind of blows you away and makes you think about...
Technorati Tags: IE7 , rants , general computing I am an Ebay user. As an Ebay user I am a target for phishng attacks. About a week ago I have made a purchase and I forogt to leave feedback for the seller. A few minutes ago,I received an e-mail saying that I have received a message from a seller(nothing...
When one of the systems that you manage fails one the best ideas for troubleshooting is looking at the logs. If the OS you are using is from Microsoft the main location for logs is the event viewer. The only problem with logs is that at times they provide very cryptic messages. In order to figure out...
The attended installation process of Windows 2008 has been simplified. Until Windows 2008, the process of installing a Windows system included the basic configuration of the system. In other words the installer was asked a bunch of question he had to answer and once he was done he had a running system...
OK,so I was troubleshooting and odd issue with an FTP server and one of the things that caught my attention while using Network Monitor (on a Windows 2000 server) was that some(actually almost all) of the TCP checksums (originating from the server) were found to be incorrect. At first I thought I was...
I have no opinion or clue about the accuracy of the article titled " Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy an iPhone"by Jim Lynch published at extremtech.com, yet it managed to make me laugh(read through it,until the end-and I hope you will understand what I found amusing): http://www.extremetech...
An oldie but I see it coming up in the newsgroups...my guess is that some sysadmins forgot to fix the problem and the users (specifically home users) trying to access their mailboxes are surprised and convinced that something is wrong with their own system(which to some extent is true...): http://support...
I can't really say what happened since I don't understand it yet it works,so I guess that is important. After losing one memory bank on my system(one of two 1GB sticks) and forgetting about it I was awakened when my virtual machines would not start...Now looking for 133 memory sticks is quite a challenge...
OK, So why I remembered this is a long and odd story which includes myself forgetting that I have faulty memory installed on my laptop, wanting to install Fedora Core 6 inside VMware on the same laptop and ending up recompiling the kernel in order to be able to install VMware tools and failing... Anyways...
Why not you ask? Well since it may be painfull... Microsoft released a patch for Exchange 2003(888619). I read the documentation and it seemed to be relatively harmless...so I decided to apply it to my environment. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888619 [Yes,I know that it is extremely important to...