Tom Piwowar
Wow! An attack that penetrates firewalls to seek you
out -- no user action required. I don't see how anyone
after this -- including WFBs -- can take umbrage when I
refer to it as crappy software.
Microsoft says it found evidence two weeks ago of an
RPC (remote procedure call)
What is required for this attack to occur? Does the
victim/user have to visit a website hosting the malware?
(Note the website could be having ads for bandaids that
have the malware as the actual content not the bandaids)
Or can the user sit behind their router (NAT'ed) and be
infected.
Bob's Compaq Presario F572US notebook has an 80GB hard drive. It's too
small. He asked the computer what kind of drive it had. Vista told him,
Htachi HTS541680J9S SCSI drive. I knew it wasn't SCSI, so I looked it
up, and it's SATA.
How big a drive can he put into this notebook? How
Compaq's usually have a nice handy little black panel that comes off
on the bottom.
I would assume the sky is the limit as long as it fits in the slot.
Stewart
At 11:51 AM 10/25/2008, you wrote:
Bob's Compaq Presario F572US notebook has an 80GB hard drive. It's
too small. He asked the
Not really cause it won't make any difference in your opinion of RAID. Z
for Zealot!
You probably think I pal around with terrorists too.
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Never said RAID was best, just that it has it's place. Tom's argument
previously was that because of HD's high MTBF RAID was useless, this new
article that came up said RAID was useless because of low MTBF.
I think you should reread the 2009 article more carefully. That article
was not about
I thought so too. That should warrant a refund, right?
Or a replacement of the power supply.
It is worth a try. Sometimes a kindly clerk will swop your bad part with
one in another box and send the open box back to the manufacturer.
Don't assume that, some cases are specifically made for 5400 rpm drives, a
7200 rpm might cause issues.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
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Compaq's usually have a nice handy little black panel that comes off on the
bottom.
I would assume the sky
Single drives still aren't fast enough for enterprise work. We've been over
this...the horse is dead, buried, he's been exhumed and is now being beaten
again within an inch of his death. RAID with backup on/offsite is still
cheaper then putting together a cluster for some mid range customers.
This from my RAID 0 fully backed up pc.
Ever see Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
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If a worm got loose inside the office network (and the patch hadn't been
installed), the attack would spread like wildfire.
So to be safe, even after patching all my PCs, if somebody brings in a
laptop I would want to be sure that it is fully patched before letting it
attach to my network.
Another salesperson for Verizon FIOS was back out here today and also
erroneously stated that Cox analog delivery were going away as of Feb
19, 2009. At least this time I was able to find out that this is an
contractor for a private company. He was very upset that I got his
name and then refused
You can also do a Windows Update and check the patch history.
Richard P.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to the guardian, the fix arrives as KB958644, you can open
add/remove programs control panel to check if it is there.
Mike
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008
According to the guardian, the fix arrives as KB958644, you can open
add/remove programs control panel to check if it is there.
Thanks, but what about the other 48,237 patches? Is there a reliable way
to determine if a Windows XP system is fully patched?
Tom, come on, there are only 48,234 patches. AFAIK, the best/easiest and
maybe only way is to run windows update.
Mike
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to the guardian, the fix arrives as KB958644, you can open
add/remove programs control panel
I've had ATT dialup since it was acquired from IBM ...a long time. It's too
slow and I'm fed up. No FIOS here during my natural life per verizon. No
DSL either as we're in the stix and too far from the switch. Comcast
offering $24.95/mo for 768mbps speed (like DSL) cheep. Offering TV for
In the sidebar of the article about RAID was another interesting story:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2415
The author reports that MS is seeking to pay pundits to write anti-
Apple stories. They offered to provide all the research to write from
and
$15,000.
Proving once again that having a
I can recall Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of
3Com, writing in 1996 or so about the coming Internet crash. He called it
a gigalapse. He publicly and very enthusiastically predicted that very
soon the Internet would not be able to handle the data load and would fail.
I
N will give you the best coverage. It may be overkill on speed but
it is backward compatible.
Check out CNET and newegg for pricing (But also read the customer
reviews for a critical eye on what works and what does not)
I have a Belkin pre-N MIMO and the coverage is excellent, and it works
i did not know komkast had modem/routers.
if you get one, make certain it is komkastick approved. i bought one a few
years that was not approved.
since people are very unhappy with comcast and switching to fios(we did it for
cost -$50 a month), there should be tons of modems on ebay.
N
Tom, come on, there are only 48,234 patches. AFAIK, the best/easiest and
maybe only way is to run windows update.
You want me to connect an unknown computer to my network and run Windows
Update? You must be kidding.
I ask Is that neighborhood safe to walk in? You say Go take a walk
there. If
Or set it up so it can't connect to your networknot too difficult.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom, come on, there are only 48,234 patches. AFAIK, the best/easiest and
maybe only way is to run windows update.
You want me to connect an unknown
Since I'm safe here behind my firewall with everything else running on my
LAN at the moment being Macs I did take your advice and ran Microsoft
Update. After churning away for several minutes and insisting that I
install serveral updates to Microsoft Update it now says Error number
0x80072EE2.
Linksys or Netgear ...which is better?
Linksys is owned by Cisco. Netgear works fine too. D-Link is also fine.
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You want me to connect an unknown computer to my network and run
Windows Update? You must be kidding.
You let people bring in laptops and connect to your internal LAN? That must
be exciting to watch and see if it takes down your network.
I never allow outside laptops on our LAN. I have a
I run into that occasionally. Close the browser and try again or just turn
on auto update, but leave it to d/l only and notify.
-Original Message-
Since I'm safe here behind my firewall with everything else running on
my LAN at the moment being Macs I did take your advice and ran
Not me, you seem to have the worst luck with computers then anyone else I
know.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I'm safe here behind my firewall with everything else running on my
LAN at the moment being Macs I did take your advice and ran Microsoft
Linksys or Netgear ...which is better?
Do I need n ?
What else?
I prefer Netgear over Linksys, but either will be fine. You can generally
find good refurbed Netgear equipment on eBay. I've had very good results
with Justdeals on eBay, who typically has a good supply of refurbed Netgear
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was waiting on my machine at work this morning. The only annoyance was
it rebooted the machine without warning after it installed.
Why should they warn you? The computer belongs to Microsoft. You are
lucky that they
You let people bring in laptops and connect to your internal LAN? That must
be exciting to watch and see if it takes down your network.
I never allow outside laptops on our LAN.
The fundamental question is whether IT is there to support the mission of
the organization or if the mission of the
I will note here that Microsoft should steal this idea, assuming it is less
cryptic than the current Windows update log.
It is a nice simple list: Name of update. Version number. Date of install.
If you want cryptic there are many other logs to amuse.
I will note here that Microsoft should steal this idea, assuming it is less
cryptic than the current Windows update log.
I just got a nice simple list from Windows Update: Product, Update
name/version, Status, Date, Source. Just what I want to see.
Not wanting to be too useful MS only shows 10
I used to use Linksys or Netgear but bought a couple of dLinks recently
and was favorably impressed. Cheaper and easier to setup.
I carried an old D-Link hub to Cleveland in the winter and it
worked to spec.
:-)
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The fundamental question is whether IT is there to support the mission
of the organization or if the mission of the organization is to support
IT.
The fundamental question is whether IT will protect the assets and business
operations of the business or allow them to be disrupted by clueless
Not wanting to be too useful MS only shows 10 per screen and there are
142 screens worth for my PC. Oh joy.
And you patched this PC the last time, when? 1998?
You do have some odd issues. I've never seen that. If there is an old PC
that hasn't been on in while, I'll see a lng list of
I don't get my email thru Comcast but I have noticed consistently
slower download and response times in the last several weeks on
Comcast. I'm in Seattle.
Same here in Indianapolis
Paula/IN/USA
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