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August 2004 - Posts

SP2 breaks Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing Service

posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:53 AM by andy
I recently installed SP2 on a machine and ran into this error message everytime I attemtped to start the Windows Firewall: Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing Service (ICS) on Local Computer.Error 0x80004015: The class Read More
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Playboy mirrors open source software?!

posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:30 AM by andy
I was looking around for a good CPAN mirror in the Chicago area and found a blog posting mentioning that Playboy has a mirror of FreeBSD, apache, CPAN and fedora! Finally a mirror in Chicago!!! The only other major mirror site I know about in Chicago Read More
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Still using password based authentication for SSH?

posted Monday, August 23, 2004 10:05 AM by andy
SSH is primarily used for administration reasons which means that not many people should be logging into your hosts via SSH. With the advent of usb storage devices that work on all modern operating systems I see no reason why anyone should still be using Read More
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2004: Important lessons I've learned this season

posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:51 PM by andy
Things I learned this season: Office 2004 Test Drive User Normal Office 2004 Test Drive User 2 1 2004-08-20T02:49:00Z 2004-08-20T02:50:00Z 1 98 560 4 1 687 11.0 0 0 Read More
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Effingham Sprint Triathlon 2004

posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:41 PM by andy
Normal Office 2004 Test Drive User 2 2004-08-20T02:27:00Z 2004-08-20T02:38:00Z 1 308 1761 14 3 2162 11.0 0 0             Read More
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Clearing up the Store.exe mystery

posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:42 PM by andy
I've often wondered why Store.exe takes up so much RAM.  Thanks to Ninio Bilic of the Microsoft Exchange Team I finally have a satisfactory answer: Why is Exchange Store.exe so RAM hungry?   Read More
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And so the race continues

posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:37 AM by andy
I just read this article about Apple touting that they have beaten MS w/ a lot of cool features that Longhorn is promising. While I love my iBook I'm glad they did beat MS to the chase...now MS can do what they have historically done; take what someone Read More
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SP2 Network Install

posted Monday, August 09, 2004 5:33 PM by andy
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Install YAAAAAYYYY!!!! Read More
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PuTTY 0.55 beta is out

posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:04 AM by andy
Get your new version of PuTTY here this release fixes a major security flaw in PuTTY: 2004-08-03 SECURITY HOLE, fixed in PuTTY 0.55 PuTTY 0.55, released today, fixes a serious security hole which may allow a server to execute code of its choice on Read More
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Oracle + Linux != unbreakable

posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:54 PM by andy
I recently saw a neat advertisement at O'hare International Airport touting that when one combines Oracle with linux they'll end up with an unbreakable system...apparently not.... Oracle, under fire, admits to database security holes Oh well, at least Read More
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