Archive for July, 2007
After thinking long and hard about this one I am going to tell you that you SHOULD have some sort of antivirus installed on your Linux distro. It doesn’t matter if it is ClamAv, Avast! or any other with a good track record.
And now I am going to tell you why. There are about 100 [...]
As we could have all assumed after hearing the SP1 for Vista will be delayed along time, Microsoft beta testers have been playing with a slew of updates for Vista now.
It’s not quite a full service pack release, but the Vista Performance and Reliability Pack and the Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack do include a [...]
This question AND answer comes to us from our good friends over @ Bauer-Power:
I was messing around this weekend with Norton ghost 12 on one of my homecomputers. It would install fine, then after reboot I would get an error saying
“VProConsole has encountered an error and needs to close…”.I was getting so frustrated, I couldn’t [...]
Joe Admin has an External Certance LTO2 drive bought from Dell and it is out of warranty. The OS does not recognize the drive as attached at all. The drive gets power but thats about it. The red and green lights on the front of the drive continously blink.
They have accepted that the drive [...]
Hey Kiddies,
It’s time for some more time-saving, hassle killing, good, clean, free, fun. I work in a corporate environment, and lots of times, there are people who suffer from serious RTFM errors. Those people are prime candidates for the “Spell it out for me” award. This nifty little proggy, called MWSnap (named after it’s creator [...]
So Johnny command line needs to be cool and open his computer management console or maybe just his services…
Here you Johnny Command Line:
Computer Management – compmgmt.msc
Component Services – comexp.msc
Disk Managment – diskmgmt.msc
Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
Disk Defrag – dfrg.msc
Event Viewer – eventvwr.msc
Group Policies – gpedit.msc
Local Security Settings – secpol.msc
Local Users and Groups – lusrmgr.msc
Performance Monitor – [...]
Racquel took advantage of our new AskTheAdmin a question link and writes to us:
I have a MAC OS X, VER 10.4.9 and previously used Missing Sync for WindowsMobile 3.0.0 to sync up my MDA, now that I have upgraded to the WING I can notsync up using Missing Sync for Windows. Is there a script [...]
The guys over at IPhoneAlley.com are ahead of their game. They’ve even gotten it to version 2.1. The program is called Ifuntastic. Michael Jonhston at Iphone Alley writes
“First on the list of improvements is a “news”section of the app where changes are posted. You can rename the app to anythingyou like, as well. The [...]
Sending a file using email is always a hit and miss situation, your provider may allow a certain file size, but will the recipient’s provider allow the same size or smaller? So to help with this issue, Arunalabs have created a service called Arunasend, what this enables you to do is send a file with [...]
A reader from Idaho was seriously freaked out this morning after a late night @ the computer and sent us a picture of their task manager in a strange state. They asked for their identity to be with held so here is a screenshot of our task manager in a similar mode.
Have you seen this [...]
Good Morning,
I just saw the new links to ask questions and here is mine. Admin do you know of a way I can configure Vista to let me know if a specific error or event happens?
I hear Vista can hit me on my Blackberry when an event occurs and its suppose to be native [...]
Check this out, Flickr background rotator, everyone and their grandma has a Flickr account, so why not use the background on your desktop as a gallery!
As the name of the app suggests, it rotates your desktop background with images found in your Flickr account, or you can specify tags to use for acquiring images for [...]
Windows Power shell is a command line scripting language which makes the life of a an administrator who has to deal in a Windows environment real easy.
So what can Powershell really do? Well:
Manage Active Directory and its objects.
Hardware and process monitoring.
Server and client machine application deployments.
File system interaction.
Network interaction.
Pretty impressive! So download it [...]
We have been working on getting our load times down and weighing widgets speed versus usefulness. And SpotBack causes us 15 or so seconds of load time and we called the author on it with the following email:
We got the new widget integrated and again we are taking a 10-15 secondperformance hit on page load [...]
We have made some more additions to the site including a language chooser for our foreign friends. Sorry guys the Russian and Arabic were not working. At least not from Google for free. We wanted to use WordLingo because it actually creates crawlable pages. Plain and simple foreingners could search in their own native language [...]
Are you sitting down Linux Fan Boys & Girls? We’ll wait…
A Linux startup company today officially launched a new, secure version of its operating system for mobile devices. Wipe that drool and continue reading on. You might be calling your geeky pals from a secure linux distro in the damn near future!
A la Mobile’s Convergent [...]
Hey Folks,I found a gem of a website in the foray that is our collection of internet pipes. Theres a new junkman in town, and they want your old gadgets/gizmos. The folks over at www.secondrotation.com want your old stuff, from digital cameras, to GPS, to Cellphones. They claim to be the safest and easiest way [...]
We all know that the battery life of your laptop is a precious commodity, with this in mind I have discovered a program that claims to actually reduce the amount of power your Vistabased laptop consumes.
The Vista Battery Saver works on the premise that turning off the Vista’s side-bar and Aero effects will save you [...]
That’s right that is the actual price for the Dell Inspiron 1420N Pre-Loaded with all its Ubuntu goodness. The specs rock including 160gb hard drive, Wide Screen, Shinny Anti Glare, Core 2 duo 2.2ghz, Dvd/Cd Burner with dual layer, Bluetooth. This thing is uber sweet @ just the right 1337 price! We couldn’t make this [...]
Today is SysAdmin’s Day! Happy SysAdmin Day to you and your posse. If your not an Admin show some love for your Network Admin! Put him on for not dime-ing you out to your boss for downloading all those Britney Spears pictures (We also don’t judge). We keep your intermanet tubes flowing and your phones [...]
Did something pretty cool the other day.
Had a hard drive die in the accounting member here who does payroll’s PC.
Cyclical redundancy check failed was the message. BSD on boot, all that jazz.
Yikes….
Used my Winternals recovery disc and tried to run a chkdsk on it to fix it. No joy.
Mounted the drive in an [...]
Waiting on your XPS M1330 From Dell? Well we might have some good news for you! It looks like they started shipping as per the Direct2Dell Blog:
I know that many of you have been waiting for an update on the status of the XPSM1330 notebook, and I wanted to take a few minutes to share [...]
AtA had some fun demoing AT&T’s new 3g HSPDA service and one way streaming media called video share service. That’s a very original name right?
Using a Samsung a727 we were able to send some live lovely streaming video from our mens club (mens room) in Manhattan to the bat cave (data center) [...]
We had reported last week on Microsoft’s strange announcement of SP1to be released as a Beta and then its un-announcing (Edit: Maybe Deannouncing? Don’t think their is a real word for it!) and take down letters for sites that had published it. The original article, Service Pack 1 for Vista is coming out… [...]
As for legal advice – lawyers we isn’t. So this is just speculation and our experiences. You know how we get down and obviously if you are worried consult a qualified attorney. Happy uncle Saul???
We FEEL that as the company (the man) who owns the PC and the bandwidth (resources) you SHOULD be able [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down.
Not only will we show you how to disable the automatic restart option after [...]
It maybe old news that Dell is going to sell their PC`s at Wal-mart stores all across the nation. Its also old news that Dell is having financial issues.
I am or I should say – I Was; a long time Dell fan. They had exemplary customer support. Their products were rock solid and built [...]
If you remember AskTheAdmin did a piece on how to diagnose a slow loading website. Now it looks like the masterminds over @ yahoo have not only compiled the thirteen commandments of fast loading web page loadage but have also brought you a firefox plugin (YSlow) to run on top of firebug. You remember firebug [...]
We were just tipped off to this free open source virtualization. From the authors home page (Link @ The Bottom of Post):
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts andsupports a large number of guest operating systemsincluding but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista),DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), [...]
We first saw the Storm Worm back in 2001 and here is Symantecs description on it:
W32.Storm.WormRisk Level 1: Very LowDiscovered: June 6, 2001Updated: February 13, 2007 11:46:08 AMAlso Known As: DoS.Storm.WormType: WormSUMMARY
W32.Storm.Worm is a worm that seeks out Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) systems that have not applied the proper security patches. Any such systems [...]
We have just learned from ITWire that the powers that be will work on 40gbps and 100gbps simultaneously. This is the sentence that jumped out at us:
“It was discovered 100GbE would likely best meet the demands of the next generation Internet backbone and network aggregation points. In enterprise computing, 40GbE better matches the [...]
We were blown away by this article from Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen. People have been under the impression that Children are born knowing all the sounds in the world. Scientists are debunking this as we speak. Check this out and let us know how long you think before they have a baby to parent translator? [...]
Here is your askTheAdmin roundup of new iPhone information gathered just for you. Well maybe not just you but all of our loyal readers and the n00bs stumbling by! Grab your information goodness and leave us a comment or question. Well here is what you were looking for…
Engadget – Has a wonderful post on using [...]
So apparently you can – and get some other semi-important information as well. We can have this tidbit show up on your login screen each and every time you login with a lil’ old hack from MacOsXtips.co.uk
When you start up your mac and the login window pops [...]
It looks like Time Warner is hijacking DNS servers for a handful of IRC servers. They are pushing these infected clients to a redirect that runs a script. The script logs them into an irc channel and issues scripts and commands to clean the zombies. Obviously this is their response to botnet traffic that sucks [...]
AskTheAdmin has followed up on our Beta invitation to Windows Home Server and downloaded the ~150mb iso image. We will be installing it on a Dell Dimension P4 2ghz with 1gb of ram. We will get back to you and let you know how it goes if you want to give it a shot yourself [...]
Let’s face some simple facts. Outlook’s interface > Lotus Notes’ interface.
There I said it.
Sure you will miss a lot of functionality of Lotus Notes, i.e. workflow applications and the granular security and control from an admin’s perspective, but we’re looking at end losers…er….users here who 99% of the time only use Lotus Notes for [...]
Unique and complex passwords are great and easy to come up with but remembering them – Now that’s a totally different story! Have you ever considered using password phrases instead? Full sentences are easier to remember than obscure characters and have many benefits. Keep on reading grasshopper…
Did you know that Windows allows you to use [...]
Unique complex passwords are great and easy to come up with but remembering them that’s a totally different story! How about using password phrases instead? Full sentences are easier to remember than obscure characters and have many benefits. Keep on reading grasshopper…
Did you know that Windows supports using passwords of up to 127characters? I don’t [...]
One of the most important applications I had to find a replacement for when switching from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu) was Onenote, its so darn handy, even though a lot of people still think that if you don’t have a tablet its no good…WRONG! For note taking its wonderful. I use it in meetings, interviews, [...]
Good Weekend Ladies and Gents,This quick mac tip can save you alot of time by giving you quick access to an ultra magnifier built right into OSX. It’s done, without any prior setting changes, by holding down the Ctrl key while ‘zooming in’ (from bottom to top) with 2 fingers on the touchpad. Now maybe [...]
No other version of windows besides Vista has a built in partition resizing tool but its here and here is a step by step to using it:
Re size a Partition for Free in Windows VistaWindows Vistaincludes a built-in functionality in DiskManagement to shrink andexpandpartitions. No more 3rd party utilitiesneeded!
Toget to this utility, open up [...]
This blew my mind anyone else have any information on the department of defense IPs having connections to random vista desktops? Is someone spoofing government IPs? Does Microsoft have an agreement with our Department of Defense? What do you make of this are they showing up on your PC? Let us know!!! (I Have not [...]
About a month or so ago I stumbled across this nifty little thing that MS is working on.
It is called Photosynth
The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest – and, we hope, most exciting – way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place [...]
Every webmaster from this day and age knows the importance of social networks to promote their websites. Different sites attract different visitors. So you want to know which is the most popular so you can target your marketing towards them?? Well here is some information for YOU!
Social networks or blogs or regular old [...]
Oops, researchers just unveiled a pretty serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. More specifically, it’s Apple’s Safari web browser which exhibits the vulnerability. Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have used the vulnerability to take malicious control of the iPhone from rogue websites loaded with the exploit. Once in, researchers have full administrative access over [...]
Although Vista still seems fresh as a daisy, that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from planning their next major OS release, and it looks like a part of the plan is changing the internal codename from Vienna to “7.” The switch was disclosed at at a Microsoft sales training conference in Orlando this past week as part [...]
The Web is rife with social-networking sites promising to offer the Web community an experience they haven’t seen before. Here are five that actually deliver the goods.Thinking of a time before social networking Web sites is like trying to remember what it was like before color television. How did bands get people to listen to [...]
I love Firefox. Mainly because it isn’t from Microsoft, but also because it is more secure that Internet Explorer, and has millions of cool plug-ins and skins so you can customize it. Your Firefox browser can be as individualized as you are if you want it to be.
The one thing I can’t stand about it [...]
So we have been hearing all this hub bub about Vista service pack 1. Wasn’t this suppose to be theservice packless operating system? Am I the only one who remembers hearing that? Well it looks like Microsoft has got their panties all knotted and bunched up because they are lashing out at blogs to stop [...]
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