Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0\r\n

Been busy recently, my second book due early next month + my master thesis due in Dec. Hardly, have time to relax and my wife started complaining on and off. Well, that's life I guessed.

Now, as you may heard MOM 2005 just been RTM on the 25th Aug. This is a great tool for managing large-scale and complex IT infrastructure. I don't have the opportunity to use it as my client based machines are scatter around and hosted by different ISPs, with different firewall policies and etc. Anyway, if you are using MOM 2000, you should start planning upgrade to 2005, according to the operation team of microsoft.com, this is the only way to fly :) To prepare your IIS 6.0 for MOM2005, you need this management pack released yesterday.

Next, do you know that there is no more 'website operator' tab in IIS6.0?. Last I heard from few newsgroups postings by MS that it was due to 'no customer use it, so we drop it'. But then, some comments referred that it is related to 'security'. But anyhow, it's not there and gone in IIS 6.0. The KBs (326902, 267094)describing how to use MetaACL to control Metabase access, but then I haven't tested it and have yet to see anyone claimed that they have done it successfully. So to let a non-local admin user to manage IIS 6.0 is almost 'impossible'. There is however, internal MS documentation that allow such practice, it was tested by the customer, and it's working fine. Take note, as usual such 'workaround' ARE not supported by Microsoft. hence it will never make it as a KB. So how ?  there are third party control panel that you can download, some are free and of coz some need to pay. Jake (IIS MVP) has a pretty decent IIS Admin control panel, more than 5000 downloads within few months, And this one I just got it from MSDN feed, show case how to use ASP.NET 2.0 to manage your website operations.

Finally, two new microsoft related blogs:
- Community Kitchen (public/private NNTP newsgroups team blogs)
- MS.COM Operation Team (microsoft.com behind the stage team blogs)

That's it for now, I will be 'quiet' for sometime.

Cheers.

Well, I'm not a big fan of US upcoming president election :) but I just came across this cool article from a monthly mailing list ! Title: Judging a party's politics by the software it uses, where Kerry's website running on Apache, and President Bush running on IIS. Here's the website header detail

Kerry:
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.29 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b\r\n

Bush:
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0\r\n

So who will win ? Opensource vs Microsoft ? well, we should have the answer at no time, just keep your finger crossed !

I know, I know ! I'm late :) I guess you probably heard about the RTM release of XP SP2. Just want to share with you some info about it. I got two machine loaded so far, each one bloody took about 2hrs to install. And so far so good, no problems at all, though machine do run a bit slower. Wonder why !!!

Now, couple of resource link for more information about SP2
Jerry - Windows XP SP2 RTM!
Harry - Windows XP SP2 - Key resources for IT Professionals
Raúl - Windows XP Service Pack 2 versión final!
Chris - MSDN Subscribers Have SP2 RTM
Katheleen - Windows XP Service Pack 2 is out

And yes, all copies of Windows XP will be able to install service pack. According to news only minor percentage pirated version of XP using certain product keys will not be able install it.

My build number is Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158 :Service Pack 2)

I'm sure most of us are spam victims ! so we will hget ton of junk emails everyday. Let see, my work address is the worst, say about 200 per day, then free account like yahoo.com, msn.com and hotmail.com was doing ok, less than 10 per day. Special purpose account like msmvps.org is very low, max 2 per day, the super B account by microsoft.com :) I got ZERO..... their spam filters are so damn good :)

From enlarging your p**** to mortgage, to buying university degree, to market stuff and cheap software !!! Talk about cheap software, I'm sure most of time, you will see Microsoft Windows in the top list together with commercial product like adobe, norton and bla bla. Today I came across this amazing junk mail about linux !!! I thought it would be free :)  and supports are charged. so business model change again ?  mm....  anyway, here's the junk mail detail.

header start--
Received: from 218.50.27.138 [218.50.27.138] by mail.blabla.com
  (SMTPD32-7.15) id AB0315700F2; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:27:15 +0000
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:13:08 +0000
From: chloe <adel@abihosting.com>
To: blabla@blabla.com
Subject: Re: Software for Linux
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1251
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <200408050227921.SM01004@218.50.27.138>
X-RCPT-TO: <blabla@blabla.com>
Status: U
X-UIDL: 391370396
--header end

body start--
zhmzloLINUX SOFTWARE

            name retail price our price
           
            Borland Kylix 3 Enterprise $449 $40 order
            CrossOver Office 2.0.0 $60 $15 order
            Nagware Fortran95 4.2 $100 $15 order
            SCO Linux Server 4.0 (3 cds) $500 $50 order
            StarOffice Suite 7.0 $300 $35 order
            Sun One Studio 4 Linux/Win $290 $40 order
            Suse Linux OpenExchange Server Service Pack $100 $50 order
            VMWare GSX Server 3.0 for Linux $700 $40 order 
       

      Software for windows is here       

      rxitl cbat ddyel vfqe qxetakw
body end--

Not a bad deal huh ?

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