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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 to feature Online Photo Backup

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Aug 4 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants, Microsoft, beta, OneCare
Phishing Sites and IE7

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Wed, Aug 1 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants, IE7
Events and Errors Message Center

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Tue, Jul 24 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants
Windows 2008 Impressions: Attended Installation

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Jul 14 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Server, General Computing, Rants, Windows 2008
TCP Header Checksums Displayed as Corrupted (using Network Monitor)

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Wed, Jul 11 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Server, General Computing, Security, Networking, Rants
Funny article about iPhone...

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Jun 30 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants
Exchange 2003 OWA and Vista

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Apr 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Exchange, General Computing, Rants, Vista
Still playing with RAM

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Tue, Jan 2 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants
Testing Memory (RAM)

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sun, Dec 31 2006
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Rants
Why sandboxes are important...or in other words don't shoot yourself in the leg

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...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Mon, Sep 19 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Exchange, General Computing, Rants
Zotob,or worms that you get punished by...

Hmmmm... This one really got me going(on the other hand this shouldn't be a usrprise since it had me up unttil 3am). What makes a vulnerability more dangerous/famous then another? How come there are dozens of vulnerabilities yet you really remmember only some of them such as Blaster? The answers may...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Aug 20 2005
Filed under: Filed under: General Computing, Security, Rants
NNTP server does not work correctly on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

Now what exactly does that mean... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883479

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Aug 6 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Exchange, General Computing, Rants
Understanding Exchange Databases Disk Consumption

Ok, So here I go again with my shameless self promotion-I have published my second article at MSEXCHANGE.ORG. Here is a direct link to it: http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Exchange-Databases-Disk-Consumption.html Hope you enjoy it.

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Tue, Mar 22 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Exchange, General Computing, Rants
Proactive managemnet

Slogans are something that I do not particulary like-especially if they stay slogans. On the other hand when you start implmenting slogans you may gain an advantage or two.One of the widely used slogans for IT managemnet is “Be Proactive”. This is one of the slogans I can relate to. Managing...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Fri, Feb 4 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Server, General Computing, Rants

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