Why windows takes so long to start up.

September 09, 2006

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Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.

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Do Everything Right From the Command Line: the Internet

September 07, 2006

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UNIX provides hundreds, if not thousands, of commands with which you can manipulate a large variety of resources available in the kernel and user space. Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine, looks at three essential UNIX utilities that deliver the entire Internet to your command line.

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Have a spare working PC around? FREEnas it.

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What is FreeNAS ?

FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).

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Wormy bots exploiting Windows Server flaw

September 01, 2006

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Wormy bots exploiting Windows Server flaw: "It took less than a week for underground programmers to modify their bot software to take advantage of the latest Windows flaw, described in security bulletin MS06-040."

IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP Header Drawings

August 23, 2006

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"Here are some drawings I did to better understand the structure of the headers for IP, TCP, UDP and ICMP. Please feel free to used them for personal uses. If you would like to include them in a publication, please contact me at the address in the drawings. I created the drawings in OmniGraffle on a Mac."

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Imminent Worm Attack: Experts Warn Of 'The Big One'

August 11, 2006

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As the spotlight on a dangerous Windows vulnerability grows brighter by the hour, security analysts Thursday said that it's not hype driving the alarms, but genuine fear that a major worm attack is just days away. This is no drill. Thursday's deepening concern was fueled by several releases of new exploit code.

A lot of exploit code activity over this one. See yesterday's post about eEye's scanner for help identifying systems that haven't been patched.

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Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner

August 10, 2006

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eEye Digital Security Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner: "The Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner is being made available free of charge by eEye. The tool will scan multiple addresses at once to determine if any are vulnerable to the Server Service flaw reported in the Microsoft Bulletin MS06-040. If an IP address is found to be vulnerable, the Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner will flag that IP address.

This tool does not require administrative privileges on the scanned machines in order to determine if the systems are vulnerable."

Much props to Marc Maiffret, the Chief Hacking Officer at eEye Digital Security. I applaud his company's community involvement.. It's nice to see a company ask the community if they have a need for a product and then go out of their way to deliver, free of charge.

Ultimate boot CD

August 06, 2006

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A Linux boot diagnostic CD that has many different anti virus,hard disk,networking,bios,system info, and benchmarking apps

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Excel tutorial for beginners

July 22, 2006

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This is a basic, useful tutorial of Excel.

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Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

July 19, 2006

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here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

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One in The Hand

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One in The Hand: "Weekly video cast that promotes knowledge in the handheld arena specifically treos which also contributes to the destruction of the digital divide between the have(knowledge) and have nots."

Reinstall and Restore Win XP Activation

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If you have to reinstall Win XP on the same equipment, you know what a pain it is to reactivate XP. This simple guide tells how to backup and restore two small files so you can avoid reactivation.

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ISO Recorder v 2

July 18, 2006

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ISO Recorder v 2: "ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."

TechNet Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis (Level 400)

July 13, 2006

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TechNet Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis (Level 400): "Learn to analyze Microsoft Windows crash dumps, diagnose the cause, pinpoint a solution, and resolve the problem. Intended for system administrators, this webcast explains how system crashes occur and what happens when you reboot a crashed system. We lead you through the crash dump analysis process step by step, introducing the latest tools from Microsoft and handy tricks for isolating the cause of a crash.

Presenter: Mark Russinovich, Chief Software Architect and Cofounder, Winternals Software"

Confessions of an IT Pro: My Nine Biggest Professional Blunders

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Over the past 16 years of being paid to make computers and people work together in perfect harmony, I have collected a number of incidents that make me wince and blush in embarrassment when I think of them. The mistakes I've made fall roughly into three categories: technical, political, and career management.

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