May 4, 2007 in the late evening
· Filed under ATM, information security, windows
Last night I went to a SunTrust bank branch in the neighborhood to drop off a deposit envelope. Even though I didn’t look at the direction of the ATM screen, I realized what in display was NOT its usual screen. Looking up, I was surprised to see a familiar Internet Explorer window under a pop-up window. The IE pop-up window stated that there was some error processing the script(s), and prompted to continue or not. I wished I had a digital camera with me! Read the rest of this entry »
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March 6, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under DST changes, windows, windows xp
As described in how to verify 2007 DST readiness on Linux systems, you can verify 2007 DST change readiness by setting the system clock to future date. This is applicable to Windows systems too. If “automatic updates” is turned on in Windows Security Center on your windows systems (Windows XP desktop or Windows 2003 servers), the DST patch mostly had been applied.
Either that, or you’ve manually updated your systems in prep for the 2007 DST changes. Now the only thing left to do is to verify. Here are a few quick steps to verify 2007 DST change readiness on your Windows systems by using the Date and Time properties panel. The latter can be launched by double clicking the time displayed at the system tray, usually in the bottom right corner of your Windows systems. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 27, 2007 just before lunchtime
· Filed under CLI, RemoteDesktop, TS Client, centos, command line, windows, windows 2003 server, windows xp
I was configuring two more Netgear MGR614v6 wireless routers earlier today. My laptop was plugged in one of its four LAN ports. The network connection to the Internet from the laptop went on and off as I changed the WAN and LAN settings on the wireless routers. Before I started the this wireless router configuration task, two RemoteDesktop connections were established to a remote Windows 2003 standard server, each using a different administrative account. The laptop was running up-to-date Windows XP sp2. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 28, 2007 around lunchtime
· Filed under command line, information security, windows, windows xp
When I wrote about windows counterparts for useful UNIX/Linux utilites, I found an unexpected TCP connection to 216.49.88.156:80 on my home computer running Windows XP SP2. Running netstat with the magic ‘-b’ switch revealed the connection was used by MpfTray.exe, which is the systray application for Mcafee Security Center.
TCP 10.1.1.8:2133 216.49.88.156:80 ESTABLISHED 1524 [MpfTray.exe] Read the rest of this entry »
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January 20, 2007 around mid afternoon
· Filed under CLI, command line, unix, windows, windows 2003 server, windows xp
Being a unix- and linux-centric person, I have been spoiled by various useful small utilities. It’s a bit frustrating to find their Windows‘ counterparts, when I need to do some quick work on Microsoft Windows platforms (such as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003).
While studying for MCP 70-290 certification, I hold my nose and read the Microsoft’s self-study guide. Surprise, surprise! Once I RTFM (read the fine manual) line by line, I found them magical utilities. Some with different names, while some are just an oddly-named switch away. Read the rest of this entry »
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