by wwarren | Aug 19, 2010 | Security, Security Alerts
Yet another reason to not use Facebook. In their latest non-security decision others can now tag you as being somewhere even if you don’t want them to…or if you aren’t even there. Like this is a good idea. Here’s how to turn it off(other...
by wwarren | Aug 16, 2010 | Church, NPO's
What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church’s website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits. Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable. We have a business class internet connection with a...
by wwarren | Aug 15, 2010 | Church, Hardware, Intel, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping....
by wwarren | Aug 14, 2010 | Security
Virus Bulletin : News – A third of anti-malware products fail to secure Vista Business Edition, Virus Bulletin reveals. If you look at the linked graphic you’ll see AVG proudly near the top with Symantec and Macafee much lower. Microsoft Security...
by wwarren | Aug 7, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft has released the fix for the LNK issue. this coming Tuesday is going to be a monster patch day with a total of 37 issues fixed in 14 patches.
by wwarren | Aug 3, 2010 | Apple, Security, Security Alerts
It’s either that or incompetence. At this point I’m not sure which it is. How To Prevent iOS From Automatically Loading PDFs [Vulnerability].
by wwarren | Jul 31, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Normally I advocate caution in major patches. This hole however is so important that i am going to immediately patch and then workaround any issues this is going to cause. Again on mOnday htis patch gets released. PATCH IMMEDIATLY!!! Read the previous advisories I...
by wwarren | Jul 29, 2010 | Microsoft, Server 2008, Windows
I had my server setup as best as i could. I had a RAID 1 mirror on both of my drives. Not only that I had shadow copies being made on the array. Finally I had everything being backed up to an external hard drive. Last night my server started acting funny. Putting...
by wwarren | Jul 29, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Open Source
After some internal testing and research i can honestly say that virtualization may not be the best solution except for larger deployments. For the same money(or less) than either upgrading one server to be able to host multiple vm’s or the purchase of a new...
by wwarren | Jul 28, 2010 | Linux, Microsoft, Windows
This is the primary reason Unix folks remove the computer, make an image for forensics, and then rebuild from a known good source. Windows folks have yet to figure this one out. I take the same philosophy towards malware that Unix admins do..nuke the...
