by wwarren | Oct 31, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
I was presenting a seminar on data encryption and security and I got caught now knowing some commercial FDE products other than what is built into Vista and 7. As per my word here are some vendors I would reccomend simply based on either their security reputation or...
by wwarren | Oct 28, 2009 | Open Source
Welcome | The PC Decrapifier. It seems you can’t buy a windows PC anymore without tons of crap on it that you never use and just junks up your computer. This FREE program now seeks out and destroys all the crapware that comes on most systems. This bad boy is...
by wwarren | Oct 24, 2009 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media. You can get a family pack of Windows 7 Home premium upgrade which includes 3 licenses here. Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media It was the final unanswered question about...
by wwarren | Oct 14, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Windows
A user on the smallbizserver.net forums had an sbs server crash and had to restore it. Instead of reinstalling then manually installing(like i did in an earlier post) he leveraged the VHD’s to restore directly form the backups(something sbs seems to have a hard...
by wwarren | Oct 13, 2009 | Open Source, Security
I am normally not a fan of government recommendations due to the fact they are usually outdated and irrelevant when they are released. However a paper releasede by NIST is the large exception to this rule. To security professionals these are no brainers but I still...
by wwarren | Sep 18, 2009 | Hardware, Open Source, Storage
SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design – www.enterprisestorageforum.com. Current RAID controllers(real raid controllers not fake ones) are going to start hitting a serious bottleneck before too long. Once SSD’s start getting into the market...
by wwarren | Sep 13, 2009 | Open Source
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks. Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks j.ello <A TARGET=”_blank”...
by wwarren | Sep 10, 2009 | Microsoft, Open Source, Security
Vendors are finally releasing patches today for the TCP vulnerabilities first publicized nearly a year ago that affect a huge range of networking products, including any device running a version of Cisco’s IOS software, and a number of Microsoft server and...
by wwarren | Sep 10, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft Confirms SMB2 Flaw, Heightens Severity By Ryan Naraine Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory to confirm the remote reboot flaw in its implementation of the SMB2 protocol, going a step further to warn that a successful attack could lead to remote...
by wwarren | Sep 8, 2009 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
How to Run Vista Sidebar in 32-bit Mode on 64-bit Vista. I’ve been running 64-bit Vista for some time now and for the most part it has been a very good experience. Today I was attempting to install a 3rd party sidebar gadget recommended to me by a friend, only to...
