In small business networks, we have rules of thumb for security. Use passwords Update virus protection Deploy perimeter firewalls I understand these things are important, and you probably do too. We call these controls. They are things that we agree...
I'm not one to do product promotions or even reviews. I am not an anti-virus expert by any strech of the imagination, but my business gives me exposure to a variety of environements and I have been well served by...
Recently I rebooted a storage array and I saw a bunch (one per second) of errors messages spewing on the console and in the message logs. EDAC MC0: CE page 0x7f579, offset 0x800, grain 128, syndrome 0x70, row 1, channel...
After I upgraded a bunch of servers, one of them started sending me warnings like this once per week, when cron.weekly ran. /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md4 Steve Tendall posted about this on the CentOS list stating...
Last year when I did my first SBS 2008 migration, I wrote a post lamenting the incompatibility of DVD media that needs to be run on 5 (now 6) year old server hardware that only had a CD drive. I...
One of the joys of getting older is that we get a sense of having lived through some history. The other night in the place where I hang out sometimes, the folks were talking about the computers and video games...
It's fairly clear that one cannot code from the ground up in bazaar style. One can test, debug and improve in bazaar style, but it would be very hard to originate a project in bazaar mode. Linus didn't try it....
Windows 7 is the first release of a MS operating system I have actually been looking forward to. I have used the beta and the RC a little; and as soon as I can get my hands on a non-expiring...
You may wish to review RFC 5513 which was submitted yesterday. It identifies a serious problem facing the Internet community. (No not the virus thing, far more serious than that.) This has real security implications for all of us, and...
I recently purchased a new workstation, and finally took the plunge with Windows Vista. I don't get what all the fuss has been about. From the comments I have heard, and the impressions I read about, I expected many problems...
I've mentioned it before, and I'm not alone. (STOP! Ask yourself this: Are you on company time right now? Is reading AdvisorBits really a part of your job description? ... This post? Why?) While it is arguably a powerful business...
As I mentioned in my last post I'm working on my first SBS 2008 install, it is a migration from a 5 year old SBS 2003 install I have maintained. I thought I had maintained it fairly well, but it...
I try not to get too geeky and excited about new software releases, but I have to confess to a certain amount of joyous anticipation this week as I look forward to deploying Windows Small Business Server 2008. The main...
... getting the TODO list done. For a couple of weeks now, my Windows Small Business Server 2003 has been telling me the weekly backups failed. I think the tape drive in this 10 year old server hardware finally died,...
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