A competing product that we use here at Miami is Altiris SVS. Streaming comes with a separate product, but for us, SVS is the fastest way to package software with some nice features like resetting software back to a baseline.
FWIW, here's the email I received from Microsoft with certain information removed.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
VIA EMAIL:
Date: --- May 2007
URL address: IRC://----/#----
Dear Sir or Madam,
Microsoft Corporation has received information that a host/domain name registered to/by your company is acting as an IRC server controlling a network of computers compromised with an unauthorized backdoor, commonly referred to as a 'botnet'. Botnets are often controlled in violation of criminal laws and commonly engage in distributed denial of service attacks or the distribution of malware without authorization.
Specifically, the following information details the botnet hosted on your network:
IRC Server Hostname: --- Server Port Number: --- IRC Channel Name: ---
We request that you investigate and take action subject to your Terms of Service. Since botnets typically connect to hostnames embedded in malware, you may consider redirecting the DNS entry for this hostname to an abuse site. Otherwise the person(s) controlling this botnet can simply redirect the DNS entry to another IP Address.
If you have any questions, please contact us by replying to this email. We appreciate your prompt cooperation in this matter. Please advise us regarding what actions you take.
Yours sincerely,
---- Internet Investigator
on behalf of Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 United States of America
The beta versions of IE7 did not work with Cisco Clean Access 3.5/3.6, but the IE7 RC1+ does work with CCA 3.5/3.6. All versions of IE7 work with CCA 4.0.
Here at Miami, our Campus Agreement is giving us Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise. I believe our Student Select agreement (which is what our bookstore uses to sell discounted software to students) provides Vista Business.
The last step of the IE7 installation process allows you to customize IE in several ways. One of those is to enable or disable ClearType. It's checked by default, but it does ask you.
Mr Cropp said the stingray was spooked and went into defensive mood.
"It probably felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead, and it felt there was danger and it baulked.
"It stopped and went into a defensive mode and swung its tail with the spike.
"Steve unfortunately was in a bad position and copped it.
"I have had that happen to me, and I can visualise it - when a ray goes into defensive, you get out of the way.
"Steve was so close he could not get away, so if you can imagine it - being right beside the ray and it swinging its spine upwards from underneath Steve - and it hit him.
Iran has been a building a heavy water reactor near the plant for two years, but the reactor is not scheduled for completion until 2009.
Nuclear weapons can be produced using either plutonium or highly enriched uranium as the explosive core. Either substance can be produced in the process of running a reactor.
Reactors fueled by enriched uranium use regular - or "light" - water as a "moderator" in the chain reaction that produces energy. Reactors using "heavy water" contain a heavier hydrogen particle, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium mined by Iran, foregoing the enrichment progress.
At Miami, we used Altiris to produce a report of all notebooks matching the serial numbers from Dell's battery recall site. It's a bit more reliable than asking everyone to look at their battery.
At Miami, we use Cisco Clean Access. We do not support firewalls that do NAT, including routers, because of the unnecessary support burden. CCA allows non-Windows machines to authenticate to the network without going through the policy enforcement hoops that Windows machines go through. Some organizations have Nessus scanning turned on in CCA as a policy option though. CCA verifies AV Software/Updates and Windows Updates by using a client-side agent that reports back the relevant information to the CCA appliance. OS detection can be done based on the web browser's user-agent or OS fingerprinting. Owners of headless devices, e.g. XBox and PS2, can use a web application to exempt their devices, which of course puts the device in a separate network role designed for the device and discourages students from trying to exempt their computers.
It's not in Cincinnati, but Ohio LinuxFest has an event this September in Columbus. I went last year and it wasn't bad. If you know of anything in the Cinci area though, let me know.
wastage Audio pronunciation of "wastage" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wstj) n.
1. Loss by deterioration, wear, or destruction: "Disease and desertion still caused much greater wastage than battle" (Theodore Ropp).
2. The gradual process of wasting.
3. An amount that is wasted or lost by wear.
I tried installing Vista, but Vista requires ACPI which wasn't supported by Parallels at the time. They said it would be supported in the next major version. Although, some random guy claims to have gotten it working.
Slashdot Mirror
A competing product that we use here at Miami is Altiris SVS. Streaming comes with a separate product, but for us, SVS is the fastest way to package software with some nice features like resetting software back to a baseline.
If you RTFA, you deserve to crash. Simple enough.
FWIW, here's the email I received from Microsoft with certain information removed.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
VIA EMAIL:
Date: --- May 2007
URL address: IRC://----/#----
Dear Sir or Madam,
Microsoft Corporation has received information that a host/domain name registered to/by your company is acting as an IRC server controlling a network of computers compromised with an unauthorized backdoor, commonly referred to as a 'botnet'. Botnets are often controlled in violation of criminal laws and commonly engage in distributed denial of service attacks or the distribution of malware without authorization.
Specifically, the following information details the botnet hosted on your network:
IRC Server Hostname: ---
Server Port Number: ---
IRC Channel Name: ---
We request that you investigate and take action subject to your Terms of Service. Since botnets typically connect to hostnames embedded in malware, you may consider redirecting the DNS entry for this hostname to an abuse site. Otherwise the person(s) controlling this botnet can simply redirect the DNS entry to another IP Address.
If you have any questions, please contact us by replying to this email. We appreciate your prompt cooperation in this matter. Please advise us regarding what actions you take.
Yours sincerely,
----
Internet Investigator
on behalf of Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
United States of America
I've seen some other people mention the same thing. Is it possible that an AC did the copy/paste of your journal entry rather than zonk?
Many times a network login will get you into the computer and to other networked resources, which a USB or boot CD won't get you.
The beta versions of IE7 did not work with Cisco Clean Access 3.5/3.6, but the IE7 RC1+ does work with CCA 3.5/3.6. All versions of IE7 work with CCA 4.0.
Here at Miami, our Campus Agreement is giving us Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise. I believe our Student Select agreement (which is what our bookstore uses to sell discounted software to students) provides Vista Business.
Only two weeks left to nominate your sysadmin (Oct 31, 2006)
Either Slashdot is late as usual they thought we rolled back 2 weeks instead of an hour last night.
The last step of the IE7 installation process allows you to customize IE in several ways. One of those is to enable or disable ClearType. It's checked by default, but it does ask you.
That would be BitLocker.
QA?
According to this article, you're right.
Mr Cropp said the stingray was spooked and went into defensive mood.
"It probably felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead, and it felt there was danger and it baulked.
"It stopped and went into a defensive mode and swung its tail with the spike.
"Steve unfortunately was in a bad position and copped it.
"I have had that happen to me, and I can visualise it - when a ray goes into defensive, you get out of the way.
"Steve was so close he could not get away, so if you can imagine it - being right beside the ray and it swinging its spine upwards from underneath Steve - and it hit him.
Right, but it's only a couple of years away:
Iran has been a building a heavy water reactor near the plant for two years, but the reactor is not scheduled for completion until 2009.
Nuclear weapons can be produced using either plutonium or highly enriched uranium as the explosive core. Either substance can be produced in the process of running a reactor.
Reactors fueled by enriched uranium use regular - or "light" - water as a "moderator" in the chain reaction that produces energy. Reactors using "heavy water" contain a heavier hydrogen particle, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium mined by Iran, foregoing the enrichment progress.
I think you're looking for their Document Converter.
At Miami, we used Altiris to produce a report of all notebooks matching the serial numbers from Dell's battery recall site. It's a bit more reliable than asking everyone to look at their battery.
At Miami, we use Cisco Clean Access. We do not support firewalls that do NAT, including routers, because of the unnecessary support burden. CCA allows non-Windows machines to authenticate to the network without going through the policy enforcement hoops that Windows machines go through. Some organizations have Nessus scanning turned on in CCA as a policy option though. CCA verifies AV Software/Updates and Windows Updates by using a client-side agent that reports back the relevant information to the CCA appliance. OS detection can be done based on the web browser's user-agent or OS fingerprinting. Owners of headless devices, e.g. XBox and PS2, can use a web application to exempt their devices, which of course puts the device in a separate network role designed for the device and discourages students from trying to exempt their computers.
Head over to JFK Int'l Airport
Considering the support costs that go into identifying and removing spyware, Firefox may be a less costly alternative.
It's not in Cincinnati, but Ohio LinuxFest has an event this September in Columbus. I went last year and it wasn't bad. If you know of anything in the Cinci area though, let me know.
Nullsoft?
wastage Audio pronunciation of "wastage" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wstj)
n.
1. Loss by deterioration, wear, or destruction: "Disease and desertion still caused much greater wastage than battle" (Theodore Ropp).
2. The gradual process of wasting.
3. An amount that is wasted or lost by wear.
Relax, it's not even a released baita build!
The interviewee had enabled privacy on his profile,
The story is about the employer bypassing this privacy feature of Facebook.
I tried installing Vista, but Vista requires ACPI which wasn't supported by Parallels at the time. They said it would be supported in the next major version. Although, some random guy claims to have gotten it working.
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