A BotNet is a (usually) large number of computers (Apple Mac’s, Linux PC’s, Windows PC’s, Android Phones…) which are infected by software that lets a remote user perform some action. Often these are attackes on website. For instance is 5 million computer all attempt to perform 10 searches on Amazon.com, […]
EMBED VIDEO VIMEO or YOUTUBE into POWERPOINT It is possible to to ’embed’ a Vimeo or YouTube file into your PowerPoint: UPDATE2: May 14 2014: This is now fixed in PowerPoint 2013 with the most recent round of Windows Updates. READ THIS for more details. UPDATE1: FEB 2014: If you are […]
If you have a PC in which you can not open .EXE files do this: On a different PC open notepad and copy the contents below to a file called (well, anything you like, but I like) EXE-FIX.REG Double click on the file and select YES when prompted Reboot when […]
If you have ever tried to shut down Forefront services on an Exchange server you have found that it will shut down your Exchange… so don’t do that. I recently worked with a Microsoft tech who explained the following simply command line to (temporarily) unhook Exchange from Forefront: Open a comand […]
“…The company said that the player could help encourage more native app development on the PlayBook. There are currently 10,000 apps in the BlackBerry App World, including the Android apps, making it smaller than even the fledgling Windows Phone platform, which has 65,000 apps in its store. …A lot of […]
If you want to use Group Policy to configure the 10 UAC related group polices so a Windows 7 client will be set to the third level on the slider bar: “Default – Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer. Don’t notify me when I make changes to […]
What this means is that there is a pre-Beta of the next version of Office, but you can’t get it. “Not since Office 2003 has Microsoft taken such an “ambitious undertaking” to reinvent the productivity suite. Today, PJ Hough, CVP of development for Microsoft’s Office division, announced the “technical preview” […]
“…Do I have your attention yet? Apple fans needn’t worry, iPad has considerable lead over Android tablets. iPad global market share, as measured by mobile operating system, fell to 57.6 percent in fourth quarter from 68.2 percent a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, Android tablets rose to 39.1 […]
2011 marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as […]
Do you need the default username or password for a router, firewall, switch… Below is a list of default passwords I found and cleaned up. If you know of any other default passwords, please add a comment containing that information at the end of this post. Vendor Model Version Access […]
There are serveral ways but, if you have a serial console cable you can set the IP using the following process: Get a serial console cable. Note that I went through several of them before I found one that would let me SEND characters to the device; I could see […]
“…That’s 700,000 a day, 21 million a month or 63 million per quarter. What about iOS? Apple won’t likely reveal numbers until January, when announcing holiday quarter results. Don’t expect them to be anywhere near as high, but not trailing way far behind, either. Android activations are lopsided, mostly from […]
“…It is a move sure to change the dynamics of the Consumer Electronics Show, and one the tech media may not have expected so soon. Microsoft announced Wednesday that CES 2012 is the last it will maintain a significant presence. After this January? No keynotes, no booth… …The company was […]
Well, I have had enough of BackupExec. Its really too bad that Symantec’s combination of high pricing and brutal technical support wait times and driven Veritas’ excellent product into the ground… but that is where I find it. As such I have been researching a few other products and this […]
After watching THIS video explaining that in 2010, Java was the most exploited product, I decided we need to update our Java to the current version. We came up with two ways to deploy Java; one through a group policy (GP) in Active Directory (AD), two, through a script with minimal […]
Windows Server 2008, R2, SBS 2008, R2 and SBS 2011 do not install the indexing service by default so you end up with very slow searches and errors / alerts that look like: and your desktop searches from Windows 7 and Vista, of network shares will be very slow. You […]