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Symantec blames Microsoft for XP SP3 registry corruption
31 May 2008
 Security vendor claims it was Microsoft's own code that created the thousands of bogus entries in Window's registrySymantec on Thursday said it was Microsoft's code that crippled some PCs after upgrades to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) emptied Device Manager, deleted network connections, and packed the registry with thousands of bogus entries.
"We finally got to the bottom of this last night," said Dave Cole, Symantec's senior director for product management of its consumer software. "All of these problems are related to
Read On... | More Important XP SP3 Gotchas
09 May 2008
 Late last Friday afternoon Redmond announced that it had posted what it called "slipstream builds" of SP3 for download by subscribers of its IT professional and developer services. These slipstream builds integrate SP3 with WinXP itself into one single file that can be used to install the now upgraded OS on multiple machines without hooking up to a WSUS server.
Redmond also seems to have found a workaround for the Dynamics RMS bug. And so after about a week, they re-released SP3 to the general public. XP users trying manually on Windows Update on Tuesday were able to get SP3, approximately 67MB in size. Oh, and it seems that the SP3 FAQ is an identical copy of the SP2 FAQ, some one in the UK tells me.
The first major problem also seems to have surfaced. Some machines with AMD CPUs seem to go into endless
Read On... | Trojan Spreads Via Malicious Media Files
09 May 2008
The Downloader-UA.h Trojan horse program spreads through maliciously crafted media files. The malicious MP3 and MPEG files are placed on filesharing networks and have varying names and sizes to avert suspicion. When users try to play the files, an application called PLAY_MP3.exe is downloaded onto their PCs instead. Once the malware is on a user's computer, it begins to inundate that PC with advertisements. The Trojan presents users with an end-user license agreement (EULA). These were not MP3 or MPEG files, they were ASF files so they were able to have a script stream which caused Windows Media Player to open a browser and prompt the user to download (and execute) a binary.
| Virtualization Wars Are Not In Your Interest
09 May 2008
 You may have heard the news that Hyper-V will likely ship earlier than the 180 days Redmond promised after the W2K8 ship date. That's both good and bad. Normally you would say competition is good. But with hypervisors the deal is a bit different. Ultimately it would be better for all of us System Admins that there would be just one (commoditized) virtualization platform, and a rich choice of different management environments built on top of that. Example; TCP/IP is used by everyone, but you can choose between many sniffer product to look the traffic. But with virtualization it's going to look like the old HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray wars again.
The problem is that the Hyper-V and VMware layers are not
Read On... | Windows Vista Incapable
06 May 2008
 Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is shipping and what we know so far is that it is incapable of running on many types of machines. In fact, Microsoft is being sued for putting stickers all over machines claiming that Vista could run on them, when in fact, it cannot.
If you were able to run Vista, you would find that it takes your general-purpose computer and makes it incapable of doing a lot of things you might want to do. In particular,
Read On... | Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release Days away..FLY! never walk back to Mac or Windows again
24 Mar 2008
Chances are you’re reading this on a machine with Micro$oft Windows operating system (OS) installed. Either that, or you’re using Mac OS X, developed and sold by Apple Inc. These are what they called proprietary software - software you cannot copy, modify, and distribute freely. But wait! Hot on the heels of the OS war is today’s release of Gutsy Gibbon, code name for Ubuntu 7.10.
Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distribution, an operating system developed with users in mind. Because it’s free and open source, you can install it on laptops, desktops, and servers - as many times as you like! Ubuntu comes with a full set of productivity, internet, drawing and graphics applications, and games. Windows is infamous for its insecurity and unreliability; not Linux! With a default Ubuntu setup, you can rest assured that your system is reasonably safe.
Ubuntu 7.10 features
* Gnome 2.20 desktop environment
* Compiz Fusion 3D desktop visual effects
* Desktop search
* Fast user switching
* Firefox plugins
* Dynamic screen configuration
* Automatic printer installation
* NTSF writing
* Encrypted hard disks
and more!!!
| | After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Bad, Archaic, Unfriendly The Changng Trajectory of Software
02 Feb 2008
 My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before.
There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all in favor of Ubuntu after the first few weeks of the transition. Overall, my productivity and the scope of things I can do with Ubuntu far exceed what I could do with Windows and just as importantly Ubuntu (like any Linux would) lets me easily create my own productivity shortcuts of a variety of sorts.
One of the things that's become clear as I've gotten used to the appliance-like experience of Ubuntu is that the future of software in an open source-dominated world is going to be significantly different than the world dominated by Microsoft. So what distant point on the horizon has Ubuntu shone a light on for me? Simple. Software will increasingly compete on ease of use in the total software experience more than on features. The future will be more about being simple than about any other dimension.
Here are some recent use cases:
Read On... | Windows: Vista Negates Progress in the name of Hollywood
22 Jan 2007
Microsoft has targeted with Vista the distruction of it's new Media Center OS. Upgrading to this will render your 'Hi-Def' experience in 'Low-Def' detail.
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