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How did I get the XP AntiVirus 2008? |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, July 03 @ 11:58:46 PDT (64 reads)
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 One of the computers in our household obtained a drive-by virus infection recently. This particular infection is one of the famous backdoor Trojans that arrive by exploiting browser security from a web site that would otherwise seem harmless. The web site in question already was infected by the server SQL Injection exploit, which was replacing the web pages with ones that framed the content and contained malware JavaScript.
The computer in question was running Windows XP service pack 2, in a non-administrative account, with a 20-day old Symantec Antivirus 7.x virus list.
Why would anyone bother? In this case, the software that was loaded had all sorts of powers. It was malware, spy ware, and blackmail ware all in a blended threat. One piece attempts to open a back door to your computer, so that it can be controlled in a botnet. A botnet can be used to send internet traffic such as denial of service attacks, spam emails, and deliver other content. Another malware program brings in other software that shows up and attempts to blackmail you into buying it so that your computer will continue to work.
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How do I find the name of my Primary Domain Controller (PDC)? |
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How do I find the name of my Primary Domain Controller, and how do I find out which domain controller I logged into? The answer is in VBScript.
Copy the following code into notepad and save it as a file called "findDC.vbs"
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What is bluetooth? (What the heck is bluetooth?) |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, June 04 @ 08:25:12 PDT (71 reads)
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Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs), also known as IEEE 802.15.1. Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles via a secure, globally unlicensed short range radio frequency.
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New iPhone for Group29 |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, May 07 @ 09:45:30 PDT (162 reads)
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Fix your MP3 files for iTunes, iPod, iPhone and get album art |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 18 @ 10:00:32 PDT (462 reads)
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 What do you do if you have a bunch of songs ripped from various sources, and you load them into your iPod or iPhone and now the nifty sorting and album art features are not working? The key is to tag your song files properly. Each song file actually has some text information (an ID3 tag) stored inside the file that tells iTunes what the artist, song title, album name, genre and year are.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio 2 |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 11 @ 11:39:24 PDT (163 reads)
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 This is part 2 of 2 of Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 - "Goliath at the speed of David". This part includes the breakout session and some of the other Microsoft topics including ForeFront, Expression, Silverlight 2, and the different packages for Windows Server 2008.
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TSA and assistive animals |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, April 10 @ 20:11:37 PDT (137 reads)
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 .This article by Kim Ode ("Kim Ode: Coffee, tea or a great slobbering dog?") in the Minneapolis Star Tribune October 25th 2003 prompted me to contact Northwest Airlines Media Relations.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, April 09 @ 13:56:42 PDT (276 reads)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
On April Fools day 2008, I attended the traveling launch show for Microsoft Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. I already watched the online sessions in the virtual launch at the heroshappenhere.com site, so I had some insight as to what to expect. This show had an improvement over the previous Visual Studio and Windows releases at the Minneapolis Convention center. This time the vendor display was off the main level and moved down to Hall A in the lower level. This kept it much more low key and less like a circus.
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TSA and Security Theater wrecking air travel |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 04 @ 07:25:53 PST (143 reads)
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| The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a U.S. government agency that was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19, 2001. The TSA provides security at airports in the United States. Many columnists are saying what amounts to this:
what the TSA staff is doing is "security theater" or making a big show
while appearing to accomplish very little except collecting huge bins
of personal grooming products.
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Historic Final Four, with all number one seeds in 2008 |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, April 02 @ 09:37:10 PST (172 reads)
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 This NCAA tournament this year has provided very few surprises compared to the 2006 tournament. This is the first year that all my final four picks have made it to the Final Four. This skewers the experts, because all of the grandmas out there have the number one seeds in the Final Four.
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UCLA wins 2008 Pacific 10 conference championship and tournament, and is #1 seed |
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Posted by BB on Friday, March 21 @ 11:52:27 PST (335 reads)
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Over the years, the NCAA has added more games to the college basketball season back from 24, then 26, then 28. In addition, the PAC-10 brought back the conference tournament. The possibility now exists that a team is going to play 32-34 games. A team with twenty wins is no longer a lock for the NCAA tournament. UCLA has won 31 games, a school record for the pre-NCAA tournament. They won both the regular season and tournament.
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SQL schema version changed between compilation execution |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, February 26 @ 02:38:53 PST (377 reads)
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Using Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You may see this strange type of error. This is the OLE DB error reported from an ASP.NET web page
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The OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB' reported a schema version for table '"{your table here}"' that changed between compilation and execution. OLE DB error trace [Non-interface error: Schema version number changed from compile time ({number}) to run time ({new number}) for ProviderName='SQLOLEDB' TableName='"{your table here}"'.].
This article has been bumped from the Group29 Tech tips forums.
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Fun: Bonerama III: Bringing It Home |
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 The third release "Bringing it Home" from the New Orleans trombone group Bonerama, brings more of their Posaune-centric power into your home for your own personal enjoyment. With the first two albums, my favorites have been the arrangements of power rock tunes like Frankenstein, Whipping Post, and Crosstown Traffic. With this album they bring in a great Led Zeppelin classic: Ocean. They return to record live in New Orleans after recording their second album in New York City.
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College football 2007 post mortem |
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Posted by BB on Friday, January 11 @ 04:20:08 PST (260 reads)
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 I lost interest in the college football season as soon as the bowl pairings were announced. I wanted to see USC play Ohio State, not USC vs. Illinois and Ohio State vs. LSU. Also, why did Hawaii have to play in the Sugar Bowl? It would seem that the BCS really did set up the bowl pairings so that there would be no threat of controversy. Imagine a one loss Kansas team beating USC or Georgia if Missouri and Oklahoma win out too. Who’s your number one now? The BCS made the perfect pairing in the 2006 Rose Bowl, but otherwise I contend that it is actually worse than the original conference alignments. Bring back the Big Ten/Pac-10 Rose Bowl!
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Microsoft .NET frameworks together on the same PC |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, December 19 @ 01:48:09 PST (327 reads)
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Now that visual Studio 2008 has been released, there is yet another Microsoft .NET framework version 3.5. This builds upon the 3.0 version released earlier, so both parts are installed in separate directories. There are a couple of articles in the Group29.com forums talking about .NET framework and Visual Studio issues, these are consolidated in this article.
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Override Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachements |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, December 11 @ 04:52:19 PST (2087 reads)
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This tech tip from the Group29 Tech forums has a large number of hits so it has been bumped to its own article.
Help, I just received an e-mail from an associate with a file I need, but I get the message: "Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments"!
This happens when you are using Outlook XP (2002) or Outlook 2003 and someone sends you a VBS, EXE, CHM, MDB, BAT, or other Level 1 security risk file. (See below for more). Now while a real hassle, there really is no reason someone should send you an exe in an email. So remember that this is a precautionary measure.
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USC wins 2007 PAC-10 championship, off to Rose Bowl |
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Posted by BB on Sunday, December 02 @ 07:01:19 PST (241 reads)
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| To face . . . Hawaii? This is my prediction. The rumors are flying that the Big 10 is pressuring for 13th ranked Illinois at 9-3 and 2nd place to be in the Rose Bowl. Arizona State is ahead at 11. I think neither will be invited. I know this does not play well on the East coast, but on the West coast Hawaii is the best school for the Rose Bowl. The West Coast and Hawaii are closely tied. I pick the undefeated Warriors in the Rose Bowl ahead of Illinois and ASU, as well as Kansas or Missouri. UPDATED
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USC vs. UCLA preview 12/1/2007 and College Football 2007 Week 13 Analysis |
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Posted by BB on Monday, November 26 @ 00:51:23 PST (868 reads)
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In a season that has turned out to be - dare I say - wild and wooly, USC and UCLA will arrive at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum playing for a berth in the Rose Bowl. USC can get there by winning out. This was the expected outcome, except for the fact that USC was also expected to be in the BCS championship. One unlikely loss to the Stanford Cardinal may prove to be the greatest of upsets for the whole season. It is already in the books as the biggest point spread difference in college football history. UCLA needs to beat USC and hope that Arizona beats Arizona State. Arizona State hopes that UCLA wins and that they beat Arizona. The Oregon Ducks are out of contention. Greg Patton of the Riverside Press -Enterprise calls the Bruins a "daisy in the way of a lawnmower".
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College Football 2007 Week 12 Analysis RIVALRY WEEK |
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Posted by BB on Monday, November 26 @ 00:47:22 PST (213 reads)
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| This used to be rivalry weekend, the big end of the season weekend,
after which all the bowl bids would be handed out. That has now been
moved two weeks out with the advent of the conference championship
games in the Big 12, SEC, and ACC. The PAC-10 have moved all their
rivalries out too, with four of them concluding on week 14.
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College Football 2007 Week 11 Analysis |
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Posted by BB on Monday, November 26 @ 00:45:47 PST (231 reads)
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| The Orange Bowl stadium played host to its last Miami Hurricanes
football game. Although it never really was a bowl shaped stadium, Dade
County is not really an orange producing area, and the Orange Bowl game
is clearly a ripoff of the Rose Bowl, the stadium hosted some great
college football over the years. Miami is one of the few Division I
schools that does not play football on its own campus, and that makes
them doomed to wander from place to place at the whims of the city and
other professional franchises.
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