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Archives for April 2006
Creating the Ultimate Windows XP Kiosk Machine
Recently, I was presented with an opportunity to create a locked down, autologin PC running Windows XP. I had also read about the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP on a recent Technet article. The Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP allows you easily lock down a machine through a GUI interface. No longer do [...]
Winternals Sues Best Buy
It seems that Best Buy entered into agreement with Winternals to demo their software, specifically, the Administrator’s Pak. Winternals came to Best Buy giving training sessions to Best Buy employees, to show them how to best use the software. Now, read the following from the news section of Winternals: The complaint also alleges that, “at [...]
Jerry Taylor Attacks CentOS
Take a look at this thread. This guy works as a city manager for the city of Tuttle in Oklahoma. His ISP did some reconfiguring of their servers which caused the city’s web sites to point to some unconfigured web sites running CentOS (wrong DNS records). After getting a configuration page for CentOS, he apparently [...]
Pushing Out Patches Poor Man’s Style!
We all have heard of the Windows WMF vunerability and the need to apply patch KB912919. Maybe you don’t run WSUS or any patch management at all. Yet being the lazy administrators we are, we would rather the computer do all the grunt work instead of us. Having been assigned 80 computers to patch, I [...]
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