Technically Rambling

Microsoft and Novell kissing and making out up

throw@readymaids.com — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT

This is a running live blog of the November 2, 2006 love-fest between two former rivals.

Microsoft to AV Vendors and EU: "Just trust us"

throw@readymaids.com — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Trust is a very special and essential commodity. A very expensive one, too. Hard to earn, but very easy to lose. Once lost, very difficult to recover.......

(Good) friends don't let friends run IE ......

throw@readymaids.com — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT

This is a blog I never thought I'd write - not because I think it's wrong or incorrect or silly. No, it's because I so wanted to believe that I would NEVER AGAIN see the day when one can rightly and postiively conclude that running Internet Explorer is UNSAFE in ANY configuration.

AdminSDwhatchamancallit - Why your permissions "disappear" -PART I

throw@readymaids.com — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Although there are several online documentations of this behavior, most with suggested recommendations for a “fix”, the question still crops up every now and then. Since I had already written one such documentation for my team’s internal consumption, and since I find myself re-writing the same answers ever so frequently, I have decided to blog my documentation

AdminSDwhatchamancallit - Why your permissions "disappear" -PART II

throw@readymaids.com — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT

This is a continuation of our discussion of the behavior of the AdminSDholder object in a Windows AD environment.

The "Nigerian 419" - Victims or Criminally Culpable?

throw@readymaids.com — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT

I wrote the following way back in 1999, when the "419" scam was still at its infancy, "phishing" was restricted to compromising AOL accounts, and malware was not as pervasive as it is today....

Arrogance of power ..... or sheer stupidity

throw@readymaids.com — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:00:00 GMT

For as long as I care to remember, the following behavior has ALWAYS been true in a Windows name resolution behavior: Regardless of the configuration (P-node, B-node, H-node, whatever), the Hosts file is ALWAYS consulted first before a lookup request is sent to a DNS server.

Yay!!! NoMHack!!!! Yay!!!!

throw@readymaids.com — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:00:00 GMT

NoMas - No msExchMasterAccountSID
NoMHack - No More Hacking around NoMas. The Fix is in, ladies and gentlemen, and error 9548 will be a thing of the past shortly ...... well....almost shortly .....

IIS6 User Isolation Mode using Active Directory

throw@readymaids.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:00:00 GMT

Anywhoooo.... I've come to talk "Isolation", not to dis it. I just ranted so you don't get the wrong impression that I believe that "Isolation" is the next best invention since microwavable lunch :).

I think anything that improves security is a good idea, but I take exception to the "this is gonna solve all our problems now" mentality that is now surrounding "User Isolation"

SID Duplication Bug in Virtual Server 2005 R2 "Differencing Virtual Hard Disk" implementation

throw@readymaids.com — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:00:00 GMT

Virtual Server 2005 R2 edition includes a mechanism for reducing the size of files needed to create multiple Guest Operating Systems within Virtual Server. A "Guest", in MS terminology is the virtual environment (machines) that you create within the Virtual Server. The Virtual Server application itself is the "Host".