Monthly Archives: March 2006
TechEd 2006
Yes, I will be attending TechEd 2006 in Boston.
(This is mostly so the category shows up in the list to the right.)
RIS and ISC DHCPd update
To update a previous post, if you are using ISC DHCPd, you don’t need to copy startrom.com and others around to alter the path the RIS client tries to use, you just need double slashes:
filename "\OSChooser\i386\startrom.com";
And, I’d recommend Argon’s RISme, though looking at the capabilities of RIS Menu Editor, I’d say either one are perfectly capable of doing the job.
Bright Light
Still at work?
Yes, I’m still at work. Updates and patches go so much easier when no one is here.
Active Directory is coming right along, 1 server reinstalled, 2 to go.
Office Clipart, WMF and TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems
(This is to get this knowledge into the Google cache more than anything else.)
If you are seeing Office applications (Word, Powerpoint, Publisher) hang when trying to insert WMF clipart from Web Collections AND your network is protected by a TippingPoint IPS device, check with your network people about signature 4054. If your IPS is running with the recommended ruleset, all WMFs that cross the device are being blocked and the Clipart manager doesn’t handle that well. The error that is returned is something like ” 0x800c000c “.
I’m guessing they rushed the signature out the door to be the first to post a press release about protecting their customers. Hopefully they will fix the signature in the future.
Cornjerker discovery
It’s always great when someone new discovers the wonderful mascot name that is the Cornjerkers.
Being able to see the referrer logs for the school district website make these easier to spot.
Rattle and swing
Go Kinky!
Friedman that is…
Proving he’s just a normal guy, taking a sip of Guinness from a can someone handed him even though he’s in a vehicle acting as grand marshal of a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
New photo album
My college roommate wrote some nice photo album system and was nice enough to host an album for Robin. I’ll probably be updating that more regularly.
Some of my favorites from the last few days: