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Steve Ballmer Keynote

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I missed breakfast this morning because I watched the USS Stennis get pushed back from the dock and start steaming out to sea. Quite a sight to see.

As always, the opening keynote of TechEd was a major Microsoft player, this time CEO Steve Ballmer. And, to not break with tradition, the talk was peppered with the standard fair of ‘TCO’, ‘Business Information Workers’, ’empowerment’, and other long looking things. Major things announced: Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (WSE 2.0 or ‘whizzy’ as they’d like it pronounced), a technical beta of the Office chunks to pull data from Web Services (the name escapes me), and Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The most interesting one seems to the VS2005 Team, which seems to include a new source/change control system. Hopefully this will be true, should find out at a session later in the week, Thursday I think.

Now, I’m off to a session on Windows and Linux: A tale of two kernels. Or, if this stinks, I’m headed to one on testing with Virtual PC 2004.

And, the first free tshirt of the week has been acquired, along with a baseball advertising Visual Studio 2005.

TechEd 2004

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Well, I’m in San Diego at TechEd 2004. Too bad I don’t have a digital camera (pictures will have to wait until I get back. ) or you could see the harbor view I have from my hotel balcony. Well, not exactly a balcony, more like a sliding glass door with some concrete outside for a chair and very small endtable. Ah, and this is supposed to be work.
There is at least one Navy carrier in port and there was one steaming out of the harbor as I left the airport.
The plane ride was quite long, but definitely worth it so far. Oh, and the feeding of the nerds has begun, bottomless coolers of soda (Coke and Pepsi products, FWIW), ice cream and chips are all over the place.

sudo is so cool

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sudo allows non-superusers to do superuser things without knowing the superuser password.

betka@somehost betka $ sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp restart
Password:
 * Stopping dhcpd...                             [ ok ]
 * Starting dhcpd...                             [ ok ]

sasser

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Sasser has made it to campus. This is just what we need during the last week of classes. Hard to believe this many people are missing a patch released almost a month ago. Microsoft has an advisory on sasser.

Update (5/03/04): I’m just as much a loser as everyone else. I had 16 machines (out of about 1000) that were unpatched. Thirty lashes with a wet noodle for me.

in case anyone else needs this

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This is too damn much work.



Windows 2000:


MS04-011 supercedes:

	MS00-027

	MS00-032

	MS00-070

	MS02-051

	MS02-071

	MS03-007

	MS03-013

	MS03-025

	MS03-027

	MS03-045

	MS04-007


MS04-012 supercedes:

	MS00-066

	MS03-010

	MS03-026

	MS03-039


MS04-014 supercedes:

	None


Windows NT 4.0:


MS04-011 supercedes:

	MS99-023

	MS02-050

	MS02-071

	MS03-013

	MS03-041

	MS03-045

	MS04-007


MS04-012 supercedes:

	MS98-014

	MS01-048

	MS03-026

	MS03-039


MS04-014 supercedes:

	None

patch, patch, patch

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New MS security updates yesterday, get yourself patched. Windows Update was a little pokey this morning, but that’s almost to be expected.

On an unrelated note, I got to drive the wife’s Camaro Z/28 to Danville last night. Driving the 97 Accord four banger (peppy, but front wheel drive and geared a little odd) and the Dakota v-8 (uh, it’s a 4×4, no speed demon here) all the time, I sometimes forget how much fun interstate on/off ramps really CAN be. Made for a pretty good birthday present.

VirusScan Enterprise sucks

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Well, I guess I shouldn’t really fault VirusScan, this is more of a Microsoft Installer issue than anything.
A little background: We run the campus site licensed VirusScan Enterprise on all our lab machines (and all of the admin machines as well). We started the year with version 7.0, then 7.1 came out. This is when things got wacky.
First, I built a custom install package with Installation Designer that had the same settings as we used before. Some workstations got the settings again, some defaulted back to the defaults (update weekly, Friday 5 pm), and a few even lost the scanner service completely!
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trouble ticket

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Oh my:

hello
my connector was blocked by u
i don’t understand
why did u block my connector?
i was change my computer system
i was receive an E-mail from ******, *****
so i installed virus program(the name is V3)
why you are block my connect?
as soon as coule u open my connector?