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Another FolderShare Release — Getting Scared

22.Apr.08 | 15 Comments

Back in March, the FolderShare folks released a new beta release of the FolderShare client. I was excited until I realized there was no support for Windows 2000. That made me nervous, but I had hoped it wasn’t a big deal.
So far, everything has been ok though. I’m running the older version of FS [...]

New FolderShare has No Love for Windows 2000

25.Mar.08 | 6 Comments

The FolderShare Team Blog announced a new version of the FolderShare client last week while I was traveling. Being the dutiful little upgrader that I am, I spent some time this afternoon updating assorted machines at the office.
Ran into a bit of a snag with the Windows 2000 servers that we still use:

Not supported — [...]

Dead Latitude (alas!) and No Metasploit Love on Win 2000

16.Feb.08 | 7 Comments

I no longer am looking for a battery for a Dell Latitude. Alas, she died this evening — the CPU fan gave up the ghost. I tried some of the magical 3-in-1 oil but no love. Decided that I’m not spending any more money on this one… I’ll pull the ram and hard drive tomorrow [...]

Virus’d - The Follow-up

08.Feb.08 | Leave a Comment

I mentioned a couple days ago that we had a small virus outbreak at the office this week. Thought I got it all cleaned up Wednesday night, but I ended up chasing it a bit more last night as well.
Tip: Turn off the Windows System Restore thingy before chasing viruses. Turns out ours got saved [...]

Daylight Savings Fun

13.Mar.07 | 2 Comments

Early this morning, I noticed some of my nightly jobs seemed to be running late the last couple of days. A closer inspection showed that my Windows 2000 servers (dev and prod) were all an hour off. Whoops, Daylight Savings Time!
Well dang, for some reason I thought I’d seen a patch for that [...]

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