Category Archives: System Admin

Is that another Radhakrishna on your QC team?

Posted: 10:49 am
May 9, 2007
System Admin
on Is that another Radhakrishna on your QC team?

Second month in a row without a major Microsoft patch incident – patches apply properly, systems reboot as intended, no BSoD’s, no application incompatibilities. Just like it’s supposed to work. Are we starting to see a trend in improved patch … Continue reading →

Office 2007 MIME types for Apache

Posted: 8:43 am
April 9, 2007
Linux, Microsoft, System Admin
7 Comments

An interesting bug came up in the OWN Forums over the weekend, when downloading Office 2007 Word (docx) document from an Apache hosted site, the file either comes up garbled (application/octet-stream) or opens up a zip folder. This is usually the case when you have … Continue reading →

Patch Tuesday: Cousin Joel Returns

Posted: 10:36 am
April 5, 2007
Security, System Admin
1 Comment

(Note: All Windows Server post-SP2 issues will be refered to as Cousin Joel edition) Microsoft released an out-of-band patch yesterday to cover the recent .ani/.cur exploits. These are causing confirmed issues with Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2003 SP2, Windows … Continue reading →

ALERT: Microsoft Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 Out

Posted: 2:50 am
March 14, 2007
Microsoft, System Admin
on ALERT: Microsoft Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 Out

Microsoft has released Microsoft Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 for both 64–bit and 32–bit editions. It is flagged as a high priotity update meaning that if you have your box set to automatically apply updates you will likely be seeing … Continue reading →

Virtual PC 2007 is out

Posted: 7:22 pm
February 19, 2007
Microsoft, System Admin
1 Comment

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is out — must admit, that is one heck of a presentation in terms of a web site. In terms of what’s new: Support for Windows Vista as a host Support for Windows Vista as a … Continue reading →

DST patch fun

Posted: 11:10 pm
February 12, 2007
Microsoft, System Admin
1 Comment

Susan talks about the DST issues on her latest podcast. DST of course is the Daylight Savings Time and is observed by a number of countries in order to reduce energy utilization by messing with the clock and when people … Continue reading →

Installing Adobe Reader 8.0 on Vista x64

Posted: 10:28 pm
February 7, 2007
System Admin
on Installing Adobe Reader 8.0 on Vista x64

Here is a quick guide on how to install Adobe Reader 8.0 on Vista x64. Quite quick and painless, though I must admit I tried the same procedure over 3 times before consulting Google: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333643

Interesting Training Opportunities for the 2007 Wave

Posted: 5:35 pm
October 18, 2006
Exchange, Microsoft, System Admin
on Interesting Training Opportunities for the 2007 Wave

So I went through the lineup of webcasts Microsoft has lined up for November and things are really starting to heat up. First of all, these webcasts are delivered by TechNet presenters, friendly speak for “coherent technical people”, so you … Continue reading →

Angry Vlad

Posted: 8:43 am
June 22, 2006
System Admin
23 Comments

People often wonder what causes things like Vladfire and other acts where I pour more gasoline on the fire. I tend not to share what goes on in my professional life because, honestly, putting this type of stuff in writing … Continue reading →

Vladville is Back

Posted: 11:00 am
April 17, 2006
Misc, System Admin, Vladville
13 Comments

Woohoo, bigger and better than ever. Over the weekend I finally threw away Google's Blogger service and ported all of my posts and comments over to my own servers. The upside is that there are a whole lot more features … Continue reading →