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[Keith] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski and this is Episode 109 streaming live on Ustream.tv on Wednesday August 5th, 2009. Today's show is sponsored by Quest Software; Helping you rule your domain.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Steve]

  • I started my new job this week. The first day was pretty uneventful. They added office space for me, so we were pulling wire and prepping the area. My desktop came that day too. On Tuesday, I set up my desktop computer, got connected to email and Communicator, and some internal applications. I also started setting up some base virtual machine images. Today was my first "work" day, where I spent most of the day prepping for some of my first issues to deal with. This job will be a much different workflow and schedule than I was used to, and it will take some getting used to.

[Rich]

  • So does that mean your actually done with the old one?
  • SO happy laptop is fixed, next business day does not make for a very fun weekend

[Keith]

  • Summer cold kicked my butt this week. So, if I sound stuffed up, sniffly, or coughing...I apologize.

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Steve]

[Keith]

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-Import-Module ServerManager?
-Get-WindowsFeature?
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-Link: http://
  • WSUS DB Problem [KEITH]
-Had it on default MSDE.
-Originally thought the DB had grown too large for MSDE.
-Found that it was just that I had run out of room on the partition because of all of the MS update files.
-Once I cleared space, it was fine. Of course, it happens on Friday at 3PM.
-Link: http://
  • Google Reader Updates [STEVE]
-Social / Following
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-Link: http://
  • Licence row puts Skype under shutdown threat [RICH]
- Though Skype is trying to develop new peer-to-peer technology to replace the code it currently uses,
- how far would it be successful is still doubtful
- 'Monday, August 03, 2009 '
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-Link: http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Licence-row-puts-Skype-under-shutdown-threat/3809123089/0/
  • Web-Based Project Management Software [KEITH]
-MS Project is a beast and expensive.
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-Link: [http://www.dotproject.net/]]
-Link: http://www.projectpier.org/
-Link: http://www.achievo.org/
-Link: http://www.project-open.com/ I grabbed a VM Appliance to test this at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project-open/project-open-VMware-3.3.2-1.zip
-Link: http://www.redmine.org/ JumpBox? VM available....Not liking Jumpbox
-Link: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1090 CoPTrack? virtual appliance. Website in Deutsch http://www.coptrack.de/
-Link: http://
  • The Shields Law of Technology Fanboyism [STEVE]
-"The decibel level of a technology's fanboys increases in volume to the point where that technology becomes irrelevant."
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-Link: http://www.realtime-windowsserver.com/resources_for_admins/2009/07/gartner_indirectly_and_unknowi.htm

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Andy

I’m not sure why technet requires registration for some pages and not others. As far as the time is concerned, on the pdc emulator servr run the following

w32tm /configure /manualpeerlist:north-america.pool.ntp.org,0×1 /syncfromflags:manual /update net stop w32time net start w32time w32tm /resync /rediscover

To test, I’d manually change the time to a couple of minutes fast (no more than 5) and then run those lines and watch the clock change. Your clients will sync from this machine.

Website Picks

Rich - http://www.dlinktv.com/ Thanks ED, A little DIY webcast by DLINK. Looks interesting

Steve - http://

Keith - http://itemnotasdescribed.com/ I owe this one to Rich. His links from the previous week helped me find this one. I love surfing Criagslist and seeing things like this.

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

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