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

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Keith] and this is Episode 120 streaming live on Ustream.tv on Wednesday November 11th, 2009. Today's show is sponsored by Quest Software; Helping you rule your domain.

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

[Steve]

[Rich]

  • No Steve?

[Keith]

  • Apologies for being away so long.
  • Halloween wrap-up
  • Recovering from tonsillectomy

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Steve]

[Keith]

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[Keith]

  • I think we lost Steve to the Quest PowerPack? Challenge. Oh, he's not in it for the money...he just wants to be crowned the Ultimate Script Warrior. He better act now, the contest closes November 15th....only a couple days away.
  • Print media dieing - but Augmented [RICH]
-How will print media compete, maybe ‘Augmented Reality’
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-Link: http://www.tuftsdaily.com/esquire-mag-not-bound-to-two-dimensions-1.2059717
-I'm moving BackupExec? to a new server. I'm not planning on moving the DB and job history, so I'm not looking at a full migration.
-I do want to recreate my selection lists since I've reviewed them for duplications, unnecessary data, etc.
-Knew they were in the BEDB, but couldn't find reference in tables to selectionlists. Googled it and found someone had already wrote the SQL script for me as well.
-Also found a BackupExec? command line function to export the job def to a text file. However, it is not as clean to read and manipulate.
-Lastly, there is the BackupExec? Utility that is for copying the full media server configuration from one server to another.
-Link: http://www.conetrix.com/Blog/post/How-to-Export-a-Selection-List-in-Backup-Exec.aspx
-Link: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/245048.htm
-Link: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/274778.htm
  • Sybase Corruption Issue [KEITH]
-Have an application that takes readings on a laptop which get processed and uploaded to a server where they are imported into another application. Both apps from same vendor.
-Problem on laptop (not sure what) but Sybase keeps getting corrupt and the only fix from vendor is to wipe with new DB and redo the data collection.
-Was able to manually re-create from the raw data file the manipulation done by first piece of software and successfully import the readings.
-Need to find a Sybase utility that will rebuild the corruption and can't believe how finicky it is.
-Link: http://
  • Out sourcing of support - good - bad - ugly [RICH]
- At the coompany I work for they have out sourced level 1 support
- hold times 45+
- Lenovo - May be they have out sourced their support as well as it was terrible
-Link: http://
  • Malware infection on Warehouse Manager's PC [KEITH]
-SpywareProtect2009? - User claims it came from a floppy, but I don't know.
-Used trick Steve Cherubino has been talking about recently. Instead of a locking USB thumb drive, use SD card in reader and lock it.
-SAV CE found and sort of cleaned. I user autorun from MS/Sysinternals to look for stuff launching and found 2 under IMAP fixer that called the malware executable.
-Ran a full scan after reboot with SuperAntiVirus? and it was clean.
-Link: [[http://]
  • PC Boot problem [KEITH]
-User claims he has DOS screen and PC won't boot.
-I find it powered off and on boot it stops at the BIOS info screen, where I see listed above the HDD, an iPod.
-I unplug the iPod nano from USB and reboot...TADA it boots fine.
-I'm guessing he enabled disk mode.
-Link: http://
  • Employee Training - the challenge [RICH]
- Employee studied in theories and programing
- missed the obvious
- School Trained or life trained?
- challenged him by asking him to outline the drive mapings for the login script
-Link: http://
  • Corrupted Registry [KEITH]
-PC refused to boot. Error "LSASS.EXE failed to initialize.
-Would not even boot into safe mode. Found causes pointing to corrupt file or DLL, malware, or corrupted registry.
-Tried slaving drive and scanning for virus/malware, but found nothing. Tried replacing LSASS files but would not correct.
-Wound up pulling registry backups from a system restore point manually and pushing them into place and it worked fine.
-Reboot had SAVCE finding the InfoStealer? trojan which is a password stealing trojan. Not sure if tried to put hooks into LSASS which handles your local login, so it may or may not have been the cause.
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-Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Restore
-Link: http://www.windowsbbs.com/windows-xp/21374-system-restore-location.html

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Listener Feedback

From listener....

Website Picks

Rich - http://windowssecrets.com/ Has some interesting top 10 lists

Keith - http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Winston Wolf - http://www.textsfromlastnight.com

Last Call

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

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