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[Keith] Welcome to A Couple Of Admins Podcasting. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Keith] This is Episode 38 recorded on February 12, 2008.

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

[Steve]

  • Sorry I can't join you guys tonight, but I'm actually still at work.. I'm hoping we'll have this thing wrapped up before next week's show.

[Rich]

[Keith]

  • We have a high pressure system moving in from the West that is delivering a considerable amount of precipitation in the form of snow and rain. This wintry mix will continue throughout the night and accumulations are expected to be around an inch in the Allentown area and up to 3 inches in the Pocono mountains. We turn now to Pete for the ski report.

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Keith]

  • Skypecast - We made an attempt, but had some problems. We will try again.
  • Contests - If this is out in time, you can still make an entry by midnight Feb. 14.
  • Many thanks to Paul Muller over at Caffination for playing our promos. I know they are kinda long, so I appreciate his willingness to still play them. For some reason I cannot have concepts that are 30 seconds. I did another one you will hear in a minute, but even still it is 50+ seconds.

Anyway, Thank you Paul.

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Rich's Topics

  • ''' Microsoft, police fight global battle against counterfeiters 
    * Story Highlights
    * Microsoft relentless in tracking down people who counterfeit its software
    * Company pursued one ring in 22 countries; arrests made in Taiwan, China, U.S.
    * Case started with seizure of $100 million in fake software in Los Angeles
    * Some counterfeit products are so well done it takes a microscope to spot them
    * Next Article in Technology »

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-Link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/08/microsoft.piracy.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/uoo
  • Illinois town take by email scam
  • Phishing in the Mississippi successful even in the virtual realm
- Basically a city employee responded to an email claiming to be from the bank the city had funds with.
- By responding the employee gave out detailed login information that allowed the criminal to take ~$77,000.00
-Link: http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?s=7861088
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Keith's Topics

-All this fuss about VMWare Fusion and Parallels, I wanted to get a new Windows VM up on the new iMac, so I wondered if QEMU was available for Mac OS X, and it was.
-Very polished and one of the coolest features is an automated download of pre-built images. Obviously nothing that isn't Open Source and it is not up-to-date (Ubuntu Edgy Eft is latest there). But it is very nice.
-Link: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/uop and http://shrinkster.com/upo
  • Mac OS X Networking
-Moving files to the new iMac and I figured I would just map to a Windows share. Performance was horrible and I tried both directions, so I went to using an external USB disk. Not sure why.
-Fast forward a couple days and my wife is using one of my little iBooks and she wants to type something. I never loaded AbiWord? or NeoOffice on this one, so I map to the other iBook over wireless and start copyin NeoOffice (126MB). Granted it was over wireless (.11b) and via an AP, but again, performance was ridiculous. I cancel and download AbiWord? directly from the Web at a great speed. When I want back to delete the DMG file for NeoOffice, I did a Get Info and found it was 51MB. Does the interface just not update? Not sure if it was the same on 10.5 because I didn't look at the file size results. I'm just curious if their file sharing protocol implementations are very inefficient or what?
-Link: http://
  • Juniper Announces Entry Into Switch Market
-I think they missed the target on this one. Some awesome features, but I don't think they are priced competitively to push their way into a very competitive landscape. Cool features like redundant hot-swap power supplies on their 1U switches, but I would have preferred they come in with a few less features and a better price tag.
-The 3200 switches are fixed-configuration 24- or 48-port boxes with 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports supporting power over Ethernet (PoE). They can also support 1G Ethernet and 10G Ethernet uplinks. The switches will be available in March and pricing starts at $4,000.
-These 4200 series switches are stackable, and 10 of them can be linked to create a single virtual switch supporting up to 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 40 1G Ethernet or 20 10G Ethernet ports. They also come with hot-swappable power supplies and multiple fans. The switches will be available in March, and pricing starts at $6,000.
-Link: http://www.juniper.net and http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/012908-juniper-ex-enterprise-switch.html and http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/013108-juniper-ex-switch-vendor-opinion.html and http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/012908-juniper-ethernet-switches-nac.html
-Link: http://www.juniper.net and http://shrinkster.com/upp and http://shrinkster.com/upq and http://shrinkster.com/upr
  • Oceanic Cable Cuts = less SPAM
-I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but I noticed a marked decrease in the amount of SPAM our systems were receiving during the undersea cable problems. I noticed it after the fact and even went back to the raw numbers before that interval and found it down by several hundred per day.
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-Link: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24810?ts0hb=&story=ht and https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/ups and http://shrinkster.com/upt

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Steve Hiner

Hey guys,

I found out about your show through the PowerScripting Podcast. I finally downloaded a couple episodes because of the crossover contest you're running with them (I guess your plan worked). I really enjoyed the two shows I've listened to, you all do a great job. I live about 90% in the developer world and 10% in the admin world so naturally I'm a total PowerShell fanatic. Hopefully I'll have time to script up something for your PowerShell contest.

Tonight I've been listening to episode 35 with Karl Prosser and I just got to the part where you talked about open wifi. One of the major reasons not to leave your wifi open was left out of the discussion so I thought I'd tell you a story.

I have a couple friends with an underage son. A while back they discovered that he was using their internet connection to look for porn. They enlisted the help of a friend to lock down their network. They blocked his laptop from accessing their wifi then turned off the wifi radio in their router and told him he couldn't take the laptop out of the house. Then they added password protection to their main PC and added parental content control software to the only system with internet access in the house. One evening they discovered that he had gotten back into a bunch of pretty bad porn sites. Apparently he was working on his homework in his room upstairs and one of the neighbors had installed an open wifi router in their house. Windows XP, eager as it is to get online, connected to the router and let him know he had internet access again. The parents had done everything they thought would protect their son but due to a neighbors lax security (intentional or otherwise I don't know) their ability to protect their son was thwarted. When I found out I was pretty annoyed. As a parent myself I feel we all have a duty to protect our kids. Their neighbor circumvented their authority. Most likely it was unintentional but the end result was the same.

Of course I changed a bunch of settings on his laptop. Took away his admin rights and disabled the wifi hardware then installed content protection software on the laptop. I just about broke into the neighbor's wifi router and locked it down for them - I figure if there was no security then they probably didn't change the admin password either. I desperately wanted to change their SSID to something like "I gave kids access to porn". Fortunately for me (and them) my wife was there and talked some sense into me before I did anything possibly illegal.

Just wanted to make sure people realize that leaving wifi open may very well impact other families and expose young kids to stuff they don't need stuck in their heads.

Steve Hiner

P.S. Reading over this email I think I sound pretty angry. Believe me, all my frustration is residual anger from what my friends went through with their son, not at you guys for not thinking of this issue.

From Listener...Andy Schneider over at get-powershell.com

Hey Guys,

I just listened to your show for the first time and was very impressed. I’m a big powershell fan and when I saw you were interviewing Karl I had to check it out. I’m looking forward to listening to more shows.

A quick note for Steve. It’s a small world. I just realized you are the same Steve I was emailing with to get my blog up on PowershellCommunity?.org. Very cool :)

I’ve been doing some thinking about the issue of Devs vs Admins and even blogged about it a while ago.

http://getpowershell.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/net-rocks-it-pros-and-developers/

I strongly believe Powershell can definitely provide a bridge between these two camps. I am just trying to figure out how to evangelize this new way of thinking and get people to take a couple steps towards the other side.

Great show and keep up the good work!

Andy Schneider

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Website Picks

Rich - http://

Keith - http://www.trustedsource.org/TS?do=home Neat security site. They (like many others) have a global SPAM trend graph. Also, a Storm-Tracker page for the Storm worm. They list the top IP's with Storm related traffic.

-Link: http://shrinkster.com/upu

Last Call

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

Closing

All right, well that is it for the show. For listener feedback; you can email us at Feedback [at] acoupleofadmins.com or post a comment on the main site at ACoupleOfAdmins.com. If you use iTunes, you could write a review. If you just want to show us your listening, drop a pin on the Frappr map...there's a link on the show site.

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Thanks everyone.