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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 89 streaming live on Ustream.tv on Wednesday February 24th, 2009. Today's show is sponsored by Quest Software; Helping you rule your domain. We are also sponsored by Sapien Technologies; the makers of PrimalScript?.
Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?
[Steve]
[Rich]
- Got one of those, good day, bad day colds. You know the ones where you have a wonderful 50 degree day and the next its freezing again. Mother nature STOP IT! Where are my warm spring days?
[Keith]
Housekeeping Items
[Rich]
[Steve]
[Keith]
- Congratulations to Hal Rottenberg from over at the PowerScripting Podcast for being awarded the VMWare vExpert Award for 2009. MVP, vExpert....it'll be interesting to see where he goes for the hat trick.
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-Neighbor called my wife and asked if I knew of a way to recover pictures. Her 3yo daughter had played with the camera and now all the pictures are gone.
-I remembered Rich talking about a software package (
PCInspector? File Recovery from CONVAR) that worked for him, so I downloaded it and got the camera card. It could not find any deleted items which seemed to indicate the MFT (Master File Data) was wiped, so I was assuming a quick-format was done on the camera.
-The
PCInspector? software allows you to rebuild the files in the absence of the MFT by using the "find lost data' function.
- Bit Torrent is not a dirty word [RICH]
-I have been happy with my experiences with Ubuntu and thought i mind try a new version
-Being a fan of Novell, I decided to download Opensuse. I was little surprised that the default method of downloading the ISO was to use a Bit Torrent.
- I guess my perception of Bit Torrent was it was used for less than appropriate or legitimate uses.
- But Bit Torrent is very effective in my experience.
- Check your HOSTS and LMHOSTS file [KEITH]
-It's a quick and dirty fix and I've ranted at people I've worked with in the past about the dangers of using it, but I do it myself.
-In this case, I justified it's use because of the nature of the application. I have a temp backup server which is dual-homed on my production network and my dedicated backup network. Since I want the box to use the backup network for backups, I placed entries in the hosts file for my servers with their backup network IP's. I tried telling Symantec to use the
BackupNET? interface as primary, but it would fail on any box it could only get to over
ProductionNET?.
-Well, I loaded another app on the server to test and it was failing intermittently connecting to another server. I ran
TCPView? from Sysinternals and saw the connection to the
BackupNET? IP address of the remote server rather than the
ProductionNET?.
-Removed the hosts file entry and now it works fine.
-Schools can register
-Second annual,
-Very cool
-Surprised I never mentioned this utility before. It allows you to send an SMTP message from the command line.
-I use it to test SMTP connectivity as well as my SPAM filter rule-sets as I tweak them since I can spoof from and apply contents to subject and message body to match what I want to test.
-I test regularly from our website because of ever-changing anti-SPAM tactics on the part of ISP's and seeing the connection and response in real-time helps.
-Also, if you have a cron job that you want results emailed to you, etc. This makes a great email addition to your scripts.
-You can also do this via
PowerShell using the $smtp.Send cmdlet
-Syntax is : $smtp.Send(”from@yourdomain.com”, “recipient@theirdomain.com”, “subject here”, “body here”)
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I talked about a utility to send email from the CLI, but you can do this very easily in PowerShell.
-Send an email to Contest at
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PowerShell cmdlet to enter the drawing for a free book from Sapien Technologies.
-Please include your:
* Name
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-By entering this contest, you ("contest winner") agree that SAPIEN Technologies ("the sponsor") may retain your contact information for the purposes of sales and marketing. You may subsequently opt-out of any mailing lists or other forms of contact by following the instructions included in correspondence from the sponsor.
- Managing the Windows Firewall via NETSH [KEITH]
-To use Computer Management console remotely on a PC, you must add 445/TCP to the firewall exception list using:
-'NETSH FIREWALL SET PORTOPENING TCP 445 SMB ENABLE'
-For Symantec AV Console to manage the remote clients, you must add 2967/TCP to the firewall exception list using:
-'NETSH FIREWALL SET PORTOPENING TCP 2967
SAVCE10? ENABLE'
-You can add back a level of security by adding 'SUBNET' to the end of the command which restricts the opening to only the locally attached subnet. There is also a 'CUSTOM' attribute, but not sure how it is defined.
- Internet social networking - Like Twitter [RICH]
- Crazeegeekchick
-Came across this blog entry, and it caused me to think? What are the rule for un-following?
- I am not a truly social person to begin with, but who cares if I get un-followed.
- And I think I will use this quote to as an evaluation of people not to follow. "I’m even un-following some people not because I’m being mean this time, but because interaction with some people is like a trigger for me to become a big meanie." So, if you make me a big meanie I am going to un-follow you.
-And as a last statement. I apologize to anyone I might have offended by un-following. But hey, I twitter for me... If you don't like that un-follow me.
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Listener Feedback
From listener....
Website Picks
Rich - http://cpuid.com Has the PC Wizard utility that can be used to report the hardware configuration of a PC or Server.
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http://arje.net/rasterbator Very cool way to blow up pictures to a bulletin board size. Go this from some other site some time ago and would give reference to them but I don't remember where I first saw this.
Steve - http://
Keith - http://logotournament.com/contests Cool place to get logo designs submitted and not a huge cost.
Last Call
Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....
Closing
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