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egrath

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  1. Hi, does anyone know a way of running a program when the workstation is unlocked? I need this for one of our production servers where the application vendor has full access to the system for fixing things (using a remote desktop (netop) connection). I now want to force the vendor to enter some information in program supplied by us before working on the machine. Thanks, Egon
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    TC!

    Hi, most of the people thing about TPM is used soley for the purpose for the sake of DRM Protected Media content. But you have to look at both sides of the medaillion, the TPM can also be used for useful things: *) Protecting Company internal content from getting out of the company *) Protecting your PGP Key *) and so on... A few weeks ago their where a nice article about the bright sides of the TPM - it's not just a bad thing like most people thing - Microsoft makes it a bad thing when fully implemented. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/trousers http://www.bsi.de/sichere_plattformen/trus.../praxis_oss.htm (german only) Bye, Egon
  3. Hi, use the strstr function which gives you back the position of the first occurence of the wanted char's. Than read from the beginning of the string till this position. when i need to read from a file till the occurence of a specific pattern i use a self written function which reads byte by byte and checks if i read the pattern i am looked for. post me a pm if you need those code. Egon
  4. Hi, i think the main problem the OP has is that they are both behind a NAT Router and want to share files in a easy way. i would recommend that both of you set up a local ftp server (maybe the one supplied with IIS or WarFTP) - and then map your internal ports on the router to the outside. So you and your Cousin are able to ftp to each other's machine. A other solution would be if you map your windows file service ports (135,139) on your router to your local pc and your cousin too. then you could use "net use" to map network drives from each others computer. If you do not own a static IP also consider using a DNS Service like dyndns or exchange your current IP's via Skype. Bye, Egon
  5. As far as i know for all of those three there are bootdisks supported, with you can use to boot the system and the install from the net (direct from their ftp site or a local mirror) go to their ftp site and look around for a folder named bootdisks and write the images with rawrite.exe to the floppies. Egon
  6. Hi, try to get an Adaptec 2400 on ebay. They are relatively fast and very reliable. Or if you want to go with something a little bit slower and maybe cheaper: Get a Promise FastTrack Controller. Bye, Egon
  7. There are many free distros out there: *) Debian (www.debian.org) *) Fedora (fedora.redhat.com) *) SuSE (www.suse.com) *) ... I would recommend Fedora. Egon
  8. I've found the problem. Don't know why, but after disabling the installed CA Unicenter Agents the connection estabilshment takes only 0.0140 seconds instead of the previous 2.78 .... Egon
  9. ... sounds like a system with no fixes installed over the last years Since Win2k MS-Operating Systems have gained a lot of stability, compared to their older OS'es. It's not uncommon for Win2K, 2k03 and XP to run a few hundred days even if they are heavily used, so it's simple wrong if someone says anything else. So if someone has to reinstall his OS after 180 days he must have done something wrong or not carefully maintained his system ... Egon
  10. Hi, i have a serious performance problem with one of our Database Servers, which is currently running SQL Server 2000. Using the "Mimer ODBC Trace DLL" i discovered that the call to SQLConnectW ODBC Function call takes about 3 seconds on this machine - which probably causes this performance bottleneck. On other Machines, configured in the same way the same Call (tested with the same application) takes about 0.0150 seconds. Do you have any ideas whats going wrong here? Thanks and Bye, Egon
  11. Hi, if another computer on your network which has internet access has a proxy server installed you have two options: 1.) Connect to all machines on the net and issue a pslist and search for suspect processes (like wingate.exe, winroute.exe, etc....) 2.) Scan your network for known proxy ports (81, 8080, etc....) - or do a full scan of all ports and check for the one's who are not normally listening. nmap will do the job. 3.) Connect to all machines and inspect the routing table if someone has set up an illegal nat gateway (psexec and netstat) Bye, Egon
  12. Hi, use the Task Scheduler and schedule a command like this: cmd /c del C:\thegame.exe Bye, Egon
  13. Hi, do you have installed the vendor provided drivers for the ide controller, or do you using the one windows installed? Egon
  14. I voted for Windows, but in fact you can't tell which of the two OS'es is better. They both have their strong and weak side. From a users point of view the Windows Desktop has a more clear look and feel througout the entire system - thats what many users want, not those GTK/QT/Xlib or whatever inconsistent Look'n'Feel. And most of the Professional Applications company users are using to accomplish their daily work are only available on Windows (ok, this thing will probably change in some time in the future). Another thing i really dislike are those distribution war's currently occur. Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake.... the list is endless. Some ISV's only support those distribution, some the other, some both. It's a complicated world out there. I will not say that Linux is a bad operating system, it's a good one and i respect everyone who has contributed in the development process, but linux has in my believe it's only strength's when it comes to the feeling of freedom and for server side usage. It's free, sources are available for everyone, relativly stable and when someone know's what he's doing it's also a secure system. Just my 2 cent's. Egon
  15. Hi, what does this batch exactly does? Has the Job the right permissions to do what it's intended to do? Does the Job needs a special working directory? Please give us a little bit more information so that we can help you. Bye, Egon
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    debug

    Hi, do you have set up the system to write a memory dump on crash? If yes, you can use the debugging tools (available from ms) to analyze the dump and often it's reason. Bye, Egon
  17. Hi, if you just need to create a desktop shortcut on the remote computer i would suggest you to use these two tools in combination: *) Psexec (www.sysinternals.com) *) Shortcut.exe (attached) Wrap a nice little script around these and run it. Example: psexec \\hostname -c shortcut -t C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe -n "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Prompt" Hope that helps, Egon shortcut.exe
  18. Internet Explorer will never be the same as Firefox due to many different reasons. The security Problem with Internet Explorer will always be there due to the tight integration with the operating system - bugs in the OS or the IE often affects the entire system. And probably the most important thing is that FireFox is and always will be OpenSource where many eyes can have a look at the source to find bugs and security holes. Egon
  19. Hi, a Portscan is not to be threatened as a attack directly. Someone is just probing what ports your System has open (A port is a Network I/O Interface where a Programs listen) Bye, Egon
  20. Hi, i would recommend using KIX and KIXforms to build simple script based GUI Applications for Windows. Egon
  21. Hi, found out that it's impossible to connect to another's process stdin/stdout/stderr Handle when you are not the father of that process. It's a security thing. Egon
  22. Hi, can you please explain more in detail what you want to accomplish? Bye, Egon
  23. Hi, Dual-NIC's? Do you mean NIC's which have two Ethernet Ports which can be used independent? If so, those cards most of the time have either two Ethernet Controller Chips built onboard or a single chip which supports more than one Port. Adaptec once sold a Ethernet NIC which has 4 Ethernet Ports (don't know if they sell it right now) For Teaming, it's a fantastic thing when you either want to have link failover or load balancing - or both. For Load Balancing your Switch has to support Teaming (aka EtherChannel on Cisco). We use Teaming in Failover Mode on most of our HP ProLiant Servers and had never been encountered any Problems - it work's just smooth and reliable. Teamed Nic Pros: *) Fault tolerant *) If configured, more Performance Teamed Nic Cons: *) More administrative work (Managing/Documenting Switchports) *) Another layer of Software between the OS and the NIC which may be fail Hope that helps. Bye, Egon
  24. Hi, the io.sys file is a binary file created as the result of the compilation of an assembler sourcecode file. To add functionality to this file you can do the following: *) If you just want to edit some strings, edit them in an hexeditor *) If you want to add more functionality - prepare to have a lot of work you just have to learn/know the x86 assembly language. Decompile it with the tool of your choice (for example IDEA), then build in the functionality you need and compile it again. If you want to write programs with GUI in DOS you have two options: 1. Access the Video memory directly. If i remember correct it's located at 0xC800 - there should be many information available on the net on how to do this. 2. Get a GUI Library. For example you could use Borland's TurboVision for this. If you intend to write in assembler, probably your only choice will be (1), if you code in c, prefer (2). Bye, Egon
  25. Can you tell us which application produces *.mix files? Thanks, Egon
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