I’ve been spending the morning trying to write some generic form scripts for the new work website. Its a nightmare developing the backend when someone else has designed the frontend and all the fields are called textfield1 textfield2 etc. Demon’s help on debugging is available at their Using cgi-bins page
Month: October 2003
Alan Sugano writes an article on checking a server for the Backdoor.Beasty Virus and details checking various autorun locations in the registry – the last one I wouldn’t have checked (and neither did he first time round).
HKLM\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run
HKCU\Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run
If the machine is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Win2K, or Windows NT, you should also check
HKLM\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer\ Run
A useful utility that can be used in conjunction with Microsoft Systems Update Server. If you have a pc that needs installing (or patching) but isn’t normally on the lan, then this utility forces the client to update against a named sus server, apply the patches and then on reboot sets it back to use Microsoft’s servers. Excellent for patching friends pc’s or remote worker pc’s who are not normally on the lan and are WAY out of date.
Microsoft have certainly been busy overnight with 15 new updates and 20 updated updates to our SUS server downloaded overnight. Thats going to take a while to roll out around the network. It does make me wonder how you are meant to test all of these first though!
Just a quick note to point out that you can’t pass URL’s to filezilla without breaking them down into username, password, host and directory which is annoying and something useful I use in Leechftp
I’ve installed James Seng’s Bayesian filter for MT on this blog and laboriously went through all my comments and marked them as not spam. (A button to mark ALL comments as spam or not spam would be nice for first installations. Most people have probably already cleaned out their comments from spammers when they install something like this). Now it reckons that all my comments are 50% likely to be spammers and 50% unlikely to be spam. Will be interesting to see if this changes over time!
After Neil pointed out that Firebird can be downloaded now I tried to access the site but it was dead slow. However I did get the filename. A quick search on google found a site that had the file, dated today. That shows how quickly google updated his page! To save their bandwidth I’m not going to tell you where – just use a bit of common sense!
Well it’s taken me a year (as I wanted to carve one last year) but for the first time ever, I’ve carved a pumpkin! Kristen was on hand to give out advice and laughs about how slow I was going – she’d practically finished her cat before I had finished. Pictures, in order are online at the Coppermine Pumpkin Gallery. Thanks to Byroads magazine for the skull pattern. I was going to do the cat but this looked far too complicated.
The lowlife who spam my comments will get added to Feedsters Comment Spammer listing