Thanks to Neil I read about Ryan s post about the No I will not fix your computer t-shirt. Like I said on Neil’s comments I’m tempted to put a “unless you pay me loads of money” comment on the back of it. This is the second or third link I’ve read in the past couple of weeks that has talked about going freelance for tech support……the only thing is I don’t think the town I live in has enough people to keep me in business. It is very tempting though.
After taking the wireless Access Point into the office and not getting it picked up on the lan at all with the snmp manager or my network scanner I sent an email off to Netgears Technical Support department yesterday requesting a RMA number. As yet I’ve not heard anything back (apart from an auto acknowledgement with a ticket number and a list of frequently asked questions, all of which have nothing to do with my problem). I took the unit back home to triple check on the original lan and it still didn’t work there either – in fact it doesn’t even light up the led on the hub to say there is an active connection (and yes I’ve tried a different network cable).
Meant to mention that I received a voucher for a free pizza – from the same place that caused me to complain in the first place! ot sure whether we’ll go back and take advantage of the voucher though.
Meant to mention that I received a voucher for a free pizza – from the same place that caused me to complain in the first place! ot sure whether we’ll go back and take advantage of the voucher though.
From the email that I received from eeye:-
A worm began spreading on the Internet early Monday morning that exploits a recent vulnerability in Microsoft Operating Systems. The worm, dubbed Blaster, takes advantage of a known vulnerability in Microsoft RPC DCOM that affects all current versions of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
The worm begins by targeting Microsoft systems that have not been properly patched for the known RPC DCOM vulnerability. Once the worm detects an unpatched system, it will attempt to download and run a file called msblast.exe. If successful in infecting a system, the worm will propagate itself, modify Windows registry settings, and initiate a SYN flood denial-of-service attack on windowsupdate.com.
The worm payload does not contain any additional malicious content; however, because of the nature of the worm and the speed at which it attempts to impact systems, it can potentially create a denial-of-service attack against windowsupdate.com.
For further information and a technical description of the Blaster worm please visit:
eeye. They also have a free tool you can download (reg required) to see which machines are vulnerable…but then again you should have done that a long time ago, especially with running Windows Update! Their full suite of programs will also tell you if you are unlucky to have it running around your network.
Had a weird event id 1000, source Userenv when building a desktop in the office.
The full error was “Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. Return value (1326)”.
Finally got some downtime yesterday (as I couldn’t sleep early in the morning) to swap the tape drives around on our Windows 2000 servers.
We got the DVD of Johnny English yesterday as we really enjoyed watching the film at the cinema. We’ve not had chance to watch it yet, but I popped it in the DVD drive of the laptop this morning just to see what was on it. The screensaver(s) were naff – I thought they could have done a lot better than the two that are on there. There are 6 wallpapers which are not that good pictures. The one of Natalie Imbruglia is not good at all! It looks like they’ve grabbed hold of her head and pulled upwards stretching her neck by several inches.
I did get a good score on the “pretend to be a secret agent game”, which had three flash games strung together in a sequence – a shoot the targets, drive a car, and land on the building game – I think this had the most amount of work spent on it.
Test of a link to Argos as I may be shortly be purchasing a elliptical cross trainer from them in an effort to keep fit.
More cat pictures have been uploaded to the gallery, including pictures of Basil trying a new way to cool down….