Since I’ve had a little downtime at work I’ve been able to progress more into my review of Windows Home Server. I’ve taken quite a few screenshots so I’ll continue on the next page. Just click below for the rest of the review.

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Tags: microsoft, screenshots, tech, WHS

Today I have to call OCZ to get an RMA for my power supply on my machine. So a few of the ongoing projects will be put on hold such as my review of Windows Home Server, since the server and clients were hosted in VMware on the machine. I also don’t have an extra PCI-express ready power supply lying around either. Hopefully I can have this resolved by next week.
Update… I won’t have to call after all while testing with my power supply tester everything checked out to I plugged everything back up and tried again and what do you know it’s up and running. Hopefully whatever was wrong is now resolved.

Tags: misc

Techworld has a review about VMware’s newest addition to their VMware Server product line: VirtualCenter. Although this newest addition isn’t free, actually far from it: $1500, it seems that for a medium sized business that runs multiple servers hosting multiple VMs this product might be useful. Basically this new product is installed on one server then connects to all the other VMware Servers running and allows remote administration of each one in a centralized place. This is easier than connecting to each server individually to change a few settings and check on the server health. This tool also allows you to view the actual machine running inside VMware server from the same centralized place.

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Tags: business, IT, tech, virtualization

According to Symantec

U.S.-based credit cards with a card verification number were available for between US$1 to $6, while an identity” including a U.S. bank account, credit card, date of birth and government-issued identification number” was available for between $14 to $18,

To gain access to the information needed for the sale of identities hackers use a combination of social engineering, maliciously crafted word documents, and any of the zero-day exploits being announced all the time. They then send the word document with it’s dubious payload to unexpecting users. Since it is a word document commonly assumed to be safe and since most email servers don’t block these type of attachments, the user happily clicks on it and all is lost.

• Symantec has a video showing how these attacks happen.
• Macworld has the rest of article on this very scary transaction.
• Symantec’s full white paper on the whole deal here. (warning large pdf)
• Itwire also has this article on more of Symantec’s report.

Tags: business, IT, microsoft, security, spam, tech

Today when I logged into my blog I was greeted by a lovely little dialog saying that I currently had 43 new spam comments. This is after not logging in for a weekend. They where all simple two to three word spams all from different ip addresses. The were all on one post so I disabled comments on that post. I think I’m going to find a plugin to automatically disable comments on old posts. If any one knows of one for wordpress 2.1 please let me know. When will the spammers learn that as much as they love to spam everyone else loves to block them.

Tags: spam, wordpress