The Ramblings is now WordPress 3.2. The new Admin panel checks the version of your browser and gives you a warning. if it is too old. My FireFox 3.6 gives a yellow warning. Internet Explorer 6 users are suppose get…
Password security
This is a very simple rule in application security. Never ever save a user password in the clear. Quite simple right? No matter where it is stored, ultimately it needs to be opened for reading or backup. If you need…
Internet Explorer 6.0
This is for the viewers that made a cumulated total of 6000 views. Please stop using Internet Explorer 6.0.
Exchange 2007 services cannot start.
This is an oldie. Surprised I did not post this when I first encountered Exchange services not starting in 2008. May be I was too engrossed in this. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided Exchange 2007 services will be…
Strange questions that I have heard.
Generally when your colleagues that have clocked a few years in the organization as an application PMs, you don’t expect newbie questions. Especially when the organization does not hire freshies. So questions like “what is play-back-attack” and statements like “SSL…
Western Union scam
Scam mail.
Financial Tsunami
An analysis of latest plan to remove the toxic assets from the US banking system. Does not look good. By F. William Engdahl, 30 March 2009
Fixing Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
After installation of the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, you might encounter the home page, reports and policy page cannot be viewed. “The website declined to show this webpage”.
Migrating Symantec Endpoint Security Management Server
Symantec Endpoint Protection is a marriage of Symantec Antivirus 11 and Sygate Firewall. As a result the management server is quite a different animal from the previous version. It is much more similar to Mcafee ePO.
Migrating Anti Virus Servers
This is much more complicated than what it seems. If you are not careful, you may end up doing a floor by floor audit.