Tag: windows
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Keeping windows services’ running, ghetto style
A small post, but so I can have it as a reference if I ever encouter it again. We’ve setup a Windows 2003 Domain, and run DNS on both the Domain Controllers. We have terrible issues with DNS always shutting down, and disabling itself, so it won’t boot up again. While we are breaking our…
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MS08-67 released out of the patch cycle, new blaster coming up?
A newly discovery vulnerability made Microsoft release a security patch aside from it’s usual cycle, the notorious Patch Tuesday. This “Patch Tuesday” is normally every second Tuesday of the month. MS08-067 fixes a bug in the RPC handling of the Windows Server service. The bug was deemed as “critical” on pre-Vista machines, which is still…
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Google map secret backend API broken?
Hi all, Some of you might have been aware already about (and alpha testing) the Windows Mobile client for places.ae, which will allow you to find out the closest restaurants, petrol stations and such (pretty much the same functionality as the blackberry mini site). These searches happen using triangulation of celltower ID’s on a mobile…
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Microsoft to enter the clouds
Microsoft is entering the cloud computing zone pretty soon. It was announced yesterday and will hit the public a month from now with it’s new OS, Windows Clouds (yeh.). It’s feeling the ppressure from easy to use, browser only, applications such as Gmail, google docs and the like. I wish Microsoft (or anyone) would come…