For the last few months I’ve been plagued by the inability to at times remote desktop to some of my Windows XP based system. While not critical, it is nice to be able to connect home and carry on working on a document/email I was busy with before departing to work. After some hunting, I [...]
Remote Desktop Annoyances with Nvidia drivers
October 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Applications · Systems Administration · Windows
Next Great worm on the rise ? (MS08-067 Critical)
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Microsoft seems to have broken with the “Patch Tuesday” scheduled release cycle with the urgent release of MS08-67 earlier today after having detected in the wild attacks against netapi32.dll. The vulnerability is in the RPC connector we know and love so well ( Blaster, Welchia, Nimda …). ISC points out quite nicely that this could [...]
Tags: Incidents · Security · Uncategorized
XP failing to hibernate
May 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
The problem For some time my Laptop and Desktop XP systems have been misbehaving, intermittently when going into hibernate, the desktop much more since it got its upgrade to 4 gigs of Ram. Symptoms include just going blank with heaps of hard disk activity and then just sitting with the HDD light flickering, or stating [...]
Tags: Systems Administration
