When the recent SMB 2.0 vulnerability was announced, there was some discussion on the Toasters mailing list about whether Data ONTAP was affected. Val Bercovici from NetApp responded that Data ONTAP was not affected by this issue.
Today, I discovered that to enable the filer snapshots to be visible within the Previous Versions facility within Windows [...]
Geoff @ UVM
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NetApp and Microsoft Security Updates
Steve retires :(
Among other things Steve said at his retirement celebration, today, was this. “I hope I have as much fun in retirement as I’ve had working at UVM.”
My tears didn’t come until I left the party.
Friend to me and many, many souls here at UVM; visionary, curmudgeon, provocateur, playful adopter and vocal advocate of [...]
Firefox for Windows Mobile
LifeHaker reports that an early development release of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, has been made available. This is alpha software (beware).
LifeHacker – Best Free Apps for Windows Mobile
LifeHacker has just posted a nice list of free applications for Windows Mobile, like my Treo 700w. Don’t skip the discussion thread; there are lots of folks mentioning applications I hadn’t heard of.
http://lifehacker.com/5041023/the-best-free-apps-for-your-windows-mobile-device
PS. I love Windows Mobile, but I think it’s the worst phone I’ve ever used. I have about one bar — and you [...]
Viewing Deleted objects in Active Directory
Working through the AD preparation for an application install, and I’m logged into the emtpy root domain as a schema admin. Running the setup application, I get an error indicating that I don’t have rights to
Organization Preparation ……………………. FAILED You do not have permissions to read the security [...]
Mobile Office update
Microsoft has released an updated Office Mobile suite, which provides compatibility with the new Office 2007 file formats. My Treo 700W came with Office Mobile, and it qualified for a free update. Huzzah. I tested opening a new Excel doc, and it worked fine.
Coding projects
Saw an item the MSDN newsletter in the students section:
Build a Bluetooth-enabled Screen Locker in Under Three Hours
Jerry Brunning posted a great tutorial at Coding4Fun showing you how to build an application that locks your workstation when you walk out of range with your phone.
Now, most of my coding is done in Perl, with [...]
Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming
brian d foy has an article up at O’Reilly with some good tools and tips for better Perl programming. As teasers for his forth-coming Mastering Perl, he mentions some useful tools, like Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic, and well as some other modules and approaches to make Perl code more useful and reusable.
Wordpress as my CMS
I’m going to try to use Wordpress as my UVM home page, and see where it gets me. My old wordress stuff is hiding for now, as is the rest of the material I had in my web site.
