you stay up for 16 hours
He stays up for days on end.
You take a warm shower to help you wake up.
He goes days or weeks without running water.
You complain of a ‘headache’, and call in sick..
He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.
You put on your anti war/don’t support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends.
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just ranting has a limited range of value – it is unlikely that you will continue giving your attention beyond the point you get turned off and your audience is no different
effectivists learn how to use messaging and online resources to full effect
…I’m learning much today from a class by American Majority
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Tagged activism, conservatism
This will cover the new and much improved Startup Repair options boot-from-media experience. I’m installing the OS into a VM on HyperV using an .iso, besides the conveniences there of lab testing an OS this also provides the ability to capture screen snips in what normally isn’t a part of the process you would have that option.
Previously when booting from media and needing to go to the repair tools took quite a while while network diagnostic scans took place and other check processes ran their course. Now this process has been greatly improved removing all the typically unneeded pre-checks so that you immediately get to the correct tool you wish to use. Thank you Microsoft for making an administrators life a lot easier during a crisis.
**subtitle** do words in marketing matter anymore?
OK I had my laugh when the term ‘cloud’ (drawn in network diagrams to visualize the internet) became associated with the latest marketing blitz and especially when it became associated with things that have nothing to do with the internet aka ‘private cloud’. Now I read from company AppSense that they are selling a product that provides (no joke) user virtualization. Yes, that’s right you don’t even need users anymore for your network. Human resources is going to be a lot more simplified and without even any off shore outsourcing? …ha-ha well not exactly
I’m sure this is but clever marketing but maybe too clever to be understandable or of use beyond the shock of an irrational construct. As I tried to discern why I had emails coming from this company, I opted to just go to their homepage and see if any memories of research or of a prior business conference encounter perhaps got triggered …none did. Nevertheless the product offering of ‘user virtualization’ struck me right away – holding back to stay objective and explorative I couldn’t help wonder what this strange coined product offering could entail. My marketing BS O-meter warning was going off. Now after reading in their words and explanation I am not certain of anything beyond a vague conceptual management layer to allow an administrator to manage and importantly provide governance over every possibility a business user might broach from this single software interface. Pie in the sky fluff? Dunno – gut says likely not likely so simple - in any case not really going to investigate further at this time to invest the time for a demo. Perhaps this is but a mere formality to publish to the public some novel description as their sales are not intended to be driven via this venue and the target audience were investors.
As I expand my knowledge and skill into IT governance for the growing need for business compliance to PCI DSS, HIPPA, …etc., it is inevitable this road will get crossed again. Hopeful by that time that the marketers have clearly ‘cut to the chase’ or are cut out and replaced with usable language from technical salesmen.
reference – http://www.appsense.com/user-virtualization
Discovered this today from within Windows 7. …Any software process that involves copying, moving, or even deleting the autorun.inf file can fail as a result of current default antivirus software (aka AV) behavior. This file is at the root of every Windows drive.
In preparation for an SBS 2011 install I wanted to create a bootable USB drive of the install media. To start I attempted to clean off the drive of all its contents but that process failed with the autorun.inf file. Then I realized that I should’ve just reformatted so to be thorough; of course that sledge-a-matic action worked.
I’ve done this before for SBS 2011 and WHS 2011 which can require this type of USB drive install media on headless servers. The odd thing is that never before was this an issue so this must be something new that has emerged behind the security scenes but of which I was not aware. What I uncovered was the Trend Micro WFBS Agent settings were blocking both ‘delete’ and ‘copy’ actions to the autorun.inf file. This isn’t specific to just TM though as the Google search result I found pointed to a different AV vendor. If you hit this error, disable the AV temporarily as the workaround.
Initially I opted to go the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool method (creates a bootable USB drive from ISO or DVD) but hit an issue when it failed during the copying process. After trying variations and getting the same failed result, I opted to go the longer manual creation route as detailed by Tim Barrett in his www.NoGeekLeftBehind.com blog. During that process I hit the root issue in a way that gave me a usable error message to find the solution. After disabling the AV I hit success.
SBS Documentation Team blog
