Archive for October 2007

Leopard on my Mac Mini

Front Row on Leopard now supports Video_TS folders. To get an image in that folder, place an image in the same folder that contains your VIDEO_TS folder and name it “Preview.jpg”

A very good Daiquiri

2 cups crushed ice, plus extra for chilling glass
2 ounces light rum
1-ounce freshly squeezed lime juice, strained of pulp
1/2-ounce Simple Syrup, recipe follows

If your glass is not chilled, do so by placing some crushed ice in it and set it aside while you prepare the cocktail.

Place the 2 cups of crushed ice into a cocktail shaker. Pour the rum, lime juice, and simple syrup over the ice, cover, and shake well. Remove the ice from your serving glass and strain the drink into it. Serve immediately.

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2005
Show: Good Eats
Episode: Raising the Bar

Private: How to ignore a patch in Shavlik

Under Patch Information -> All Patches -> set Criticality to ignore

I too love the internet

Maximum RAM for various Windows flavors

Here’s a list of how much RAM the various Windows versions and editions support. This is from HERE which is referenced from THIS MS KB article.

  • Windows NT 4.0: 4 GB
  • Windows 2000 Professional: 4 GB
  • Windows 2000 Standard Server: 4 GB
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server: 8GB
  • Windows 2000 Datacenter Server: 32GB
  • Windows XP Professional: 4 GB
  • Windows Vista: 4GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Web Edition: 2 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition: 4 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1: 4 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition: 4 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: 32 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1: 64 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition: 64 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: 64 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition SP1: 128 GB
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition: 128 GB

Symantec Service Center Console (SSCS) primary server disabled

I never would have figured this out on my own. When I came in this morning and opened Symantec Service Center Console (SSCS), I saw a small, downward pointing arrow on our SAV server, indicating that this server was disabled. After poking around the server for about an hour, and google-ing repeatedly, I called Symantec Platinum Support. The problem? There is a reg key (listed below) that increments by one every time SSCS is started. It’s not supposed to stop until 255 (why stop at all – I don’t know.) Ours was only up to 188.

To Fix:

Stop the services “Symantec AntiVirus”
Using regedit, edit this key -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intel\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\ScsComms\LocalData\LoginCaCertIssueSerialNum
Change Hexadecimal to Decimal, and set the value to 1
Exit regedit
Restart the service “Symantec AntiVirus”

Please note that we are using an old version of SAV (10.1.0.394.) The current version of v10 is 10.1.7.7000, and this issue does not apply.

smbclient on OS-X

find your public SMB shares with findsmb

findsmb
*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
———————————————————————
10.0.0.4 NAS +[CAINMANOR] [Unix] [Samba 3.0.22]

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