Episode 77 - Great Feedback
Posted by Podcast Team on 15 Oct 2007 8:47 pm. Filed under Podcasts.
Your Hosts: Matt, Bill, and DJ
- We welcome the newest Friends in Tech member Geek Cred
- Friends in Tech Halloween Special
- Norm’s Feedback
- Group Policy / Locking down a computer
- Broken iPhone
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Printer Script
- UPS Question Answered
- PST File Question and Solution
Running time: 56:25
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On October 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Backing up open .PST files
Doesn’t VSS, which runs on Windows versions beyond 2000 allow you to make a backup copy of a .PST file even though it is open?
When using Windows Backup to backup my home XP system that has a .PST on it I get a copy of the .PST file in the backup container.
There used to be a bug in XP that would cause VSS to crash and Windows Backup would give me warning messages saying that while some files were backed up they were open and potentially bad. When the VSS bug was fixed, and VSS was running during a backup, these messages went away.
On October 17th, 2007 at 11:12 am
[...] Script to gracefully close an Outlook .pst file so it can be backed up October 17th, 2007 — Julie I was listening to the latest episode of the Casting from the Server Room podcast this morning, and one of the discussions was about backing up an Outlook .pst when users leave Outlook open overnight, which is when the backup is scheduled to run. [...]
On October 18th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Hi guys-
There are a couple of poorly advertised things in Ubuntu 7.10 that are significant- NTFS writing is now fully supported and full disk encryption is now baked in. To use encryption- install using an “alternate install” disk, one of your partitioning options will include the magic incantation “... and set up encrypted LVM”. Supply the passphrase, confirm it, and you’re done. No sexy recovery tools like PGP or other “enterprise” systems, but pretty slick.
Thanks for the shows
Jack
On October 18th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Regarding Ubuntu “seven-point-TEN” (aka “Gutsy Gibbon”)
, this release will have Compiz Fusion for the 3D effects. Compiz Fusion is the remerging of Beryl and Compiz so it integrates the best from both projects.
Regarding wireless and hibernation/standby support in GNU/Linux, you have to remember that most of these hardware manufacturers have made it VERY difficult for the Linux kernel community to implement these features as successfully as they work in Windows. Most of the time, the Linux kernel developers have to reverse engineer a lot of these functions and are basically encountering problems that would probably have been squatted years ago with the help from these hardware manufacturers.
Also, remember that Microsoft had a lot to do with the ACPI specification, meaning that they’ve made it quite difficult for non-MS operating systems to take full advantage of all of the ACPI functions. OS News had an article about the possibility of Bill Gates and MS partners doing this on purpose:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17689/Bill-Gates-on-Making-ACPI-Not-Work-with-Linux/
Oh, and this is a gibbon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon
Thanks again for the podcast.
On October 18th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
BaH! Here’s the shortened URL to the OSNews article:
http://tinyurl.com/youq2y
On October 18th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Ehh? I wonder why I can’t see my original post anymore. Now my post with the TinyURL address makes no sense since it referred to my first post earlier this afternoon about Ubuntu 7.10. Is it me or is there something fishy going on?
On October 18th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Nevermind. Apparently it’s still awaiting moderation…..carry on.
On December 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 am
Regarding the question about forcing a logoff after hours, the psshutdown utility can let the user cancel the logoff with a countdown (about 50 minutes in).
Also, about 28 minutes in, talking about running a script every 10 minutes to clear off ROMs, EXEs, MP3s in users’ home folders, if you are running Server 2003 (unclear), R2 has the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) with File Screening, which lets you specify what file extensions are allowed or disallowed in specific network folders. Violations can be outright denied or just event-logged, and notices can be emailed, etc. More information on File Screening is at http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/win2003_r2_02.asp under Storage Management, and also at http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Implementing-File-Screening-Windows-Server-2003-R2.html
I finally got an iPod and am catching up on back-episodes after not burning CDs of podcasts for a while