Comments on: Episode 77 - Great Feedback http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback Matt, Bill, DJ, and Mike talk about technology in education. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:49:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: David Szpunar http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-13034 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:29:46 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-13034 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 :-) 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 :-)

]]> by: Claudio http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12391 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:28:25 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12391 Nevermind. Apparently it's still awaiting moderation.....carry on. :P Nevermind. Apparently it’s still awaiting moderation…..carry on. :P

]]> by: Claudio http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12390 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:27:13 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12390 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? 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?

]]> by: Claudio http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12388 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:05:34 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12388 BaH! Here's the shortened URL to the OSNews article: http://tinyurl.com/youq2y BaH! Here’s the shortened URL to the OSNews article:

http://tinyurl.com/youq2y

]]> by: Claudio http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12387 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:03:11 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12387 Regarding Ubuntu "seven-point-TEN" (aka "Gutsy Gibbon") :P, 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. :-) Regarding Ubuntu “seven-point-TEN” (aka “Gutsy Gibbon”) :P , 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. :-)

]]> by: Jack Daniel http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12384 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:16:35 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12384 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 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

]]> by: Script to gracefully close an Outlook .pst file so it can be backed up « the back room tech http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12372 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:12:23 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12372 [...] 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.  [...] [...] 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.  [...]

]]> by: Norm http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12360 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:06:51 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2007/episode-77-great-feedback#comment-12360 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. 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.

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