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Comment on El Fuego Del Diablo by Salsa Verde | edgeblog

Salsa Verde | edgeblog — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:43:42 +0000

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Comment on E-Mail Retention & Sarbanes-Oxley White Paper by Kieron Dowling

Kieron Dowling — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:52:12 +0000

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Comment on 5 Myths of Modern Liberals (and Why I’ll Never Become One) by David Olson

David Olson — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:30:22 +0000

@ Richard Drake
I don’t know where you live, but here in the USA I will take liberty over justice and equality. PERIOD. Why do you think, in the USA, citizens charged with a crime are INNOCENT until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury or your peers. The preponderance of innocence is such that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to incarcerate an innocent person. Not all crime is expected to be solved. At least I don’t expect that. An example I would use is the OJ trial. I didn’t watch all of it but what I did see would make me vote for not guilty. Not being on the jury, but in my personal opinion, he killed those two people.

Comment on 5 Myths of Modern Liberals (and Why I’ll Never Become One) by Richard Drake

Richard Drake — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:14:57 +0000

All that is true, yes. As a matter of fact is obvious (well at least the part of deficit spending/ tax cut).Particularly the things you said about an energy overhaul through nuclear plants is such an effective and practical thing that I was thinking about it the minute you stated the global warming fraud. There is a place where I cringe though, it is as misleading as hell, the healthcare reform you say and argue correctly all the reasons why the liberal arguments are flawed, you also say it will effectively remove liberty from physicians by shrinking their source of income. That argument is flawed too, the argument of liberty, stating that liberty is the utmost right is as I said misleading. The problem of liberty is that it is an ideal not a concrete thing one that we can appreciate everyday, whereas justice is something we can practice, and on the shoulders of justice lies equality those I think, are more important than liberty. That is not to say freemarket is a bad idea, but we cannot say that we are equal as the constitution states if we all cannot have access to equally fair conditions of living, maybe not in possessions but in quality of living. We are america, the greatest country in the face of the earth, we cannot afford to have poor people or sickness that can be prevented with a little elbow grease of everyone helping to raise the quality of living of a dignified standard, where from the wealth and the richness of individuals and thus the whole country can be built and maintained.

Comment on Lockdown Windows 2003 & XP with Simple Scripts by bill

bill — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:54:43 +0000

Kris,

SC will execute against remote hosts via a secure RPC call. It will pass whatever credentials are used to run it, so if you are a domain admin, it will execute on the remote host with your creds. In the script, I am using nested loops

for /f %%a in (hosts.txt) do call :serviceconfig %%a
goto :eom
:serviceconfig
for /f %%b in (services.txt) do (sc \\%1 config %%b start= disabled)

The first loop passes the variable %%a to the call to :serviceconfig. :serviceconfig receives that variable and shoves it into the variable %1. If you passed it 2 variables, the first would be %1 and the second would be %2. The value of %%a is read from a file hosts.txt, which is just a list of fully qualified domain names for the target machines. When the sub-routine :serviceconfig completes, it returns back to the 1st loop and we read the second value in hosts.txt and repeat the process.

I hope this helps.

-B

Comment on Lockdown Windows 2003 & XP with Simple Scripts by Kris

Kris — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:08:07 +0000

Thanks for the script Bill. I don’t have a lot of experience with this, therefore I don’t understand how this can be executed on remote servers. Don’t I need something like psexec? And to specify the remote host, you use \\%1, but where does this variable come from? I hope you have a minute to help me out here.
Many thanks in advance!

Comment on DNSCMD Kung Fu by bill

bill — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:36:31 +0000

Bill,

RecordAdd should ignore duplicates, but will add a record if some parameter is different. You can have 2 different A records for the same host with different IP addresses and use DNS round robin for poor man’s load balancing.

To capture the output, like most windows scripts, you can just pipe it into a file. Example:

dnscmd /enumzones > zones.txt
for /f %%a in (zones.txt) do dnscmd /enumrecords %%a @ > %%a.txt

There I am listing all the zones on my server and putting it into zones.txt. I am then using a FOR command to parse that file to be used by the /enumrecords command. I send the output for each zone into a file %zonename%.txt.

In your case for deleting records, you could then parse the approprate zone records. Just do an enumrecords on the zone, pipe it to a file, and then parse that file into variables. After that, you issue 2 record delete commands. The syntax from M$ is:

dnscmd ServerName /recorddelete ZoneName NodeName RRType RRData[/f]

You’d need 1 line for the A record and one for the PTR record. This may seem like a lot of work, but write your script once and you’ll never have to think about it again.

When using a FOR script, you can parse a multi-column text file with the value of each column being a seperate variable. You use the /delims switch to specify how the columns are seperated and the /tokens switch to specify which tokens you want. You can get the full syntax here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754900%28WS.10%29.aspx

I hope this helps.

-Bill

Comment on DNSCMD Kung Fu by Bill

Bill — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:11:44 +0000

So what if the record already exists? How does /RecordAdd behave? Does it modify the current value of the record? Or fail?

How can I capture the output of one dnscmd to use as input for another? What if I want to delete records? To delete the PTR record, I’d need to query for the value of the A record. Then issue another command to delete the PTR record from the appropriate backup zone? Then delete the A record. Examples?

Comment on Top 5 Ways Windows is Better Than Unix or Linux by bill

bill — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:27:32 +0000

Gary, sorry you missed the point of the article. If you are seriously still rebooting your Windows boxes every 2 weeks, you either A) are running Windows NT 4; B) need some new sysadmins; or C) need better coders. The only reason I’d reboot my windows boxes every 2 weeks these days is if my custom code had a memory leak. I have heavily used production servers running more than a year without reboot.

Thanks for stopping by.

Comment on Top 5 Ways Windows is Better Than Unix or Linux by Gary Davis

Gary Davis — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:41:56 +0000

I confess that I am more than a little disappointed. I came here looking for a side-by-side comparison of these two operating environments and instead found 5 ‘points’ that were not only incorrect, for the most part, but are insignificant in scope of Enterprise computing.

I work for a Class A railway and am part of a team that manaages hundreds of servers of various platforms (mainly, Windows, Unix(AIX) and mainframe) and over 400 custom written applications. Although my IT training path was through WIndows Server, I’ve really come to respect Unix since working here.

I could respond with an article explaining 5 ways that Unix is better than Windows, and those reasons would in-fact have merit, however I won’t. I will, however provide a single statement that, if expanded on, says everything.

– We flip the workloads on our HA Unix servers once every
3 months. Then we reboot them. Not because we need to,
simply because it allow us to perform maintenance and
testing on our HA clusters.

– We reboot ALL our Windows servers once every two weeks.
This is not by choice, but because we need to. This allows us to
plan, rather schedule an ‘outage’ in our HA environment. With
Windows Server, failure to schedule these ‘maintenance’ reboots
every two weeks increases the risks of an unplanned outage in
production. Anyone with IT experisnce knows why this is an issue
so I won’t go into explaining the complexities

My point is, this blog seems quite biased and fails to properly compare the operating systems being reviewed.