Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Green Lantern live-action movie

I wonder if my brother has seen this yet.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Security Spider Sense Goes Bonkers

I came across a blog entry for google today at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/long-lived-new-windows.html which is below.  Now, I have not investigated, but after reading it - especially the last paragraph - my security spider sense went bonkers.  Did it have this effect on anyone else?

Long lived new windows
Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 4:46 PM

Posted by Michael Davidson, Software Engineer

I recently posted about Gmail’s fast new windows and explained that the only downside of them was that they closed when the main Gmail window closed. Today, we’re changing that. If you’re using the latest version of Google Chrome, you can now continue to work in popped out windows after you close your main window (especially handy for those of us who always like to keep an eye on our tasks).

For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Must be the Microsoft Day - Two Commands for Administering Remote Windows - qwinsta and rwinsta

You can querry a server with the qwinsta command


C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>qwinsta /server:servername.domainname.tld
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#118 Administrator 4 Active rdpwd
rdp-tcp#124 dpitts 5 Active rdpwd


change the q to an r and put the ID after the server name and you can remove that session


C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>rwinsta /server:servername.domainname.tld 5


So the above command killed my session.

Two Windows Command Iterations I Had Forgotten About - netstat and tasklist

Yeah, I hear you now.  There is no way you forgot about netstat.  You would be correct.  However, there is an iteration of netstat that I have either never done, or have not done in sufficiently long enough ago to have forgotten its use.

The command is shown below along with some output.

C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>netstat -anbov

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 180
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ISATQ.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
[inetinfo.exe]

TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 180
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ISATQ.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\w3svc.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\w3svc.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
[inetinfo.exe]

...

(takes a couple minutes to run - your milage may vary)

This is showing me the current active open ports.  As you can see, ports 25 and 80 are open to the world (0.0.0.0).  The lines showing the dll’s are the processes that are running that are a part of the process inside the square brackets [] that is the service that is running - inetinfo.exe in both cases shown above.  Off to the right is the process ID (PID).

This brings me to my second command - tasklist /svc.

C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>tasklist /svc

Image Name PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================

inetinfo.exe 180 IISADMIN, SMTPSVC, W3SVC

This tells me I have 3 services running as part of inetinfo.exe on PID 180 - IISADMIN, SMTPSVC, W3SVC

Now to figure out how to use these commands in a productive way.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Google go back or I’ll start looking elsewhere….

Google… quit it!

I am going to talk about three things in this article.

Why I use Google
Why I don’t look elsewhere for my search needs
Why that may change

You have been warned.

1) Why I use Google.

a. I use Google because of great search results.
b. I use Google because the page loads really quickly and the results display quickly
c. I use Google because because it is simple

2) Why I don’t look elsewhere for my search needs

a. Yahoo.com reminds me of the Internet equivalent of puke. If I want puke, I can always go to… well, you know.
b. Bing.com reminds me of the new Google.
c. ask.com more themes

I don’t want themes. I don’t want pictures. I don’t want to make your page my home page. I don’t want to know what other people are searching on. I don’t want auto, finance, games, or chat.

3) Why that may change

Years ago when Google started changing its Google logo to be something else I thought everything from cute, to interesting to educational to downright annoying. But, about the time you started getting your nerves jumped up and down on like a 10 ton gorilla in stilettos, you would finally get the standard blue red yellow glue green red Google logo and everything would be better again for a while.

I love Google. I would work there in a heart beat. I think historically it has done some phenomena things. It has done things I have not liked.

Things I have not liked…

a.  great search results have become mostly great and somethimes not so great search results
b.  the page loads mostly quickly - most of the time
c.  It is not so simple.  I can live with the little bar across the top to access gmail, shopping, images, news, etc - I suppose.  The background image thing and this iGoogle thing and this “I’m Feeling lucky” button, and the holy crap the page weight went from 12-14k to 45K or more.  Granted still smaller than most - it is growing.

Thoughts?