Security Focus VulnerbilitiesMSN kept dropping for staff across the LAN.
Took ages to figure it out, but here it is for future reference and for blog readers:
Click Start, RUN , in the run box type in:
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll
Click OK , then a box pops up, ok that box.
Restart msn messenger
As you probably have guessed by now we still have not upgraded from Windows XP to VISTA.
I got a few staff to try it out for over a week, the problems of hardware and VISTA being such a serious waste of memory and a lot of business software we use dont work with it and so on, it just wasnt worth it. Microsoft have forgotten that business people just dont care if something looks pretty, all a business person or staff for that matter care about it they want the software and computer to do the job and quickly. Vista even with 2gb ram and Intel XEON ….its just wasnt worth it.
It will be interesting to see sometime in 2009 , when Vienna comes out and then we more than likely will wait for everyone else to find the bugs before we look at it again.
Hello,
I have not being posting as you readers have probably noticed for at least 2 months. The main issue there simply was a lack of time to blog.
What I have been involved with for the last two months were:
(1) Setting up a datacenter for VPS (Virtual Private Server). This is not for Protocol Solutions, this was for a client.
(2) Configuration of the management software for looking after all the containers (of the VPS)
(3) Testing and hardening down of everything
Windows SP3:
We got a test machine to install SP3 onto Windows XP Pro (corporate version). The installation went well, however this is the only thing that actually worked. There were multiple issues with the computer we installed SP3 into after a reboot:
(1) We had intermittant USB connectivity after the install of SP3
(2) Several BsoD
The installation was tested on another computer as well, the only difference between the first computer and this one was that the above testing was running an Intel processor and this computer was using an AMD AM2 chip. Both computers had 1Gb of ram as per standard staff configuration computers.
Never seen this before! Is this supposed to be the new google Ireland?
Google news appears to have sections of it missing. Perhaps they are censoring the news? Or is it a “technical” glitch?
See screenshot: 
An article from an employers and Human Resources point of view, with regards to how social networking can hurt your career.
Available via RSS also at http://feeds.feedburner.com/psarticles
read more | digg story
A new article has been published a few minutes ago regarding Social Networking and how it can affect your career.
It available via RSS : http://feeds.feedburner.com/psarticles
Apologies for not blogging for the last few days. Right now I am working on three projects that require a good bit of my time.
However, as always, you can email Protocol Solutions or place comments.
Thank you
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I had to reconfigure the .htaccess for the APACHE server we run a few days ago.
A few system administrators still dont know how to correctly modify the .htaccess and apply it.
I am including a working template that anybody can use, and it is commented too.
For people who want to download get it from here (view it with notepad) : http://www.mediafire.com/?49lxrdqk542
The .htaccess is also posted below for anyone to read also, and perhaps see some ideas that might be useful for their servers, or even see there are a few things that can be done without cluttering up the robots.txt. I for one perfer to put most things into the .htaccess because nobody else can see it, where with the robots.txt, anyone can see it and also because spammers and spam bots / spammer user-agents usally ignore the robots.txt file
## DISABLE HOTLINKING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?PUTyourDomainHERE/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ - [F]
## SITE REFERRER BANNING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} info\.biyad\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 74.54.131.194
allow from all
</Limit>
## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions -FancyIndexing
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/oldPAGE.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/newPage.html
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/OLDPage.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/someNEWdirectory/NewPage.html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP:IGNORE_INCON846393} !^Yes$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(GET|POST)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
!.*\.(css|jpg|ai|doc|bin|ogg|mp3|pdf|rtf|ps|ppt|jpeg|png|gif|rar|zip|bz|bz2|gz|tar|iso|chm|z|cue|deb|rpm|ac3|au|snd|mid|midi|wav|bmp|jpe|psd|avi|mpg|mpeg|mpe|mp4|ico|rdf)$ [NC]
## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT OF DYNAMIC PAGES TO STATIC PAGES
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=23$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=36$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page2? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=30$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page3? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page4? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page5? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=38$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page6? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_sefservicemap&Itemid=37$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /sitemap.html? [R=301,L]
## AN EXAMPLE OF A PERMANENT REDIRECTs AKA 301
redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage.html
redirect 301 /oldpage2.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage2.html
redirect 301 /oldpage3.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage3.html
redirect 301 /oldpage4.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage4.html
## A WORKING EXAMPLE OF BLOCKING BAD BOTS OR USER AGENTS KNOWN TO BE RELATED TO SPAM
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailSiphon” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailWolf” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^ExtractorPro” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^CherryPicker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^NICErsPRO” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Teleport” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailCollector” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^LinkWalker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Zeus” bad_bot
<Limit GET POST>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>
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