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How to Manually Download Updated Definitions for Windows Defender
Submitted by Mike on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 06:35.
I ran into an issue where Windows Defender couldn't download updates, when I would try, I would receive the error:
"The Program can't download definition updates. Error Found 0x80240022"
Computer History
October 30 1907 - John Mauchly, co-builder of ENIAC, is born in Cincinnatti, Ohio. He also participated in the EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I programs.
November 2 1815 - Logician George Boole is born in England.
November 4 1952 - CBS used the new UNIVAC computer to predict the 1952 presidential election. It correctly picked Eisenhower.
News
- Google buys a fighter jet.
- Twittering terrorists.
- Happy Halloween Eveyone! Next Year, we should all do the Zombie Walk together. Here's some video for Detroit's Zombie Walk.
- Found some neat pumpkin patterns for Obama supporters. Here's a McCain one if you want it.
- Demand that Scott Sigler comes to your city - Go to Eventful, or go to his web site and click the banner on the right side.
- Left 4 Dead comes out on November 18th, and Fallout 3 comes out on October 28th. They are both available through Steam.
This weeks topic:
Server and desktop best and worst practices.
- Swap File - It's a good idea to put your swap file on a separate drive. No advantage if it's a different logical drive on the same physical hard drive. You can argue about fragmentation, butfor goodness sake, don't compress it.
- Speaking of compression, don't compress your entire data and system drives.
- Have the floppy or CD as the first item in your bios' boot menu.
- Leave the default passwords intact.
- Don't back your server up.
- Don't test your backups
- Don't ever check out the logs for your backups
- Don't make sure that you have a backup agent for exchange / sql server / big application
Computer History
October 1, 1954 - IBM Announces Model 705 Computer
October 2, 1955 - ENIAC Computer Retired
October 3, 1950 - Transistor Inventors Receive Patent
October 5, 1996 - Supercomputer Pioneer Cray Dies in Auto Accident
October 6, 1983 - Lotus Development Goes Public
October 7, 1988 - The Computer Bowl Begins
News
- Apple's Patching is a Mess - ComputerWorld
- Apple Finally Patches that pesky DNS Exploit - NY Times
Yes, we're a little late to report this, but I just heard about it. Yes, everyone else patched their systems like 4 months ago. To be fair, Apple did release a patch at the end of July, only 3 months after everyone else, of course it didn't work.
Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support
This weeks topic: Fourteen Geek Movies you must see (In no particular order)
- Matrix
- Hick Trek
- Hackers
- Star Wars (Of Course)
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Serenity
- Anything Monty Python
- Gattica
- Transformers
- Back to the Future
- Office Space
- Independence Day
- Alien Movies
- Tron
This week in computer history
August 27 - September 2nd
August 27, 1993 - Compaq Introduces the Presario line of personal computers.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,27,1993
August 28th, 1991 - The first email from space is sent
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,28,1991
September 1st 1994 - The library of Congress Announces the Virtual Library Project
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=9,1,1994
News
Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Jerry Seinfeld - Launching the "Windows Not Walls" campaign?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121928939429159525.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Mary Jo has some thoughts about it: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1548
Mike isn't part of the major Twitter Demographics
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834131,00.html
Gen X? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_x
Newegg tells the state of New York to go suck one (en egg, that is).
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080822/1715502071.shtml
Podcast Promo
Space Casey by Christiana Ellis
http://www.spacecasey.com/
Also available on Podiobooks
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/space-casey
Mike's Segment
A Tip - Isolated FTP Server
The base share should be named the same as the domain that the user accounts belong to. If the accounts only exist on the local machine, then the folder name should be "localhost". Under those, place the user named folders.
Otherwise you'll get:
"530 User %username% cannot log in, home directory inaccessible."
"Login Failed"
File Server Migration Wizard
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/49595/how-do-i-use-the-microsoft-file-server-migration-toolkit-fsmt.html
Uses
Art's Segment
Encrypting your USB thumb drive with TrueCrypt and installing PortableApps
http://www.twoguystech.com/blog/art/setting-portableapps-and-truecrypt-y...
Some of you may have been greeted by a "500 internal server error" when you were accessing this site. Sorry about that. Somehow, my .htaccess file became corrupted.
Thanks to Mark at BlueHost for figuring it out and fixing it!
I was really impressed because I called them, and only had to wait for something like 3 seconds before I was able to talk to him.
Possible Titles
Easily removable bushing
Save it for the Show
Teaser
Show Date June 17th, 2008
Bandwidth provided by Mevio (Formerly Podshow)
We've got iPhone News, talk about DIYPlanner, and other various sundry topics.
Show Notes
Show Date June 17th, 2008
Mike received a manly / geeky father's day present, that's right, he's got a Dremel. Look out!
The 3G iPhone is here! Gizmodo has a great FAQ, as well as a "real price" comparison based upon what you would pay after 2 years with the old iPhone, and with the new iPhone. Guess what? 3G is cheaper.
Mike Loves the Fujitsu Tablet, and he loves Vista's tablet features. Offline File Folders work so much better than in XP.
Coming out on DVD, welcome home Be Kind Rewind (Yay!), so does Roscoe Jenkins!
Netflix has a streaming set top movie player.
Mike mentioned that he prints everything off for his planner, and wants to say how great DIY Planner is. They have free printable organizer templates.
Podshow is not Mevio, looks like they are going in some new commercial direction.
Art mentions a computer problem that he's having, don't fear, after the podcast was recorder, Art found a solution.
Recently I performed a repair install of Windows XP SP 2. When the repair was finished, my computer notified me there were some updates available. In fact, there were ninety-something updates available.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, this made some sense to me. I had just used my XP SP 2 CD to repair my system, so basically that's all I had here. Just an SP 2 system with no updates installed.
Exchange 2003: Unable to add to the server Junk E-mail Lists
Submitted by Mike on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 18:59.
If you're using Exchange 2003, and have users who make use of their junk e-mail lists, then this post may come in handy.
Exchange has a limit of 512 KB for your junk e-mail lists. This is a cumulative total for all of your lists, safe senders, blocked senders, etc.
I ran into this problem and had a heck of a time finding the solution for it. The exact error message is pretty scarce on the internet, and even scarcer on the Microsoft Web Sites.
Have you ran into a hotfix that your system needed, and you were wondering if it was included in Windows Vista SP1? I did, when I had some trouble installing a flash drive.
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