System Admin

Re: CISSP training book [modified]

6-Jun-06 3:18

All of the above. Most of the courseware is on the windows platform, however you will have to learn some basics for/about the others.

Several SANS books published by Syngress (http://www.syngress.com) are on sale this month.

-- modified at 9:19 Tuesday 6th June, 2006

Mekong River6-Jun-06 6:54

Need window simulator software

6-Jun-06 6:54

Thank you very much for your comment.

Mekong River31-May-06 21:50

Re: Need window simulator software

31-May-06 21:50

Hi, I found my friend which study cisco networking. She told me that study cisco is a little bit challenges to her because lack of device to practice (router, firewall...) because those device is very expensive to purchase and learn from it. But she still have an ability to learn because she has a simulator software. Example: when she need to configure router, there is a software simulator that demonstrate to her and she can view this simulator on the screen as a router console which enable her to learn.

For me, I study Microsoft and also found a simulator on the CD such as installing windows xp... but now I got a challenge when i start to study on server subject. There are many challengse such as configure RAID (mirror, strip set...) system while i have only one hard disk. And there are many challenges relate to lack of hardware resource.

From here, does anyone know any company that provide a simulator software for me to learn windows without need an actual hardware?

Mekong River31-May-06 22:02

Mouse click have a problem

31-May-06 22:02

Ok, now I found Cisco simulator[^] and Windows simulator[^] but I still need the other resource to study. And espeically does anyone know the content of study in Windows simulator?

Mekong River31-May-06 21:33

31-May-06 21:33

Hi, I have a problem with my mouse. When I click on the left button for the single click, the system is trigger as double click. I have check the mouse property in control panel whether I set the double click speed is to low. But everything is normal. This mouse I used around three year. I heard my friend told me that this mouse could not be fix, it is reach it life cycle. So I need change to the new mouse. It is no problem for me to change the new mouse but I just want to know the reason why my old mouse become unusable. I try to connect this mouse to the other system and it also has this problem too. Any idea?

Stephan Samuel1-Jun-06 7:48

Stephan Samuel

1-Jun-06 7:48

Try cleaning the contacts both inside the mouse (if you can get in there) and on the connector/jack. 90% of hardware problems that aren't power related are caused by things like that. Use a Q-tip and pencil eraser.

Mice contain both physical hardware and electronics. Most likely, the physical hardware failed.

The microswitch that activates the button will wear out over time (most switches have lifetimes rated to the order of 10k activations). It's not uncommon for a switch near or at the end of its lifetime to bounce outside the hysteresis of the sensor circuitry, which could cause spurious double clicks in some cases. It may or may not begin not working at all if you continue to use it.

Downstream of the switch is a pile of electronics. I wouldn't be surprised if the hysteresis circuit on the switch sensor has a few discrete components, which can wear out over time. Further on, there's an encoder and the PS/2 or USB chipset, both of which could fail. The further downstream you go however, the smaller the chance that things fail.

Either way, there is no possible way that fixing the mouse could cost less than a whole new generic mouse. I fixed a mouse once, and it cost me $25. The last Microsoft Intellimouse (the only one I like, with the ball) I bought cost me $9.

Stephan

Mekong River1-Jun-06 15:10

1-Jun-06 15:10

Stephan Samuel wrote:
Try cleaning the contacts both inside the mouse (if you can get in there) and on the connector/jack. 90% of hardware problems that aren't power related are caused by things like that. Use a Q-tip and pencil eraser.

Mice contain both physical hardware and electronics. Most likely, the physical hardware failed.

The microswitch that activates the button will wear out over time (most switches have lifetimes rated to the order of 10k activations). It's not uncommon for a switch near or at the end of its lifetime to bounce outside the hysteresis of the sensor circuitry, which could cause spurious double clicks in some cases. It may or may not begin not working at all if you continue to use it.

Thank you very much for your comment. I will try all of my best to clean this mouse. If it has a problem from the circuit, I won't fix it. I will buy the new one is better. The reason that I want to fix it because I still love using this mouse and don't want to spend the money too. I have to find the reason why it cause the problem. Until I find the solution, then I will make a decision to fix or purchase a new one.

Thank you for your comment Rose | [Rose]

Sebastian Schneider2-Jun-06 3:19

Sebastian Schneider

2-Jun-06 3:19

If its the microswitch, you might be able to replace it.

I am not sure how this works nowadays, but in the good-ole days (C64 and a Competition Pro) I ripped each failed electronic device apart for microswitches. I still have that Competition Pro, and it currently runs on microswitches from two different washing machines, a laundry dryer, a VCR and a telephone.

I had to make some room, though - those laundry dryers have some big switches - so the front has two holes now, with parts of the switches sticking out...

Cheers,
Sebastian

--
Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

Mekong River2-Jun-06 5:25

2-Jun-06 5:25

Sebastian Schneider wrote:
If its the microswitch, you might be able to replace it.

Thank you very much for your comment. Actually, I do not much know well about the mouse technology and how it works. Now I decide to purchase a new one with cost me around 4$. I decide that because I already clean its but its still not working.

Thank you very much for your comment about this issue.

SoftIce on XP

Raza568031-May-06 18:36

Raza5680

31-May-06 18:36

hey,,
i have used SoftIce on win2000 now i want to use it on Windows XP...it installs ok but it does not load...even tried it from the command prompt gives System Error 127 No such procedure exists...please help
thanks

Re: SoftIce on XP

Mekong River31-May-06 21:23

31-May-06 21:23

Raza5680 wrote:
i have used SoftIce on win2000 now i want to use it on Windows XP

I recommend yout o check the system requirement of your application whether it support windows xp or not? To make sure you should visit its website.

Stoping process

JCParker31-May-06 3:06

31-May-06 3:06

Dose any one have a short script that stops a running process after a short period of time? I have a misbehaving app which spawns processes and dose not always clean up.

Thanks in advance

Why do we grow up to become the people our parents warned us about?

Mekong River31-May-06 3:39

31-May-06 3:39

If you are running windows xp professional, try to use sc query /? command from the command prompt.

toxcct31-May-06 4:47

toxcct

31-May-06 4:47

sc command is for services only, not all processes...

TOXCCT >>> GEII power

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JCParker31-May-06 5:26

Re: Stoping process [modified]

31-May-06 5:26

Thanks for your input.

Mekong River3-Jun-06 6:07

Re: Stoping process [modified]

3-Jun-06 6:07

JCParker wrote:
Dose any one have a short script that stops a running process after a short period of time? I have a misbehaving app which spawns processes and dose not always clean up.

Dim cProcesses, oProcess<br />
Set cProcesses = QueryWMI(sName,"root\cimv2","select * from win32_Process where name = '" & wscript.arguments.named("name") & "'","","")<br />
If Not IsObject(cProcesses) Then<br />
	Wscript.Echo " *** Could not retrieve process (or process does not exist) on " & sName<br />
Else<br />
	For Each oProcess In cProcesses<br />
		On Error Resume Next<br />
		oProcess.Terminate()<br />
		If Err <> 0 Then<br />
			Wscript.Echo " *** Error terminating on " & sName<br />
			Wscript.Echo " " & Err.Description<br />
		Else<br />
			Verbose " Terminated on " & sName<br />
		End If<br />
	Next<br />
End If

Give the correct process name. Then save the file with extension wsf (Exmaple: EndProc.wsf).

Then go to the command line type the below command where the EndProc.wsf file reside:

EndProc.wsf /computer:[YourComputerName] /name:[YourEndProcessName]

Or you should look at the Kill command[^].

JCParker5-Jun-06 4:41

Re: Stoping process [modified]

5-Jun-06 4:41

Thanks!

Mekong River5-Jun-06 15:13

5-Jun-06 15:13

You are welcome Cool | :cool:

super_ttd11-Jun-06 0:46

super_ttd

11-Jun-06 0:46

Roath Kanel wrote:
Or you should look at the Kill command[^].

ps, kill and such other commands are UNIX commands... Unsure | :~

-- TTD --

Mekong River11-Jun-06 3:52

11-Jun-06 3:52

super_ttd wrote:
UNIX commands...

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=197155[^]

Software to make image file

super_ttd11-Jun-06 7:11

super_ttd

11-Jun-06 7:11

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• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server 
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition 
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server 
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition 
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition 
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

-- TTD --

Mekong River30-May-06 15:32

Re: Software to make image file

30-May-06 15:32

Hi everyone, I need your comment and suggestion. There are three type on automating of windows xp installation. The first one is unattend installation, the second one is disk duplication and the last one is remote installation service (RIS).

I have a question for disk duplication. In the documentation, I will need to have a reference computer and install any application as need and configure its configuration as what I want. Then I have to create an image file in order to deploy to the other computer in order to make your computer have a standard application and software configuration. The document mention that I will need a third party software to do an image file for windows.

From here, I have two question:
1. Can anyone give me a hyperlink of a software that do an image file of the windows?
2. What is the distribution media (CD, DVD or network connection) that will need to transfer an image file and setup on the target machine? because after install windows and install some other application, the size of windows will be increase its size which I suspect that it could not make an image and burn to CDROM.

JCParker31-May-06 2:07

Re: Software to make image file

31-May-06 2:07

Outside utilties include: (Note these are Windows utilties
Norton Ghost
Copy Commander 9
Drive Copy

Also there are open source solutions, but many require use of other operating systems. If you want to explore these download a Knoppix or Auditor CD (these are self booting so you do not have to load the OS on a hard drive to create your image).

Hope this helps

Mekong River31-May-06 3:35