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View/Copy Windows RAID0 array from Ubuntu Live CD

Fri, 01/02/2009 - 10:35 — John Bowen

I had a customer computer, which was running Windows XP Pro on a RAID 0 array (striping). There were twin 230GB hard drives, striped into a 460GB RAID0. Customer bought new 1 TB drives, and wanted them installed. This time, though, there would be no RAID, just one drive for the OS and programs, and one for the customer's data.

A Postfix open relay?? Who, me?

Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:46 — John Bowen

Earlier this week, I started receiving emails (apparently) from the folks at junkemailfilter.com. Actually, the messages are from unmonitored accounts on their mail servers, but let's not split hairs. The point is, jef is passing rejected email messages 'back' to me...apparently they're seeing (and stopping) spam messages that originated on my own mail server.

It looks like the header entry that's earning me the warning is this one, and others like it:

Received:

Windows update patch broke ZoneAlarm's protection

Wed, 07/09/2008 - 21:15 — John Bowen

While troubleshooting what I *thought* was a problem with my Linux DHCP/DNS/File/Gateway server today, I found myself knocked off the Internet. I wrongly assumed something in the Linux box had broken (will I ever learn?) and focused there. It wasn't until I tried shutting down ZoneAlarm on my client (Windows XP Pro) machine that the Internet came back. Very weird, since ZoneAlarm didn't seem to update or anything prior to the problem.

Windows Update = So annoying

Mon, 07/07/2008 - 18:01 — John Bowen

I've been building up for a blog-rant over this issue for weeks...

"Windows recently downloaded and installed an important security update to help protect your computer. This update required an automatic restart of your computer."

That's the message you get when you leave your Windows machine sitting overnight, when Windows has downloaded something _really_ important, shut itself down, and wiped out all the work you had in progress. VERY annoying.

Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred

Mon, 04/07/2008 - 18:08 — John Bowen

While trying to test a web site on a local (development) machine, I ran into this error from ASP.NET:

unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred

Simple dialog, "OK" button is the only option.

I found this blog post, where Lorin Thwaits suggests that some other program is already controlling port 80, and then gives an easy way to find the culprit and kill it.

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