http://blog.freyguy.com Using worth with liberty, awareness is the human curse. Sun, 04 May 2008 06:06:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you have attempted to install the GPMC (Group Policy Management Console) on Windows 2003×64 version, you have encountered this problem; and it is frustrating. The error you receive if you attempt to install GPMC on x64 states that you have to uninstall the "previous" incompatible version of .NET. ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2008/05/04/using-gpmc-group-policy-management-console-on-windows-2003-x64/ Just posting a quick link to the current playlist _____________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com .     .    .   .  . .. .  .   .    .     ."I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."Frank Lloyd Wright Copyright 2007-KevFrey http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2007/11/17/kevfrey-my-current-lastfm-playlist/ A little under the radar in 2005, the U.S. Congress extended the Daylight Savings Time (DST) rules for the United States (and some parts of our friends to the North adopted the same changes). The summarized version is that DST for areas that observe it is 4 weeks longer ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2007/01/30/dst-2007-daylight-savings-time-2007-updates/ Firefox has become the de facto browser for many Internet users due to its great feature set, extensibility, and generally higher security. A new phishing exploit against Firefox has generated a furious buzz on the Firefox bug page (bugzilla). The entry – found here – shows the details starting Nov. ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/11/21/firefox-flaw-allows-password-compromise/ Ben Falcone made this useful video for all you struggling actors. This guy was one of the funniest guys in our high school, and has been successful in landing some memorable supporting roles in a variety of comedic movies and tv shows. His timing and visage are simply funny; you ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/10/26/falcown-it-guide-to-the-working-actor/ As everyone reading this message knows, spam (junk email) is an ongoing problem on the Internet. It has continued to increase on the Internet at-large, and the servers at my own organization receive more on average every week. This year (2006) in particular, a massive spike in spam volume was ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/10/21/spam-trends-and-statistics-2006-10-october/ SecurityNow (a combo of the venerable Leo and renowned security researcher Steve Gibson) has done a good job explaining a bug in one of last month’s Windows update. This bug, affecting Windows 2000 only, is in the original 920958 security patch and affects files that are compressed using NTFS compression. ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/09/25/windows-update-a-serious-bug-windows-2000-users-take-note/ Another previously unknown or unreleased flaw is being exploited "in the wild" in Internet Explorer.This new exploit takes advantage of a previously unknown flaw in IE has been spotted actively installing malware in an effort to build a botnet on the Internet. It exploits a vulnerability that is unpatched (Microsoft ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/09/25/0day-vml-flaw-in-internet-explorer/ Hi all – Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe have recently released many updates. Rather than "parroting" what has been written by others, I’ll simply leverage their work… Brian Krebs, as always, did a quick summary to describe the updates and what to do to install them for this month. Give a ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/09/16/patch-tuesday-september/ Firefox has been updated to 1.5.0.7. The release notes  show that both stability and security issues have been resolved. Likely, Firefox will prompt you to update it automatically (and should have by now if you are just reading this), but if not choose the "Help-Check for Updates" menu option. The ... http://blog.freyguy.com/archives/2006/09/16/firefox-1507-is-out/