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The ISO appears to contain the Windows 7 M1 build (7000) highlighted by Paul Thurrott on SuperSite. So far the new build seems to perform slightly better than 6801, and memory usage has been improved. A number of previously hidden features – like the iconized task bar – are also now active.

Before comments start asking why there’s no link to the file, it’s because this is something that we’re not supposed to have yet. If you want to get your hands on it, check your favorite torrent search site. Also keep in mind that this is a leak, and there’s always the possibility that the ISO has been tampered with.

via Windows 7 Beta ISO leaked on torrent trackers – Download Squad.

Edit: AT&T now provides McAfee too.

Stupid viruses and worms are spreading like crazy. They are almost impossible to avoid or spot while we surf and download. But did you know most ISPs provides FREE Anti-Virus along with your service subscription?

Here in the Bay Area, 2 of the major Internet Service Providers are AT&T and Comcast. You can login to the member services website to download your copy of the software. AT&T gives you Symantec Secuirty Suite while Comcast offers the McAfee Security Center. They are the full suite including Anti-Virus, Firewall and Spyware cleaner. Each worth more than $100 if purchased from a retail store.

In order to download, you might have to login using the master account.

Being domain administrator in a complex network, you don’t want to walk around to fix issues or to install a software. You rely on remote desktop solutions to get into other devices. I use the admin share (\\node\x$) command very often. However, when the devices you’re working with has Windows firewall enabled, you’re out of luck. 

Turning off Windows firewall remotely seems to be impossible in enterprise networks. Of course, in a network with 20 desktops, you could just simply walk over and do it. I’ve done a lot of searches and tried various of methods, the conclusion is: No Go!

A guy once wrote an au3 script, some people confirmed it works. But when I tired it recently, it works only if the target client is yourself. When I tried the script targeting another node, it does nothing. The way I see it: If windows firewall blocks incoming ICMP packets, it’s pretty much it. I have to walk over to the node and manually turn WFW off.

Maybe, creating a global policy on the domain controller would be the way to go…

Added: I wasn’t able to update my firmware on my own iPhone. It errors out as soon as iTunes extract the ROM. The issue was fixed by update iTunes to version 7.7. Everything went well afterwards.

I forgot to bring my iPhone to work today. But I was able to play with my co-worker’s iPhone after we updated (restored) the firmware to 2.0.

Exchange worked great on iPhone, we were able to download Emails, Contacts and Calendars off of our server. The crazy part is we can search users in our Active Directory, holy sheez! I’ll never have to carry my company phone (WM5 Treo) no more.

If you are not in the IT business. You won’t think it’s funny. Basically, my whole department was laughing for a couple of hours and we kept on talking about it.

Whoever did this, is very creative and I’m sure himself is a real network administrator as well.

For the first time I experimented this issue on a PC trying to run Microsoft Project for the first time. The error message indicates “Error 1919. Error configuring ODBC data source: MS Access Database. ODBC error 6: Component not found in the registry. Verify that the file MS Access Database exists and that you can access it. “

Then I found out this is caused by either a corrupt registry entry or simply the entry is missing. To fix it, the easiest method would be to import the registry subkeys from another computer.

1. From a computer or user profile without Error 1919, go to registry edit (Start > Run > Regedit) and export (File > Export) the following and save it into a temp networked folder, or USB drive:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | ODBC
2. On the computer with Error 1919, open up registry edit, Import (File > Import) and select the the exported registry file.

Make sure to do the registry import while logged on as the problem user, grant temporary admin access if necessary. Once that’s done, the error message will go away.