Scotty

Server and Security thoughts

October 2009 - Posts

the Zune HD

Is great a very good portable music player and the screen is outstanding with 32GB of storage it blows through the storing and playing of music, videos and podcasts as well as storing and displaying pictures. The only thing is at the moment you cannot log into the Zune sites if like me your outside the US, hopefully Microsoft will release the Zune to the UK so that will be fixed and I can sign up for the as much music you can download per month and keep 10 of them which for the money they are charging appears excellent value, but as a music junkie with over 560 albums already in his collection can I really say anything else. As a DVD player it does very well to and I can record AnyDVD and AVS Video Convertor for doing the actual ripping to the Zune.

our old files

Are back because it shouldn’t be stated enough physical access to a server or group of servers means sooner or later you can get in for the files or if your determined everything as someone the old domains was protecting including the ‘administrator’. It took me so long because having forgotten the admin password and my own and only one hand and not even my primary one at that it took me a while but I got there. That and remembering lots of thing that I probably should know but I do and there the sort of things anybody burgling you’re systems is likely to know all too well regardless of the OS your running, if this matters to you then their are things you can do about it but it makes the backup and security more complex and most of all your own recovery in the failure of your system or you memory which like mine was the problem and now I’ve got it all written down and printed which I should have done first time but you know what we all learn from our mistakes but it’s a matter of how much it costs and the time taken.