TruItSupport Brisbane Queensland IT system support for Windows and Linux computer networks
TruItSupport Brisbane Queensland IT system support for Windows and Linux computer networks
Computer Virus – Fact, Fiction or Hysteria?
A new headline at PC Magazine calls the Downadup worm an “epidemic”. Other news sources have used similar words and FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) hype phrases. If you take the “growing exponentially” claims at face value, then throw away your PC right now because we are all doomed. Experts predict this worm will infect at least 8.7 billion PCs by Sunday 25th January.
Mikko Hypponen chief research officer at anti-virus firm F-Secure, says while the purpose of the worm is unclear, its unique "phone home" design, linking back to its point of origin, means it can receive further orders to wreak havoc.He said his company had reverse-engineered its program, which they suspected of originating in Ukraine, and is using the call-back mechanism to monitor an exponential infection rate, despite Microsoft's issuing of a patch to fix the bug."On Tuesday there were 2.5 million, on Wednesday 3.5 million and today [Friday], eight million," he told CNN. "It's getting worse, not better."
Fedora 10 Static IP networking issues
From TruItSupport experience with Fedora 10
To get the DNS to stick you simply need to disable NetworkManager (in services) and then enable Network (in services) you should not need to “edit” any files. This will enable the system to work correctly. You just enter you data as usual in the Network Configuration GUI and this time it will remember the DNS settings and also start on boot if this is selected.
NetworkManager is designed for laptops, do not use it for desktops with static address. If it does not work just check network is enabled in services
The extract below is from is from Mauriat Miranda "Fedora 10 Personal Installation Guide"
Fedora 10 uses NetworkManager by default.
The primary settings for any network devices will be automatically selected at installation time.
Since there is no screen for selecting networking options,most devices will default to using DHCP.
Using NetworkManager has greatly improved networking for many wireless
and some less common devices (mobile broadband, GSM, etc.), it may still have problems with some configurations.
NetworkManager development and integration into Fedora is still an ongoing effort.
NOTE: The following steps do NOT apply to all users.
NetworkManager is highly recommended for Laptop users, especially using wireless with security.
Disabling NetworkManager and Enabling network Service
On machines with a fixed networking device and a fixed IP address (e.g. desktop, server, appliance),
it might be more practical to disable NetworkManager and use the older network service. Additionally users requiring virtual device types (bridging, bonding, or VLANs) will also need to use the network service.
Note that the Fedora 10 installer disables the network service by default. To switch to using the network service: ( to read more click on the Mauriat Miranda link )
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Virgin's Blue
Better late then never, or maybe not!
"Virgin Blue pursues $20 million in compensation for business loses in check-in crash."
Virgin Blue will seek to recover $20 million lost when it's reservation system crashed last month.
The carrier is expected to demand compensation from Navitaire the company which supplies the NewSkies system which failed on September 26 2010.
Apparently another carrier Ryan air had experienced similar problems in the preceding weeks so Navitaire should have been especially alert to possibility of systems issues with Virgin Blue.
Virgin in this situation are probably in a bind that smaller organisations don't have to face. That is they are locked into a proprietary IT solution because of their need to collaborate with other industry players. This mean that Virgin probably cannot change IT suppliers even if they wanted to.
To an outsider the performance of Navitaire in this situation has been outstanding. When most businesses expect an up-time of 99.99% which means a downtime of around one hour a year and some businesses demanding up-time of 99.999 or about six minuets a year, it is hard to understand how an Navitaire could let their customer suffer an outage of days.
Virgin Blue do not see this situation as causing long term damage to their company. How would your business be perceived if you suffered a similar outage. The concept of disaster recover somehow does not seem to have permeated the people at Virgin Blue or Navitaire and they both should share some responsibility for this. If organisations don't ensure that their IT providers have sufficient disaster recovery for them, the they must share some of the responsibility when disasters happens.
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