Have you ever had the situation where memory is disappearing and you don’t know where it is being used? Which program is using the memory, and is it paged out to disk or in RAM? That’s where RAMMAP comes in. It’s a great utility from the Sysinternals Team at Microsoft. Here’s an example of how I’ve used RAMMAP to diagnose things. Below you see a system … [Read more...]
How can I figure out those error codes?
You see it all over the place, in text based logs, windows event logs, everywhere. I’m talking about error codes such as 0x8007005. But what do they really mean and how can I find out more about them? You could try Google of course, but that might give you a heap or misdirected answers that don’t apply to your situation. Instead, let’s find out more about what the error … [Read more...]
Splashtop – Cost Effective Remote Control Software
I’ve taken a little time recently to evaluate a few of the remote control software packages on the market so that I can cater for the needs of my family, friends, IT support work and also the growing number of computers at my church which I support. In my mainstream business, we use Kaseya for managing our clients needs and we’ve got over 5000 deployed agents with it. It’s a … [Read more...]
Synology NAS confirmed to have same data corruption bug as QNAP
I reported a few months back now about a pretty severe bug that affected QNAP NAS devices and it caused RAID corruption if you had a failed disk in it. In that post I mentioned also that I had heard other NAS users also hit by it and at least one user reporting Synology NAS units affected. I’ve still not played with Synology units, so don’t speak first hand about it. It … [Read more...]
If you have RDP open, you will be hacked–close the door now!
Many users offer remote access to their office for staff via permitting them to connect directly to the server over the RDP protocol via a port forward on port 3389 direct to a server or workstation. This is a major open door for which hackers can try brute force attacks on your systems and cause not only potential breach of your systems but also stability issues while they … [Read more...]