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Where geeks get paid to be geeks! A podcast for Systems Administrators and IT Professionals from the perspective of a Systems Administrator. Podcasts are typically between 20 and 40 minutes in length.

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Take 1, take 2, no� take 3, and VNC

Sponsored by listeners like you! A small, but humerous, stumble out of the blocks this week. George seemed to carry most of the show this week… I’ve been tied up with a new tasking that I can’t quite discuss just yet, but I will be in the future. Good listener feedback on the [...]...

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[ Sat, 20 May 2006 18:23:45 +0000 ]

ITT Alert - RealVNC

Over the weekend the Internet Storm Center started talking about a vulnerability reported in RealVNC that allowed a bypass of authentication. They are now reporting exploits are already out. Please update now!Links Mentioned:ISC VNC Alert - http://www.incidents.org/diary.php?storyid=1336Radmin - http://www.famatech.com/George’s VNC-Cygwin-SSH Exercise - PDFClick to DownloadDownload media.libsyn.com/media/inthetrenches/ITT-Alert-VNC.mp3...

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[ Tue, 16 May 2006 04:46:02 +0000 ]

The train wreck show� almost

Sponsored by listeners like you!We started out attempting to do a “Live event” at the last minute using Skype’s new Skypecast beta… but that indeed was a train wreck. So… as soon as we were finished, we went ahead and re-created the show… a “do-over” if you will.Not a whole [...]...

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[ Sat, 06 May 2006 15:44:55 +0000 ]

MMS 2006, feedback, and a new Admin Challenge

Sponsored by listeners like you! Wow… this show has turned in to a massive linkfest! Microsoft held their Management Summit this week in San Diego, I was able to experience from afar via the TechNet blogs. Lots of info on MOM and SMS and other management tools! Lots of great feedback from listeners, and [...]...

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[ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:00:31 +0000 ]

ITT - Behind the scenes

Sponsored by listeners like you! George and I thought we’d share a little bit about what we use to produce ITT. Sorry… not much tech, but audio tech. So… if you’re looking to do you own cast, perhaps some of what we cover will be helpful in some way. Enjoy! Links mentioned in this podcast: Behringer Eurorack [...]...

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[ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:30:35 +0000 ]

DHCP, BSODs, and Terminations

Sponsored by listeners like you!Sort of a light and mixed bag this week. George and I have a brief discussion on terminations and methods used from the technical side to disable accounts and/or take away access. George provides an update on the latest Admin Challenge, and we’re about to be Frappr-slapped ourselves by [...]...

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[ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:17:33 +0000 ]

It�s a Virtual ITT

Sponsored by listeners like you! Seems the big news this week stemmed around running operating systems on any other system you want… Microsoft releases Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for FREE, VMWare now is offering their former GSX Server as just “Server” but as a beta. It’s available under Linux and Windows. [...]...

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[ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:29:53 +0000 ]

I�m BAAACK!!! Gimme somethin to write on man!

Sponsored by listeners like you!My 4 week hiatus has ended in just 3 weeks — I couldn’t stand to be away any longer.Baseball season begins, for us, tomorrow when Dan debuts in his first ever tee-ball game. Go number 7!!!It’s been a busy 3 weeks, but things are looking better. [...]...

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[ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:21:27 +0000 ]

Vendors, Networking and Omnipeek

This week’s show has a potpouri of items from vendor issues, networking, wireless, listener feedback and a comparision between Omnipeek and Solarwinds.Links Mentioned:Techrepublic Article on Cisco Routers and USB MemorySans Mentor ApplicationBSOD by Wand ResearchITT PDF FlierPsion Teklogix Wireless Gear CompanyCisco Wireless Antenna PrimerCisco Express 500 SwitchAccess Data Forensics SoftwareProdiscover Forensics SoftwareITT Show with Powercfg [...]...

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[ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:48:21 +0000 ]

DoS Attack on Bachelorhood, Career Chat and a Rocking Interview

Sponsored by listeners like you! Douglas E. Welch of the Career Opportunities podcast joins me this week. We go over various tech, IT Vendor and career thoughts. George is on his way out of bachelorhood. Toss in a cool interview with Chuck Herrin from www.chuckherrin.com Chuck was recently promoted to a Director position at [...]...

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[ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:02:53 +0000 ]

THE Cleanup, a cool Cisco SOHO router, and Feedback

Sponsored by listeners like you!As promised… George and I are back this week to discuss THE Cleanup and other matters. Many thanks to you all for all the great feedback… Keep it coming!Yes, I get it… wuauclt.exe /detectnowSome of the issues that we missed in the [...]...

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[ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:00:27 +0000 ]

Sorry� No ITT this week

Wow… what a week! Most significantly, what an end of the week! At work we had a MASSIVE clean up day — and I mean massive. Everyone else only cleaned for 1 day, Friday. For me, I started on Thursday, and even had to continue with a full day on Saturday as [...]...

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[ Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:36:21 +0000 ]

Welcome to the Lair

Sponsored by listeners like you! George and I were pleased to be joined by the other half of Technorama, Kreg Steppe, who is now doing a podcast of his own, Valid Syntax. It was an odd week for both George and me… busy week, but nothing much that was overly exciting. We did happen to [...]...

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[ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:54:47 +0000 ]

From the trenches to management and more feedback

Sponsored by listeners like you!George and I were joined by our good friend Chuck Tomasi from chuckchat.com who shared with us some of his experiences going from the trenches to middle-management and a leadership class that he attended this past week. George picked up a couple new toys for work, and I wrap up [...]...

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[ Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:14:49 +0000 ]

Special Discount on Acronis True Image

We now have the 20% discount for Acronis True Image version 9 available to ITT listeners. We are spreading this out among all Friends in Tech member sites, or at least those who wish to participate. To pick up your copy of Acronis True Image 9.0 at a 20% discount, simply follow this url: http://www.acronis.com/podcast/technewsradio/ For those [...]...

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[ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:56:52 +0000 ]

A little Cisco, a cool automation tool, and welcome back to Outlook

Sponsored by listeners like you! In an effort to simply get this episode out, I’m publishing this one without the show notes. It’s been quite a busy weekend complete with a wild wind storm, 12-hour power outage, a fallen cedar tree, and a wiped out fence. Oh yeah… and a certain football [...]...

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[ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:02:41 +0000 ]

Questionable Backup Policies or Non-Policies

Sponsored by listeners like you! Yes… It’s another long-winded cast, but I assure you, this one is worth it (as if I would say it wasn’t.) This cast is driven nearly entirely by listener feedback. Several listeners responded on different issues, and one listener even posed a question to the rest of you on questionable [...]...

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[ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:39:32 +0000 ]

LOTS of chitchat, feedback, and follow up

Sponsored by listeners like you.Wow… we were a couple of wind-bags this week! You can get an idea of what the rest of the cast might be like from the first 3 minutes.Links mentioned in this podcast:Shadow Copy issueGreat segment on Spam over at ITCMonad Beta 3 is outpathping in [...]...

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[ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:32:31 +0000 ]

A better week - some APC, VoIP, Sendmail, and Powercfg

Sponsored by listeners like you.Finally things are beginning to fall in to place at work. Users were ready to serve me my head, but we successfully turned that situation around. In response to the question about UPS manufacturers, George shares an additional tid-bit regarding an experience with APC. Listeners are shouting for [...]...

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[ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:58:40 +0000 ]

A better week - some APC, VoIP, Sendmail, and Powercfg

Sponsored by listeners like you. Finally things are beginning to fall in to place at work. Users were ready to serve me my head, but we successfully turned that situation around. In response to the question about UPS manufacturers, George shares an additional tid-bit regarding an experience with APC. Listeners are shouting for [...]...

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[ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:58:40 +0000 ]

Oh what a week!

We knew the week following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays would be crazy… but WOW!An incredibly busy week, thus, there is a LOT of content wrapped into this cast.Links mentioned in this podcast:Dealing with Damaged or Corrupt System HivesRawWriteWinJosh Rickard - Web based Event Logger - pic1, pic2Snare - for reporting event logs [...]...

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[ Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:30:32 +0000 ]

Oh what a week!

We knew the week following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays would be crazy… but WOW! An incredibly busy week, thus, there is a LOT of content wrapped into this cast. Links mentioned in this podcast: Dealing with Damaged or Corrupt System Hives RawWriteWin Josh Rickard - Web based Event Logger - pic1, pic2 Snare - for reporting event logs [...]...

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[ Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:30:32 +0000 ]

Good Bye 2005 - an A2A piece on e-mail certs and volume expansion at MS

Supported by listeners like you. Happy New Year! Hope you all have an awesome 2006! In this final podcast of 2005, George and I go over some more great user feedback and thank you all you for the great feedback as well as financial support over this past year. George provides us with another Admin-to-Admin segment [...]...

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[ Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:55:41 +0000 ]

A quick year-end tip

Take this opportunity while co-workers are enjoying the holidays at home to schedule maintenance. And who says all of it has to occur with you present — schedule some of it. Links mentioned in this tip: System Scheduler Download libsyn.com/media/inthetrenches/ITT-20051229.mp3...

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[ Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:53:51 +0000 ]

ITT Security Alert - Zero Day Exploit in the Wild

The Internet Storm Center at SANS.ORG has raised the alert level to yellow in response to a new zero-day exploit in the wild. The exploit, being tagged as the W32/PFV-Explot.A, .B, and .C, comes in the form of malicious WMF files being served currently from a handful of websites. A list of sites [...]...

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[ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:27:10 +0000 ]

Call for submissions

In preparation for the Year End Review, like we did last year, I’m calling for folks to submit what they feel were the most significant tech-related events of 2005. Feel free to send you submissions in via audio comments by using the Skype-line by using Skype ID “inthetrenches,” or the listener line at 206-888-4488. [...]...

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[ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:36:06 +0000 ]

How to be a good SysAdmin

Supported by listeners like you. George and I figured, if you’re going to receive a new iPod for Christmas, you might as well have some fresh content on it. Dave, an ITT and FiT listener, provided most of the material for this podcast. In the FiT Forums there was a post about “Top [...]...

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[ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:17:09 +0000 ]

A Ton of MS info, and the return of Show Us Your Rack!

Supported by listeners like you. Yes… this cast is late. But that’s what happens when life gets in the way. A great pre-Christmas show with lots of feedback. Keep it coming! We’re loving it! Along with plenty of feedback, we have a LOT of Microsoft info in this cast, much of which [...]...

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[ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:49:13 +0000 ]

USB policies, a CLI goody, and protecting your identity and data

Supported by listeners like you.Another week wrapped up, though it seemed typical of a Monday rather than a Friday. George and I share some user feedback regarding USB policies, a command line goody using WMIC, and protecting your identity AND your data regarding stolen laptops.We also go over some Microsoft issues, JetDirect cards, issues [...]...

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[ Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:54:17 +0000 ]

Expo wrap up

Right up front… this cast is extremely light on any Tech content, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to do at least one podcast with George face-to-face — at least once.We had a GREAT time, I’m already looking forward to next year’s event. Excellent networking opportunity. Hopefully some of the experiences we [...]...

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[ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:03:33 +0000 ]

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