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Employees can come back to bite you

A friend of mine sent me this article...

This is a true story!

Woman deletes $2.5M worth of files in mistaken revenge bid

Date: January 24th, 2008
Author: Paul Mah
Category: News

Workforce Management, Paul Mah

The employee of an architect firm, believing that she was about to
get fired, went on a silent rampage.
In just a few hours over a weekend, she deleted $2.5M worth of
computer files in a mistaken bid to
exact revenge.

The trigger appeared to be a help-wanted ad placed by her boss,
which described an open
administrative assistant position that sounded like her own job.
Excerpt from The Register:

Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, used her own account credentials to access
the server of Steven E.
Hutchins Architects and delete seven years' worth of drawings. The
firm's alarm company
said someone entered the premises at 11 p.m. on Sunday and was
there for about four
hours.

Fortunately though, firm owner Steven Hutchins was able to recover
the files. "It was not a
sensationalistic amount of money," he told The Register, referring
to the cost of the consultant he paid
to perform the recovery.

Cooley was released on bail after being charged with $1,000 worth
of damage to computers.
As it turned out, Cooley's job was never under threat. The
help-wanted position was actually a new
position to assist Hutchin's wife. It is unclear at this moment
what kind of action the firm will take
with Cooley.

What kind of measures do you take against potential
saboteurs, both
within or outside the IT
department?

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these types of attacks.

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Quick Tape test on a Sun machine

You will need to know the /dev/rmt/? device number before running this script.

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#!/bin/sh

#tape_test.sh
#rev 01 01.05.04
#Steve Haley

#input for rmt device
clear;
print "Please enter rmt device number\n";
$rmt=;
chomp $rmt;

#Writing
clear;
print "Writing to /dev/rmt/$rmt\n";
sleep 2;
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/$rmt /usr/openwin/demo;

#Reading
clear;
print "Reading from /dev/rmt/$rmt\n";
sleep 2;
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/$rmt;
print "\n";
print "The test passed ok";

How to bypass ALOM password on a Sun Fire[TM] V210/V240/V250/V440

To overide the ALOM password on the system you will need to:

1) Attach console to Serial Management Port

2) Power on the server via the front power button. Once POST has
completed, you will need to wait 1 to 2 minutes for a timeout to
occur and the system to drop to the "ok>" prompt.

If you do not get the "Please login:" prompt (you will likely see the
SC prompt) then you must power the system off remove the battery from
the LOM board, wait a minute, and re-install everything).

Below is an example of what you might see on the console:

Please login:
SC Alert: Host System has Reset

[wait one two minutes]
Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

ok>

3) Boot the system to the OS level. If Solaris is not currently
installed on the server, you will need to install it at this point.

4) Use the scadm command to reset the admin password:

a) cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin
b) ./scadm userpassword admin

5) Use the escape sequence "#." to get system back to the alom login
prompt.

6) You can now log into the admin account using the password from
step 4 b).

Reset a Sun system network configuration to defaults

This simple command will un-configure a SunOS. After rebooting, it will ask you questions again about hostname, network, etc.

#sys-unconfig

Sun NetraT 105 - What to do when the second ethernet port fails?

This was actually a goof in the firmware. When it was updated, it changed values in prom that should have been left alone. Here is how to fix it

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If for some reason the 2nd Ethernet is disabled through show-nets,
This is the procedure to fix:

Ok>printenv
This will show the listing of current and default values for obp
If the current value of pcib-probe-list is 1,2 it needs to be changed
Ok>setenv pcib-probe-list 1,2,3
Ok>reset-all
Ok>show-nets
Ok>watch-net-all (To test ports)

That should do it.

Quick and Dirty - Creating a Diskless Client Jumpstart Server for Sun Microsystems Test Environment

This is a quick example to get you up and running with a Sun Jumpstart server. The hostname, IP scheme and hardware is just a typical example, but you can be creative and use whatever you have. I personally set up the jumpstart modules on a separate disk array, but it is up to you. Please contact me and I can email you the document. Hope this helps. You can download it here

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How to Defragment your Disk Drive in Windows

People ask me all the time how to do basic maintenance on their Windows system, and Defragmenting is a basic tool to begin with on a regular basis. I would run it at least once a month. If you are not sure what defragging is, you can read about it here. It can take some time to run, so be patient. I created a quick tutorial on how to get it up and running here

Slow Computer - Great free cleanup tool

This is a tool I personally have used quite a bit, especially the last 4 years without an issue. This has 2 basic modes, registry cleaning and a cleaning mode for junk files, cookies, etc. on your system. There are many tools out there, but this one has not given me issues, as some programs out there can damage your registry. I do not offer any guarantee with this tutorial, so please use at your own risk and always back up first :)
Here is a link to download ccleaner You can read more about it's history here

Quick Tutorial Video after downloading and installing