Haunting the Ghost inside the SQL shell

What: The CPU counrte hitting the ceiling level of 100% …flat…. hanging.. When: Time when your applications, site, service becomes intermittent, timing out or stops responding completely Why: The Ghost_counter inside MS SQL increasing rapidly Who:  values of the ghost_record_count and version_ghost_record_count columns Where: View and monitor it here >> (run this script) SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(N'<DatabaseName>’), OBJECT_ID(N'<TableName>’), NULL,…

CPU 100%

An application stops responding, experiences low performance, or experiences high privileged CPU usage if many large I/O operations are performed in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Symptopms:   Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. The computer has many logical processors. You…

Citrix Presentation Server Version 4.5 for download

 Citrix Presentation Server Version 4.5 Evaluation VHD available for download… Basically, you must be properly logged-in to proceed with this download site, (ofcourse assuming you have already pre-signed-in =) Citrix has just provided an evaluation version of this famous Presentation Server available as a virtual machine through Microsoft’s VHD Testdrive program. It is a fairly…

3 IT terms

DEFINITION OF 3-IT TERMS The following terms defined here are : (Ilang terms ito na importante sa IT, lalo na kung gagawa kayo ng mga Work-Pro or Manual, well ito po yun.. =) a) ‘UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS’ – This term corresponds to the act of connecting or establishing connection to a certain servers or network node…

“Working Late…. its for IT..GC..”

Yup, this is James, “Working Late…. its for IT..GC..” it stands for IT_General Control… Basically documents for our IT Section… I am doing some Security Documents/Procedures this last few days… Particularly on the ‘Dealing with (Monitoring, that is) Unauthorized Access on Servers’ …. Well, Ive got till Saturday (Sabado po ) to finish this…. Nihongo=…

Threats and Countermeasures

“Well , this is in concerned with MS-Server OS (ofcourse..=) … we have some nice definitions here…” User rights allow users to perform tasks on a computer or a domain. User rights include logon rights and privileges. Logon rights control who is authorized to log on to a computer and how they can log on.…

TELNETD _ TELNET —> enabling on LINUX

Assuming you’ve added the packages = (xinetd, telnet, and telnet-server) Now do the following steps: 1. Enable telnetd by editing (via the vi):  /etc/xinetd.d/telnet  , Then change “disable = yes” to “disable = no” 2. Execute the following to turn on xinetd (and telnetd). # /sbin/chkconfig xinetd on /sbin/service xinetd start or /sbin/service xinetd restart      (if…

Prevent removable device usage with Group Policy settings

I believe this is one hot issue nowadays…since everything seems to be just “plug-n-play”… That includes those MP3-4 players, mobile-phones/players , etc… and the list goes on and on… (Tagalog= Problema talaga ng maraming kumpanya ngayon ito… Lumalabas na halos lahat ng user/employee sa comp ay may dala-dalang removable HDD…) Nihongo= “Okii na mondai desu…