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                                        Observations: Trend Micro Officescan 10 Removal Script
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Monday, May 03, 2010. Trend Micro Officescan 10 Removal Script. The folks at Trend Micro make a pretty nice Anti-virus tool, but like other Anti-virus vendors, they do not provide a good means of uninstalling the client. On multiple occasions I have had clients which end up with a half-installed version of Officescan. The result is that you cannot install the client because it's all ready there. And you can't remove it, because it's not installed. Echo and it d...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: Thin Clients Part II - Security Added
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Sunday, October 26, 2008. Thin Clients Part II - Security Added. We will still use an autorun.inf file which will allow the user to plug in the thumb drive and simply press enter for the default choice. The default choice, is to run a batch script which I have called "connect.bat". Here are those files. ACTION = LAB CONNECT. 7zaexe e -oC: TEMP -y RDPPACK.zip. REM COPY %0 . *.* C: TEMP. Start /normal ssh.bat. PING -n 8 127.0.0.1 null. Start /normal RDP.bat. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: Poor Mans Low Level Format
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Poor Mans Low Level Format. Sure, there are utilities to perform this task. Some are free, while others and get quite expensive. I also seem to run into problems where certain utilities only work with certain drives (a Western Digital utility only works with Western Digital drives). Enter the simple and free solution: Linux. 2) Wait for the desktop to appear, or fail to appear. I was working with some bizarro medical machines to...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: April 2008
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Monday, April 28, 2008. Nightmares with Exchange 2003 Free/Busy Time. I hadn't been in my current position long before I started noticing strange problems with our Public Folder structure. When I accepted my position as the Network Administrator I became the lucky winner of a battered 2003 Exchange server which was migrated over from version 5.5 back in . 2005 or so. I also publicly displayed my frustration in a newsgroup. First I should mention that I have hel...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: November 2007
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Thursday, November 29, 2007. News Flash : Vista Is Terrible. You are probably sick of reading it and I am sick of saying it but Vista is very, very. Here is one . Here is another . It seems that "some program" which wants to remain anonymous is trying to tell me something, but it simply can't. Oh the suspense! Should I be reminded later? What if the program has something really important to tell me? Unfortunately I didn't click the "Why does this happen? Link I...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: July 2008
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Wednesday, July 02, 2008. Thinkpad x60 Booting Disaster. Following what seems like poorly written instructions - I was able to slap together a Windows XP SP2 bootable ThumbDrive image, using this guide. While I was able to boot from the USB stick, I was not able to get past the "Setup is starting Windows" before it would blue-screen on me with a stop message. The problem seemed to be that Windows was losing itself, after having booted from the stick. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: Goodbye posssibly?
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Friends, it's been a great couple of years. But I have my doubts that my little blog will be around much longer. Google has been destroying Blogger.com since they took it over with some of the worst decisions in the history of bad decisions. At one point, I would have put them over Wordpress on who would win the Blog-war of 10 or so years ago. Since then they have:. Allowed SPAM to run amok for something like seven years. I was once an...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: June 2013
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Friends, it's been a great couple of years. But I have my doubts that my little blog will be around much longer. Google has been destroying Blogger.com since they took it over with some of the worst decisions in the history of bad decisions. At one point, I would have put them over Wordpress on who would win the Blog-war of 10 or so years ago. Since then they have:. Allowed SPAM to run amok for something like seven years. I was once an...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Observations: Adobe Flash Update is a f*cking joke!
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                                        The career journal of one Steve Ballantyne. Friday, December 12, 2014. Adobe Flash Update is a f*cking joke! I had this bright idea that I would blog some of my accomplishments. At least the ones that might be helpful to other people. That was like 10 years ago. Woops. Remember when Flash Player was a Macromedia product? For the rest of you like myself, I had to write a horrific batch script to accomplish some simple tasks. Is there a new version that we need to install? If so - remove all the old stuff.