Saint Aardvark's Journal: Far too much Windows

Saturday after Patch Tuesday, and I spent far too much time today dealing with it. KB 911564 (aka Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Plug-in with Non-Microsoft Internet Browsers Could Allow Remote Code Execution) simply would not work, remotely nor interactively nor interactively through the Windows Update website. In the end, we had to go around booting machines into fucking safe mode (thank you, the posters of this thread, for the tip) in order to get the damned things to apply.

Sysinternal's handle showed that WinLogon.exe, for some reason, had C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player open, on one machine we checked that was having problems. No idea why, but it's about the only thing we could find that might be causing problems.

However, the news wasn't entirely bad...Windflower, the Perl-based rewrite of Ivy, actually patched a few machines today over an SSH session. Version 0.2 is available here. Hurray!

Typical windows.

[Pat69]

Have you noticed you spend most of your time with Windows trying to get it to run properly, and with *nix getting it to run better? ha ha.

You'll be pleased to know Liddy (now running Sarge) is alive and kicking! (with some upgrades, mind you.)

Re:Typical windows.

[Saint Aardvark]

Liddy's still going? Coolness! What upgrades have you done?

Re:Typical windows.

[Pat69]

Besides going to Sarge (it was running Woody when I took it over, I think) I first moved it to a P3-450 and loaded up the ram to 512M, and transferred the data to a 40G drive. Yes, theres still a /home/archive/home/hbrown and ./aardvark folder on there. Kind of like an old book I don't read, but can't bear to part with :). Last summer we upgraded our workstations, so it now has a Sempron 1Ghz, 512M ram, and a new mobo (of course). Finally, its in a very swank, smallish, black case with an LED monitor on the