ms time service under ms Hyper-v

Another post from me, am I getting ahead of myself?
Well, down to business. Over the last couple of months I have been experiencing a problem with my windows 200X servers, ( well some of them anyway), not holding time sync with the NTP which was DC. Tried all the Ms solutions they had, w32tm this, net stop that. No matter what I did on the domain, the time would immediately reset 6 minutes ahead, making any time reliant service have problems. After checking the event log, spotted that there was a VM IC Time service provider. Hazarding a guess VM was , surprise, Virtual Machine, looked atht e hosts and lo and behold, there was my 6 minute time difference, staring at me from the bottom right of the taskbar. Even though the AD was outside of the VM host, and all the servers were told to get their time corrections from this, the VM Host overrode this and provided the time service from itself. SO, pointed the host to the AD, resynced, and Presto!, all is well in the land of the VM's below the host.

Coouldn't find any documents on it , so made this up, in case anyone else has the same problem.

Hope that helps someone and saves them the time chasing a ghost, or is that a VHD?

TTFN

win defrag malware

Fellow earthicans,

I have spent the last two days trying to fix a problem for a friend on his Pc, called WIN Defrag. This malware is much like our "old friend" ms antivirus 2010, in both look and feel but has a extra twist, it hides disk 0 from the computer management console, so you cannot check or change it.

My "discovered method of removal is below ( Windows XP pro sp3, may work with vista / win 7 )

Run the following in safe mode with networking, ( when machine boots after bios and before windows splash screen, hit f8 and select safe mode with networking)

download malwarebytes and update

run and clear all discovered malware.

download stinger from mcafee, free utility and very thorough, takes about an hour .

Load XP pro cd in cd drive, and boot from this, select repair option and run fixmbr. If there was a message that the mbr file is damaged or not a supported type select yes to repair. type exit and when check that the drive has returned to the Disk management screen.

( these instructions are provided, "as is", and I would suggest that you back up any important information before doing any remedial work on any pc. You them at your own risk. forewarned is forarmed)

If in doubt, seek prefessional advice. If you use system restore, you may be able to restore the machine to a point before the infection but the method above provides for the least data loss.

Hope that helps.

ttfn

bank bailout or "family busniess"

well, what a joke has Ireland become. Here's a simple question not asked yet ? "show me the money?" Sounds funny, but very serious. Money doesn't just disappear, as the taxpayer knows. When money is gone from the banks, no one has to show where it has gone. But the money to fix the problem, is very visable.
Government my arse, jobs for the boys more like. Ireland as an economy is screwed. All thanks to business greed, backed, and banked, by government . No pensions, no health system, no jobs, no future. We have been down this road before , and it seems to be every 20 odd years. At what time does a country learn that all this shite doesn't work. All we hear is government double speak, and twisty talk. " in the interim, at the end of the day, to the best of our ability, we will meter the water, tax the gas, vat the food, levy your house". the only winners with a job all the time, are the politicans, their consultants, the lawyers. A tribunal a year, makes more money for the law society. National interest is for the nation, not that shower of blowhards, fair play to the cement mixer man. that fat lazy "leader".

Bin the goverment, but that's too late. They have their pensions, we havent. Stick the fiscal plan up its own arse. Anglo, 23 years ago, Alan Dukes, make him Finance minister.

who has the money? Where is the money? Money does not just "disappear". It's somewhere so where. Brian Cowen, leave now, we do not want you Do a Bertie real quick. And take your cronies with you.

I rest my case

3 strikes and your out - Eircom fold like a piece of t paper

firstly, without prejudice,

Laugh, I nearly died!
Eircom, "Ireland premier" Broadband provider, for lack of a better moniker, has gone down the road of, comply or die. Firstly, i would like to add that is do not condone the downloading of copyright material in any way, it's akin to the next door neighbour borrowing ur lawnmower, and dropping it back, blunt and out of petrol. It is that annoying, you have your lawnmower back, but WTF!
Anyway, I digress. Some "high court judge", decided that the IP address of a broadband user is not Private Property. Ok, so if I go out and buy a computer, which has a unique MAC address, no one else in the world owns, this is my property, right? Yes , it is. So, if I go out and buy broadband from Eircom, and demand a static IP address and purchase it, this is also my private property. Therefore the judges argument is flawed, I "own", or at least, lease for the duration, that IP address. Also, I "lease" the IP address from the pool of addresses obtained by Eircom. As in any "property" lease, it landlord, "eircom", must give the user, "tenant" notice of inspection. the 3 strikes and out rule does not give this "term of inspection, nor does it disclose the reason", in advance.( and who would download on Eircom anyway, it's NGB, is nothing more than sugar coated hype, I know may that do not benefit from this "new" tech, but pay for those that do, so thanks Eircom, NOT!)

But again, I digress, just change to another ISP. Might give "Eircom" a pair of dry trousers in which to stand up in. Then again, people, buy the music / DVD , its cheaper, better quality and it's not stealing. How would you like it if someone ask you for your service, and didn't pay. Yeah, yeah, "but they are so big, who'd notice?" . well, like sand in a sandblaster, the sand wins, little bits bring down the strong. and then where would get ur downloads from. "I'm just downloading for myself, what harm" x 1,000,000,000 = a freaking lot!

"So endeth the lesson" Sean Connery - The Untouchables