Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site
As reported this weekend by the Windows Installer team and Heath Stewart, the beta of Windows Installer 4.5 (including binaries, headers, libraries and help files) has been posted to the Connect site for members of the beta program to download and try out. Here is some useful information about the Windows Installer 4.5 beta program:
* Link to the Windows Installer 4.5 beta Connect site - connect.microsoft.com
* How to sign up for the Windows Installer 4.5 beta - blogs.msdn.com
Published Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:48 PM by astebner
Filed under: Setup Issues, Windows Installer
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How to resolve "Windows - no disk" errors when launching Media Center 2005 on an HP machine blogs.msdn.com
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Top 11 Reasons to Look at Your Logs
by Anton Chuvakin
As promised, I am following my Top 11 Reasons to Collect and Preserve Computer Logs with just as humorous and hopefully no less insightful ”Top 11 Reasons to Look at Your Logs.”
1. The first reason is again disarmingly simple (is it, really? :-)). Read PCI DSS lately? Glanced at HIPAA? Suffer under FISMA? Yes, all of the above regulations say that you must not only have, but also review logs periodically
2. Are your servers compromised now? How do you know if all your logs are stashed on a tape in a closet? Look at them! Now
3. An incident happens. Really, who needs extra motivation to look at logs in such case? Using logs for incident response is a true ”no-brainer” (however, you need to be pretty “brainy” to actually analyze them in case of an incident)
4. Users - from a CEO to a janitor. You do have to know what they do on your IT systems! How? Read the logs! Everybody leaves tracks
5. Systems log plenty of errors. Sometimes they are silly, sometimes - benign. However, often they mean that “stuff” is about to hit the fan. Periodic review of logs reveals them and saves the day
6. Network slowed to a crawl? Applications are slooow? Server is not … well, serving? :-) Where is the answer? In the logs, but you need to read them and understand them
7. That policy you wrote a few months ago. Anybody following that? Anybody remembers that? Halloooo! Check the logs and you’d know
8. By now you know that your auditor might ask for your logs. But do you know they might also check whether you looked at them? Do you? Review the logs and leave the record of this activity in the logs
9. Change can be good. But then again, it may be the sign that your controls are lacking. Who changes what and when? From what and to what? Just review the logs
10. Now, you hate looking at logs. You have too many (as if everybody else doesn’t…)! In this case, look at a specific subset of logs that you never saw before- NBS. Or just deploy log management that can do it for you
11. Logs can help you predict the future (if you review, know and love them :-)). Don’t believe it? If you read them for long enough, you develop an ability to predict the future, albeit mostly future problems
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Marking to Myth
Warren Buffett
Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Many institutions that publicly report precise market values for their holdings of CDOs and CMOs are in truth reporting fiction. They are marking to model rather than marking to market. The recent meltdown in much of the debt market, moreover, has transformed this process into marking to myth.
Because many of these institutions are highly leveraged, the difference between "model" and "market" could deliver a huge whack to shareholders' equity. Indeed, for a few institutions, the difference in valuations is the difference between what purports to be robust health and insolvency. For these institutions, pinning down market values would not be difficult: They should simply sell 5% of all the large positions they hold. That kind of sale would establish a true value, though one still higher, no doubt, than would be realized for 100% of an oversized and illiquid holding.
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to "model" rather than to "market."
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Will the market bottom in the 4th Q??? This recent rally was a Fed cut in the discount rate
The 4 year cycle which ran from 10/1998 to 10/2002. The 1st rally of every 4 year cycle is always the strongest. That 4 year cycle was bearish becuz it ended with most of the indices lower than it started
The Fed boyz managed to extend the 4 year cycle to 5 years thru easy money
Here's a tricky thought:- >>> will the correction be greater than the average 20%??? <<< '&' >>> will the next 4 yrs cycle only last '3' & be a bearish cycle??? <<< completing a bull 4-5 year cycle in a secular bear and the next 3-4 year cycle will be bearish similar to the 1998-2002 cycle
usatoday.com
New Barron's 400 Index Likely to Prompt More ETFs
etftrends.com
Les's Nasdaq 100 10d hit - 94
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