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Just scanning the news sites and came across an article on Yahoo News that They’re starting to do random bag searches in New York subways.

Oh goody!

I don’t know how they can be seriously trying to do that!  It’s freaking nuts.  Now I’ll admit I’m from Ohio and things are a bit different but I’ve spent a few weekends in the big apple.  I rode the subways around and I’ve seen how massive the flow of people can be at certain stations and times of day.  Trying to do random bag searches on people is just a waste of time. 

It might be ok at first but people will get tired of it.  It’s not like airports where people have plenty of time and no where to go.  People on public transit usually are in a hurry because they have things to do.

I don’t know.  I guess it just bothers me that this is probably just the start.  I’m willing to bet someone is already thinking about how to put in metal detectors, use bomb sniffing dogs, etc at every station.

It’ll be nuts if they tried to pull that kind of crap.

Yesh

This is for anyone running Sharepoint on Microsoft Windows Server with MS-SQL and you are getting an error along the lines of “SQLAgent is not allowed to run”.

All you have to do is make a small registry change.  Navigate to:
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SOFTWARE/ MICROSOFT/ MICROSOFT SQL SERVER/ SHAREPOINT/ SQLSERVERAGENT”

Look for the key “GUID” and delete it.

the SQLAgent service should now start up without problems.

I had a heck of a time figuring out this problem but after some searching this seemed to do the trick.

Cheers!

I saw an interesting news article on SecurityFocus last week titled “Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools”

Coverity makes code-analysis software that can scan source code for potential flaws, bugs, etc.  They’ve been scanning for free some open source projects to help detect and clean up possible bugs and flaws.  It’s a nice thing to do but of course the reality is they’re doing it to prove the quality of their tools.

Anyways, they just finished doing a scan of the FreeBSD OS.  They found 306 potential software flaws from the scan.  That might sound like a lot but most are really not flaws.  The FreeBSD guys are saying only five issues can be triggered by user input and twelve are buffer overruns.  Plus, either way they [FreeBSD programmers] have looked over the issues and have corrected them.  So there are updates available now and all future release will be safe from these flaws.

I must say this is pretty nice of Coverity.  I mean sure as I said it’s just something for publicity but it’s cool to see them help out open source software.  I would hope that they think about doing yearly scans of the projects.  Now that would be awesome to have them do yearly checkups of many of the big open source projects like Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, Apache, etc.