July 2006 - Posts

• New college recruiter for University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Carey Morgan has been a great college recruiter for UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County). With new fiscal year, he is taking on new goals. On behalf of UMBC alumni, we wish him all the best! We now have Meaghan Angelo taking up role of college Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:05 PM by shamit | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Disgusting - Bomb blasts at Bombay

  One word - Cowardly There were simultaneous bomb blasts at seven places in bombay trains during rush hour traffic. My thoughts are with those affected. Rediff at http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/11train.htm?q=tp&file=.htm BBC at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5169332.stm Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:50 AM by shamit | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Where is Telnet in Vista/Longhorn beta builds?

  Telnet is now made an optional component in Vista and Longhorn Servers. This means if you type telnet in command shell, you will be out of luck. Why have we done it so? As time has passed, fewer users use telnet. Thus, to decrease the foot print as well Read More... Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 4:21 PM by shamit | 13 Comments Filed under: UNIX Interop

• Help - Install problems with SDK and SUA on Vista/Longhorn!

  Few folks have been trying to install utilities and SDK from web on SUA running on Vista/LH. They get the following error - "Setup failed to create the symlink etc\hosts." This happens normally when you attempt to install SUA SDK on post Beta2 (5384) Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:14 PM by shamit | 0 Comments Filed under: UNIX Interop Attachment(s): SUA.JPG

• Web download for Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Vista/Longhorn Beta 2 available!

  We have Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) component available in Vista Ultimate and Enterprise SKUs. What does this component do? SUA provides the basic infrastructure to run UNIX-based applications and scripts on Windows Vista (Ultimate and Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:03 PM by shamit | 4 Comments Filed under: UNIX Interop

• Web download for Identity Management for UNIX - Longhorn Server Beta 2

  Identity Management for UNIX component is available with Longhorn Server Beta 2 (5384) build. This component has two subcomponents - Password Synchronization Server for NIS We have a web download which contains Single Signon Daemon (SSOD) which can be Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:50 PM by shamit | 2 Comments Filed under: UNIX Interop

• Welcome again!

  Hello everyone! First of all, I would like to update you with what I have been doing (in other words, what you have been missing) I transitioned the teams, and am working for UNIX Interop team (in Windows Server) for quite some time now. I also had an Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:20 PM by shamit | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal