Tag: Windows

A regular BIOS update turned into a pain in the a**

Just found out that my 3-year-old Intel NUC8 has got a new BIOS release 0090 recently. I downloaded and upgraded it without think twice (which is going to waste some of my time later.)

I have two OS installed and dual boot configured on the hard drive. Windows 10 alongside with Ubuntu Desktop. By default, it will boot into GRUB menu by default, where I can choose whether or not to boot into Windows.

I have done BIOS update for this NUC several times before. But this time, after the new BIOS update, the machine boot directly into Windows without showing the GRUB menu. I tried to hit F10 on-boot to bring up the Boot selection menu to choose another EFI boot-loader — but something weird is: There is only one “Windows Boot Manager” up there, the “ubuntu” boot entry is missing.

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Wanna Cry?

Last weekend was definitely not a normal weekend. The flare out of the computer worm virus WannyCry[1] screwed lot of people’s weekend. It’s been quite long since last mass computer virus outbreak which I can remember was the Blast worm virus[2] back in 2003.

The virus takes advantage of the exploit MS17-010[3] in Windows’ SMB server, it use port 445 to get control of an unpatched computer, and then use this computer to infect more computers on the network. This time, the exploit affects almost every PC running Windows.

Especially for the PC still running outdated version like Windows XP which is widely used in my local banks, companies, stores, gov departments …, etc. Microsoft released a patch[4] for these end-of-life OSes on May 12th, which is very unusual. Continue reading Wanna Cry?

Local domain suffix causing WSUS error

I have several Windows computers in my LAN, so I’m using a Windows Server as WSUS server serving Windows Updates to LAN clients. And I just flashed my router’s firmware from Tomato to OpenWRT yesterday, then I found the WSUS service broken.

“80072ee2” shows on Windows Update window, and the Windows Server Update Service remote console unable to connect to the WSUS server neither.

The 80072ee2 means there was a connectivity issue between client and server,

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