Monthly Archives September 2010

EMET: configure memory protection on Windows

Microsoft published a nice tool named EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) whose purpose is to check and enforce the memory security policies such as ALSR and DEP. It shows and allows to configure the global settings, but also, and this is the most interesting part, indicated for each process running if it supports those security [...]

How to physically identify a software RAID disk member

What you need: a good earing smartmontools Indeed, so far, I haven’t found anything better than launching a process making a lot of disk activity. This command just do it: The “short” test will give you a few minutes to carefully listen and select the right disk. Well, it sure is pretty primitive! But do [...]