So, I'm not a gigantic app person -- my iPod Touch has the essentials for what I need, a few cutsey show-off things or games for the kids, so I figured I'd do the same with my Droid... yes and no. Here's a rundown of whats on my Droid right now, and what I think:

Alarmed Light - Used it because it has a feature where you're forced to answer math questions to turn the alarm off. Kinda forces you to shake the cobwebs out and get started.

Aloqa - Cool app that uses your GPS to let you know what's around. It's integrated with Yelp for food ratings. It has icons on its main screen for "Hot" (whatever that means), Yelp Restaurants, Coffee, last.fm, Music (showing me concerts in Denmark?!?), Playing Tonight (movies), Yelp Bars & Clubs, Real Estate, Wikipedia, ATMs, Pizza, Aloqa, Yelp Fast Food and then "Add more channels." It more or less does what it is supposed to; it's nice to look at.

BeamReader - a PDF viewer. I should uninstall since I bought "Documents to Go"

Bubble Burst Lite -- Windows Mobile Jawbreaker for the Droid.

ConnectFour - decent enough implementation. AI seems a little stupid sometimes.

Documents to Go - open Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF. Does good job at rendering PDFs.

Flashlight - turns your screen white. Doesn't seem to adjust for maximum brightness. Passable.

Flickr Droid - Droid needs a good Flickr app. This isn't it, but the best one I could find that uses the Flickr API to let me at my stuff, since a lot of my photostream is friends/family only.

FlightStats Lite - haven't had a chance to play with this. Will in January as I head to CES.

Goggles - Google's latest toy. Varies from wildly successful to "how did you not recognize the Pepsi logo?!?"

GPS Status - essentially a digital compass. Used when I was troubleshooting GPS on the phone.

Flixter Movies - quick and easy to get to where we have to go for Friday Morning Movie Club.

NYC Bus and Subway Map - not as interactive as I'd like. Literally a HiDef graphic of the map, and you can click thru to the MTA website for further details on the lines.

OpenTable - online restaurant reservations from opentable.com . Decent.

Pandora - works well over 3G, tho I imagine it eats thru the quota pretty quick.

PicSay Lite - dopey photo editing thing. Makes speech baloons. Don't know why I downloaded this.

Poke a Mole - whack-a-mole for the phone. Fun game with a Giant Downside - even when phone is muted annoying background music plays. Have to go into game menu to mute it.

Remote RDP Demo - eventually I'll need to really use function keys when I Remote Desktop into a machine from my phone, but until then, the demo version does the trick.

Robo Defense FREE - I do enjoy the tower defense genre of casual gaming... so why not have it on my phone? (Hardly never play it. Seemed like a good idea.)

Shazam - this app still amazes me. Where did they get that song database???

Stopwatch - straightforward.

Sudoku Free - seeing it in my list makes me feel smart until I play it, thenI feel dumb.

The Weather Channel - it has a widget so I can glance at the home screen to see what it's going to be like... or rather I can look at the home screen and tell my wife what it's going to be like... (I had a weather widget on the Treo and missed it.)

TivoRemote - control the Tivo over WiFi. Nice, especially for text entry. The iPhone's version is better.

TRAFFIC! - A test app for me. Not in love.

Trap! - Another game, but its "draw a line" technology gets in the way of gameplay. Fun when it does what you want.

Tunes Remote - Control iTunes from the Droid. YAY! One of the big reasons I got the iPhone touch was to control the iTunes machine hooked to the outdoor speakers.

Twidroid Pro - From what I understand, the best Twitter client for the Droid. I'm happy with it. Does everything I need, but I am far from a Twitter power user, so some might find it lacking. They constantly update it which seems like they're interested developers.

US Traffic - Another traffic app that I tried before I realized Google Maps had a Traffic layer...

wpToGo - Allows me to post to WordPress from the phone... tho I have not had the need to do so.

What have I missed?

A client asked me how to best install Windows 7 for testing. His son is interested in it, and he thought his son's machine could afford being wiped to install the new OS.

I instead told him to use VirtualPC to do the job.

A quick Google later, and I pointed him to these directions as they were as full featured and complete a set as I've seen... and I didn't have to type them myself.

Nice job, Abbas!

One of our clients picked up some sort of infection over the weekend. The sucker was persistent, and after running the usual battery of utilities -- RootkitRevealer, SDFix, ComboFix, Stinger running inside a WinXP PE shell -- we got rid of the thing.

When I checked the post-infection System Event Viewer log, however, I got an interesting message:

Event Type:Error
Event Source:Schedule
Event Category:None
Event ID:7901
Date:1/31/2009
Time:9:00:00 PM
User:N/A
Computer:XXX03
Description:
The At46.job command failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

Huh? At46.job? I know the machine doesn't use the AT scheduler... let's see...

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\administrator\>at
Status ID Day Time Command Line
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 Each M T W Th F S Su 12:26 AM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 10 Each M T W Th F S Su 9:00 AM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 11 Each M T W Th F S Su 10:00 AM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 12 Each M T W Th F S Su 11:00 AM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 13 Each M T W Th F S Su 12:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 14 Each M T W Th F S Su 1:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 15 Each M T W Th F S Su 2:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 16 Each M T W Th F S Su 3:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 17 Each M T W Th F S Su 4:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 18 Each M T W Th F S Su 5:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 19 Each M T W Th F S Su 6:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 2 Each M T W Th F S Su 1:00 AM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 20 Each M T W Th F S Su 7:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
 21 Each M T W Th F S Su 8:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe
Error 22 Each M T W Th F S Su 9:00 PM C:\WINDOWS\system32\Hi3TR1uq.exe

And so forth, with hourly jobs listed down thru job 72. (It kept adding duplicate schedules...)

You can see we got the infection eradicated before 9 PM, because the 9PM AT job show errors.

For those of you who prefer a GUI, you can see the same thing in the Scheduled Tasks pane in Control Panel

So, don't overlook the AT scheduler as a place where infection might hide in an effort to replicate itself. This is the first time I've seen it there, and it will be a place I look at from here out...

Got an email from a client this morning complaining that he could not access his SBS 2003 Remote Web Workplace.

He was getting a 403.6 error -- IP Address rejected.

This didn't make any sense, since we want every IP address to be able to access the site and access to the site was fine earlier in the week.

Even after re-running the CEICW (Configure E-Mail and Internet Connection Wizard) a few times, I couldn't connect to the site from outside the local subnet.

The only thing that had changed recently was our swapping out of their existing router for a new Linksys WRT110.

I've set up enough SBS boxes to know which ports we want to open. So I clicked on the "Applications and Gaming" tab and put in the mappings for ports 25, 80, 110, 143, 443-444, 3389 and 4125.

However, I didn't put them where I thought I did.

When you click on the "Applications and Gaming" tab in a WRT54G router, you're taken to a "Port Range Forwarding" page.

Linksys has been doing itthis way for years.

Not so in the WRT110 series!

Now you're brought to a "Single Port Forwarding" page. It looks kinda similar:

But instead of there being a port RANGE, it's a single port. So when you put 443 in the first box and 444 in the second box of the WRT110, it MAPS 443 to 444, and that causes your SSL authentication to fail and your IP to be rejected. It doesn't work like you think. For that, you need to go here:

And if you were to put 443 and 444 in the boxes, then it all works...

So, the moral of the story is, make sure you're forwarding your ports correctly.