.zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted

Green files and folders on Windows 7 indicate they are encrypted. Usually this is a function of a program that will make these files encrypted for a reason. Security is usually the reason. But… An interesting little bug in the process of creating a .zip file on a mac and moving it over to a Windows computer. When a .zip file is created according to standards for .zip files found here: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT They specify that .zip archives include a tag informing about itself to the program trying to decompress the archive. This tag information is known as the “version made by” and as the name suggest, it would tag information about the program version of .zip and the files system in use. 0 – MS-DOS and OS/2 (FAT / VFAT / FAT32 file systems) 1 – Amiga 2 – OpenVMS 3 – UNIX 4 – VM/CMS 5 – Atari ST… Read More ».zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted

Problems with Windows Closing Programs and Logging off

Microsoft Fail of the Week! – Where are they going with all this? I’m rather sick of Microsoft “fixing” things in version updates to Windows. Here is one I just love to hate. I’m RDP into a server. Doing some server work. I finish and click log off. (Windows 2008 R2) I get a confirmation about it. – YES I get another confirmation about it – YES and Force Then is just sits there forever. Now I remote check the server performance. Guess what. the server load is through the roof. And stays that way for a considerable amount of time. Remote shutdown is disabled, and failing. The machine is in some sort of Microsoft Hell. Now it may be me, but did programs not shutdown correctly for like the last 15 years of Microsoft Windows, when you logged off. As a server administrator, am I so daft that I… Read More »Problems with Windows Closing Programs and Logging off