In the SysAdmin Lounge

Tips, trainings and warnings for the sysadmins in IT.

• IT Hiccups of the Week - IEEE Spectrum - Being “good” in IT is really hard. Much harder than people think.
• You may be a victim of software counterfeiting (or not) - MoonPoint support blog
• Defrag Tools: #58 - Sysinternals Streams and Autoruns Example - Defrag Tools Channel 9
• Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2013 - Lifehacker has a really great roundup and details on free online courses covering a wide range of subject matter…and not just in IT.
• free-programming-books/free-programming-books.md at master · vhf/free-programming-books · GitHub amazing collection of online books and reference materials for programmers. Spotted in this Grab Over 500 Free Programming Books from GitHub post at Lifehacker.
• Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 For Free - MakeUseOf blog. From the post…

Starting on December 1st, Universities that license Office Education for their faculty and staff can offer students Office 365 ProPlus for free thanks to a new program called Student Advantage. For students at these institutions, that means free access to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and Lync. While many cheaper alternatives to Office have sprung up, many students still rely on Redmond’s good ol’ productivity tools.

• TRAINING: Utilizing SysInternals Tools for IT Pros - Kurt Shintaku's Blog. From the post…

Microsoft’s Virtual Academy has published a training course specifically for SysInternals Tools, including Process Explorer, ProcessMonitor, PS Tools, PsTools, Autoruns, etc.

Microsoft Premier Field Engineers step through a technical deep dive on utilizing SysInternals tools. This course focuses on key administrative and diagnostic utilities and addresses key insights, and best practices.

• TRAINING: Utilizing SysInternals Tools for IT Pros
  http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/utilizing-sysinternals-tools-for-it-pros

• Tracking page file reads and writes - Clint Huffman's Windows Troubleshooting in the Field Blog
• [PowerShell Tip] Using WMIObject to Check Disk Partitions Info and Block Size - Next of Windows
• PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Obtain Disk Image Info - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
• The Net Command Line to List Local Users and Groups - Next of Windows
• 10 reasons for using PowerShell ISE instead of the PowerShell console - 4sysops
• Where can I find the USMT return codes and error messages for USMT 5 based migrations ? - just another windows noob ? blog
• Viewing Cached Google Pages from DuckDuckGo - MoonPoint support blog
• Cache (explained) - DuckDuckGo features page
• DuckDuckGo !Bang - DuckDuckGo feature detail page

Cheers

Claus Valca

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Internet Explorer 10 (for Win 7), Firefox bits, and How Google Works

News of Microsoft’s release of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 seemed to go off like a flare; lots of noise and brilliance…and then flickering out to nothing.

In my security posture of trying to keep all the web browsers installed on all our home systems current, I went ahead and jumped on IE 10 and installed it almost immediately after release on our Windows 7 systems. 

None of us (well except Alvis with her college portal) regularly use Internet Explorer.

I use still primarily use Firefox for my daily heavy-lifting at home, and supplement it with Chromium (a build version of Chrome).

Alvis prefers the public release version of Chrome…which self-updates BTW…so that is fine by me.

Lavie uses Firefox exclusively….also because of the bookmark sidebar feature.

But I leave Internet Explorer on our systems (for compatibility reasons with some applications and websites).

Anyway, it went on all out systems without much fuss…well, not really on mine. Lessons learned. If you want to manually put it on your system, just make sure of all the links you are offered, the one you are using is to the actual FINAL release installer and not one of the IE 10 “preview” release version installers. In my haste (and trust in the IE Blog post I used) I grabbed a preview version and had to go through a series of additional security updates and IE 10 release upgrades to eventually arrive at a fully updated version of IE 10.  I didn’t make that same mistake with subsequent installs on everyone else’s systems.

• Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7 - Ars Technica
• Internet Explorer 10 now available for more than 700M Windows customers - Exploring IE Blog
• IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses - IEBlog
• RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 - Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen
• Bloody well time, Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 - BetaNews
• Internet Explorer For Windows 7: New Features & Improvements - Addictive Tips
• IE10 on Windows 7: 5 Essential Facts - Software -Information Week
• Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (32-bit) - Official Microsoft Download Center
• Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Edition - Official Microsoft Download Center
• Download Internet Explorer 10 Language Packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - Official Microsoft Download Center
• Release Notes - Microsoft
• Download Internet Explorer 10 - Microsoft Windows - Worldwide installation packs

Meanwhile, these Firefox articles were pretty timely.

• Prepare Mozilla Firefox for Enterprise Deployment and Virtualization - Aaron Parker
• The Firefox Extension Guru's Blog links to this How to make Firefox the Fort Knox of browsers - over at Ghacks.

And Google has some great presentations to help you understand how their email and search services work.

• Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send - Google Official Blog
• The Story of Send - Google
• Google Releases Interactive Infographic: "How Search Works" - Search Engine Land
• How Search Works - Google

Stay informed & Browse safe.

Claus Valca

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Chrome(ium) Bits

Yep still here.

Required output at the coal-face down in the mine has come off the rails.  Hours are exceptionally long now and I’ve shifted most of the precious little “me time” left to being present with Lavie and Alvis when I see them.  And de-stressing by visiting Maru ( 私信 ).

The poor “to blog” folder is bursting at the seams and my Firefox JSON folder is ripe for breakdown!

So here are some quick-posts just to release the pressure buildup.

Gentle readers may recall back in my Finally! Time to Post! New material list I had been frustrated by the challenge of updating Chromium.  I had been using a compiled “AutoIt” executable from Caschy to make the process a breeze.  It stopped working. We were sad. It was because the source-folder used had been changed. the Updater got updated. We were all happy again.

Only a few weeks ago, we are all sad again.  Index of /f/chromium/snapshots/Win had a README that told the tale.

your are probably looking for http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

Why yes…I guess I was.

That updated location does contain the new Chromium build sets. Unfortunately, the only compiled New Portable Google Chrome Updater that I am aware of must now be recompiled again (we are waiting) to work for the Chromium builds.

Yes, I can download the latest chrome-win32.zip version each day, manually unpack it, and copy it to my Chromium application folder.  I could even write a script to do all that.

But I’m so tired.

So I checked out the Chrome Release Channels page and read for a while, eventually deciding that the Dev channel for Windows version was sufficiently cutting-edge but stable enough to move to.  As as added benefit Caschy’s Portable Google Chrome Updater tool still works for the Dev channel as that location hasn’t been piddled with.

More Chrome Flavors

Last week I also became aware of an “enhanced security” version of Chrome: Comodo Dragon .  BetaNews has a rundown of some of it’s features: Comodo Dragon: Better browsing security with less bloat

Likewise, SRWare Iron has been kicking around since the very beginning.

If you like portable versions (as I do) then you can check out Iron Portable and Google Chrome Portable both maintained by PortableApps.  Also, during the setup process for Comodo Dragon, it allows you to install as a portable version as well.

Enhancing Chrome’s Search Security

Yes, there are some other good search engines out there, but for plain power, trust, and interface, I still find myself using Google.

Spend any time at all doing packet capture and network HTTP analysis (BTW…NetworkMiner 1.1 Released a week ago) and you quickly find out what happens when users do not use SSL for their searches.

Personally, I now exclusively search more securely with encrypted Google web search.  However, remembering to type in the SSL address for Google secure search is a pain.  So I started to wonder if there wasn’t an easy trick to update the search setting in Chrome…and in Firefox as well.

Yep. Piece of cake, as they say.

How To Make Google HTTPS (Secured SSL) Search Default in Google Chrome? - Mezanul at MyTechGuide.org

Make Your Firefox Search Engine use Google’s SSL (https) Search for Security Reasons - 404 Tech Support

Add Google SSL Search Provider to Firefox Search Box - My Digital Life

So now I’m searching the webs SSL-style by default.

Cheers.

--Claus V.

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Linkfest: Inaugural-eve Edition

Quite a selection of great and useful applications have been updated over the past weeks.

Belly up to the bar and have a pint.

For the Visual Learners

• Flickr: Search The Commons and Library of Congress Releases Report on Flickr Pilot – The Library of Congress uploaded thousands of visual images in their archives to Flicker.  It is a simply amazing collection of material.  Much of it unseen until now.  It is a treasure-trove of images from a by-gone era.
• FlickrLeech – FlickrLeech used to be a web-site location where you could enter some search terms, pick a date, etc. and then be treated with a ton of greatly arranged and presented images from Flickr.  It was tons cooler and more effective than going to Flickr itself.  Unfortunately for the creator this caused a few issues.  The first was bandwidth, the other was that it could pull images that might not be appropriate according to various country’s censorship laws.  In the end, Andrew Houser scrapped the current model and is developing FlickrLeech (in alpha) so you can now download this tool (Adobe Air based) and do your searching here.  Current caveats: First you need to have a Flickr account and when you start the application, you must log in to Flickr to agree to the content presented.  Secondly, this early version only allows searching for most interesting images based on date.  There are many tantalizing enhanced features that are visible but not active quite yet.  So have fun kids and stay tuned for updates. This has become my daily diversion application!  It runs smooth and fast on our Vista systems no no problems, but it seems to lock up our XP system with CPU cycles getting pegged.  I’m not sure if that is just me or an XP thing.
• TiltShiftMaker - (web-service) – Site does some photo-manipulation work using blur filters to create a tilt-shift lens effect.  Not quite as good as the real thing, but it is a bit fun.
• The 10 Most Stunning Photo Blogs | MakeUseOf.com – Nice roundup of some other websites that feature the best in amateur photography.  Quite a nice list of sites. Almost all of them provide daily images. 
• The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging — Global Nerdy – Completely non-image related post, but provides an interesting flow-chart that reflects on decision to respond via comments to a blog post or not.  Besides being a great flow-chart, it also is quite translatable to a guide for posting comments of your own.  I like the way it shows that some “engagements” might not be worth pursuing.

Utilities

• OperaCacheView -  v1.15 – “...a small utility that reads the cache folder of Opera Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache.” Changes include adding 'Show Zero-Length Files' option and add of filter by file type. (text/html, image, audio, video, application).

• ChromeCacheView – v1.10 – “...a small utility that reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache.”  Changes include adding 'Show Zero-Length Files' option and add of filter by file type. (text/html, image, audio, video, application).

• RegDllView – v1.30 – “…a small utility that displays the list of all registered dll/ocx/exe files (COM registration). For each registered file, you can view the last date/time that it was registered, and the list of all registration entries (CLSID/ProgID).  RegDllView also allows you to unregister dll/ocx files that you don't need on your system anymore.”  Changes include the following new informational columns: File Modified Time, File Created Time, File Attributes.

• SysExporter – v1.41 – “…allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file> This version add a new option: Add Tree Indent Spaces To Exported Data.

• OpenedFilesView – v1.30 – “…displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more... Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files.”  New option: Bring process to front and enhanced with more accelerator keys.

• CurrPorts - v 1.56 – “…displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.”  Newest release adds option: Ask before any action.

• CCleaner – new release version offers these tweaks: command-line secure deletion, google Chrome thumbnail cleaning, moved language files to /lang folder, improved options cookie list browser detection, fixed minor bug in XP prefetch cleaning, fixed bug in IE History Index.dat cleaning, installer engine updates, and minor architecture improvements.

• Recuva -  This is a great freeware tool to restore files that have been accidentally or purposely deleted from a Windows system. Works on both hard drives, flash memory devices, and digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.  Changes to this release include Improved messages when cancelling large file recovery, secure delete is now grayed for non-deleted files, improved recovery of .TIF files from FAT32 drives, filter category text now updates dynamically when changing languages, fixed 'Check for updates' position in Vista, along with various minor tweaks and improvements.

• VirtualBox 2.1 – While I still primarily use Virtual PC 2007 for my Microsoft virtual systems, if I need to do virtualization of a Linux system, this is the tool I go to.  In addition to a large number of tweaks, performance enhancements, and bug-fixes, the following major changes were made: support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts, support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental), experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL, full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots, new NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support, and new Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows).

NirBlog: NirSoft utilities on Windows 7 Beta – Nir Softer has been playing with the new Windows 7 beta version and finds that his wonderful apps seem to work just fine.  That’s great news!

 New Finds

• Fried Babelfish – Do you do a lot of language translation work?  Generally when I do I fire up a web-browser session and hop over to Google Translate and to the job.  Fried Babelfish doesn’t use the Babelfish service but does use the Google Translate service, accessing it from within the application itself and not via a web-browser.  Clever!  Spotted over at Download Squad.

• Free Desktop FLV Player – nice standalone Flash video player.  GUI is very sweet.  Quite portable so you can take it with you on your USB stick.

• SUPER  - I don’t usually do much re-coding of media files.  Generally I need to do it only when I am converting a video for use on one of the girls’ iPod nanos.  Super is a great tool to simply that process.  This is a new release version.  Spotted via Download Squad.

• Howto: Generate many files of a particular size in Windows « the back room tech – Great post that points to a simple technique to generate test-files in high volume for testing of data or application handling.  Great tip Julie!

• Stardock ObjectDock - (freeware) -  OK. Confession.  I am a RocketDock fanboy and thing that next to nothing can go wrong with that application.  However, Stardock’s ObjectDock offers a freeware version that might give RocketDock fans pause to wonder.  RocketDock hasn’t been updated for a while (which based on its current stability isn’t a bad thing) but Stardock seems to continue product improvement.  If you are looking for some sexy eye–candy dock launchers, I think either one might fit your bill.                       

Browser Bits

• The Opera Christmas Edition and the newer New Year snapshot – both are beta-version releases of the Opera browser and may bring users (and brave testers) a taste of even newer features and capabilities.  These could be comparable (sort of) to Firefox nightly releases or Safari “seed” releases.  Test at your own risk.
• Block ads in Chrome-based SRWare Iron with a single file – Tip from Download Squad on how you can do some ad-blocking in the Iron version of Chrome.  Might be handy if you are a Chrome lover and are looking to skip out of ads. 

• Beta Beat: Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Now Available, Supports Profile Switching, User Scripts (Lifehacker), and Google Chrome Update With Form Auto-Completion And More (GoogleBlogOScoped), and Google begins work on Chrome 2.0 (Download Squad), and finally,  Hands on: Google leaps forward with Chrome 2.0 dev. preview (ArsTechnica).  All great looks at the latest features in the next version of Google Chrome.
• How To Spell Check With The Firefox Dictionary - MakeUseOf.com.  Most Firefox users probably are already fairly skilled in use of the internal dictionary.  MakeUseOf however brings in additional tips and tweaks to help enhance the power of this handy tool.

• Firefox new tab behavior to be updated – MozillaLinks tips us that the new tab handling feature in Firefox 3.1 is being tweaked a bit.  While it doesn’t look like it is getting a kill-command to nuke the bad behavior, it will now open child tabs directly to the right of the parent tab.  I guess that might make things simpler for some folks. 

• Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon, again (MozillaLinks). You may or may not have noticed, but Google recently updated their favicon.  In most cases my Google-related bookmarks have slowly been updating to the new icon, but not the Google icon in the searchbar.  I tried the tweak linked but it didn’t stick in my 3.1 builds.  So I came up with another technique that did.  First I deleted Google from my list of searchbar plugins and selected another as the default.  Then I hopped over to the Mycroft Project: Google Search Engine Plugins and reinstalled the Google searchbar item and set it as the default.  That worked and it sticks. 

• Textarea Cache :: Firefox Add-ons – Great little extension that caches the contents of text-area text while you type in comments.  Users can now recover the saved texts in the cache window, even the tab or the window is closed unexpectedly.  This might help save the day if you accidently crash while composing that extended comment or click-off with a hand-to-mouse spasm.

Full yet?

--Claus V.

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Quick Browser and Google Bits

Just some browser bits and pieces over the last weeks that might be worth noting

Google Chrome

While still not my main browser (Firefox 3.1b1 takes that slot), Google’s Chrome browser has endeared itself to my heart for its simplicity and style.  I love using it during presentations and trainings.  It really does bring the focus away from the browser and on the content.

That said, it still lacks many basic (IMHO) features. One of which is a bookmarks manager.

That hurdle has now been cleared.

Google Chrome gains a bookmark manager - Download Squad

I’ve tried it and it does add a lot to the Chrome party.  If you haven’t updated your Chrome browser it’s time to do so, for this alone! To do so simply go to "About Google Chrome" in the Tools/Help menu.  The updater should be available.

heise Security UK also points out some other worthwhile additions:

Google has also has brought all of the privacy settings together, and has reworked the pop-up blocker.

A potential security problem has also been eliminated. Until now, local HTML files were able to use XMLHttpRequest to move data to or from the internet, something attackers were able to exploit in order to steal data. Google has now put an end to this.

Also making some news is that upcoming releases of Chrome will also be able to fully support Chrome extensions now that the framework for API development for Chrome extensions has been published. Finally.

Google Chrome: Chrome Extensions On the Way, Adblock Imminent – Lifehacker.

I have to say, of all the Firefox Add-on extensions I use, the two I would most want to see in Chrome versions would have to be (hands down) Adblock Plus and NoScript.

Everything else would be gravy

Mozilla 3.1b3 ?

While I still wait for Firefox 3.1b2 to be released, now comes some interesting news that there might be a 3rd beta in the wings scheduled for Firefox 3.1.

Mozilla eyes extra beta for Firefox 3.1 – LinuxWorld

Previous schedules published by Mozilla had limited Firefox 3.1 to only two betas before moving to a release candidate.

In a long post to the "mozilla.dev.planning" forum, Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, said that Beta 3 is necessary to get a feel for the severity of the remaining bugs and an idea of how long it will take developers to eradicate them. In addition, another beta will give more exposure to features landing in the browser only as of Beta 2, which has not yet been released.

Not sure how likely this will be, but if it brings added stability and bug-fixes to key features and functionality to the next version update, I’m all for it.

Fashion your Firefox – Add-ins pre-picked/pre-packaged

Completely unrelated, but interesting none-the-less is the Mozilla sponsored Fashion your Firefox. This page allows you to select a Firefox “functionality theme” and then either select some/all of the suggested Add-ons in one fell swoop.  I really like this as a starting point for new-to-Firefox users as it really helps sort out some great Add-ons to showcase how Firefox is so awesome in flexing to the needs of its users.  And from a Mozilla-blessed standpoint to boot.

Sadly, lacking in the list are any collections that are forensic/pen-testing/security centric.  If you want those you will have to look to the Security Database Tools Watch - FireCAT 1.4 package or pop over to the Package de plugins FireCAT 1.4 (natively in French so here is the English Version a-la Google) and download the compressed file and install away. 

RE: GMail Exploit or Not?

In a late November GSD post, All Over Gmail: Like Stink on a Skunk, I mentioned a possible Gmail flaw that allowed a domain hijacker to drop some incoming mail intercept filters and take over the MakeUseOf blog site among others.  At the time it was unclear if this was a new/old/non-existent exploit. Although more than a few folks thought it was.

Well now that some time has passed, Google officially has said “not so!”

Google Online Security Blog: Gmail security and recent phishing activity

We've seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners' domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we're committed to providing secure products, and we mounted an immediate investigation. Our results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability.

With help from affected users, we determined that the cause was a phishing scheme, a common method used by malicious actors to trick people into sharing their sensitive information. Attackers sent customized e-mails encouraging web domain owners to visit fraudulent websites such as "google-hosts.com" that they set up purely to harvest usernames and passwords. These fake sites had no affiliation with Google, and the ones we've seen are now offline. Once attackers gained the user credentials, they were free to modify the affected accounts as they desired. In this case, the attacker set up mail filters specifically designed to forward messages from web domain providers.

So according to Google, the impacted users were victims of a phishing attack, not a Gmail exploit.  However, some good proof of concept seems to still show that it could be possible, however unlikely.

So, I still say keep an eye on your Gmail filters and check for anything unwanted and in the meantime, always use the HTTPS access login feature of Gmail just to be safe.

Other related links I collected as this story continued to develop:

Google security denies XSRF reports - Network Security Blog. A very good and brief analysis and commentary on the state of this particular story from security blogger Martin McKeay.

The fact is, I don’t see enough evidence for or against the exploitation of this vulnerability to prove either side of the story.   No amount of fact checking in the blogosphere is going to prove the point, there’s simply not enough known, it’s almost all speculation.  The Google Security team has to deny the report, it’s part of what they do.  But they have done a good thing in strongly suggesting everyone force their Gmail account only use SSL when logging in.  It’s not a perfect solution, but it is a step up from what most people are currently doing.

Gmail Exploit May Aid Domain Hijacking – ReadWriteWeb. Includes timeline of events and breakdown of the story from a wide-angle.

Hole in Google Mail allows mail to be hijacked - heise Security UK. Security site provides their perspective on the issue.

Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique – GNUCITIZEN old post on 2007 Gmail exploit issues.

Removing your Google Cached pages for deleted content

A very dear and cherished blogger whom I follow found herself out of work some months ago.  Her blogging has continued faithfully but recently took a turn of frustration and extro-spection when she wondered if her blog and its posts were a possible drag on her employment search and application-screening process.

With more and more Net savvy employers doing Google searches for evidence of an applicant’s background on the Net, it is becoming harder and harder to present a “sanitized” version of oneself.  The past can come back and bite you, even when “deleted”. (Related: The End of Online Anonymity –ReadWriteWeb).  I worry for Alvis and constantly coach her to be careful and restrained on what she shares about herself online.  It’s fun now as a teen but when she gets out of college eight or so years from now?  Then what when she starts climbing the career ladder?

Anyway, this particular blogger was contemplating deleting some/many of her previous blog posts.  I commented that while that seemed like a good response, Google’s cache or the Internet Archive makes it harder than ever to really scrub your previous online presence from the net.

That’s good from a research standpoint but bad from a personal-privacy/regret-remediation standpoint.

To learn more about how this can be done, see this post Browsing the Web Using Google Cache – Google Operating System Blog.

Google Cache is a great solution if a web page is down. If you're visiting a site and it returns a 404 error message, you can…do a search on Google for that site (add the cache: operator, so your search query would be something like cache:www.google.com).

Google Cache Hacking - rentzsch.com has more juicy details on this feature.

Instead, after opening my heart up a bit more than usual with perspective and encouragements, I offered some advice that maybe she should instead begin seeding her blog with more technical posts that would indicate her skills and showcase why her technical knowledge would be an asset, instead of just having posts (however wonderful they are) of a strictly personal nature.  Maybe that might work to her advantage as well as providing some balancing professional counterpoint to the personal themed posts.

That said, there are some avenues to getting your content removed from Google cache listings:

Google: Deleting things from Google’s cache – Lifehacker

Removing my own content from Google’s index – Google Webmaster Help Center

If the content is currently in our index, we will remove it after the next time we crawl it. To expedite removal, use the URL removal request tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

Same goes for the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine saved page removal.  From their FAQ

How can I remove my site's pages from the Wayback Machine?

The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple robots.txt file on your Web server, you can exclude your site from being crawled as well as exclude any historical pages from the Wayback Machine.

Internet Archive uses the exclusion policy intended for use by both academic and non-academic digital repositories and archivists. See our exclusion policy.

Here are directions on how to automatically exclude your site. If you cannot place the robots.txt file, opt not to, or have further questions, email us at info at archive dot org.

These are the only locations that previously Net posted materials may be saved, but might be the most common. 

Feel free to leave other tips on sites that cache pages even when removed and links for the removal process.

As for the dear blogger, she removed that particular post (and it wasn’t cached BTW) and I haven’t heard a response to my comments, but I did notice a few more “technical” posts on her blog.  Good show and best wishes!

Cheers!

--Claus V.

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