RE: Unitrends
FYI: Unitrends is very popular with most on the Spiceworks community. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Unitrends Anyone out there using Unitrends Enterprise Backup (the VM appliance version) in a mixed physical and virtual server environment? We're looking at options to protect physical SQL and Exchange and virtual everything else with a single application. Any real world experiences / thoughts to share? Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Logmein - down???
I was having some issues earlier this morning. Seems to be ok now. -- Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,CA 95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: David L Herrick [mailto:davidherr...@nincal.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Logmein - down??? Or is it only here? Tx David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Vic Card Recommendation
Have had good luck with an ATI x1300 with DMS59/LFH59 connector. Lost the cable, bought one on amazon for $16. Low heat, and we don't need any 3D, so its working really good. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vic Card Recommendation I'm in a need of a video card, low profile (for SFF), able to span two monitors that just have VGA connectors. Anyone have any recommendations? If necessary, I could find two monitors that are DVI. Thanks for any help, James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Serial-to-USB Kit
I used http://www.digi.com/products/model.jsp?mid=212 for a motel rental system about 5 years ago. The rental software only supported this Edgeport/1 and 1 other usb to serial adapter. My memory is really bad, I think it was to communicate with the cash register, or it could just have been for the modem. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Druva laptop backup software
Thanks! From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Druva laptop backup software Druva's pretty good IMO. The dedupe works well and it is pretty much set and forget. For 14 laptops there may be a question of whether you want to keep it in-house or if cloud is an option, but if you do want to keep it in house the two you've mentioned (Crashplan being the other) seem to be the best options. From: Gene Giannamore [gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: 15 July 2011 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Druva laptop backup software We are looking for laptop backup software similar to the current Druva insync. I have added it to my short list for testing (Druva insync). Just wondering peoples take on Druva, crashplan, and other similar products. FYI; We have 14 remote laptops to backup, with an average of 20GB of data for each. 75% of the time, these laptops have no internet access, even with vzw or att mobile internet devices. The rest of the time, internet access is slow. Thanks -- Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.comUrlBlockedError.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Druva laptop backup software
We are looking for laptop backup software similar to the current Druva insync. I have added it to my short list for testing (Druva insync). Just wondering peoples take on Druva, crashplan, and other similar products. FYI; We have 14 remote laptops to backup, with an average of 20GB of data for each. 75% of the time, these laptops have no internet access, even with vzw or att mobile internet devices. The rest of the time, internet access is slow. Thanks -- Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Fake antivirus
Had very good luck so far using combofix, Malwarebytes, and viper. Although 1 computer running XPsp3 is now very slow and the user does not want a wipe. I found combofix http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix here. I do not follow the directions completely; I don't post the log file to any forum. I do, disable AV, run updated combofix, enable AV, run malwarebytes. If there is anything still going on, I'll do a quick scan with superantispyware then investigate manually (registry, running processes, files). Gene Giannamore -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fake antivirus I'm going to go to a former co-worker's this afternoon to clean his system (again) from another fake antivirus infestation. I've already got Vipre Rescue and Malware Bytes on a memory stick. I've also got RKILL. I haven't had to deal with any fake antivirus in a few weeks. Just wondering if they have developed any new tricks recently that I should be aware of? Oh, this user had Vipre Home on his PC, and got infested anyway. Should I submit samples to Sunbelt (assuming I can find where they're quarantined)??? Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Tracking stolen laptop via IP address (internet)
More of a proof of concept. Can it be done, kinda thing. From my research seems fairly involved and has a low chance of success. I could be wrong though. Check the logs, find the remote ISP, contact them and somehow get the location info, see if the police there aren't busy, hope the location is not random. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tracking stolen laptop via IP address (internet) Somewhat. But you will likely need to cooperation from the ISP and local law enforcement on the other-end. Is proper theft-tracking software involved, or do you only have rudimentary IP address information? -- ME2 On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Is it possible to track/find a laptop via it's IP address across the internet? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.comhttp://www.abideinternational.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Ericom Blaze
Just started the demo. Only a few workers have commented, so far it has sped up viewing images and pdfs with embedded images. I think for us, a new server will also be needed, as our current xeon dp 3.8ghz Irwindale server just is not cutting it anymore. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ericom Blaze Did anybody use Ericom Blaze RDP ? Opinions welcome GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Quest's EOP
This article http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provision/tag/graphics-acceleration/ has me interested in this technology. Just wondering if anyone has used this or other similar technology? http://vworkspace.com/solutions/vworkspace/eop.aspx I also found an article under provision networks http://www.thincomputing.net/blog/provision-networks-rdp-graphics-acceleration-2.html Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
Allowing a choice and forcing or requiring are 2 different things. I just do not believe any human being should be forced or required to listen to any politician. Encouraged yes, required no. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th Oh. My. God. President speaks to children. At a school. It's never, ever happened before.http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020 It's really sad that there is no debate in this country, just I don't accept your viewpoint, so I'm going to listen to other people who share the same views (even though they probably don't share all the same views). If my daughter could participate I would encourage her to be involved no matter who is president, even if I disagreed with all of his policies. Sheesh, are you afraid your kids will be brainwashed in one friggin speech? On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this :) Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obamaÿÿ(tm)s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ÿÿ(tm) intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free worldÿÿ(tm)s perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[OT] PDF creation
Looking for a solution (GUI or CLI). We create numerous PDFs from numerous other documents, that are spread across our server. Occasionally the editable file's filename changes (because people cannot decide the best filename), or the file's location changes. The originals are usually word or excel documents, with some scanned or downloaded PDFs thrown in. Since there are so many projects, and the source files are constantly being updated (different ones at different times), I am hopping there might be a better way than each day, checking to see which files where updated, then recreating the PDF project and manually drap and drop into the combine pdf window (adobe acrobat 8 standard). I use Nero 6 (OEM), and it has a way to save my CD projects, and I believe it gives a message if a file is missing (because of a move or rename). It would be nice if there was a similar way to do my PDF projects. Maybe there is a way to use acrobat 8 standard via the CLI to accomplish this (still haven't found a way to convert or print to pdf via CLI). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] PDF creation
Usually have to output updated project (aka 1 pdf document) every day. Again either something like how nero saves CD data projects to be burnt again, or some way of using the CLI (I found pdftk, now if I can find some CLI way to convert or print to pdf). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] PDF creation You might be better off with a document mangement system. Then do the create PDF at the end of the project rather than dealing with this during a project unless you have to. Jon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Looking for a solution (GUI or CLI). We create numerous PDFs from numerous other documents, that are spread across our server. Occasionally the editable file's filename changes (because people cannot decide the best filename), or the file's location changes. The originals are usually word or excel documents, with some scanned or downloaded PDFs thrown in. Since there are so many projects, and the source files are constantly being updated (different ones at different times), I am hopping there might be a better way than each day, checking to see which files where updated, then recreating the PDF project and manually drap and drop into the combine pdf window (adobe acrobat 8 standard). I use Nero 6 (OEM), and it has a way to save my CD projects, and I believe it gives a message if a file is missing (because of a move or rename). It would be nice if there was a similar way to do my PDF projects. Maybe there is a way to use acrobat 8 standard via the CLI to accomplish this (still haven't found a way to convert or print to pdf via CLI). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.comhttp://www.abideinternational.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th
WOT = way off topic or wide open throttle? Anyway my bro-in-law wrote this ��� Dear Livermore school officials, Here are two Internet links: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obams-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 These links describe the President of the United States ��� intent to address pre-K to sixth graders live via the Internet. I am writing to ask for Livermore schools not to accept this broadcast live and/or have an opt-in form sent to parents (so that parents would have to agree to let their children view the speech). I ask this for the reasons below: 1. No Constitutional Authority. The Federal government has no authority to send curriculum to state schools and no authority to address minors without parental permission. 2. No politics in school. There has been no national tragedy that the president is reacting to. The President is trying to set a precedent whereby he may address our youth directly asserting his influence on educational policy. This is political in nature and subject to differences of opinion to-which adults may debate but should be transparent to our youth (especially 4-12 years old). A live broadcast does not allow parents sufficient time to counter the influence of the leader of the free wor�s perspective on education. 3. No usurpation of parental rights. Parents have the unequivocal right to guide their children in matters of politics, religion, morality, and etc. The president may have rights and responsibilities to speak to the public, but will violate parental rights by speaking to minors directly without supplying a written transcript or preview of the broadcast. 4. No captive audience. Without and Opt-in policy by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District , our children will be a captive audience to the influence of a politician. I believe need not make mention of historical abuses of this power by other nations. No matter how benign the Presidential address may seem, it reduces our liberty and our authority over our own children. So if you do not force our students to watch either by not broadcasting or having parents Opt-in, then you show your dedication to parental rights and authority. Thank you, Livermore parents ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Gaming computer
I just remembered them (from the hardocp article and lawsuit/settlement), nice fragboxes. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Gaming computer Don't' forget: http://www.falcon-nw.com/ -- Mike Gill From: Brian Richards [mailto:locomotive_breath_...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Gaming computer A few 'gaming pc' vendors from the Aug issue of CPU magazine (computer power user): www.cyberpowerpc.comhttp://www.cyberpowerpc.com www.maingear.comhttp://www.maingear.com www.ibuypower.comhttp://www.ibuypower.com www.digitalstormonline.com/cpuhttp://www.digitalstormonline.com/cpu Note - I have not purchased from any of the above vendors, preferring to build/mod my own. Brian MCSE and stuff From: Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:37:36 PM Subject: [OT] Gaming computer Curious which brand people purchased or recommend (if anyone ever does). I know of alienware, but dell bought them. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[OT] Gaming computer
Curious which brand people purchased or recommend (if anyone ever does). I know of alienware, but dell bought them. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Gaming computer
Ok, long day, too little info; It's a company gift to someone. I would rather someone else build it, and support/warranty it for the next 3 to 4 years. I am a little burnt out over home computer support (I left that work a year ago after 6 grueling years). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Gaming computer I'm not a hard core gamer, but if I was I'd probably build my own ... just built a new desktop/server, microcenter has the i7 quad core cpu for under $200 now, and a mother board for about $200 that works with the i7 and holds up to 24gb RAM... got it dual booting Win 7, and Win2008R2 with hypervisor ... On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Curious which brand people purchased or recommend (if anyone ever does). I know of alienware, but dell bought them. TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Gaming computer
I used to love nvidia ( I never used any better than some 7600, I forget which). Somewhere along the way we (at the old company) found the current ATIs to be better bang for the buck. After years of back and forth between the 2 companies, I really couldn't care less which one we get. I just check around the various review places (plus Tom's hardware) and pick a decent current one. Probably a 285 or a 4870. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Gaming computer As a gamer (not a hard-core gamer, but still a gamer), nVidia is the video card that I choose for gaming systems. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Peter van Houtenpeter...@gmail.commailto:peter...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-you-don-t-need-a-quad-core-cpu--326115 And NVidia is of course a completely unbiased source for such a claim... ;-) In other news, Ford says you shouldn't buy a Chevy. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Our profession has been exposed
Can't have one without the other http://xkcd.com/518/ -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Our profession has been exposed Now anyone can be a sysadmin/tech support person: http://xkcd.com/627/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Guard tracking system
Nope, has to be our equipment, cannot tie into the government's stuff, cant get reports from them, etc. Besides, it's the patrol in each section (1/2 a football field in size), while we have the fire sprinklers turned off. We will be getting one of the systems that has passive stations, the guards unit will record date, time, station ID. Then we find some way to download to a computer and send data to main office. I am pretty sure it will electronic, not mechanical. Googling watchman's timeclock got me the best results so far. Thanks! Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 5:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Guard tracking system Does the existing badge handle unlocking doors for the security guards? If so, there may be some sort of plug-in to your existing door control software that would allow live tracking. [cid:image001.jpg@01CA2565.F20467A0][cid:image002@01ca2565.f20467a0] From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Guard tracking system We need to employ a guard tracking system on 4 floors of a government building for firewatch duty. Has anyone deployed a system like that? Anything we should look out for ? Something simple would be good (especially since the corridors have no internet access - and we are not going to try and run wire). Since our guard force is required to wear badges for building and floor access, we figured one more badge for the tracking system would be best (rather than a key or fob). Any help would be very much appreciated. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.66/2325 - Release Date: 08/25/09 06:08:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE
Can also do a trial of ESX or vsphere. Wish I had a 64bit pc I could wipe. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE Hi Yes I think . I will go with ESXi the system can be wiped as its a test machine Thanks for all the comments Regards Nigel From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: 25 August 2009 14:58 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE Why not use ESXi? I think the PE 2950 even ships with that as a boot option. From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE VMware server Regards Nigel From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: 25 August 2009 13:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE ESXi or VMWare Server? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE Hi Yep sorry missed out this detail we installed the Free VMWare version, at the moment we ae testing fesability of virtualising some old machines Thanks Nigel From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 25 August 2009 13:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE Are you installing ESX or the free flavour of VMWare? The Windows-based free version is a little sketchy when it comes to reliability as I remember... 2009/8/25 Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.ukmailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk We have 2 x Dell servers Dell poweredge 2950 3 x raid 5 drives 1 x hotspare each disk is 73gb The machines are using the internal Dell perc5i integrated raid controller Both have the same problem When installing VMWARE and creating a cople of virtual machines once these are running the server seems to freez for upto 2 minutes then contines processing, of course this causes problems I am curious if this has happened to anyone else Nigel Parker --- Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.comhttp://www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.ukmailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk --- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail --- Ultraframe design and manufacture innovative and quality conservatory solutions to suit all styles, all applications, all consumers and every price point. By demonstrating our company values of innovation, integrity, total quality, premium service and customer first, we will to continue to build our position as UK market leader. For more information visit our website: www.ultraframe.co.ukhttp://www.ultraframe.co.uk The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received
RE: Undelete
I used getback for fat or ntfs numerous times to retrieve pictures from HDDs, and memory cards http://www.runtime.org/ Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Undelete A friend of mine had her kids mess around with her computer. Her husband in all his wisdom (he has a PhD) wiped the drive with a format before she could remove her personal pictures (of the kids growing up). I will be attempting to recover those files and am wondering if anyone can suggest the ultimate DOS undelete tool. I have a couple in mind but want to be equipped with the best tools before I get started. Thanks Steve ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[OT] Guard tracking system
We need to employ a guard tracking system on 4 floors of a government building for firewatch duty. Has anyone deployed a system like that? Anything we should look out for ? Something simple would be good (especially since the corridors have no internet access - and we are not going to try and run wire). Since our guard force is required to wear badges for building and floor access, we figured one more badge for the tracking system would be best (rather than a key or fob). Any help would be very much appreciated. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Guard tracking system
More info. We are replacing the fire sprinklers on 4 floors. Each floor is 60,000 square feet and divided by security corridors with locked doors at each end. The badges are ID only, for floor and building access. We are the Prime GC. We can mount stations on the walls. The whole setup will be temporary. The firewatch patrol is while we are replacing each floor's west or east side, until each section is fully operational. The data needs to be stored in the badge (or key/fob). No cabling of any kind allowed at each station (not even power), and not much success getting any wireless inside each floor to work past a few walls. I am dreaming of badges that use wireless smartcard, RFID, or other similar tech, and each station uses a battery that lasts more than 7 days. Then the person on patrol, just walks by the station, and the badge records the event, date and time. At end of shift or even end of week, we read the badges. At least if it is a badge, then they should not loose them (they seem to remember their building badges). Not wanting any kind of real time or GPS system, since we don't need that level of tracking. We just need a way to make sure the person did walk his route, during his shift. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Guard tracking system On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Since our guard force is required to wear badges for building and floor access, we figured one more badge for the tracking system would be best (rather than a key or fob). When you say they have to wear badges, do you mean the badges are for an access control system (door locks)? If so, the system may already have such a feature. We just invested in a access control system, and it has a Guard Tour feature that purports to do just what you're asking for. I will say this: Before you buy, see if you can get hands on with the PC software which supervises the show, and ideally, the equipment itself. For our system, People Outside The IT Department(TM) bought it and then came to us, and we've discovered the software is total crap. Needs admin rights, has to have some stuff running in the foreground (no service-only), crashes and locks up a lot, slow, overall flaky, poorly documented, ugh. I suspect this is one of those industries which is forever trapped in the 1985 PC mindset. There have also been some issues with the actual door control units not quite working as advertised, and generates spurious alarms. System's been installed for six months and it still doesn't work right. Ugh. Some of all this might be the installer company, though; we also discovered they've never used this system before. Ugh ugh ugh! -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] Guard tracking system
Nothing wireless works, unless you have a window. Cell phone service is spotty at best in the outer halls. I will look at these. I guess we can just get more lanyards (I call em loose dog collars). I just worry about all the different stuff these laborers have to remember to bring and do every day before they even start working! These guys really are jack of all trades as far as labor goes, just trying to avoid throwing on the last straw. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Guard tracking system I know you said you wanted to give them a badge, but hear me out... What about using Mobile or QR Codes or barcodes and a smartphone with a built-in camera/app to read them that will time/date stamp the read? Then you upload the data to your logging system... http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html http://www.indianweb2.com/2008/06/introducing-mobile-codes-the-next-mobile-20-buzz/ You could create your own Mobile/QR Codes for each location you want the guard to go to... Another idea... (I know you said wifi doesn't work, but if cell phone service works and you can get mobile broadband...) have each unique Mobile/QR Code send the phone to a website you specify that is uniquely linked to each individual Mobile/QR Code. The guard then has to authenticate to the site and that proves he scanned the location at the time and date via the login to the secured site. No more replacing batteries at each station, as you can apply the Mobile/QR Codes to the wall and be done. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Guard tracking system More info. We are replacing the fire sprinklers on 4 floors. Each floor is 60,000 square feet and divided by security corridors with locked doors at each end. The badges are ID only, for floor and building access. We are the Prime GC. We can mount stations on the walls. The whole setup will be temporary. The firewatch patrol is while we are replacing each floor's west or east side, until each section is fully operational. The data needs to be stored in the badge (or key/fob). No cabling of any kind allowed at each station (not even power), and not much success getting any wireless inside each floor to work past a few walls. I am dreaming of badges that use wireless smartcard, RFID, or other similar tech, and each station uses a battery that lasts more than 7 days. Then the person on patrol, just walks by the station, and the badge records the event, date and time. At end of shift or even end of week, we read the badges. At least if it is a badge, then they should not loose them (they seem to remember their building badges). Not wanting any kind of real time or GPS system, since we don't need that level of tracking. We just need a way to make sure the person did walk his route, during his shift. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Guard tracking system On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Since our guard force is required to wear badges for building and floor access, we figured one more badge for the tracking system would be best (rather than a key or fob). When you say they have to wear badges, do you mean the badges are for an access control system (door locks)? If so, the system may already have such a feature. We just invested in a access control system, and it has a Guard Tour feature that purports to do just what you're asking for. I will say this: Before you buy, see if you can get hands on with the PC software which supervises the show, and ideally, the equipment itself. For our system, People Outside The IT Department(TM) bought it and then came to us, and we've discovered the software is total crap. Needs admin rights, has to have some stuff running in the foreground (no service-only), crashes and locks up a lot, slow, overall flaky, poorly documented, ugh. I suspect this is one of those industries which is forever trapped in the 1985 PC mindset. There have also been some issues with the actual door control units not quite
[OT] Bulky printer disposal
We have a large printer (to us at least), HP CLJ 5550DN (130lbs). I have spent several hours trying to find someone that will take this thing away (we are willing to pay). Local garbage company, local county, next county over, goodwill, officedepot, HP (no #), even some printer repair places, and toner recyclers. Apparently we are in the wrong city. If we were in the next county or near our counties main city, then no problem. Any ideas or phone numbers would be appreciated, I'm feeling a little brain dead and drained right now. TIA. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
[OT] Sage software north america
Just wondering about other people's experiences with support and licensing with the various products from this company in USA. I am used to the support and licensing practices used with MAS90 ( when Sage first bought SOA, and when they brought out the first graphical version). We currently are using Sage's MasterBuilder (formerly from Intuit - originally from Omware). And the licensing and support practices are a bit different. Basically, the current controller did not understand the ramifications of only renewing support for half our licenses, 1 year ago. Now sales is demanding we purchase new licenses at full price. This seems strange to me, since when the exact same thing happened at a former employer (with MAS90 evolution III), Sage required payment for the missed 2 years of support plus a small penalty (total was still much less than the full price of the non-renewed licenses). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mail server software
I will disagree on Exchange being fragile. I am not sure how we decided to get Exchange Server 4 for my former employer at that time. This is when I learned to be an NT3.51/NT4 admin. The exchange public/private databases should have been destroyed by me dozens of time. I learned a lot of things that should never be done. I upgraded thru each version until 5.5SP2 (I think SP2 is where I stopped). Only had 1 Exchange server. Played with 2 one time. Moved the public to #2 then after 2 weeks had to move it back to #1. I believe that's where I learn of Don Ely's way of doing a few things :) I am bit more cautious now a days (backups, VMs, test machines, etc.). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: What's the problem with the database engine? There's been a massive amount of engineering work in that space - I don't expect it's going anywhere. I can't speak for the OP... but the fact that the Exchange IS is a giant binary blob, completely opaque for the most part, requiring special tools to work with it, has always made me somewhat uncomfortable. I worked with a Cyrus mail system once that was really sweet. It could handle many more users on much smaller hardware vs Exchange at the time, and all the mail was still stored in plain text files (one per message). You could analyze the message store with the more command if you had to. I don't think we ever had to, but it was nice to know you had the option. I like simple systems; they tend to be more robust. Exchange has always struck me as being more complex than it needed to be. In particular, Exchange is pretty fragile when you mistreat it. There's not much you can do to a Cryus mail server that will result in major data loss; you can reconstruct from basics if you have to. Exchange, sheesh, in 2000, all you had to do was run a file search against the M: drive and the server would implode. On my list of things to worry about, all this is pretty low down on my list, but it's not my ideal situation. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: UNSUBCRIBE
Don't hold that $h1t in, Let it out :) Personally, I think I am about ready for a real punching bag. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UNSUBCRIBE Unfscking believable, a goddang row of certs w/ VP titles and cant fsking figure out how to unsub a mailing list? Why can't I find a good job with bullsh!t entry requirements? I run a mix of Windows, Linux and Unix machines with no paid support on any of it bc my company owner is a cheap bugger who got used to me just getting it done on my own? Wtf... Whew, I feel better now:) From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UNSUBCRIBE Did you notice he has a certification in snorting?? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Jaime Manriquez [mailto:jmanriq...@sccountybank.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UNSUBCRIBE Importance: High Jaime Manriquez C|EH,MCP,MCTS,SnortCP Vice President Chief Technology Officer Information Security Officer Phone: 831.457.5003x2221 Cell: 831.234.7801 Fax: 831.761.7601 jmanriq...@sccountybank.commailto:jmanriq...@sccountybank.com www.sccountybank.comhttp://www.sccountybank.com [cid:image001.jpg@01CA19C3.1499EEB0] þ Please consider the environment before printing this email. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpg
RE: AOL
Here's a nice cabling story http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/An-Unlikely-Network-Outage.aspx Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bobr...@pge.com wrote: Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the cabling/terminations were one more variable in getting to damn things to work. How about BNC 10BASE2? Nothing like having the entire LAN go down because some luser decided to unplug their computer to move it to the other side of their desk... -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: [OT] RIP John Hughes
Its like my all time favorites list. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] RIP John Hughes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3udQw0SBzM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: AOL
Arcnet, now thats funny. Just saying makes me laugh like a crazed person. Too many arcnet installs. Luckily, they were all small. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Groan. One word. Arcnet. At one stage, we started putting a bead of solder between the T-piece and the male connector so that they could only remove the T from the NIC. -- Peter van Houten On the 07/08/2009 22:40, Ben Scott wrote the following: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bobr...@pge.com wrote: Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the cabling/terminations were one more variable in getting to damn things to work. How about BNC 10BASE2? Nothing like having the entire LAN go down because some luser decided to unplug their computer to move it to the other side of their desk... -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: AOL
Chameleon? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet? :) -ASB --- http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/AndrewBaker --- On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Ayup. About as badly as the original NetWare client for Win95 did... -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it acted like a special AOL loopback adapter that allows connect to AOL/Internet or something frustrating. Normal troubleshooting of the network pieces only got me part way - uninstalling AOL would even sometimes break the TCP/IP stack... Dave From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.commailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL I had to visit a doctor's office (office would dial in remotely to the hospital) because she said the link (url) to our RAS wasn't working. Got there and she's running AOL (and she has broadband, too). Every freakin' time I tried to put a shortcut on her desktop to the RAS, AOL would change it. Finally, I told her I'd put it in her Favorites folder. From: david@nwea.org To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:07:53 -0700 Subject: RE: AOL When I get asked to work on a home user PC with AOL I let them know up front *I DO NOT SUPPORT AOL* nor troubleshoot Internet browsing issues other than being able to ping the gateway and 4.2.2.2 (my favorite public DNS 'cause it's easy to remember). Dave From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.commailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. Fidonet all the way, baby I ran a BBS for many years. I think I still have the 386 it was running on when I finally shut it down. WildCat BBS from Mustang Software. Those were the days. CIS 75500,3223, that was me. However, 16 of the 17 hits of a Google search for my old ID are messages on this list from 2008 ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=75500%2C3223; I remember being excited when I had a real email address of 75500.3...@compuserve.commailto:75500.3...@compuserve.com ... I had some really neat software for reading forums -- OzCIS -- and eventually OzCIS for Windows, which never really measured up to the DOS program. Never had a Prodigy address. I got an AOL address -- a couple of them, actually -- this year so I could support home-clients with AOL issues, and for IM purposes. Never use them, though. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Custom BIOS
I believe that if the computers have Intel's AMT (vPro?), you can use that. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: Okan Bostan [mailto:bosta...@itu.edu.tr] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Custom BIOS Hi List, We have purchased ~750 PC (Hp DC7900) for student labs. I want to set a password for BIOS for all the new computers, and make some restirictions, like disabling cdrom boot. Is there a way to automate this process? I don't want to set all passwords manually. I have seached a little, I think about taking the modified bios image and applying it as bios update to computers via Group policy. In addition to this, I have tried uniflash, awdflash or HPQFLASH and FLASHBIN to backup the current password protected BIOS as .bin file but I cannot succeed it, Any suggestions? Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ATT SMTP server problems
Had same exact problem with a Verizon usb727. Coworker handed over his v740 to try out, and sending worked again. Should be getting a replacement pc770 2 in 1 in a few days. Took 1 minute on phone with my Verizon sales rep to resolve, and we are a very small business account. I am extremely happy with the way we get treated by our Verizon rep. Nice discounts, friendly prompt service, WOW. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: ATT SMTP server problems My boss has ATT wireless service and is reporting that he has been unable to send emails from his phone since yesterday afternoon. Anyone here know of any problems with ATT wireless email? According to my boss, the smtp server for ATT wireless is cwmx.com and it's not working. He also said that it would not surprise him if they changed that and neglected to tell anyone. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CA15B8.7C6B6820][cid:image002@01ca15b8.7c6b6820] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: [OT][Humor] AOL
Laughed so hard I got a headache! Thanks! Need some Excedrin now. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT][Humor] AOL I've discovered that if I play an AOL installation CD backwards, I get satanic messages. Then I tried playing it the other way, and something really bad happened: I got AOL. (Adapted from another quote; original author unknown.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: On the back of the favorite tools thread,...
Never gotten a partition back, I have used getback (ntfs and fat versions 2 and 3) http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm, to recover data from multiple formatted disks, damaged disks (bad sectors and read errors), and other problems. I consider it very slow, since it seems to examine every sector. It is very simple and easy to use. I have also used driveimage off the ubcd4win to upgrade my laptop from 20gb to 40gb using a usb hdd, again kinda slow (but did not have to go out and buy the 2.5 ide adapters). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On the back of the favorite tools thread,... Anyone have any ideas for rebuilding the MFT after corrupting the primary and backup version of it on a hard drive for a Toshiba laptop? Hoping that if the MFT is gone (both versions) the data is still there and may be recoverable somehow? Thanks Don K - Original Message From: Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 3:35:21 PM Subject: RE: On the back of the favorite tools thread,... To pound on hard drives specifically, I like to use iometer. http://www.iometer.org/ -Original Message- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On the back of the favorite tools thread,... Does anyone here have any decent stress test tools? When we get a new server we like to soak test it on the bench for a couple of days, but what Id like to do is run some tests on it that stress the CPU, Memory, HDD's etc... Does anyone do this, and if so what do you use? Iv looked at UBCD, but it has too many things on it really, Id like something I can boot the server with and it just gets on with it, it would be handy if it runs inside Windows as well as being a boot disk. -- Gavin Wilby. MCSE. MCTS. MCITP. ACSP. MSN: gavst...@hotmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Computer BLOWS UP with spooler SubSystem App errors
Have to be careful with the 1000 series, the 1160 was decent, most of the 10XX were junk. At my old job we would just use built in laserjet 3 drivers. My old boss would rate the quality of a printer by weight and construction. He was right more than 90% of the time. Go figure. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Computer BLOWS UP with spooler SubSystem App errors On my campus, it was new printer(s). I couldn't fix it - HP wouldn't acknowledge it as an issue - I gave up. Same here - from what I've seen in the HP forums, it was specifically the HP 1020 (which is the model we had issues with.) We replaced it with a 2015 and all is well. - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: exploding iPods
I don't know why, but PC always means to me Personal Computer (not an IBM compatible, or WinTel, or x86/x64). Problem is, I can't think of anything better. I always think of personal computer as any computing device, intended for personal ownership. I wonder why it bothers me so much. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: exploding iPods You pay for what you get. PCApple Monitor Monitor CPU CPU Keyboard Keyboard Mouse Something like a mouse All the extras you can think of Both have a 3 to 5 year expected life cycle. You get virii in both now. You get support for both. PC's have more techies to pull from in open forums though. You can get replacement components for a PC almost anywhere. Apples you have to find an Apple Store... I think I still have to go with a PC. - Original Message - From: Jon Harrismailto:jk.har...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:02 PM Subject: Re: exploding iPods Agreed add to that they scream bloody murder for the price you pay for Microsoft product and not a word of regret at paying more for Apple hardware/software. Jon On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Derek Lidbomdlid...@trone.commailto:dlid...@trone.com wrote: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/03/apple-most-assuredly-not-slapping-family-with-gagging-order-ov/ #ifdef RANT A confidentiality agreement is standard operating procedure BULL FSCKING SH*T. I do warranty/repair claims all the freaking time with any number of suppliers, and I have *NEVER* had to sign a confidentiality agreement. *EVER*. Good gods, is there anything Apple can do that won't have the fanboys and fangirls crawling out of the woodwork to defend them? I swear, Steve Jobs could sh*t in a box, and people would still be lining up buy it, and saying it doesn't smell. At least people *complain* about Microsoft's misdeeds. #endif -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro
Sometimes, a tech cannot wipe (even though we always should be able to). Because of that, we had to clean in 2 steps; 1) ubcd4win (installed and updated on a clean system), ran at least 1 cleaner and 1 antivirus, plus manually checked the usual startup locations in the registry 2) safe mode, installed spybot, antivir, ad-aware, etc., and ran those. Times change, not sure which current ones can be installed in safe mode. Sometimes the bootcd cleaners will remove an infection that hooked into the registry (win32 subsystem usually), and we would need to manually repair that section of the registry (just use the clean computer to find the correct text in the registry, or export and import). Worst part was having to tell customer windows install completely broken, even after a repair install. Some things cannot be fixed. We would do about 10 computer cleanings a day, between 3 techs (only had 7 locations we could work at). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Nuke and pave is the way to go if you want full confidence that your personal info is secure. No cleaning tool is 100% guaranteed to get everything, every time. Carl -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Oh I wish I'd known about that link before I gave up and wiped a laptop (good friend of wife, I didn't have plans of course I'd be happy to help her out dear) Sunday. Nasty little piece of work would disable AV and lock me out of the file system path. So I eventually just nuked the system and built it properly, probably for the best. Steven On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Alex Eckelberryal...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: Or run the free VIPRE tools: http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ Or http://www.vipreantivirus.com/ All free. Also check your host file to see if it's been modified as well as your local DNS settings... Alex From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro I would also recommend scanning with a copy of MalwareBytes from www.malwarebytes.com. It's a free anti-malware app that has found stuff that our antivirus/anti-spyware app overlooked. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Try HijackThis or similar. Looks like something has sneaked right under your radar 2009/7/21 Bill Monicher bmacd5...@gmail.com Has anyone seen this before? When I do a search using Google or Yahoo, I'm presented with the usual list of links matching the search terms. When I click on one, I am very briefly presented with a page with a beige rectangle in the centre and an arrow. The legends says Skip this page and Your request is loading When it completes I am at www.search.pro, not the seach choice I wanted. I'm using Firefox. AVG w/ all of the latest updates I looked in the usual places -- add-ons, extensions etc but to no avail. The URL on the redirect page seems to change several time before it shows the list of choices. shopica.com is often there, tho I've seen others. the URL of the destination is www.search.pro Has anyone seen this? It appears new -- there is little on google about it, but then searching on search or pro is hardly going to narrow the field much. My surfing habits make this sort of thing very rare, so I've no idea how I got it. It has only shown up over the past week or so. --BM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro
Luckily I do not do that anymore, too many ugly situations, now I am a junior admin again, at a small company, only this time, no exchange server (yeah!). I can tell you no fun telling the customer the bad news, no matter how nicely I worded it, and kept it simple. Plus we lost maybe 3 work hours each time it happened (imagine billing the customer 5 hours of labor for this, 2 to 3 for cleanup, plus 2 to 3 for backup/wipe/retore). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Tried those, failed. Pulled data and rebuilt. It was some nasty stuff. If she would have had to go to a tech and paid for it, it would have been ugly. :) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Giannamoregene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Sometimes, a tech cannot wipe (even though we always should be able to). Because of that, we had to clean in 2 steps; 1) ubcd4win (installed and updated on a clean system), ran at least 1 cleaner and 1 antivirus, plus manually checked the usual startup locations in the registry 2) safe mode, installed spybot, antivir, ad-aware, etc., and ran those. Times change, not sure which current ones can be installed in safe mode. Sometimes the bootcd cleaners will remove an infection that hooked into the registry (win32 subsystem usually), and we would need to manually repair that section of the registry (just use the clean computer to find the correct text in the registry, or export and import). Worst part was having to tell customer windows install completely broken, even after a repair install. Some things cannot be fixed. We would do about 10 computer cleanings a day, between 3 techs (only had 7 locations we could work at). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Nuke and pave is the way to go if you want full confidence that your personal info is secure. No cleaning tool is 100% guaranteed to get everything, every time. Carl -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Oh I wish I'd known about that link before I gave up and wiped a laptop (good friend of wife, I didn't have plans of course I'd be happy to help her out dear) Sunday. Nasty little piece of work would disable AV and lock me out of the file system path. So I eventually just nuked the system and built it properly, probably for the best. Steven On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Alex Eckelberryal...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: Or run the free VIPRE tools: http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ Or http://www.vipreantivirus.com/ All free. Also check your host file to see if it's been modified as well as your local DNS settings... Alex From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro I would also recommend scanning with a copy of MalwareBytes from www.malwarebytes.com. It's a free anti-malware app that has found stuff that our antivirus/anti-spyware app overlooked. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro Try HijackThis or similar. Looks like something has sneaked right under your radar 2009/7/21 Bill Monicher bmacd5...@gmail.com Has anyone seen this before? When I do a search using Google or Yahoo, I'm presented with the usual list of links matching the search terms. When I click on one, I am very briefly presented with a page with a beige rectangle in the centre and an arrow. The legends says Skip this page and Your request is loading When it completes I am at www.search.pro, not the seach choice I wanted. I'm using Firefox. AVG w/ all of the latest updates I looked in the usual places -- add-ons, extensions etc but to no avail. The URL on the redirect page seems to change several time before it shows the list of choices. shopica.com is often there, tho I've seen others. the URL
RE: Presentation Laptop recommendations
Refurbished dell e6400. Great price, 3 year warranty. Takes a while to find the right one, I am way too picky about each part. No sales person to get in the way when buying refurbished, plus the price is nice. I would love to try out a E6400 ATG: 14.1 Semi-Rugged or E6400 XFR: 14.1 Fully-Rugged. Too bad the e series uses a different docking connector though, than the previous models. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Presentation Laptop recommendations I'm in the market for a new laptop to run sales and training presentations. In the past I've always gone with Dell Latitudes and they've always been durable and reliable. I thought that since the sales folks at Dell have been all but rude to me recently, I'd take a look at the other offerings this time around. Does anyone have any opinions or recommendations for a Durable (multiple users, no single responsible owner) laptop for running PowerPoints, DVDs and other multimedia presentations with various rented or borrowed projectors? This laptop will do a lot of traveling with different users who will be packing it in car trunks and otherwise abusing it. In order of importance: Function (must never stutter in a presentation) Durability Cost Small and lightweight Thanks for any insight, Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: File Lock Down
You are so beautifully twisted, you know that right? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Lock Down This was covered on the Exchange List back in 2005 by Clubber Lang: You need to unsubscribe. Here's how: First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron unsubscriber will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large X outlet hose. Twist the silver-colored ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock. The kit is now ready for use. The List-Eliminator is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial condition, so that the two orange lines meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron unsubscriber in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button. The controls for System B are located on the opposite side. The red release switch places the List-Eliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self- adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button, which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the List-Eliminator to its storage position. You may log off if the green exit light is on over the evaporator . If the red light is illuminated, one of the List-Eliminator requirements has not been properly implemented. Press the List Guy call button on the right of the evaporator . He will secure all facilities from his control panel. To use the Auto-Unsub, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower, taking the entire kit with you. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a Shower seal button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob, select the desired setting. Now depress the Auto-Unsub activation lever. Bathe normally. The Auto-Unsub will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the Manual off override switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue Shower seal release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the Velcro slippers and place them in their container. If you prefer the ultrasonic log-off mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A B. The knob to the left, just below the blue light, has three settings, low, medium or high. For normal use, the medium setting is suggested. After these settings have been made, you can activate the device by switching to the ON position the clearly marked red switch. If during the unsubscribing operation, you wish to change the settings, place the manual off override switch in the OFF position. You may now make the change and repeat the cycle. When the green exit light goes on, you may log off and have lunch. Please close the door behind you. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Lock Down I want a pony. -sc From: Lee Anderson [mailto:lee.mortg...@att.net] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Lock Down I WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO THIS. Lee Anderson Branch Manager Continental American Mortgage 13999 Goldmark Dr 307A Dallas, Texas 75240 Direct 214.329.4890 x 3021 Direct Toll Free 866.684.5806 x 3021 Fax 866-545-8408 lee.mortg...@att.net mailto:lee_mortg...@att.net Complete Your Online Application Now https://2809946751.secure-loancenter.com/webapp/fullapplogin.aspx?oempage=1 I have attached my Outlook V-Card as an attachment as well From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Lock Down Wow that'll teach me to try and reply while on the phone My intent was to have you use a batch file to launch the EXE and create a temp file on some shared network location, and each subsequent firing of the CMD file creates another file (as long as there aren't 10 files) and if there are 10 files, the CMD file exits w/out firing off the desired .EXE. You can optionally put some event handling like
RE: Phones
+1 BT keyboard for all smart phones Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phones I don't like ssh on the iphone, but that's because I don't care to type a whole lot on it. I still want a BT keyboard! On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: Ugh, my bad, I have a bad habit of reading too fast and missing key bits. J That's a bummer about being locked into those choices. I did use SSH on the pearl. Had to create a lot of customized entries in the dictionary for the cmds, but it wasn't a big deal. I think a Full QWERTY is better for that type of App, but that's just me. You're choices being limited, are all very different. I would think about what type of connectivity you have to your office. BES, EAS? And that might help you make your decision. Both the Jack and the iPhone are 3G. That too me, would be an important factor. Thanks, - JB From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phones Well, Fido sucks crap and offers like 5 phones? Canada... So my only options are the listed ones, sigh... I am expected to spend hours of my own fuggin time on a pc, but my company can't just *buy* me a phone that allows me to work conveniently. Don't even get me started L So as lame as a Pearl is, you ssh'ed on it (I might be stuck with that one)? I might go for the normal iPhone 3G if I can, at least its moderately cool. jlc From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phones I picked up the Pearl the day it dropped on Tmobile in 2006, ran that phone into the ground until I upgraded this past November to a Storm and Bold. Seeing that you have the iPhone, why is the Bold not an option? If you can swing it, get the Bold. I've used a few ssh clients on the BB platform and they are fine. There are free ones and paid for ones. I liked a paid for version of Rove's SSH client - not sure if they sell just the SSH client by itself anymore. Thanks, - JB From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Phones As a result of working with Fido and a super cheap company, I need a new phone from the list of possible ones handed to me. I need an ssh client and PIX vpn access, the only options I have are a Samsung Jack, Blackberry Pearl, or iPhone 3G (not the new one). Anyone got any experiences with these and can suggest caveats? Although I have used an iPhone before, I haven't used an ssh client on one, how shitty would that be? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Vipre monday madness...
Suggestion: create a bootable CD to allow admins to restore quarantined files, and/or a BartPE plugin to do the same. Just in case this were to happen again (no one can guarantee the future). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre monday madness... That's correct -- an FP this morning was detecting certain of the Shock Detection files on Thinkpads as malware. This has been corrected and we are doing a major review of our internal processes and procedures. As with any of these types of things, it was a combination of circumstances which led to this definition even getting out in the first place. I sincerely apologize. We are not happy this detection was able to get out and are committed to not letting it happen again. Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 p: 727-562-0101 x220 e: a...@sunbeltsoftware.com MSN: alex...@hotmail.com w: www.sunbeltsoftware.com b: www.sunbeltblog.com -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre monday madness... Active Protection System - the shock detection stuff. - Andy O. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre monday madness... Is the software that is being flagged really needed for the Lenovo's to function? I remember IBM was always bad at putting unnecessary stuff on their systems. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: Dell Small Business sales
Need to switch sales team due to irreconcilable differences. Has anyone done this recently? How? I meet resistance each time I try. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: GPO's and remote servers
I always wondered how gravity/mass affects an atomic clock Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime Many experiments have confirmed time dilation, such as atomic clocks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock onboard a Space Shuttle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle running slower than synchronized Earth-bound inertial clocks. So you don't have to reach relativistic speeds, and it's not just a hypothesis. Carl From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers boys boys boys... relativistic time is still only a hypothesis. while it apparently describes certain events that occur in the universe, until a human object is accelerated to relativistic speeds, decelerates, and then returns to earth (with or without an additional relativistic interval during the return), and has the results of the internal clock evaluated - it cannot even be considered a theory - much less a fact. also, even IF it should be a theory - who knows what are the special corner cases to which it applies and to which it may not? einstein himself predicted and described continua in which relativity may/would not apply. any object which has mass curves space-time. while einstein depended upon that, it wasn't part of his special-relativity theories, but was instead an axiom of the lorentz-fitzgerald equations (which described and explained the failure of the michelson-morley experiment) and independently derived by einstein as a part of general relativity (years later). From: Steven M. Caesare [scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers And if you've managed to curve space-time. Which is why I've never had good success with GPO's near black holes. -sc From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers Well, not according to Einstein... It all depends on how fast you are traveling. Webster From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers Computers don't care about time zones, they exist only to display time for humans. Any time settings you establish are converted to universal time based on the TZ of your machine. And universal time is the same everywhere. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: External hard drive for home LAN
We have the pro, 4 500GB sata drives, raid 5. Nice basic NAS. Small too. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:j...@myriadds.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External hard drive for home LAN http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/ We've installed one of these for one of our home clients and liked it quite well. It literally survived a tornado. We've got one in the office as well that seems fine but it's never been in a tornado. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: External hard drive for home LAN I am looking for a storage device that hangs off the network so 3 PCs can use it for storage. Primarily to backup digital pics and MP3 files. Any recommendations? Or any to stay clear of? TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: External hard drive for home LAN
I paid $850 from Dell. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External hard drive for home LAN $? -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External hard drive for home LAN We have the pro, 4 500GB sata drives, raid 5. Nice basic NAS. Small too. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:j...@myriadds.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External hard drive for home LAN http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/ We've installed one of these for one of our home clients and liked it quite well. It literally survived a tornado. We've got one in the office as well that seems fine but it's never been in a tornado. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: External hard drive for home LAN I am looking for a storage device that hangs off the network so 3 PCs can use it for storage. Primarily to backup digital pics and MP3 files. Any recommendations? Or any to stay clear of? TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: connect TV to internet?
A refurbished laptop with some kind of video out and wifi? Use a wireless keyboard and mouse. My old dell inspiron 8500 has s-video and component out. I use it at home as the dvd player for my tv, a little clumsy, but it works. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: connect TV to internet? Hi Folks, We have a number of large conference rooms here that have dedicated wall-mounts TVs, DVD players, and PCs. We have a few small conference rooms and I'd like to be able to provide Internet connectivity in a similar manner. There are a number of Internet-based training videos that staff would use, but I hate to provide a dedicated PC/receiver system for small rooms. Wireless preferred, since I don't have data drops in these small rooms but do have wireless around our site. Suggestions? Thanks, Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT: Filling method guideline
Filing electronic documents. MS office, pdf, images, etc. We put into place a naming convention, and I am slowing manually renaming all the files (new files first). We are not going to fire anyone. We need to find a system that everyone can use, and a way to get everyone to work together, as a team. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-15 Office (707) 935-938� Fax (707) 766-4185�� Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Filling method guideline On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:06, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Anyone work at an Architectural, Engineering, or General Contractor firm? I am looking for a filling system guideline. Right now we are having several people all insisting that their way is the only way to file. It just makes it very difficult to find things, especially when we cannot get everyone to follow the naming conventions. Just wondering if anyone might be willing to share, their filling guidelines. Do you mean 'filing'? And if you do, filing of what? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server
What about the HP UPD? Has that worked for anyone? I found an interesting document called HP printers supported in Citrix XenApp Server environments dated Nov 2008, seems to be the newest version. Interesting this thread, I was just about to ask about the benefits of moving from 2003-x86 terminal server to 2008-x64 (single server, remote desktop only). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server Didn't you know? The LaserJet 4 is the most stable print driver ever produced! Well, maybe not, but it's amazing to me how many times this driver would work in cases where the official driver of whatever HP printer wouldn't. In my experience it's almost as versatile as the generic/text only one. Dave -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server I find that Microsoft's PS and PCL drivers *are* generic, Microsoft simply ships printer definitions that specifies printer-specific parameters such as the printer's printable area. At my employer Microsoft's HP LaserJet 4 PS driver works marvelously with most of what we have on hand ;) Ben Scott wrote: Are you using HP's printer drivers? HP's printer drivers have been getting steadily worse for the past few years. Slow, bloated, over-complicated, unstable. See if any of the drivers that come with 2008 might work for you. Often, a similar or older model will work with a newer printer. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT: Filling method guideline
Ok, I guess we need to work on the carrot too. Thanks, that is something I just did not think about, we need incentive to change. Not sure we can have a stick though. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Filling method guideline What's your carrot, or what's your stick? No plan will work without at least one of those, both is better. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Filing electronic documents. MS office, pdf, images, etc. We put into place a naming convention, and I am slowing manually renaming all the files (new files first). We are not going to fire anyone. We need to find a system that everyone can use, and a way to get everyone to work together, as a team. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-15яяВяя я Office (707) 935-938яя яяВ Fax (707) 766-4185яяВяя Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Filling method guideline On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:06, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Anyone work at an Architectural, Engineering, or General Contractor firm? I am looking for a filling system guideline. Right now we are having several people all insisting that their way is the only way to file. It just makes it very difficult to find things, especially when we cannot get everyone to follow the naming conventions. Just wondering if anyone might be willing to share, their filling guidelines. Do you mean 'filing'? And if you do, filing of what? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: Filling method guideline
Anyone work at an Architectural, Engineering, or General Contractor firm? I am looking for a filling system guideline. Right now we are having several people all insisting that their way is the only way to file. It just makes it very difficult to find things, especially when we cannot get everyone to follow the naming conventions. Just wondering if anyone might be willing to share, their filling guidelines. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Michael Jackson dead?
Why? Just because it's a celebrity? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? Yes. Complete media circus here in LA. My sister in law's dad works for the IT department at UCLA medical. They are in complete lockdown. Nobody leaves or enters, no emergency patients accepted, and phone lines have be disabled. I called him on his cell and he said it is a complete mad house there. They are in a process of floor lockdowns. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Michael Jackson dead? I heard heart attack, that's all. -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Michael Jackson dead? Is this for real? What is US TV saying? -- Peter van Houten ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Michael Jackson dead?
+1 I agree. What makes a celebrity more important than family, friend, or friend of friend? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? Think maybe they're worried about people taking souvenirs ... Check eBay for his nose in a jar ... ( yep, I'm callous, but there's way more tragedy in the world to worry about in my opinion ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? Why? Just because it's a celebrity? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
Googled it
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-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
I'm trying to script the removal of Norton Security Scan...I have the following
uninstall string:
C:\Program
Files\NortonInstaller\{397E31AA-0D78-4649-A01C-339D73A2ED35}\NSS\LicenseType\2.3.0.26\InstStub.exe
/x
Problem is it brings up a confirmation prompt, so if I PSEXEC it, it just sits
waiting. I've tried /remove, /quiet, and /noprompt but those didn't work. Does
anyone know of a switch the might bypass that stuff?
I'd rather not just blow away the directory any leave open reg entries around...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
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RE: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
Ooo give it up, share, please
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
www.abideinternational.com
-Original Message-
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
I wrote a simple AutoIt script a while back to remove various versions of
Symantec Anti Virus. I used it to wait for a Window prompt, confirm, then
allow the uninstall to proceed.
Tom Miller
Engineer, Information Technology
Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board
757-788-0528
David Lum david@nwea.org 6/23/2009 12:47 PM
I bow to your Google-Fu!
Thanks!
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
Googled it
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=otherthread.id=6787view=by_date_ascendingpage=2
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
www.abideinternational.com
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Script to remove Norton Security Scan
I'm trying to script the removal of Norton Security Scan...I have the following
uninstall string:
C:\Program
Files\NortonInstaller\{397E31AA-0D78-4649-A01C-339D73A2ED35}\NSS\LicenseType\2.3.0.26\InstStub.exe
/x
Problem is it brings up a confirmation prompt, so if I PSEXEC it, it just sits
waiting. I've tried /remove, /quiet, and /noprompt but those didn't work. Does
anyone know of a switch the might bypass that stuff?
I'd rather not just blow away the directory any leave open reg entries around...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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OT: Cellular terminals/routers
Doing a little research and found this Telular Wi-PATH SX7T GSM Premise Access Transport Hub. Wondering if anyone has any recent feedback on this kind or device or cellular routers. I remember several years ago, people complaining in online forums about various consumer cellular routers (mostly Linksys). Wondering if things have improved much. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Server 2003 terminal services - user session question
We have 1 server running terminal services. We use hosted exchange. Our host has provided a utility called outlookph (outlook profile helper). This is only supposed to create a new outlook profile (to access the user mailbox on the hosted server). When I first setup outlook 2007 on the terminal server a year ago, I created 10 user profiles, no problem with this utility. Now, when I run the utility in a user session, for a new user, the utility complains about outlook or other email program being open, and will not create the profile. So, I rebooted the server. Allowed other users back in. Logged in as new user, and checked processes under taskmanager, noting no email apps running, ran the outlookph, again same message. Checked with the other 2 current users (in session), and both are running outlook. So, I guess, somehow this utility is able to see outlook running in the other user sessions, but the user cannot see any processes other than their own, under task manager. This does not seem right to me. Shouldn't the server prevent this from happening? Server 2003 r2 sp2, fully patched. Terminal services is app mode. Office standard 2007 sp1. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access
Ok, I am listening. Thanks for the info ( also thanks to Ben and Erik). We will simply have to find an alternative for remote file access (or the people that do not believe me will have to beat their heads). This does confirm what I thought. Thanks. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access The deal with sat service is, as mentioned, the unavoidable ~700ms delay associated with the bounce to the bird and back... Typically, mechanisms to mask that latency fall in to two categories: -TCP ack suppression: waiting for an ack after each transmit window grinds connections to a halt, even if the overall bandwidth is more than sufficient. A 8Mb sat link would be lucky to see more than a few hundred Kb actual throughput. By using the underlying satellite carrier mechanisms to determine successful transmit the system can spoof acks at the endpoints, and avoid that hit. -Intelligent proxying: Intelligently dealing with well-known protocols can also mask some of the delay. A web page load can encompass dozens, or sometimes upwards of a hundred object loads, often requiring a large number of TCP connections to various servers, with an initial TCP handshake(which typically is NOT suppressible), thus incurring significant initial delay. That sat system will proxy that request locally, batch up all the object requests, and marshal them across the link in a single connection to a back-end proxy, which will pull the objects from the interweb and then push them back in a single connection back to the client. Despite such good efforts, two things you want to do make that hard: - VPN: The TCP syn/ack sequence is now inside an encrypted tunnel the sat system cannot see, so it cannot spoof the acks. Data inside the tunnel becomes SLW Typical ways around this are to terminate the VPN tunnel at terrestrial each end of the sat link, and depend on the sat provider to guarantee privacy over the shot to the bird and back with varying degrees of success. I dunno if Mobilsat is doing that or something spiffier. - RDP: Despite the ack suppression at the packet layer, if the application layer is highly chatty/interactive then the delay still kills you. Waiting a second or more to see you terminal keystroke is painful, although local echo can make it tolerable for occasional/light use. Waiting for your mouse pointer/window drag to catch up in your RDP session is similarly ugly. If your only alternative is a 14 hour plane trip, it's workable, otherwise sat is great for multicast/specialized traffic, but tends to suck as a broadband ISP alternative. -sc -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access What about the VOIP offerings that some sat isps offer? One company offers CIR is $5/per Kbps, so an extra $150 per month for 30Kbps? I wonder if that would work for RDP. Or maybe something like this http://www.mobilsat.com/satellite-VPNVirtualprivatenetworking/ could be used? I need to call them and find out. Or maybe we need to move away from Terminal Server and go with something else. I am liking the idea of peersync for data files, and a web based application for our main app. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access +1. Sat is evil for chatty protocols... which RDP is the epitome of. -sc -- former sat ISP tech weenie as well -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see the result of a keypress ( sync satellites are 23,000 to 26,000 miles up in orbit ) I used to work for a retail operation with VSAT, and we ended up putting in DSL also for Terminal Server access to payroll applications as they were simply painful to use over satellite. Do you have any cell coverage at all at the site ? Better off with EVDO or even connection to cellphone as a modem Erik
Mobile Satellite for Internet access
We have a need for a semi-mobile satellite setup at a remote construction site. Basically because of theft, we need to lock up the equipment at night (even then it might get stolen). So we hope we can find some equipment we can setup each day for internet access, mainly to access our terminal server via RDP. Maybe put it on a cart along with a wireless router, or plug the Ethernet cable into the trailer (if we can wire the trailer). I have found several companies that provide this service. Wondering about people's experience with this. Thx. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access
No highspeed mobile internet access, there might dial-up speeds for mobile internet, we will be testing ATT and Verizon next week (2 laptops, 1st and 2nd gen iphones). Tempted to try out peersync, or similar solution, across satellite, for this situation. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see the result of a keypress ( sync satellites are 23,000 to 26,000 miles up in orbit ) I used to work for a retail operation with VSAT, and we ended up putting in DSL also for Terminal Server access to payroll applications as they were simply painful to use over satellite. Do you have any cell coverage at all at the site ? Better off with EVDO or even connection to cellphone as a modem Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mobile Satellite for Internet access We have a need for a semi-mobile satellite setup at a remote construction site. Basically because of theft, we need to lock up the equipment at night (even then it might get stolen). So we hope we can find some equipment we can setup each day for internet access, mainly to access our terminal server via RDP. Maybe put it on a cart along with a wireless router, or plug the Ethernet cable into the trailer (if we can wire the trailer). I have found several companies that provide this service. Wondering about people's experience with this. Thx. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access
What about the VOIP offerings that some sat isps offer? One company offers CIR is $5/per Kbps, so an extra $150 per month for 30Kbps? I wonder if that would work for RDP. Or maybe something like this http://www.mobilsat.com/satellite-VPNVirtualprivatenetworking/ could be used? I need to call them and find out. Or maybe we need to move away from Terminal Server and go with something else. I am liking the idea of peersync for data files, and a web based application for our main app. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access +1. Sat is evil for chatty protocols... which RDP is the epitome of. -sc -- former sat ISP tech weenie as well -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see the result of a keypress ( sync satellites are 23,000 to 26,000 miles up in orbit ) I used to work for a retail operation with VSAT, and we ended up putting in DSL also for Terminal Server access to payroll applications as they were simply painful to use over satellite. Do you have any cell coverage at all at the site ? Better off with EVDO or even connection to cellphone as a modem Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mobile Satellite for Internet access We have a need for a semi-mobile satellite setup at a remote construction site. Basically because of theft, we need to lock up the equipment at night (even then it might get stolen). So we hope we can find some equipment we can setup each day for internet access, mainly to access our terminal server via RDP. Maybe put it on a cart along with a wireless router, or plug the Ethernet cable into the trailer (if we can wire the trailer). I have found several companies that provide this service. Wondering about people's experience with this. Thx. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Verizon wireless Vs. ATT wireless
We use verizon for mobile internet. We get much better coverage than ATT. More bars in more places. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Verizon wireless Vs. ATT wireless We are currently an ATT wireless customer. I have 400+ lines spread across most of the East / South. Another 200+ lines with various other providers such as Sprint / Alltel / US Cellular. Verizon just came and gave me their pitch. I currently have no real reason to move, but Verizon may make the recurring cost savings worth the effort. Just curious if any of you have the pleasure of handling your cell phone and wireless data and if you have moved from ATT to Verizon. The coverage area I need is pretty must East of the Mississippi. - Bob Fronk P Please print only as needed. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iPhone and battery life
From what I have read, trying to optimize all the company's iphones ( 7 new, 5 old), turn off most sounds, use fetch not push with activesync (activesync uses more power in push mode if not connected to internet via wifi - according to 2 web site articles I read), turn on autolock (1min better than 5min), turn off vibrate, minimize use of speakers, turn down volume, locations services and 3g eats up battery - turn em off if not needed, powercycling the iphone helps, just like a regular computer. I'm sure there are many more ways to make the battery last longer. New iphones drain battery faster than old iphone. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: iPhone and battery life Ok.. I have a Blackberry Bold. The other day I was messing around with my son's iPhone and decided I would get one to see how it works. So far, I like it very much... EXCEPT battery life SUCKS! Took off full night charge this morning at 7am and already at 60%. Those of you that have iPhones.. what are you doing to help this? I have wifi off, Bluetooth off and just now set active sync to manual. - Bob Fronk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
I miss loading games on my dad's trs80 model 1 from cassette. I also miss
modifying the basic code for the star trek game, and storing it back to
cassette. That was right after I learned basic on the vic20, in junior high.
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
www.abideinternational.com
-Original Message-
From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
Ahh, backing up to 25 x 5 ¼'s using xcopy in Dos 6.22
That was a step up from reel to reel. I bet it was more fun to watch them spin
though..
Greg
From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
I'll never forget my first computer-related job and that room-long Data General
mainframe. Probably was x-times slower than most workstations today. I miss
reel-to-reel backup tapes.
J
Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group
431 W. Lancaster Avenue
Devon, PA 19333
Direct: (610) 993-3299
Fax: (610) 650-5306
don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
Commodore PET CBM - that's how I rolled back in the day.
My 1st look at a computer was looking in on the Interdata main frame at my
dad's office. He was in sales at Interdata, and after they were bought out by
Perkin Elmer, he sold the computer that's in the Hubble Space Telescope.
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
Ti-994a..Thats how we rolled back then.
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
I miss Commodore.
But don't get me started down Memory Lane.
From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
Although. back in the day Amigas were the tool of choice.
_
Cameron Cooper
IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified
Aurico Reports, Inc
Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896
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RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
Amen to that, and we only have 1 mac user. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT It has been our experience that while the technical issues of MAC's can be resolved, most issues come from the MAC users themselves. Having got themselves a little exception to the overall IT policy, they will often refuse to play nice with things like storing files on network shares which are backed up. Consume support resources with their custom needs the drain your teams time. Make constant snide comments about Windows and support and get really irritable when you produce the article clearly showing it was a MAC issue. The last time we looked at 'some groups' needs, there were Windows versions of all the applications available but they were able to maintain their separate resource stance. Of course we were all sympathy when they lost a major amount of data do to their refusal to play nice with corporate IT policy. Of course, I may be biased. Steven On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I use VMWare Fusion with a license of WindowsXP on my MacBook Pro, and can launch the windows version of Outlook for the full integrated email experience. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: I'm being asked to investigate the use of a few MAC's in our network. I know that it would be only used by a few of our staff for graphics and a few other apps. I'm concerned about the ability of a MAC to interface into our network and Exchange Server email.Obviously we would purchase new machines, so they could be dual boot machines. I'm also aware of virtualization, but haven't looked into that as of yet. Any suggestions, warnings or concerns from anyone with this kind of experience would be greatly appreciated. Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX
Sounds like a no go for this server. I believe those particular netburst CPUs do not have the Intel VT feature. I believe you can run a 32bit guest OS under ESX3.x or ESXi3.x. Some quick googling; http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1239317150393+28353475threadId=1271328 http://communities.vmware.com/thread/73300;jsessionid=FBAA0BF9189332B7EC7024B7C5DBC4A9?tstart=0start=0 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12028_div/12028_div.html specs for the server? My guess based on about 5 minutes of research is these are Irwindale or Nacoma xeon cpus. If you could locate the spec number, it would be easier to tell. Probably they are SL7ZF cpus, which appear to not support Intel VT, but do support Intel 64. Though, I could be wrong. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX Did you see Processor advanced? __ Stefan Jafs -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: April-09-09 5:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX I looked everywhere in the BIOS settings and found no reference to enabling or disabling the 64Bit. However the BIOS possibility is ruled out because I am able to install it directly. It is only on VMware ESX 3.5 as virtual machine its not working..!! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Amico Corpoartion company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote Office laptops backup Suggestions
Our local ISP uses vembu for online backups. I think it uses rsync and bandwidth throttling (or something like those). The restore is a little confusing. I believe there are other services and/or programs like vembu. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Office laptops backup Suggestions Most of the stuff that they do is RDP, but they have PST, Excel etc that we want to backup From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Office laptops backup Suggestions Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the users are just using the laptops as terminals to RDP into a terminal server, what data is there to backup on the laptops? Heck, just have 'em copy all their data manually up to a server (or two or three) and have the users just access their data off the network drives. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Office laptops backup Suggestions Hey all; So we have three remote offices with laptops for all the users, they all RDP in to get their work done, We've been looking into backing up the data contained in their laptops back to the central office but it seems we are getting their pipes saturated since some of their doc's folders are 9GB+ We've tried Synctoy, Allwaysync and Cobian backup for example and I'm looking to see what everyone else is using for this. As usual the least expensive the better I think our options are 1) Laptop to central backup with some local program that does speed throttle's (haven't found one yet) 2) Something like mozy or spideroak 3) Put a small NAS device in each local office and have them all backup to it Any suggestions? Thx! Carlos _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.11.45/2045 - Release Date: 04/07/09 06:41:00 _ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Conference call hosting
+1 Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Conference call hosting We use Intercall. Just signed up with them for like 5¢/minute. That includes interactive desktop sharing, etc. You can share your entire desktop, or just one app. Very interesting. There's no monthly fee, however, it's 5¢/minute/user, so it can add up pretty fast. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Conference call hosting Partner came to me with a request to host a conference call with him and 5 other people (tonight). Has anyone worked with any hosting service to do this that you care to recommend? Google is singularly unsuited to this task due to the short time frame involved, and the high ad/to info ratio the search conference call hosting brings up. Thanks, Jonathan No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.11.45/2045 - Release Date: 04/07/09 06:41:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Rut roh Raggy: Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09 Are you suggesting that such a thing could survive a cold boot? The rootkit has to be stored somewhere it can execute from, and I don't think it'll have much success storing itself in the BIOS. Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: Since it's at the hardware level, even booting off a cleanup CD won't be able to find it ... -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection
Also like the xirrus wi-fi inspector, and insider free apps, too help locate APs. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Mark A. Ross [mailto:ma...@sdppayroll.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection Does anyone know of a piece of hardware or software that will allow you to pinpoint a WIFI connection? In other words, you are in a public location and your laptop detects 5 unsecure WIFI hosts. How do you know which house is using the network name Bongo (Couldn't think of a funnier name, sorry). Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS Lanuage tool bar
Well I followed these steps before we got office07 http://it.cas.psu.edu/Training/HowTo/ENComputers/turnoffadvtextservices.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823586 it also disable the language bar Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Lanuage tool bar What method did you use for disabling it? As others have noted, some office updates bring it back, even if you disabled it. - Andy O. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS Lanuage tool bar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Multihome 2003 server
Our 2003 server is used for file, SQL, and Terminal services. We would like to see if multihoming the server will make terminal services better for the WAN users. Getting an internet connection like multiple T1s or frame relay, is currently outside our monthly budget. We can get another Comcast line though. We are wondering if we have the server's second nic be the only thing on the second Comcast internet connection, if that would help the WAN users (faster TS experience). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T61 I would just download the Intel PRO/1000 MT Mobile Ethernet drivers, probably can find them on Intel's website. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi OT: XP drivers and T61 All, My personal laptop is a Lenov T61, and I have FreeBSD installed and working just fine. However, I am trying to install XP, and can't find the drivers on the IBM/Lenovo web sites at all - particularly the network drivers. I've been cruising their pages and googling a lot, but each page on the IBM/Lenovo sites say there isn't a download available for the ones I want most? Anyone run into this, and have an answer? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Site to Site VPN?
I question the quality, not the speed, of dsl and cable against other WAN tecnnologies. I have sneaking suspicion I am getting what I pay for. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonwelding.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Site to Site VPN? Why spend that when you could do it with a couple ASA's and DSL/Cable Connections. From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Site to Site VPN? Go with MPLS and 2 Cisco routers (1800 or 2800 series) GuidoElia HELPPC Da: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Inviato: giovedì 5 marzo 2009 20.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Site to Site VPN? We may be needing a VPN connection to our remote data center in the near future for a small office, about 20 users. Does anybody have any experience with the Cisco/Linksys RVS4000? I tried a SonicWall once, it was way over my head, and support was horrendous. This will operate solely as 2 VPN endpoints to connect 2 LANs. Users needing remote access already have Win 2003 RRAS in place. Thanks for any input, Sam http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9923/ps9928/data_sheet_c78-496735.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Site to Site VPN?
Its funny, because of a few Linksys routers, they were advertising 50 or even 70 vpns. After playing with them and getting them to work, that number is the max number of defined vpns. It takes a little while to figure out to setup Linksys vpns, static ip on at least one end, and psk, is not too bad. The newer routers are a little easier, if you have banged your head on them a few times. Reading thru their KB and reading linksysinfo.org helps if you have the time. All the local experts around here always seem to use non-linksys cisco products for vpns. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Site to Site VPN? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Does anybody have any experience with the Cisco/Linksys RVS4000? Not that one in particular, but I've had exposure to a few different LinkSys encryption boxes in the past, and they've all sucked. Inadequate processing power (slow). Bad documentation, confusing web UI. Suspect security design. Unreliable -- they'd drop the tunnel, or stop routing packets, or just plain lock up -- all requiring a power-cycle to fix. This was from before Cisco had sunk their teeth into LinkSys, but I haven't really seen any change in product quality in their other stuff. LinkSys makes okay SOHO stuff for light usage, but if you're looking at VPNs you're outside of that product space, in my opinion. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems
Intel Server Platform SC5300AF2 (SC5300LXNA chassis with SE7520AF2 mainboard) 2 x XEON-DP PGA604 3Ghz 2MB Irwindale 90nm cpus 4 x 37GB Seagate Cheetah 15K RPM U320 ST336754LC Adaptec SCSI RAID controller 2130SLP 1Channel U320 128MB cache 4GB DDR2-400 PC2-3200 REG ECC MS Office 2007 standard w/sp1 (word, excel, outlook, powerpoint) MS Project 2007 MasterBuilder 13.1 (construction accounting VB app, VFP databases) Primavera P6 (uses SQL 2005 SP2 EE) - single user, used rarely Adobe Acrobat standard 8.12 The main point of the terminal server is simply to allow remote workers access to company data and apps. My goal is to switch from M.B. to a hosted construction accounting and construction management system, and I would like to do the same with our MS Office data, and P6. Until this happens, I need to find someway to make the TS faster for the remote users. All subjective tests show the problems are only for the remote users, even if they use Comcast (we use Comcast here). Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephan.b...@bdtechnology.org] On Behalf Of lists Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems Please provide the hardware attributes of the terminal server and what applications are installed there. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems Server 2003. Slow screens, only for wan users (Comcast cable, DSL - any, version mobile internet - rarely used). Occasionally disconnected. Locally (LAN), very fast, almost as fast as a first generation core 2 duo computer running xp-sp3, occasional delays locally. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Subject: Help with resolving Terminal server problems I have been tasked with finding a solution to the slow Terminal server speeds. I think the problem is our Comcast business internet. Even though its fast, worst speedtest result so far has been 4.4mbps download, 1.6mbps upload. However 1 service claims the quality of service is at 47%, not good enough for voip (not that we are doing voip). I am thinking we need higher quality internet service. Other than the 1 test that claims our quality is poor, is there any other test I can perform on our internet connection that might reveal the quality of the connection (I am guessing quality is dropped packets). Maybe there is another solution. Currently we host our MS office data files and a construction accounting system based on VB and VFP. If we eventually go with a hosted accounting system, maybe we can use another solution for sharing the data files, other than terminal server. As a former VFP appdev guy, I can tell you that VFP and TS/Citrix really just don't play nice together. VFP was NOT designed for multi-user systems like TS. When you say slow Terminal server speeds, what do you mean? Slow screen draws, slow app response, slow printing??? Have you run PerfMon or OpsMgr to verify performance counters? Are you running TS 2003 or 2008? x86 or x64? Roaming profiles? Redirected folders? Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems
So citrix ica will improve the TS experience over stock MS. Now I just need to find proof or ROI type info inorder get the purchase approved. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems All subjective tests show the problems are only for the remote users, even if they use Comcast (we use Comcast here). Which is why, for situations like this, people use Citrix and the very bandwidth friendly ICA protocol. Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Help with resolving Terminal server problems
I have been tasked with finding a solution to the slow Terminal server speeds. I think the problem is our Comcast business internet. Even though its fast, worst speedtest result so far has been 4.4mbps download, 1.6mbps upload. However 1 service claims the quality of service is at 47%, not good enough for voip (not that we are doing voip). I am thinking we need higher quality internet service. Other than the 1 test that claims our quality is poor, is there any other test I can perform on our internet connection that might reveal the quality of the connection (I am guessing quality is dropped packets). Maybe there is another solution. Currently we host our MS office data files and a construction accounting system based on VB and VFP. If we eventually go with a hosted accounting system, maybe we can use another solution for sharing the data files, other than terminal server. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems
Server 2003. Slow screens, only for wan users (Comcast cable, DSL - any, version mobile internet - rarely used). Occasionally disconnected. Locally (LAN), very fast, almost as fast as a first generation core 2 duo computer running xp-sp3, occasional delays locally. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with resolving Terminal server problems From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Subject: Help with resolving Terminal server problems I have been tasked with finding a solution to the slow Terminal server speeds. I think the problem is our Comcast business internet. Even though its fast, worst speedtest result so far has been 4.4mbps download, 1.6mbps upload. However 1 service claims the quality of service is at 47%, not good enough for voip (not that we are doing voip). I am thinking we need higher quality internet service. Other than the 1 test that claims our quality is poor, is there any other test I can perform on our internet connection that might reveal the quality of the connection (I am guessing quality is dropped packets). Maybe there is another solution. Currently we host our MS office data files and a construction accounting system based on VB and VFP. If we eventually go with a hosted accounting system, maybe we can use another solution for sharing the data files, other than terminal server. As a former VFP appdev guy, I can tell you that VFP and TS/Citrix really just don't play nice together. VFP was NOT designed for multi-user systems like TS. When you say slow Terminal server speeds, what do you mean? Slow screen draws, slow app response, slow printing??? Have you run PerfMon or OpsMgr to verify performance counters? Are you running TS 2003 or 2008? x86 or x64? Roaming profiles? Redirected folders? Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression
Just received 4. Only setup 1 so far. Too much junk for a business computer, should have saved time by wiping and doing a fresh install. I expected a build of the shell around the base. The bottom is loose, and rattles when moving the laptop. I guess I just had higher expectations for the amount of money spent. I prefer the laptops that have a slight tilt, front slightly lower than back (I think some HPs do this when you get the extra capacity battery). I was very surprised, considering all the reviews I read about the e5500 and e6500. I wish they still sold the d830. We have 4 of those, and I had to work on one, very nice. The laptop is very fast though. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression This is my first time really getting my hands on a Dell Latitude E4500 since Dell went away from the D series. (The ones we have sold in the last couple months have been installed by my lakey.) Is it me, or are these being made in the same factory as the Lenovo's? It looks to me like they could use the same docking station, batteries and other accessories. Is this by design and I totally missed that memo or what? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
wireless access point 802.11n draft
Looking for a single N WAP. I usually buy Linksys. I was thinking WAP4400N. My buddy said I should buy the ENGENIUS ECB-9500 from http://www.streakwave.com/. Just wondering what WAPs you guys like (under $200). Its for a small office, the existing G WAP gives fairly decent coverage. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: wireless access point 802.11n draft
Currently using the Linksys wap54gv3. Works ok, but its over 2 years old, and slow. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com www.abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Mark Boersma [mailto:ma...@triangle-inc.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: wireless access point 802.11n draft You REALLY don't want to get the 4400N. I'd give you one that I have in my junk pile but I'd feel bad about doing that to you. J The Engenious products are quite good though, I often use them for point to point equipment. Mark - Two rules to success in life: 1. Never tell people everything you know. From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: wireless access point 802.11n draft Looking for a single N WAP. I usually buy Linksys. I was thinking WAP4400N. My buddy said I should buy the ENGENIUS ECB-9500 from http://www.streakwave.com/. Just wondering what WAPs you guys like (under $200). Its for a small office, the existing G WAP gives fairly decent coverage. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipients(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Outlook only shows plain text
Try http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831607 Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook only shows plain text I have an 85 user office, everyone runs xp sp3 and outlook 2003. Everything works except the owner. He has 2 computers one on the sales floor and one in the office, and hes the only BES user. Both computers show the emails in only plain text. He is the only user affected. All his emails come in as plain text, even though html is selected. If he receives an html mail from another user it will be in plain text when he gets it. I tried opening in Word and in the Outlook viewer, its always (Plain Text) at the top, even though the same email can go to all employees and show up as HTML and looks right. Today I thought I would test Outlook 2007 but it didn't fix it. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Terminal Server application updates
How do you handle application updates, especially for apps like adobe acrobat? Should I find a way to download the updates, then use the appwiz cpl to install, or can I just use change user /install ? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Desperate: Win 2003 will not boot
Too bad my boss reinstalled the server from scratch, and restored the data, SQL and other custom apps. Good test of disaster recovery though. Only took 15 hours. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Desperate: Win 2003 will not boot Had this happen to a server once before, it was trying to boot from the USB storage device. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: vbs [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Desperate: Win 2003 will not boot I received a call from a customer early yesterday morning that their HP DL140 G3 terminal server was down. I had them power the machine off and reboot but it would not come up so I quickly went to their site. When I powered the system on the system would POST OK but immediately after all the HW post and the O/S should begin to boot the monitor simply blanks out and the system does not boot. I rebooted and was able to get into the raid bios configuration and it indicated that the drives and raid 1 configuration was fine. Calling HP support and fighting/arguing with them over what they should be doing (customer has a 24x7 4 hour response care pack but that is a whole other frustrating topic) I finally had to download an offline diagnostic for the machine (can't use a Smart CD with this machine) and proceeded to run several hours of diagnostics. At first they indicated that the drives were bad and would send out a technician with 2 new drives. After fighting with the technician to convince me that both drives had failed, I wanted to speak with someone at second level support. Support ffinally indicated that the errors in the diagnostic had nothing to due with the drives in question. Their final verdict was the hardware is all OK and I am now still left with a machine that will not boot but gives no indication of any O/S issues or error messages it just stops. Late before leaving yesterday I was able to download the raid driver and was able to boot the system with a Win 2003 CD using the F6 to use this driver to boot the system and get to the point in the installation where the boot can see that there is a copy of Windows in C:\Windows which is were I had to leave it. Has anyone had any similar circumstances or perhaps ideas on why the system would not throw any error messages and simply stop and not go any further after the HW post -- Thanks Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Terminal Server application updates
Old p4 computer running esxi, think its time to wipe it again, guess I should go look for the server 2003 120day download. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Server application updates hopefully you have a test terminal server box to deploy updates to before production to make sure nothing breaks, then just use changer user /install Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Terminal Server application updates How do you handle application updates, especially for apps like adobe acrobat? Should I find a way to download the updates, then use the appwiz cpl to install, or can I just use change user /install ? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Web Based File Server Proxy
Maybe this? http://www.alfresco.com/products/dm/ gives you a shared drive, so it looks like a traditional file share. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web Based File Server Proxy Right over the web however I'm looking for solutions which will provide an interface (think like sharepoint) except the data will be housed on traditional Windows file shares. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Scott Kaufman at HQ [mailto:skauf...@ittesi.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web Based File Server Proxy I'm going to assume that you're asking about doing this over the Internet. Off the top of my head relatively low cost that I've setup for a few users in the past: Office Live for sharing Office documents Google Apps Hosted Microsoft SharePoint/office by Microsoft or a third party vendor SharePoint Services w/ ISA Server 2006 MOSS 2007 ISA 2006 if you're willing to buy the hardware licenses - (my personal favorite at the moment) There's always WebDAV access to an existing file server, but it's a pain to manage, and have never done it with ISA. Scott Kaufman Lead Network Analyst ITT ESI, Inc. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web Based File Server Proxy Can anyone recommend some COTS web based file server proxy? I'm looking for solutions to deliver access to Windows file shares over HTTP. OWA isn't an option. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: TS and Citrix printer support
Stumbled across a paper from HP HP printers supported in Citrix XenApp Server environments Nov 08. Found it in the printing forum on Brian Madden's website. http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA0-8465ENW So, now I have nice listing of tested HP printers in a citrix/ts environment. Now, if only the other brands would do something like this. Though I think if a printer supports PCL, then it should work, somehow. Thx for the info below, will make it easier. I still think we should buy screwdrivers, if only because of the cool name. But it is little expensive, for us. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Michael Tellson [mailto:micha...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TS and Citrix printer support If all of your printers are HP, try using the HP Universal print driver: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?locale= en_UStaskId=135prodTypeId=18972prodSeriesId=503548 It works well for any HP printer released in the last 5 or so years, but you will want to check their listing for supported printers. If you want to allow other branded printers, I have had good success by setting the printer driver to a HP LJ 4000 if B+W or HP CLJ 3500 if color. These have worked well for several models of Lexmark, Dell, Brother printers, YMMV. The 3500 is what citrix used when they developed their universal driver so it seems to do well across the board. I do tell my user base that if they want a printer that is a non HP branded printer, that I make no guarantees as to whether or not I can get it to work. With the exception of the HP Uni driver I will not load any driver not included on the Windows Server O/S CD. Too many previous bad experiences with poorly written drivers causing a BSOD on the server. Michael Tellson 817-390-2016 micha...@colonialsavings.com -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TS and Citrix printer support Windows 2003 standard server. RDP only. 10 remote users (max). Windows XP clients only. Verizon mobile wireless. So far all client printers have been HP, and the installed drivers, and fallback drivers have worked. For the future I am looking for printer and printer driver info, especially for the citrix/TS environment. I would love to find a listing of printers that work, and alternative printer drivers. Right now, all I have is the old HP alternative driver listing. I was hoping http://www.printingsupport.com/ would contain this kind of info, but it is down. Looks like eventually, I will need to buy each of the 10, their own all-in-one printer, luggable and preferably with color. So the question is, which one do I buy. And as time goes on, and I can no longer get the all-in-one that I know works so well, I have to get that question answered again, and again. I suggested thinprint or screwdrivers, but the powers balked at the screwdrivers price. I think the price is very reasonable for the solution provided. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TS and Citrix printer support Need a little more information on your printing environment such as printing models and server setup. Generally it is best to stick with print drivers from the Windows 2003 CD for Windows Terminal Server /Citrix. With Citrix you can leverage the Universal Print Driver also. Best to install as few drivers as possible and use UPD and print mappings. Mike Original Message: - From: Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:39:18 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: TS and Citrix printer support Looking for TS 2003 printer drivers for client printers. Also looking for individual printers and all-in-ones for TS/citrix mobile clients (luggable printers ok). thx Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http
TS and Citrix printer support
Looking for TS 2003 printer drivers for client printers. Also looking for individual printers and all-in-ones for TS/citrix mobile clients (luggable printers ok). thx Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: TS and Citrix printer support
Windows 2003 standard server. RDP only. 10 remote users (max). Windows XP clients only. Verizon mobile wireless. So far all client printers have been HP, and the installed drivers, and fallback drivers have worked. For the future I am looking for printer and printer driver info, especially for the citrix/TS environment. I would love to find a listing of printers that work, and alternative printer drivers. Right now, all I have is the old HP alternative driver listing. I was hoping http://www.printingsupport.com/ would contain this kind of info, but it is down. Looks like eventually, I will need to buy each of the 10, their own all-in-one printer, luggable and preferably with color. So the question is, which one do I buy. And as time goes on, and I can no longer get the all-in-one that I know works so well, I have to get that question answered again, and again. I suggested thinprint or screwdrivers, but the powers balked at the screwdrivers price. I think the price is very reasonable for the solution provided. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TS and Citrix printer support Need a little more information on your printing environment such as printing models and server setup. Generally it is best to stick with print drivers from the Windows 2003 CD for Windows Terminal Server /Citrix. With Citrix you can leverage the Universal Print Driver also. Best to install as few drivers as possible and use UPD and print mappings. Mike Original Message: - From: Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:39:18 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: TS and Citrix printer support Looking for TS 2003 printer drivers for client printers. Also looking for individual printers and all-in-ones for TS/citrix mobile clients (luggable printers ok). thx Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
WAN acceleration for RDP
Wondering if anyone has experience with WAN acceleration devices or software making RDP faster. We are a small business with only 15 users. 10 of them use the terminal server (2003). They complain of the speed of viewing pdfs using adobe acrobat standard (the powers do not want foxit), and the speed of viewing images (especially in power point and word). I am hopeing a WAN accelerater will speed up RDP enough to reduce the complaining. And maybe later we could see about doing something instead of terminal server. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: WAN acceleration for RDP
No, what are the max settings? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAN acceleration for RDP Did you check to make sure that the RDP settings are set to the max? ___ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless AP NIC Recommendation
I have 2 wrt54g routers running dd-wrt. Never had any problems with them. The wrt54gv4 was bricked. And the other was a new wrt54gl from newegg. I believe the dd-wrt is the original wrt54gv4 router software made much better. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless AP NIC Recommendation Find something DD-WRT or Tomato compatible if you're looking at consumer level equipment. I've found DD-WRT to be much more stable than linksys's firmware. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Roger Wright rwri...@evatone.com wrote: Looking to take about 10 users wireless rather than rewiring a work area. The space is about 1000 sq. ft. so coverage isn't too much of an issue. I've used Linksys products in the past with pretty good success. Cost is a primary consideration. Which other products, both Access Points and NICs should I consider? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 ET E-mail Signature Logo _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: basic help desk or issue tracking software/service
Well, its really only for me. Maybe an email address for trouble tickets, might
be used by the users, but I doubt they would try anything else.
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185 Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
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From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: basic help desk or issue tracking software/service
I passed by the message - I'm using Spiceworks here. Of course, the users
invariably refuse to use the helpdesk portion...
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: basic help desk or issue tracking software/service
Surprised that no one mentioned Spiceworks.
Thanks,
Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
Ext. 246
From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: basic help desk or issue tracking software/service
Looking for a simple/basic help desk or issue tracking software or service. 1
technician/user. A dozen computers. I would prefer an online service, and of
course free, but low cost would work too. I am currently using a few dozen
spreadsheets right now.
Gene Giannamore
Abide International Inc.
Technical Support
561 1st Street West
Sonoma,Ca.95476
(707) 935-1577Office
(707) 935-9387Fax
(707) 766-4185 Cell
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com
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Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS
Have not had much success finding a solution to the problem of viewing/scrolling PDF files (especially scanned), from the 2003 terminal server, when connected across a WAN link (as fast as 1mbps). No problems when local. It affects all user profiles remotely. Has anyone tried solutions like Riverbed's Steelhead or Cisco's WAAS? Did it help with RDP? I did run across an article about Cisco's WAAS optimizing ICA. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS
Adobe acrobat standard 8.1.2, will try the 8.1.3 update this weekend. It's just viewing and scrolling. It's inconvenient to email the file to yourself or transferring to the local laptop, just to view. I am hoping I can get the go ahead for the steelhead or other products for small office and laptops, if there is a noticeable improvement of the RDP/TS speed. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS What viewing software are you using? Adobe? From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help: PDF viewing slow over WAN via RDP/TS Have not had much success finding a solution to the problem of viewing/scrolling PDF files (especially scanned), from the 2003 terminal server, when connected across a WAN link (as fast as 1mbps). No problems when local. It affects all user profiles remotely. Has anyone tried solutions like Riverbed's Steelhead or Cisco's WAAS? Did it help with RDP? I did run across an article about Cisco's WAAS optimizing ICA. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
