Re: [NTSysADM] Revisit: Audit Letter from MS

2014-04-18 Thread Steve Carter
I got an extension (2 actually) a couple of years ago without a problem. I just asked our contact for the extension. That might be a problem for you if he's not answering your emails! Steve On 18 Apr 2014, at 01:27, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: You guys jinxed me, I just got a letter a

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
:-D *nice!* -- Espi On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:40 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote: CONFIG.SYS rem MSDOS multiboot menu example rem config.sys [Menu] Menuitem=novell, Boot to NetWare Menuitem=dos, Boot to DOS with CDROM driver Menudefault=novell, 15 [common] Files=60

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread John Matteson
Started tossing all my subscriptions when the articles started getting to be repetitive and merely odes to advertisers’ products. I mean, you can rework “Ten secret ways to speed up disk access” only so many times, or hyped articles like “Give your PC an instant speed boost!” interspersed

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
It was easy…. We printed any info on those items on our trusty dot-matrix printer for future reference. -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:32 PM To:

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
No other device drivers? At least you could have loaded the CD driver in to high mem… -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:41 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re:

Re: [NTSysADM] Revisit: Audit Letter from MS

2014-04-18 Thread Jonathan Link
Regarding the contact not answering emails, there should be a manager to contact on the case, too. I had an issue with my contact not responding to a voice mail after 48 hours. Called the manager, and never had a problem again. The call happened to be about getting an extension, too. On Fri,

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Then he either got a CD OM drive awfully early… or was using an rather old machine with one. ;) -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:23 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE:

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
*ROM From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:33 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro Then he either got a CD OM drive awfully early… or was using an

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Richard McClary
There could have been a swap file on that 360Kb floppy. (I am too young to have experienced the 180Kb floppies. Never worked with the 5” disks, either.) -- richard From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Cain, Steven
Saw a friend using 8” floppies at work with the CP/M operating system back in the 80s, but I was already using 360kb floppies and humongous 10mb disk packs in DEC RA60 racks as big as a washing machine. Also had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get to work! LOL Steve Cain Sr.

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread William Robbins
It plainly states this is an example. - WJR  On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: No other device drivers? At least you could have loaded the CD driver in to high mem… -sc *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
The 20 yr old geek in me can’t help it. ;) -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:33 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro It plainly states this

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-18 Thread Jay Dale
Looking at it through both Metro and CP. I got on the phone with Microsoft yesterday and here's what happened: We downloaded the individual installers and cleaned up through DISM, and went through and installed each package separately, rebooting in between 2 of them. Each time we rebooted

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread William Robbins
20? Bah! - WJR  On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: The 20 yr old geek in me can’t help it. ;) -sc *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *William Robbins *Sent:* Friday, April 18,

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That’s about the right era for those files, right? The 35 yr old geek in me is more concerned with getting the volume correct on the Apple ][+ cassette tape drive… -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent:

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread John Cook
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RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Call -151 -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Cook Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:57 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro + B-sider John W. Cook Director of Network Operations

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-18 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Have you tried sfc /scannow to check for issues with system files? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jay Dale Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 7:40 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread William Robbins
File age yes...-sc age, no. ;) - WJR  On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: That’s about the right era for those files, right? The 35 yr old geek in me is more concerned with getting the volume correct on the Apple ][+ cassette tape drive…

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Hey man… I was 20 when PC’s were released with DOS! -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:24 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro File age

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Dan Rod
I was 18 when the Kaypro's and Osborne's came out. I used to play with CP/M. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Hey man… I was 20 when PC’s were released with DOS! -sc *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
The Luggables![1] -sc [1] Not a Pixar movie about over the hill super heroes. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rod Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:31 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread J- P
I personally don't remember them, but I sure hope he purchased his ticket and/or insurance with an AMEX, that must have been quite an expensive claim Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:46:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro From: drod...@gmail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com I

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Oof™ -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rod Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:46 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro I remember a story about a guy who had one of those Compaq

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread William Robbins
I remember taking my first luggable (w/two, yes TWO, FDD's) to dinner (yeah, yeah) with me one night and drawing a crowd. - WJR  On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: The Luggables![1] -sc [1] Not a Pixar movie about over the hill super

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Truly a testament to baggage handlers. One of the sales tactics to demonstrate the durability of the luggable would be to have the vendor knock it off the table onto the floor and then show that it would boot up afterward. As I personally have repaired those machines on a component level, I

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Well with two floppy disks how could you not have?? -sc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:58 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro I remember

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Melvin Backus
Young Whipper Snapper! ☺ -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:28 PM To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Dan Rod
When I was in high school, we had a Xerox electronic typesetter. It took 8 inch, single sided floppies. Also, my father was a printer/lithographer, and he had an Itek Typesetter that also took 8 inch, single sided floppies. They wanted $4,000 to come and install an additional floppy and upgrade

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-18 Thread Jay Dale
Yes, it came back and did not find any issues. Jay -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:03 PM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I do remember installing a 1 MB Floppy Drive on a Commodore 64 1MB Floppy? Interesting… they had the 1581 800K 3.5” floppies made by Commodore…, and outfits like CMD sold interfaces for hard drives… with 5 10MB units being the most common. I never heard of a 1MB floppy… or a HDD of

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Rod Trent
Well, it was a luggable – not a checkable. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rod Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:46 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro I remember a story about a guy who had

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Maglinger, Paul
And the floppy disk notchers that would make a double-sided floppy out of a single. And to do the same for a 3 ½ you just needed a soldering iron with a small tip! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Dan Rod
Here is link talking about that Commodore 1MB Floppy Drive. http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/periph.html On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I do remember installing a 1 MB Floppy Drive on a Commodore 64 1MB Floppy? Interesting… they

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Very cool… not sure I ever saw one of those… I had the 1541 1581, and eventually one of each of these: 512KB Ram Expansion Unit: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/GeoRAM Schnedler Systems 4Mhz accelerator:

[NTSysADM] Microsoft Labs Online?

2014-04-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Anyone have experience with this? I tried to sign up for it, but don't have any codes. How are those gotten - part of a class, or something else? I saw the site in a class I'm taking. Kurt

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I had the first Compaq luggable. That thing weighed a ton - but was by no means anything that could be thrown with normal luggage. What a dumb-ass! -- Espi On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:52 AM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com wrote: I personally don't remember them, but I sure hope he purchased his

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-18 Thread Hank Arnold
I think that what folks (including me) are afraid of is the support person deciding that the call isn't free -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 6:59 AM To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-18 Thread Susan Bradley
This is deemed a security update. thus it will always be a free call. On 4/18/2014 2:13 PM, Hank Arnold wrote: I think that what folks (including me) are afraid of is the support person deciding that the call isn't free -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-18 Thread Jon Harris
I sister in NJ has two sitting in her attic at the moment. She even has the boot disks and manuals for both I think. Jon Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:46:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro From: drod...@gmail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com I remember a story about a guy who