RE: Whining... (mysql)

2010-07-16 Thread Oliver Marshall
On that note, I'm always amazed that so much software still uses SQL server for no apparent reason, forcing companies to shell out 000s over the cost of whatever software you are buying...when they could just use MySQL instead, save the client loads of initial outlay, resources, etc We run

RE: Whining... (mysql)

2010-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's an easy answer. MS-SQL is _easy_ to develop for in the Windows environment. SQL Express is free. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
The main thing we would look for in the Enterprise edition (for now) would be the encryption of the database. At this point we can get by with the Standard edition and find a 3rd party app that will do what we want. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Maglinger, Paul
I like our Itaniums. We're running HP-UX on them and those machines are fast. Migrated from Tru-64 on Alphas and saw run times on jobs reduced from 4 hours to 23 minutes. Oh yeah, we like our Itaniums... -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent:

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: I wonder when Itanium will finally be killed off. When it goes, the last _DIRECT_ lineage from Alpha goes away. Is Itanium really a direct descendant of the Alpha? I know Compaq later sold the Alpha intellectual

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Well, later in life anyway when they couldn't figure out how to kill their sacred VAX cow and movie on. For a good while, they were about as good as it got, as I've gathered from many people who were their customers and from reading I've done. I'd love to read a DEC tome along the lines of Soul

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Awesome. Amiga was some truly amazing hardware for its time, and the OS remains under-appreciated IMO. They also had no idea what to really do to market it against the PeeCee -sc -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Nice... what OS? -sc -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whining... I've seen pictures of tests of an IP Video solution on Itanium where they had something like 512

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Clendestine Gov't Pr0n! -sc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whining... Lemme see... IP Video, massive horsepower, state of the art equipment... It had to be streaming high-res

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
ME's dad used to work on VOD stuff. -sc From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whining... Don't forget what may be in your house: on-demand from cable company or telco. ;) Thanks, Brian

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Yeah? Cool. What vintage Alpha and what model itanium? I think HP may be the single largest distributor of them outside of Intel, if not even larger. Of course, HP was a significant contributor to their development with Intel... I think there's some PA-RISC lineage in it. -sc -Original

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Indeed it was already in development, but from what I've read Intel did indeed incorporate some of the intellectual property in to Itanium from Alpha program[7] (which in turn incorporated much of the cancelled Prism[2] project within DEC[1]) -sc [1] Geek lore would have it that the AXP

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Brian Desmond
Windows - probably 2003 at that time. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whining... Nice... what OS? -sc

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I know Fujitsu and NEC had some big systems... and I think they went the Itanium route. -sc -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whining... Windows - probably 2003 at

Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Man, I remember a bunch of these... http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads-that -will-blow-your-processor/ -sc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

bes express + sbs 2008

2010-07-16 Thread justino garcia
Does sbs 2008 exchange support bess express 10 user office? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-16 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 15 Jul 2010 at 22:20, Ben Scott wrote: Don't forget that [expletive] Adobe Download Manager crap. Here's the batch file I use to retrieve the latest flash player = Included Stuff Follows = :: Flash 10 for Windows2000-7 Internet Explorer: wget

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Man, I remember a bunch of these… I remember using and even owning several of those products, let alone the ads. My first IBM compatible was a Tandy 1000 SL. Neat machine for the day. Had MS-DOS in ROM so you

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Well, later in life anyway when they couldn't figure out how to kill their sacred VAX cow and movie on. For a good while, they were about as good as it got, as I've gathered from many people who were their customers

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Yeah, I counted 16-17 that I remember. Worked and/or played on a bunch of them. Remember installing 5 and 10 MB HDD's and deciding whether to format them MFM or RLL to squeeze a little extra space out of them. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I think that was 10 years too late.. that was already the Palmer Era. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whining... On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steven M. Caesare

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Remember installing 5 and 10 MB HDD's and deciding whether to format them MFM or RLL to squeeze a little extra space out of them. And the obligatory, Wow! That's like 40 floppies! I'll *never* run out of disk

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
I had an abacus when I was a kid. When I got to high school, I got a slide rule. We had a computer science class featuring a teletype terminal with an acoustic modem that connected to a LameFrame at a local college. It ran Fortran. Our programs were stored on paper tape created/read by an

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 2. 8 Kb (or was it 16?)memory expansion 3. Cassettes for a spread sheet, a database, and a backgammon game The Sinclair had its OS and BASIC on ROM. It also

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Hold my screwdriver, I have to use 2 hands to lift this full-height 5-1/4 drive in to the bay. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion On Fri, Jul 16, 2010

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
And to think they built the SR-71 with those things. -sc -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion I had an abacus when I was a kid. When I got to high

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Exactly. Thee (membrane!) keyboard had standard characters, or either the BASIC function names, or graphic shapes. The latter 2 could be invoked by some keypress-combination with a function key or some such. The expansion pack I had was 16KB. You had to supply your own rubber band or tape to

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
I did invest $2 and a stamp to get a KB Template. It stuck onto the membrane KB and had holes in it for fingers. It truly spead things up! Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote on 07/16/2010 10:19:56 AM: Exactly. Thee (membrane!) keyboard had standard characters, or either the

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Especially when typing in those lo...@ss program listings from the magazine?? -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion I did invest $2 and a stamp to get a KB

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Don Guyer
OMG! I was just watching this game I used to play for hours on the C64 (from cassette tape mind you): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QVl5Z9gL0 Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Don Guyer
Yeah, I had Zaxxon, don't remember any more titles at the moment though. 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 -Original Message-

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
Mmmm...Bard's Tale. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Hehe... I liked me some Beach Head, Bards Tale, Zaxxon, etc... on my C64 -sc -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
My first computer.. the ADAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam Bought it at a Kay Bee toy store. Don't remember the price, but I worked all summer with my dad to pay it off! My first computer I purchased was from Service Merchandise. It was a 286, with 25 MB hard drive and 16KB of

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Let's see here.. games I had/played: Summer Games Karataka Commando Spy Hunter (built my own hybrid joystick for this one) Archon Raid over Moscow (awesome!) Winter Games Labyrinth 1942 Little Computer People Arkanoid Hacker Knockout! Pitstop Pitfall EA Pinball Afterburner

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
None of the Ultimas? I had most of those games, and also M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Let’s see here.. games I had/played: Summer Games Karataka Commando Spy Hunter (built my own hybrid joystick

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Never played any of the Ultima or Zork series. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion None of the Ultimas? I had most of those games, and also M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Man... Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a Catalog Showroom!) bring back memories all in themselves. -sc From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion My first computer.. the ADAM.

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
Actually, I preferred Best Products over Service Merchandise. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Man. Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a Catalog Showroom!) bring back

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Ens
I loved Contra on the original Nintendo. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Let’s see here.. games I had/played: Summer Games Karataka Commando Spy Hunter (built my own hybrid joystick for this one) Archon Raid over Moscow (awesome!)

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
I worked at a Best, before they liquidated... On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: Actually, I preferred Best Products over Service Merchandise. *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 9:21 AM *To:* NT

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Scot Parsons
Before they closed and Service Merchandise moved in, we had a store called Sam Solomon. I think Service Merchandise bought them out when they went under. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Gill
Or just use these links instead: http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_msi http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_pl_msi That will always get you the current version and in MSI format without the addons/toolbars/scanners. If you want to be legit, then you should go to

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Was this the expansion pack that was roughly the size of a VHS tape, larger then the Sinclair itself? It's been a real long time since I've touched one of those things, but I really remember how archaic it was, playing around with it at the BoysGirls club (some form of after-school care, grew

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
Looking through the magazines, I remember seeing such large modules. However, the Sinclair version was pretty small - about the size of (tax your memory again!) 3 DATs stacked. Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote on 07/16/2010 11:48:48 AM: Was this the expansion pack that was roughly the

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Here it is attached to the computer... This looks like exactly what I had, sans the spiffy audio cassette drive I had to supply. I built mine from a kit. You can see the BASIC keywords and the graphic shapes we were talking about on the keyboard too.

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
Did you have to ride a dinosaur to school when a kid? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Yup. -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Looking through the magazines, I remember seeing such large modules. However, the Sinclair version was pretty small

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Heh, I had the same thing. You hit F12 to load up Deskmate from ROM as well. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
Played Spy Hunter, Zork series, 1942, Arkanoid, Pitstop, Afterburner, Huey Sim., Pacman, Test Drive, Donkey Kong, Spy vs Spy and Marble Madness. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax:

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Mayo, Bill
+1. Mine was actually an expansion to the ColecoVision...plugged into the expansion port on the front. Took up a lot of desk space that way. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select, Start - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: I loved Contra on the original Nintendo. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Let’s see here..

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jay Dale
OMG I had one of those too! Jay From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Here it is attached to the computer... This looks like exactly what I had, sans the spiffy audio cassette drive I

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Konami... but it was B, A, I thought? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right,

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: Or just use these links instead: http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_msi http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_pl_msi What would be really nice is links like that for Acrobat Reader. -- Ben ~

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What would be really nice is links like that for Acrobat Reader. You apply for distro rights [1], they email you a link. Reader is packaged like sh!t, updates are msi patches and they are always messing with the stupid thing so that every version is an exercise in customization. I've never

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Gordon
I once remember seeing a cartoon that parodied this keyboard. - showed it having just one massive key in the middle with *every* letter/keyword/graphic on it, surrounded by hundreds of little shift keys. J I never had one myself, I was an Atari man back then - 800XL (proper keys), still got it

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
Again, my toothpaste bonus package had a backgammon game... One fateful afternoon in a game, I was getting hit a lot. I decided to try a back game. The machine offered to double. I would accept and offer back. I had the cube all the way up to 64, and I had my table all blocked up. Then I

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
No, those weren't invented yet. But the snakes still walked upright... -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Did you have to ride a dinosaur to school when a kid?

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
Pics? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, July

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
No, sorry, they didn't have cameras then either. However, I still have my slide rule and I'll try to remember to take a picture. -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Dang I'm old. I remember practically all of these !!! Warm regards, Stu From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Friday diversion Man, I remember a bunch of these...

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
I've seen references to both. Was the one I listed for two players? - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: Konami… but it was B, A, I thought? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 *From:* Sean

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Ens
Sam, you been sleeping? LOL. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/gfi-software-acquires-sunbelt-software.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread John Leto
Welcome to Tuesday! Haha From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software Sam, you been sleeping? LOL. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sam Cayze

Sharepoint licensing in a DR play

2010-07-16 Thread Andy Shook
SharePoint (MOSS assumed at this time) 2010 Enterprise, Internet Connector and Search. Production is well, production[1] but can I stand up a warm DR site in a receive changes only mode and NOT have to license the DR site. You can do this with SQL but I need to confirm SPS is the same[2].

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis? Kidding...apparently you've not been around... On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Sam, you been sleeping? LOL. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote:

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/gfi-software-acquires-sunbelt-software.html Darth Vader? Luke's father?! No way!! -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: What would be really nice is links like that for Acrobat Reader. You apply for distro rights [1], they email you a link. I seem to recall that, when I did that for Acrobat Reader long ago, the link they sent

RE: Sharepoint licensing in a DR play

2010-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
PURr is your friend. Learn it. Love it. Live it. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/product-licensing.aspx I didn't look it up for you, but it'll be in there. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
Same here. B, A From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Konami. but it was B, A, I thought? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107

RE: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Sam Cayze
LOL! I haven't been around! Been on vaca since the 1st :) Just getting back online. What else did I miss!! Sam From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, B, A, Start or B, A, Select, Start for two players. Interestingly, typing upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart into a Palm Pre puts it into developer mode. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Richard Stovall
You've been on your cow for 15 days? That's totally cool. Bull rider in your spare time? On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: LOL! I haven’t been around! Been on vaca since the 1st :) Just getting back online. What else did I miss!! Sam

RE: Sharepoint licensing in a DR play

2010-07-16 Thread Andy Shook
Purrfect. That's the cat's meow of licensing documents. Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint licensing in a DR play PURr is your friend. Learn it. Love it. Live it.

RE: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Sam Cayze
Save me the trouble of digging back... 1 quick question, will this list remain alive? Sa, From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software LOL! I

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Awesome. Amiga was some truly amazing hardware for its time, and the OS remains under-appreciated IMO. They also had no idea what to really do to market it against the

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
You just had the last post! They indicated it would. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Save me the trouble of digging back… 1 quick question, will this list remain alive? Sa, *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:*

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
I got some promotional VHS from them that were fun to watch. One of the quotes I fondly remember is But, beware. Complex animations like these require lots of memory. Sometimes more than a megabyte. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:26 PM To: NT

Re: Whining... (mysql)

2010-07-16 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Very, very easy. Microsoft has always been relatively developer-friendly, whether in the ease of development (separate discussion needed for robustness of resulting code) or the cost of development. The bulk of Windows development costs are borne by the customers of the apps, not the developers

NAS with Active Directory

2010-07-16 Thread Roger Wright
Need recommendations for a decent NAS device with 2-5TB storage that'll tie in with Active Directory. We've tried a couple from LaCie and WD but each has had issues like lock-ups and dropping off the network. Most of the SoHo devices we've looked at get lousy reviews. Oh... and it needs to be

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
When the Amiga first came out, it featured a HAM (Hold and Modify) graphics mode that supported 4,096 colors plus alpha. At the time, that was huge. Not too long after that, 16 bit video cards were available, then 16 bit plus alpha ... etc.etc. Amiga led in the graphics wars for a very long

RE: NAS with Active Directory

2010-07-16 Thread Jason Morris
I absolutely love my QNAP. You buy the chassis and install your own drives to make it go. I have a 4 slot unit with 3 x 1.5tb Drives. ( I should have filled it at first for the cost but it was a demo unit.) Jason -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Kurt Buff
And then came the video toaster, which was often used to replace very expensive chiron machines. Babylon 5, Max Headroom, and others, used it for special effects. Kurt On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 13:54, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: When the Amiga first came out, it featured a HAM

RE: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Jeff Cain
Yes, the list is not going anywhere. :) Thanks, Jeff Cain - supp...@sunbeltsoftware.commailto:supp...@sunbeltsoftware.com Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software, part of the GFI Software family www.sunbeltsoftware.comhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ Tel: 1-877-757-4094 Fax: +1 727-562-3402

Re: NAS with Active Directory

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
I think you're asking a lot from the price range you offered. I think your experience probably backs you up. Might want to review your range and look at a DroboPro. Buy it empty populate it with drive sufficient for your current needs, attach it to a server via iSCSI and configure as a regular

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
Ahh, Babylon5. Good memories. Might have to dig out the DVDs... On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: And then came the video toaster, which was often used to replace very expensive chiron machines. Babylon 5, Max Headroom, and others, used it for special

RE: NAS with Active Directory

2010-07-16 Thread Jason Morris
My 4 slot QNAP was under that price range and it integrated flawlessly with AD. Comes with 2 gige network ports and I'm running on one. Large file transfers are upwards of 34Mb/sec, and my lots'o' small file transfers moved almost as fast as a file server with DAS. Jason From: Jonathan Link

[OT] Friday Funny

2010-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
This one is dedicated to Shooky... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com The day finally arrived. Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven. He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates are closed, and

Re: Whoa! GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-16 Thread Kurt Buff
Yep. Where would you get all of your tech support from if it went away? Heh. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:09, Jeff Cain je...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: Yes, the list is not going anywhere. J Thanks, Jeff Cain – supp...@sunbeltsoftware.com Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt

Server raid config ponderings

2010-07-16 Thread Ben N
I have a new Dell R710, with 10 (2.5inch) x 300GB SAS drives. (dual quad core with 48GB RAM) The Hyper-V guests i'll be putting on here are really going to just be old physical servers that i want to retire. So not much production use. There will be a few important servers, like some Win2k3 IIS

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: When the Amiga first came out, it featured a HAM (Hold and Modify) graphics mode that supported 4,096 colors plus alpha. At the time, that was huge. Never heard of it. Looked it up.[1] Wow, what a brilliant hack.

RE: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Joseph Heaton
And just what, pray tell, did this secret code give you? Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu 7/16/2010 1:17 PM Yeah, B, A, Start or B, A, Select, Start for two players. Interestingly, typing upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart into a Palm Pre puts it into developer mode. From: Sean

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: And then came the video toaster, which was often used to replace very expensive chiron machines. What's a chiron machine? Babylon 5, Max Headroom, and others, used it for special effects. IIRC, the original BattleTech

RE: Server raid config ponderings

2010-07-16 Thread Brian Desmond
RAID10 will get you fantastic perf. RAID5 write perf across that many drives is going to be a bit rough. I'd just bite the bullet on the hot spare, personally. Dell's going to get you the new drive in 4-12 hours depending on your contract, right? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c

RE: Server raid config ponderings

2010-07-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I would do R10 with 2 groups of 4 and leave 2 drives for hotspares if needed. R5 sucks for this application... From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server raid config ponderings I have a new Dell R710, with 10

Re: Server raid config ponderings

2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
How much space do you need? Preferably you'd configure a RAID 1 for the OS, a hot spare, which would leave you with a 7 Drive RAID 5 config, or 1.8TB of raw space (usable space will be slightly lower, probably around 260-270GB/drive). - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ben N

Re: Server raid config ponderings

2010-07-16 Thread Jon Harris
Using a Dell 2950 with a RAID 1 for the 2008 system and RAID 5 (4 or 5 drives) total space about 1TB. It had 2 Quad core processors and 32GB of RAM. I had the system up running only Hyper-V and 6 VMs all on the RAID 5 with few issues attributable to hardware. The VMs were AV, SQL, AD,

Re: Friday diversion

2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
For Contra on the NES, it gave you something like 30 lives. - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: And just what, pray tell, did this secret code give you? Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu 7/16/2010 1:17 PM Yeah, B, A, Start or B, A, Select,

RE: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sprites were limited. I can't specifically remember, but it may have been to 32 or 64 colors. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:56 PM To:

Re: Whining...

2010-07-16 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:58, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: And then came the video toaster, which was often used to replace very expensive chiron machines.  What's a chiron machine? Babylon 5, Max Headroom, and

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