In my case it was closer to $14/month.
Christopher Bodnar
Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology
Tel 610-807-6459
3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017
christopher_bod...@glic.com
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
www.guardianlife.com
From: N
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
IIRC, the new shell was introduced with NT 4.0, or maybe some kind of
option pack to same.
That was an alpha/beta level shell preview, and not released code. I
used it.. it was buggy in several aspects, although it
I thought it was pretty damn funny! And I got the original yesterday, as I
presume he did.
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ping
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kurt Buff
Was it simply coincidence that the original was posted on International
Women's Day?
From: Jeff Brown [mailto:jbr...@webcoindustries.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ping
I thought it was pretty damn funny! And I got the original yesterday, as I
Don't encourage him.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Brown jbr...@webcoindustries.comwrote:
I thought it was pretty damn funny! And I got the original yesterday,
as I presume he did.
** **
*From:* Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:07 PM
I was also thinking of switching from Vonage to Magicjack because they keep
going up with fees and increases. Have you tested faxing yet? I do not fax a
lot, but with Vonage it has not been an issue, but reading the post it looks
like MJ may not be as reliable for multi-page faxing.
From:
Nope, this is strictly for home use, and have had no need for that
functionality.
Christopher Bodnar
Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology
Tel 610-807-6459
3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017
christopher_bod...@glic.com
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of
I actually just bough an Ooma, and from what I understand that's about what it
would cost for the full blown setup with all the line features. Or ~$100/year
up front which includes porting your # for free. Still better than what I'm
pay ATT.
From: Christopher
If you are only running FTP, then 99% chance all your IIS configuration is in
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\config (there are three config files there)
There's a history of changes in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\history
You just need to keep track of the local user passwords (if you are using
Accept-Language: en-AU, en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
x-originating-ip: [192.168.232.15]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-PMX-Version: 5.5.2.363555, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.1.350677, Antispam-Data:
I've done quite a bit of research on fax/modem capabilities of VOIP services.
I was trying to find a solution that would give me a analog line at a piece of
equipment that had a modem for tech support to dial in to. From what I can
tell Vonage is the only service that a fax line works well
Yup, I'm an idiot.
Ignore me on the shell thing. I was thinking... well I'm not really sure.
I still stand by Win2k being the cat's meow tho' :)
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
See?
I was so behind on the list I wasn't even aware that messages were being
delayed by several days!
-sc
From: Jeff Brown [mailto:jbr...@webcoindustries.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ping
I thought it was pretty damn funny! And I
That's what SHE said!
-sc
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ping
Don't encourage him.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Brown jbr...@webcoindustries.com
wrote:
I thought it was pretty
Just switched from Vonage to Ooma as well. Got a refurb Ooma for ~$140,
and spent the $30ish to get my number ported.
So far so good. Issues:
1) The base service doesn't do email notifications of vmail. I did
get that w/ Vonage, but I also was paying. $28/mo. I can do without it.
2)
Agreed, it's still better than a lot of options out there. For me it just
didn't make sense to pay an extra $130/year to Ooma for the same service I
can get with MagicJack. This is my estimate for 4 years between the 2
services, which includes the initial purchase of the hardware:
Ooma
The lawn mower does what I need it to do, although if I could only get it to
mow the yard all by itself...
http://www.robomow.com/home.html
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:31 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win 8 CP - Initial
FWIW, I've had Vonage for about 4 years or so. Originally had their unlimited $24.99 single line monthly plan that ended up costing about $28.00 per month after fees and taxes. I called and asked if there were discounts for paying in bulk. They said yes so I went with a 1 year contract which put
Windows XP added cached credentials, so you didn't spend what seemed like
infinity waiting to get to your desktop after entering your credentials when
there was no DC on the network.
Whilst Win2k was nicer from a GUI PoV, WinNT 3.5.1 and WinNT 4 delivered on the
stability PoV. Win2k didn't
Remember that fax isn't supposed to work on VoIP anyways without fax-aware
endpoints and infrastructure. (For anyone interested, voip-info.org has a nice
writeup on T.38 VoIP fax—you vasically intercept the fax at the adapter end,
packetize it, send it, and then unpack it and recreate the
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Senter, John john.sen...@etrade.com wrote:
I do not fax a lot, but with Vonage it has not been an issue, but reading the
post it looks like MJ may not be as reliable for multi-page faxing.
From everything I've heard, MJ+fax=bad.
You're prolly better off
John Harris passed rather unexpectedly, don't know if you recall him from
the other list or not Kurt.
- WJR
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 23:01, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Do tell.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 19:23, Micheal Espinola Jr
michealespin...@gmail.com wrote:
Today is a sad day
I had MJ for a couple of years. Didn't have too many complaints, except that
sometimes the people I was talking to would complain that I sounded like I was
under water. I've got my phone through my ISP now, Clear, and it seems to be
working fine. Only issue now, is that when Clear pushes an
Mine has a beer cup holder. Worth the price right there. J
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?
The lawn mower does what I need it to do, although if I could
Acceptable is a relative term. Knowing Gary as well as I do I can assure
you it was acceptable to him. Knowing others here as well I can safely say
it's acceptable to them as well.
Honestly Gary's response is pretty spot on, the function of a professional
list typically is for peers of an
HOLY CRAP on the prices!!
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Miller Bonnie L.
mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote:
The lawn mower does what I need it to do, although if I could only get
it to mow the yard all by itself…
** **
http://www.robomow.com/home.html
** **
** **
*The sales guy said to cancel your service, and then you can come back as
a new customer.*
Yes, that's how it works, apparently.
I have successfully avoided tying my phone service to my Internet provider
for years now. I like them decoupled because I can make decisions about
each independently
Don,
Comcast will normally give you what you want, if you tell them
you are thinking about other vendors. Each year, when my yearly rate goes up
(all 3 services), I call and get it lowered back down. Nuisance, but it's
worked for quite some time now.
BTW, I've
I'm in the Midwest market for Comcast and we use them for one work location. I
hate dealing with them, can't seem to do anything right. I have Dish at home
and when I called them to complain that if I was a new customer I would be
paying $20/month less for the exact same package they dropped
Sorry to hear. I'm sad for his family and would like to express condolences
for their loss.
Don K
From: William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 9:32 AM
Subject: Re:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote:
Knowing others here as well I can safely say
it's acceptable to them as well.
Please don't presume to speak for unspecified others in a blanket statement.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
It's been a while, but couldn't progman.exe be run as a shell under NT 4?
PROGMAN.EXE can be run as a shell under XP.
Dunno about NT 6.x.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
And just making it that much easier once SkyNET gets going...
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote:
HOLY CRAP on the prices!!
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Miller Bonnie L.
mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote:
The lawn mower does what I need it to do,
Polite is a relative term, too. I find unresearched, or at least
poorly framed, questions incredibly rude, hence impolite.
I have two standards for posting to the list.
If it's something that's easy, but I think the members know a fair bit
about, I'll ask, but I'll so preface that I may not have
sorry to hear this,
Rest in Peace John :(
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote:
John Harris passed rather unexpectedly, don't know if you recall him from
the other list or not Kurt.
- WJR
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 23:01, Kurt Buff
WJR, did you say something?
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: William Robbins [dangerw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
Thanks for the advice guys. I'm going to begin testing on Monday with some
test desktops and the ADMT.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote:
On top of what already has been suggested the only item in AD you should
do is associate that subnet (101) with the site in
I've been thinking about getting DISH for TV. We have refused to add any extra Comcast services for TV. When I originally got it, we had the basic stuff that came along with the cable connection - so we had a bunch of channels - including FX and SCI FI for a while. Since they've went digital, we
+1
I have no right to call myself a peer. I am a research biologist by
training. It's just that one fateful day, I was told, You're good at fixing
computers; you are now our systems administrator!.
I cannot adequately express how much I have learned from this forum and how
helpful it has
Whoa..
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows File Archive
Sorry to hear. I'm sad for his family and would like to express condolences
for their loss.
Don K
From:
yep. H drive too.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something
different?
*David Lum*
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764
** **
~ Finally,
Pick your poison...individual shares or folders under a single share. Depends
entirely on the enterprise, admin considerations, security considerations, etc.
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: David Lum david@nwea.org
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 17:18:01
To: NT System Admin
We simply populate the Profile Tab, and allow Windows to create the actual
folder w/ appropriate rights.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Windows Server Support
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 9:18 AM
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
Subject: H:
One share. you can designate subfolders under that share as the homefolder.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something
different?
*David Lum*
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229
One share for all home drives. Use ABE so not all folder are visible and
use NTFS perms to secure. To much management overhead for a separate share
for each user folder.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create individual shares for each user,
Sad day.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry to hear this,
Rest in Peace John :(
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.comwrote:
John Harris passed rather unexpectedly, don't know if you recall him from
the
Definitely one share, and multiple folders owned by each user below
that. The ACLs pretty much follow along this guide for roaming
profiles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013(v=ws.10).aspx
--Steve
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something
different?
One share, folder per user.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
That is sad news. :(
Condolences to his family.
From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows File Archive
John Harris passed rather unexpectedly, don't know if you recall him from the
other list or not
Generally:
\\server_name\users\user_name
Regards,
Don Guyer
Directory and Messaging Services
Catholic Health East, ITSS
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: H: (homedrive)
Do you guys create individual shares for
One share with secured nested folder structures. This is less resource
intensive on the server.
--
Espi
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something
different?
*David Lum*
Systems Engineer //
To borrow from the response of CB II, if you think that was really
abusive, you may need to get out more.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Richard McClary
richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote:
+1
I have no right to call myself a peer. I am a research biologist by
training. It's just that one
I create one share (the Home directory) and then lock down the individual
subdirectories using local permissions.
-Paul
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 11:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: H: (homedrive)
Do you guys create individual shares for
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote:
Now, they've sent us another msg telling us
we had to get boxes just to watch TV on our older sets. So we got 3 of
those for free and have to put those in.
Yah, cable TV is switching to digital broadcasting the same way
A single share with each of their folders in there.
\\server\users\%username%file:///\\server\users\%25username%25 Self-created
with this spiffy MS KB. My favorite KB of all time since we need 7000 new
folders every August.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443
From: David Lum
Wait until their new receiver comes out. Google Dish Hopper
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MagicJack
I've been thinking about getting DISH for TV. We have refused to
FYI - looks like business is picking up...
- Forwarded Message -
From: Shubham shub...@okayainfo.com
To: drkuhl...@yahoo.com drkuhl...@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 12:09 PM
Subject: Required Active Directory Administrator/6+months Contract/Lake
Success,NY
Hi Don Kuhlman
Yep - been in places that did both - One share with users folders under them,
another place had multiple shares by user - H Drive, or U drive, etc. for
userdata.
From: Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues
All the research I've done shows that DirectTV has more channels at the similar
offering levels. At least here they do.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Windows Server Support
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 9:53 AM
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
Richard, you've been on this list for years and years, regardless of your
expertise in IT versus your biology training, you're a peer because you're
NOT a n00b ! There are always peers with more or less expertise, within
the range of the group.
Those that are not peers stand out in obvious,
Thanks Don. Just saw this from earlier.I tried once calling them (yes only once) and should try again. I was trying to get them to offer us a bundle (adding more TV and Phone service) to our Internet and basic cable TV package. I mentioned the current special and he said it's only for new
That explains things, I never knew it would auto-create the folder and perms!
So glad I asked...one more thing I just got more efficient at.
Dave
From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)
We
I haven't checked in a while, did they ever update the Mac client so that a TS
Gateway can be entered? I couldn't find a solution to that one a few years ago.
Mike
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Employee
We have \\fileserver\home share, with share permissions of
Everyone:Full Control, and NTFS permissions of Read/Execute For this
Folder Only for Domain Users.
These permissions allow people to traverse the share to their home directories.
We then specify \\fileserver\home\%username% for home
How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations?
4? 5? 6 years?
My oldest are a few from 2006.
I am thinking I should start replacing after they hit 5 years (4 years
if heavy user/issues).
I know it will depend on the business environment...I'm just trying to
get some idea as to
For us it's USERNAME$ on the server.
Roger Wright
___
ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: the inability to become excited over any of the
choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election year
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys create
I didn't see Don's posting, but we'll need the box for our _NEW_ TV's as well.
GRRr
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: MagicJack
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Don
So, using the GPO will create the folder structure as well as set permissions?
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)
A single share with each of their folders in there.
In my experience with them once I got my first set of free receivers from them
getting new ones a few years later was not cheap. 'We only do that for new
customers' was what I was told several times until I called to cancel, but at
that point it was too late for them. I had cable put back in
/rant on
Yeah...
Our provider started spewing commercials when the digital move was going to
happen.
You don't need to do anything. Your cable will work just fine! You don't
need a new TV or convertor.
That is until the vouchers were no longer available from the government for the
Years ago, when I was transitioning between jobs (I was finishing up
college) my wife called our cable company and said I was unemployed (not
really accurate) and that we wanted to cancel service, or at least drop it
down to basic cable. We ended up getting more tiers, premium channels, etc
for 3
... It's just that one fateful day, I was told, You're good at fixing
computers; you are now our systems administrator!.
And that's different than the rest of us...how? :-)
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012
Exactly what I went through a few years ago with Dish. When I called to cancel
THEN they had a deal. That last month when I went from Cox Cable to ATT…same
thing…Cox had no deals until I was calling to cancel. It is maddening.
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March
The below kb is a a godsend. Fixing perms after the fact on file share is a
major PITA.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kennedy, Jim
kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote:
A single share with each of their folders in there.
\\server\users\%username% Self-created with this spiffy MS KB. My
Just called my cable provider (internet, cable ) and asked how much it
would be to add telephone to the existing package. About $20/month. So
$240/year compared to MJ at $39/year. Just can't understand why they
can't bundle that cheaper for existing customers.
Christopher Bodnar
That is the conclusion I came to as well. And I bet some DirectTV folks would
provide their account numbers offline to get you a discount and a bonus back
to them as well
From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 11:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
We find that the default permissions created by Windows when you populate the
Profile Tab to be... less than optimal in our case.
We have students who get Full Control of their folders. Thus, they will grant
permissions to other students read and/or write access, so they can copy their
work.
We would like to keep our systems on a 4 year lifecycle.
But, we also purchase refurbished computers with 3 year warranties.
Occasionally we will get brand new systems.
Also, that does not mean we still have some computers from 2004 still in the
field.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
%dayjob% starts cycling out at 3 years and very few make it past 4. Org of 500+
%nightjob% I do 5 year cycle for the bigger client (55PC's) with some systems
going to 6 (infrequent use role-assigned PC's).
In both cases the newest of the old are kept as immediate replacement
stand-ins for KIA
I have one client that has (get ready to cringe) desktops that are 9 years old.
Most others attempt to replace in a 3-4 year cycle.
For me and my employees, it's about 2 years.
From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 3:13 PM
To: NT System
Yes.
From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 2:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop
I haven't checked in a while, did they ever update the Mac client so that a TS
Gateway can be entered? I couldn't find a solution to
At my work we keep them for 5 to 7 years. We buy decent laptops for our
Project Managers (currently the HP EliteBook 8560w) and they use them for 3
to 4 years before we replace them. Their laptops are then passed to the
foremen out in the field where they hopefully last a few more years.
On Fri,
We have been three years for notebooks and 4 years for desktops. Our
environment is mostly notebooks.
I'm planning to increase the lifecycle of notebooks to 4 years, since there
don't seem to be a lot of changes these past few years. Also moving to
SSDs.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David
We refresh every 4 years.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM, David Mazzaccaro
david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote:
How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations?
4? 5? 6 years?
My oldest are a few from 2006.
I am thinking I should start replacing
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwr7F6Kdwx7YkG9LehP2LJXrGBE8VcHOfKewu7i0u76T1YDwscftLW1Pmq
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 06:57, Miller Bonnie L.
mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote:
The lawn mower does what I need it to do, although if I could only get it
to mow the yard all by itself…
I don't have an issue with the attack, per se. I have an issue with the
language. I rarely talk that way (and I have to be really angry or really
drunk) and I just don't like it.
And, in general, I'll give people a couple of freebies before I start with the
LMGTFY or putting them in my kill
As far as I can tell, nothing ever slowed down... Each of the last 3 years have
been record breaking for me.
What about the last year for you Web?
From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 2:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Fw: Required Active
I'm sure many of us have some older. Until recently, I had a DOS only machine.
My current oldest is still running Windows 98. But I digress.
Some people (power users) I try to swap out at 3 - 4 years. Most go 5 or 6,
some go longer (occasional email check or very light surfer).
Mark
From:
two years
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, David Mazzaccaro
david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote:
**
How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations?
4? 5? 6 years?
My oldest are a few from 2006.
I am thinking I should start replacing after they hit 5 years (4
Our lease cycle was 3 years. With the slowing down of hardware
requirements, etc, we are moving to a 4 year cycle for both servers and
desktops. Laptops are still 3 year because they suffer a bit more travel
abuse but we are also reducing the amount of laptops through using Citrix,
etc.
On Fri,
I'm still running PC's that are P4's that were on site when I started here
more than 7 years ago. We drive them until they die and we replace with
used. For us it's budget as well.
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 4:53 PM
To: NT System Admin
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Mazzaccaro
david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote:
How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations?
4? 5? 6 years?
Varies. We've got some that are prolly 10 years old, but all they
do is run the lightweight client for the ERP software
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
As far as I can tell, nothing ever slowed down... Each of the last 3
years have been record breaking for me.
The really good people are always in high demand.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that
Same here. We have 5 year old computers in production.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 04:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: PC
AMEN! This year is a killer for me. :) If I worked with XenDesktop or
NetScaler I could get even more work! Why, I am not doing much between 1 to 5
A.M.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: Michael Smith
I rarely talk that way (and I have to be really angry or really drunk) and I
just don’t like it.
Dude, you are like a pillar of knowledge to me, no matter how busy I am, I read
at least
your posts.
The thought of you drunk A) Is hilarious, and B) Humanizes you from that pillar
I have you
I remember that! Just let it go Erik
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 05:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Re: Windows File
Well, it's different than how I did it.
I was working in a reasonably responsible customer service position in
the credit department of a fairly large organization when I received
notification that there was an opening on the data
processing/mainframe helpdesk. I jumped on that immediately
The
Aldrich belongs on a tech mailing list about as much as I belong at a meeting
with the Pope.
-Original Message-
From: Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:33:17
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
/lurk
I wonder if Chris Peden knows how famous he has become
--Steve
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From: Free, Bob r...@pge.com
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:59:20
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