On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:56 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have to say that using ping seems a tad - well, anachronistic.
Why? It's specifically designed to see if a host is reachable --
almost exactly what you want to do, no?
Simple is good.
I'd have thought there
Kurt said that piece - I was trying to summarise the overall content of the
thread to date - I wasn't trying to state you said everything. Specifically I
wrote: I'm stating that the contentions being put forward by others...
To be honest, enterprise environments have lots of limitations and
You can synthesize all you said in one simple sentence; It's a business
decision. I get that, I don't need a lecture on how it's justified for a
particular business. It's like in Fight Club, Take the number of
vehicles in the field, *A*, multiply by the probable rate of failure, *B*,
multiply
It is also my primary OS at home. My kids 6 and 9 love it. My wife likes
it on her laptop and seriosly wants a tablet. I am buying 4 copies at the
$39 special price before Jan 31st. We are discussing trialing it at work
but it would probably be limited to IT due to the way the our major in
The extra keyboard work is a pain IMHO...I can get around it but a lot of
non-savvy users may be a bit annoyed by it
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:19:08
To: NT System Admin
OK, here are some thoughts on this. In my previous position within my
current employer, I was responsible for interviewing the last 10 vacancies
for Systems Engineers, so I have a decent amount of experience over the
last few years related to this.
My first question is whether you should be
And no deliberate typo that time either :-)
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:51:28
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues
AFAIK the built-in network location bits in Vista and later use the
reachability of a domain controller to decide when to use the Domain /
Private / Public network profiles. I'd probably do the same thing in
an app, rather than ICMP ping, to avoid spoofing, including the
horrible DNS default
Good points...I'm leaning towards a ping response from the domain at the
moment, but its still at the developmental stage...
---Blackberried
-Original Message-
From: Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:51:25
To: NT System Admin
That's exactly what I was thinking, since that's kind of what NLA was designed
for, couldn't it be leveraged?
Actually went down the rabbit hole to look at it this AM to satisfy my
curiosity but wsck got in the way :-]
-Original Message-
From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net]
I was going to add a +1 to Chris' comments.
I think you need to consider where you want to be in 5-10 years' time. Whilst
moving to a larger organisation might limit your role somewhat, you get to
understand more of how IT actually works (including processes, documentation,
requirements etc.)
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