RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
creator? The download screen for the full installer has a checkbox: [ ] Include in your download McAfee Security Scan Plus Simply uncheck the box. Nothing is being forced down your throat. Carl -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent

RE: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Yet another argument for making an Intranet website the home page for all browsers. :-) From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options? My (English) company tried

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Well, not this morning's update, but any fresh install appears to force McAfee down your throat. Previous updates (a week or so ago) also

RE: Dell vs Kingston ram

2010-11-05 Thread John Aldrich
That is very true. I'm pretty sure they come up with these things on a per-computer-model basis, even if it's exactly the same RAM that goes into another PC. :-) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:06 PM To: NT System

RE: PC Memory

2010-11-05 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I *was* going to say Belarc Advisor until I ran it here and discovered it only tells you the serial# and the density. :-( From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Memory The subject of Dell vs

RE: PC Memory

2010-11-05 Thread John Aldrich
+1 here to that story. I one time ordered memory for half a dozen different systems from Crucial, and it was all bundled together in one package...I didn’t even realize that one PC took low-density RAM and another one would take whatever I put in it... had to call Crucial and they helped me

RE: PC Memory

2010-11-05 Thread John Aldrich
Sometimes, if you have a part # you can Google it and get a pretty good idea what size, speed, etc it is. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Memory I have a box of literally hundreds of various memory

RE: [OT] RE: hi

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Ouch. At worst, it takes me about 75 minutes to get to the office from home, even on a bad day. Average commute for me is about 60-65 minutes, and since I'm going cross-country, the commute is actually rather pretty...that is unless you get stuck behind a chicken truck. :-) From: Jim

RE: hi

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
What!?!?!?! You mean that wasn't really a valid recommendation of a place to buy an Apple laptop? I'm SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you! ;-) From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hi Apologies to anyone who got it.

RE: hi

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
I know... I want MBS' job... or at least his commute! :D From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: hi Damn...and I do 90 mins each way (assuming no snow or rain or school buses or

RE: hi

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Hehe...sounds like you know North Georgia. ;-) From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hi Or deer on the road, wild turkeys, foxes, raccoons, skunks, kamikaze squirrels... From: Cameron

RE: Dell vs Kingston ram

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Personally, I like Crucial. I don't know what other folks on this list think, but Crucial.com has had good prices, plus their little utility allows me to know *exactly* which memory stick I need. :-) From: Paul Everett [mailto:evere...@leementalhealth.org] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010

RE: Dell vs Kingston ram

2010-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
, +1 for crucial. I'm all about the name brand RAM though. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell vs Kingston ram Personally, I like Crucial. I don't know what other

RE: new 0 day reporting in IE, actively being exploited.

2010-11-03 Thread John Aldrich
Hopefully Vipre is catching this and blocking it. :-) From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: new 0 day reporting in IE, actively being exploited. NP, MSRC Blog has a writeup on the situation, Z

RE: Outlook Weidness HELP!!

2010-11-01 Thread John Aldrich
Off the top of my head, this sounds like a memory problem, but I'd guess you probably already thought of that. A Google search found that a lot of people are having a similar problem. Although your situation was a bit vague on details I Googled Outlook gets progressively slower and found a bunch

System Defragmenter malware

2010-10-29 Thread John Aldrich
I just had to go clean one of my systems, because the user was infected with System Defragmenter and it wasn't letting anything run, claiming the hard drive had bad sectors. I managed to get rid of it, but I thought I'd warn you guys. it got in even with Vipre Enterprise being up-to-date and a

RE: Vipre and deployment

2010-10-29 Thread John Aldrich
I can't speak for Symantec, but at least for AVG 8.5, Vipre's uninstaller didn't do a very good job of removing it, and several times I had to go to the local machine and manually delete the service. YMMV, though. From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, October

RE: System Defragmenter malware

2010-10-29 Thread John Aldrich
.  If you find it and VIPRE doesn't detect it, please let us know asap. Alex -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: System Defragmenter malware I just had to go clean one of my

RE: Workgroup Printer Reco

2010-10-28 Thread John Aldrich
I really like our Kyocera FS-4000DN workgroup printers. They are good, solid machines that just work about 99.9% of the time. The thing that will really make or break a printer, in my opinion, is the support. When a printer has a problem that you can't fix by just power-cycling it or removing a

RE: Workgroup Printer Reco

2010-10-28 Thread John Aldrich
+1. We use Kyocera almost exclusively here (except for a few old inkjets, and some Lexmark units that were bought by the previous IT Manager) in the office environment. We love them, but you'll want to make sure that the folks who would support it are responsive so that on the rare occasions

RE: Office Printers

2010-10-26 Thread John Aldrich
Kyocera scans to PDF by default and, at least, on my network, scans to a network share where users can pick up the file. You can have over two dozen drop boxes on the KM5050 alone, and if you set it up so each of those drop boxes is a different network share, you're good to go. :-)

RE: Office Printers

2010-10-26 Thread John Aldrich
Kyocera can work around this. They integrate with AD by using a specific user to scan. What you could do is create a scanner user that has access to all the network shares and then give each user/department their own share under that and limit permissions to the appropriate person/department for

DNS providers

2010-10-26 Thread John Aldrich
Hey, anyone have any recommendations for a low-cost DNS provider? Our ISP is unwilling/unable to open up their network to allow DNS queries by foreign IPs. To me the solution is obvious... get a secondary DNS provider. I'm looking for some recommendations. I thought about possibly just using

RE: DNS providers

2010-10-26 Thread John Aldrich
- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS providers Hey, anyone have any recommendations for a low-cost DNS provider? Our ISP is unwilling/unable to open up their network to allow DNS queries by foreign

RE: DNS providers

2010-10-26 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks, guys. I set up an account with ZoneEdit and slaved the account with our ISP's DNS servers, so that should fix things. If it doesn't, I can always give EasyDNS a try. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 3:30 PM

Re: Office Printers

2010-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
. They are mostly set to scan to a folder, but one user *really* wanted to be able to scan to email, so I set it up so he could scan and it would email it to him. The main thing I had to figure out was that it *required* a sender email address... :-) -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries

Re: Office Printers

2010-10-24 Thread John Aldrich
. That being said, we've had 'em for a couple years and haven't really put much load on 'em, as we've only had about 2-3 people on each one, so they're not under *that* much load. Again, though, no major problems and they run quite well under Windows 2003R2. -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge

Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
Quick question -- is there something in Windows 7 that would prevent SpyBot from writing to the Hosts file? I cleaned my brother-in-law's laptop and tried to add the SpyBot Hosts file, but was unable to do so from within SpyBot. Eventually I just put the Hosts file from my wife's XP box on a flash

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
[mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 question UAC Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
and then having a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that I'm giving them a less than optimal system.  Also, garage clients and friends get the, don't run as admin speech and if I nuke and repave, they get two different accounts... On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, John Aldrich jaldr

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Windows 7 question Just now I updated Spybot on W7 (Run as Admin) with no issues GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Inviato: venerdì 22 ottobre 2010 15.43 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Windows 7 question Just now I updated Spybot on W7 (Run as Admin) with no issues GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
that was illegal, unethical, or just plain stupid. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I hear you on the Nuke and Repave option, but I don’t know if they have the restore disks or what... this is a laptop they are buying from R-A-C, so who knows what

RE: Windows 7 question

2010-10-22 Thread John Aldrich
only one time successfully taken it off a system (my wife's) where the dynamics of the transaction change considerably.  Although I was able to successfully negotiate a don't run as admin rule... On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Ok... sounds like

Re: Data Center locations

2010-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
. As for other locations, some of the big names have co-lo facilities in Chattanooga. ATM, I can't recall the names (just got up for the day and haven't had my coffee.) I do know that EPB Telecom is offering Gigabit speeds over fiber to your facility. -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries

Airlink Wireless N USB dongle

2010-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone have any experience with the above? I just saw an ad for one of these things for $16 and thought if they are any good, I might get a couple of them for a traveling user or two. Here's a link to where it's available: http://shop.retrevo.com/m/dailydeal?prodid=rd-s13;RVO-20101005-1 ~

RE: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle

2010-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle They are good -- Fairly reliable and easily detected -- Matt Cross mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Anyone have any experience with the above? I just saw an ad for one of these things

RE: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle

2010-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
(leveraging the Intel PROSet supplicant) or Atheros chipsets. YMMV. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, October

RE: Keyboard recommendation

2010-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
I like the old IBM Model M keyboards myself. J They even make reproduction ones now. Go to pckebyoards.stores.yahoo.net to pick one up. John-AldrichPerception_2 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:38 PM To: NT System Admin

Office 2000 SP1

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone know where I can get the *FULL DOWNLOAD* version of the install for Office 2K, SP1? The links on Microsoft's website don't work any more (duh! It's no longer supported!) but I can't get management to spring for a half dozen new versions of Office, so I have to make do with what I have for

RE: Office 2000 SP1

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
2000 sp3? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c011c70-47d0-43 06-9fa4-8e92d36332fe On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Anyone know where I can get the *FULL DOWNLOAD* version of the install for Office 2K, SP1? The links

RE: Office 2000 SP1

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c011c70-47d0-43 06-9fa4-8e92d36332fe On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Anyone know where I can get the *FULL DOWNLOAD* version of the install for Office 2K, SP1? The links on Microsoft's

RE: Office 2000 SP1

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
(although sp3 exists) to it afterwards, or make your own slipstream disk? A quick google gives me this link: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=272 -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 19 October 2010 15:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Office 2000 SP1

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
with Paul Hutchings who indicated he still had the files available.   On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:43 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Could be... All's I know is I can't install SP3 without first installing SP1(a), which I can't seem to download anywhere. :-( *sigh

RE: Bar Code Thermal Printing Ware

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
We have TL Ashford software with Intermec thermal transfer printers. Not sure how well it works, as I haven't ever had to use it, but we have it. :-) From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bar Code Thermal

Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
Ok, some of you may recall I posted recently about a user with Office 2000 Outlook where the messages would be sent, but stay in the Outbox until manually deleted. Well, I have two more users who have that problem. I have since updated two of the three to SP3, but when I went to update the third

RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
Awhile back a friend of mine wrote a pair of utilities for this sort of thing... PartFind and PartBuild. Both are available at www.magelair.com/downloads.html. Both are freeware and last time I asked, didn't care a thing what version of Windows they are running on. Maybe one or both of those would

RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness http://www.bing.com/search?q=outlook+2000+outboxsrc=IE-SearchBoxFORM=IE8SR C -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness I have seen this occasionally. Not sure what is the cause, but deleting it and deleting from trash as well and clears it up. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday

RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness Thanks, but most of those assume the messages are not being sent, when in fact they are being sent, just the blank

RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
the originals addressed to individuals, DLs or multiple recipients? Roger Wright ___ Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos: what you do today might burn your butt tomorrow. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Nope

RE: RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

2010-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
strangeness Malware? T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 19 Oct 2010 20:17, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Nope. They're mostly just empty messages, often with our graphical sig attached, sometimes with a recipient, but most times, not even that. Just an empty message

OT: Outlook 2000 issue

2010-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
better to take this off-list, so please email me directly. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click

RE: Outlook 2000 issue

2010-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
trying to get everyone upgraded to a more modern version of MS Office, but it's not easy and it's not going to happen tomorrow. :-/ Probably better to take this off-list, so please email me directly. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 ~ Finally, powerful

RE: Home server system

2010-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
FYI, NewEgg has a bunch of hardware on sale right now during their 48-hour sale which ends in less than 12 hours... http://snipr.com/1b1cy6 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home server system

OT: Wow -- a *personal* response from a mass-mailing vendor

2010-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
I received an email from a staffing agency this morning wanting to sell me their services. Naturally I reported 'em and this afternoon, I *just* received a personal response from their bulk mail provider apologizing and advising that the account in question had been suspended pending an

RE: Could use your feedback...

2010-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
I like it! I would love to know when this is ready for public consumption as I'd love to make my users sit down and go through the tutorial! -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Could use your feedback...

2010-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Could use your feedback... I like it! I would love to know when this is ready for public consumption as I'd love to make my users sit down and go through

RE: Could use your feedback...

2010-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
I agree on #1. I didn't like the trick part of that question. Perhaps it could be reworded to MORE than X number of messages From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Could use your

RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me

2010-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
All I can say is OUCH! :-( From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 5:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me I have 7 production systems running on 3 different ESX boxes in an ESX cluster, and 2 different logical SAN

RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me

2010-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
illustration of how something like a SAN in isolation is no use :-) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 October 2010 13:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me All I can say is OUCH! :-( From

RE: IT Solutions for a tiny Deployment

2010-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
Jabber??? I know you can deploy your own Jabber server. Not sure if it would meet all your requirements, but it might be something to look at. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IT Solutions for a tiny

HP Project and Portfolio Management

2010-10-07 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone here used this? One of our senior managers got an email about it from a reseller and wants me to take a look. Before I do, I'd like to know more about it so I can at least ask some intelligent questions. Please email me off-list. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276

RE: HP Project and Portfolio Management

2010-10-07 Thread John Aldrich
environment isn't of the scale PPMC is usually attracted to. It is by no means a trivial exercise to implement. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: HP Project and Portfolio

RE: Skype in corporate environment?

2010-10-06 Thread John Aldrich
Our international sales manager uses it to talk to some of our resellers overseas. That being said, he's had some issues with it, even after uninstalling and reinstalling. Not sure if the problem is Skype or the laptop. :-) From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, October

RE: Weird Windows firewall issue

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
You could always change the local login/password using Pete Nordahl's Boot Disk. It won't change Domain username/password, but it'll work on all but domain controllers. Here's a link to that -- http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent:

RE: Weird Windows firewall issue

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
Windows firewall issue Worth a thoughtI'll have a think about how to sort it out once and for all when I arrive tomorrow, as in this part of the world, it's just about quitting time :-) On 5 October 2010 15:11, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: You could always change the local login

RE: socket error when trying to join domain

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
Have you checked the Windows Firewall settings? Try disabling the firewall and re-try joining the domain??? From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: socket error when trying to join domain XP sp3

OT: HTC Incredible

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
I know someone on this list has an HTC Incredible. Can anyone with one of these please email me off-list? I have some questions. Thanks... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage

RE: HTC Incredible

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks... I got my answers. 'Preciate everyone who replied off-list. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: HTC Incredible I know someone on this list has an HTC

RE: socket error when trying to join domain

2010-10-05 Thread John Aldrich
Darn. Oh, well... it was a thought. From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: socket error when trying to join domain Yes.  I went through and turned off any services not absolutely necessary. Checked

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
Is your Ex 2003 server set up as your mail host in DNS? Also, are you on a static IP or a dynamic IP? If the latter, that could be the problem. Some places won't accept SMTP connections from a dynamic IP, although if that's the case why you can telnet on port 25 from your desktop, but not on

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
Note, I'm just grasping at straws here... you could also check http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php to see if you are listed in *any* database. I'm sure that's not a complete list, but it's on that checks a large number of lists from one site. -Original Message- From: John

OT: DataMax thermal printers

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
Hey, everyone. We have a DMX-600 here that the print head is going bad quickly. According to the manufacturer, that model is discontinued and parts aren't even available for it any longer. According to our VAR, the replacement is an H-6308. There are apparently two configurations for this, one

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
Issues Subject: Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Our VAR says that the tall LCD version isn't going to be available until the end of this month, but we can get the small-LCD version within a week. I just need to know

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
with different _revisions_ of the same hardware. That being said, the manufacturer can't tell you if the parts are interchangeable? How sad. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
me off list so I can discuss some questions I have about them with you. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Hey, everyone… We have a DMX-600 here that the print head is going bad quickly. According to the manufacturer, that model is discontinued

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

2010-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
. Thanks. I'm working on trying to remember to post to the list in plain, ascii text only. I don't remember every time, but I am trying. -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT Manager ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com

RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... Black-listing is a good reason to let someone else do your mass-mailing for you. Also, would be a good idea to get confirmation from those that you are going to be sending regular mailings to that they are willing to accept those regular mailings, otherwise, you'll start getting spam

RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback on Groupman?

2010-10-01 Thread John Aldrich
if I get the opportunity I'll try to post back to let everybody know how it went. Carl -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Free/cheap mailing list software - feedback

RE: Consultants

2010-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
backup you have was from 1 week ago. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, 30 September 2010 4:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants Thanks, Jonathan. I think I have some handle on some of that. I know

RE: Consultants

2010-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
are you willing to recreate once we have the system back up and running? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, 30 September 2010 10:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants Yeah. I'm aware of those two terms

RE: SIS

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
If you're already using DFSR, I know that DFS will report that for you. I have it report to me every night on large/duplicate files. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SIS Looking for thoughts and

RE: W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
Dyndns.com can host your DNS for you. They don't just do dynamic DNS, you know. :-) From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com? I’ve

RE: Calculating SAN TCO?

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... I'm going back to the drawing board and going to try and get authorization to hire a consultant to help figure out what we *need* instead of what's sexy or what I *think* we need. :-) As you know, an expert is someone from outside with a briefcase. ;-) From: Jonathan Link

Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
I got a call from an IBM reseller in the region wanting to sell me a SAN. I advised that I had decided to step back and look for a consultant to help me figure out what my needs are. At that point the sales droid advised that they were also consultants. My first instinct is to tell them to go

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
:52 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Dude... On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:49 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I got a call from an IBM reseller in the region wanting to sell me a SAN. I advised that I had decided to step back and look for a consultant to help me

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
, provided you can find and *independent* consultant. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find one. This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds. On 9/29/2010 12:49 PM, John Aldrich wrote: What is the opinion of you folks on the list about hiring consultants? Do you worry about

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
Because, as has been drilled into me on this list, I don’t really know what I *need* from a D/R perspective. I'm looking to get an independent consultant to help me figure that out. I know what I'd *like* and I think it could do the job, but that may not be the most effective method of ensuring

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
you have a few days to restore data in the event of a disaster...  You don't have any requirement to ensure data is always available... On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Because, as has been drilled into me on this list, I don’t really know what I

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
Exactly. I'm not sure what my requirements are. I have a few ideas... some things that folks have asked in my numerous posts, I have no idea, which is why I want to hire a consultant/consulting engineer to help me figure out what my needs are and then, perhaps, help me evaluate some of the

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
True. I am trying to make time with my CEO and CFO (my direct supervisor) to see if I can get a handle on that for them. That being said, I *do* know they want the AS/400 online *BEFORE* the problem occurred. Failing that, we need to have it online ASAP, preferably within hours, not days. Our ERP

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
the idea... Dave -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants Ok... good point. How about Ensure that the data is always easily recoverable within a few days

RE: Consultants

2010-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants

RE: Remote Control PC Software

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
FYI, as budget permits, I'd like to move this to a new PC, probably running Windows Server 2003, in stand-alone (non-domain) mode. John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote

Small server

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
I am looking at getting a small server running Windows Server 2003, so I can have my time and attendance running on a supported O/S. Looking at Dell's Premier site, the least expensive option only offers a Software RAID5, unless I'm mis-reading the options. Would you guys rather have a Hardware

RE: Remote Control PC Software

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
Sorry… replied to the wrong message. Please disregard. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Control PC Software FYI, as budget permits, I’d like to move this to a new PC, probably

RE: Small server

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
, September 28, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small server Once again you give us absolutely no app requirements. Therefore the answer is: maybe. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Small server

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
a single direct attached drive.     From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Small server   I am looking at getting a small server running Windows Server 2003, so I can have my time and attendance running

RE: Small server

2010-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
drives NOT SATA at a minimum just for the redundancy. No software RAID. Whats wrong with SCSI? James - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08 AM Subject: RE

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