RE: did i screw up? need to fix fast.

2012-01-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
This is something that bugs about ESX. Once it gets to 99% it may sit there for hours depending on the size of the snapshot. You never know how long it will take. -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:11 PM To: NT System

RE: OT: wireless access point

2011-12-06 Thread Martin Blackstone
I have that same bridge installed in my room for my TV. Never fails! From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: wireless access point Usually with the low end ones, if you put it in 'bridge mode' you now

RE: Tool to simulate a poor network connection?

2011-11-10 Thread Martin Blackstone
This looks kind of cool. Build your own: http://wanem.sourceforge.net/ From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Tool to simulate a poor network connection? Harsh. Windows ME would be a

RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine

2011-11-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
As does Shoretel. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine I'm pretty sure that Cisco now supports their offering in a VMWare environment. From: James

RE: Cell Data Access in China?

2011-10-10 Thread Martin Blackstone
You're gonna get raped on data charges too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cell Data Access in China? http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/

RE: Network Scanner Recommendation

2011-09-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 on the Fuji From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network Scanner Recommendation Budget? Three years ago purchased a Fujitsu Fi-6010N. It has worked very well for us. It is a secondary

RE: DC's and FRS errors

2011-09-19 Thread Martin Blackstone
What's the error say? You can more than likely plug it in to Google and get your answer. From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and FRS errors Ok I think I need to start over. I think my 3 DC's

RE: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

2011-08-18 Thread Martin Blackstone
It sounds to me like they are talking about the reporting features and they will offer a standalone reporting tool for now. From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing

RE: RD licensing Manager

2011-08-15 Thread Martin Blackstone
Good to hear it. We will leave this ticket open for another 48 hours in case you have more questions. Thank you for contacting us. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RD licensing Manager

RE: Blackberry BES Image Vulnerability

2011-08-13 Thread Martin Blackstone
Fix is easy. Lay down a couple of replacement files and restart the BAS. We did it in less than 5 min with no downtime. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 4:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blackberry BES Image Vulnerability

RE: Securing Mobile Devices

2011-08-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
Issues Subject: Re: Securing Mobile Devices Network World recently gave a good review of http://www.maas360.com/ On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be a quite a market for mobile device security growing these days! I'm curious what

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
I got one year. From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords Have your users go here: http://www.howsecureismypassword.net/ and enter their password to see how long it

RE: MaaS360 Mobile Device Management

2011-08-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
, but I haven't got around to developing my requirements and really looking. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: We've talked with them quite a bit... Pricing seemed a bit steep, but overall a very nice product offering... On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Martin

RE: Cloud Based AV

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Vipre? If I'm not mistaken you can set it so that the device will look to the cloud if it can't connect to the mother ship! On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Other than MS

RE: Cloud Based AV

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
on the Trend server to make sure they still reported into the console even though they were set to get updates from Trend (Smart scan) instead of the local server. Dave From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Cloud Based AV

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: You know, I'm so sick of Trend I could scream. I don't think their products are half of what they used to be and they haven't really

RE: Cloud Based AV

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
are finding things (laptops returning to the office) that should be easily detectable by Trend. Not zero day, but old virus that they claim to have signatures for. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: You know, I'm so sick of Trend I could scream. I don't

RE: Cloud Based AV

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
to the office) that should be easily detectable by Trend. Not zero day, but old virus that they claim to have signatures for. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: You know, I’m so sick of Trend I could scream. I don’t think their products are half of what

RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b)

2011-08-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
Have any of you guys checked out Palo Alto Networks? From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b) Are you saying that av/content filtering is you least important

RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b)

2011-08-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
. Management console performance is slw. Kevin On 8/4/11, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Have any of you guys checked out Palo Alto Networks? From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB

RE: Office 365 - anyone onboard yet?

2011-06-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
We are strongly considering the same. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office 365 - anyone onboard yet? My employer has had pilot people on it for a while now. Works great. We're moving the

RE: remote support and UAC

2011-06-09 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: remote support and UAC Logmeinrescue is working reasonably well for us with W7 and UAC... *** Charlie Kaiser

RE: 'All Programs' icons missing

2011-06-06 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 'All Programs' icons missing Been dealing here with several users losing shortcuts. This is normally due to malware -- first thing I would do is Malwarebytes or Vipre

RE: Securing Mobile Devices

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Blackstone
/ On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be a quite a market for mobile device security growing these days! I'm curious what you guys are looking at in the market. What applications how you found that really float your boat. We

RE: Sony PSN hack ... was waiting for this ...

2011-05-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
From Fark. http://www.fark.com/topic/followup http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=6170546l=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ wireStory%3Fid%3D13528203 Sony executive: Cyber-attack on Sony's PlayStation Network was very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated. In other

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
If it was used or refurbished they would buy it. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center LogMeIn is free. Or has a free option. In the very limited cases where I will

RE: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING...

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
I have a pencil and paper. From: Justin Thomas [mailto:jat...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING... Here, computers with access to that type of data are in a seperate locked room, no

RE: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING...

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
You could just put such a small attachment size restriction on them that nothing would go. Say 1K. From: Jeff S. Gottlieb [mailto:jeff.s.gottl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING... We

RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?

2011-04-16 Thread Martin Blackstone
I think one issue is BES only supports one device per user. So it’s one or the other unless they release a new BES version or get bold and use ActiveSync. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps?

2011-04-15 Thread Martin Blackstone
So was I until I found out you have to tether to your BB to get email. -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good BlackBerry Network Apps? BlackBerry PlayBook 4G

RE: Wireless Router for USB Device

2011-04-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
Check out Cradlepoint. Nice stuff. From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Wireless Router for USB Device I am looking for a wireless router (b/g/n) to use with a Verizon LTE USB modem

RE: OT: e-Reader

2011-04-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1!! From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: e-Reader I love my kindle. I also use the kindle app on my xoom and my phone. The kindle is the easiest of the 3 to read on but I find

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
No, it's not quite the same as RAID6. Its NetApps own flavor of R6. Check this out: http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3298.pdf From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-01 Thread Martin Blackstone
Sounds like it's broke. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UPS won't turn on I've got a SMARTUPS 1400 that I've had plugged up for awhile trying to see if I can use it. It

RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?

2011-03-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 for Rackspace From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? Rack Space is very good about their hosting. MY big question is if you are using a

RE: MS Action Pack

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Blackstone
https://partner.microsoft.com/40016455 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS Action Pack Does anyone have a part number to order this? I can't find one, and I am wondering if its

RE: OT? Laptop bag suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
I have this and love it. Plus the price is right. http://blowinitout.com/hurleyskypebackpack-black.aspx From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 5:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT? Laptop bag suggestions Ok, started my new job yesterday and

RE: OT? Laptop bag suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
My bag I still have to take the laptop out but nothing else. Once I was traveling with a Network Nightmare in my bag which could easily freak out a TSA agent (it looks like a homemade bomb). Nobody said anything, but my USB fob sure got a lot of attention. -Original Message- From: Roger

RE: HP P1102

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
LOL From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: HP P1102 PSA Don't buy this printer. /PSA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: 2003 R2 32-bit Std Edition Memory

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Just curious. What's the app? From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2003 R2 32-bit Std Edition Memory Is the limit for the 32-bit OS 32 GB on x64 processors with PAE enabled? (Been too long since I had

RE: vSphere 4.1 U1

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
You will probably need to upgrade the VMWare tools on the guests. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: vSphere 4.1 U1 Anyone applied it and had anything other than next, next, reboot,

RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
Google: dell inspiron 6400 replacement keyboard -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Thanks, I think it might be better

RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
::snicker:: From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dell+inspiron+6400+replacement+key -Jeff Steward On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at

RE: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
Beat me too it. +1 From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can you hear me now, Microsoft? Its this tidbit that really cracks me up (not really. I think its monumentally foolish).

RE: F5 ARX opinions

2011-02-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
We sell them but I have no experience with them. I do know that customers really like them once they get a test model onsite. -Original Message- From: Mark Weber [mailto:mrk...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: F5 ARX opinions Hi all

RE: Scanner recommendations please

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Scanner recommendations please I would look into Fujitsu. We have a number of them, considerably more expensive han what you are talking about, but they get the

RE: Bandwidth Usage

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Blackstone
We block BitTorrent too. -Original Message- From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bandwidth Usage we block youtube, and Pandora from internal users, exceptions can be made on a case by case basis.

RE: Bandwidth Usage

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Blackstone
Agreed. Your users probably aren't doing anything unusual. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bandwidth Usage 280 users on 3MB is pretty conservative these days. I'd suggest you fire

RE: Disabled AD Accounts and BES

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Blackstone
Go into BES. Go the User. javascript:Tapestry.submit_form('requestForm',%20'goToDisableBlackBerryUser PageLink'); Disable as BlackBerry user From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disabled

RE: VMWare replication/redundancy

2011-02-15 Thread Martin Blackstone
I would take a look at VMWare Site Recovery Manager. From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: VMWare replication/redundancy It's budget time and I have been asked to get quotes for replicating our

RE: IE9 RC released

2011-02-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
Im so over IE. Chrome for life! :-) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE9 RC released Well, when something works, you have to nit pick on the marketing guys or your favorite product might not fare

RE: IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes

2011-02-10 Thread Martin Blackstone
All BB traffic is encrypted by default. From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes The big if on Berry's is Encryption has to be turned on. :) -

RE: IPhone attack reveals passwords in six minutes

2011-02-10 Thread Martin Blackstone
correct? I thought we were discussing encryption on the device itself, which is not on by default. - WJR On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:32, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: All BB traffic is encrypted by default. From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday

RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned

2011-02-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
50 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 6:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned out of curiosity, how many computers does that serve?

RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Blackstone
+1 Seems lots of folks who have existing FC environments might be tempted to continue down that path, but if you don’t, and you’re looking at a primarily VM environment, ISCSI would probably fit your needs fine. Remember, you can also upgrade to 10GB Ethernet if you REALLY need that level of

RE: Internet browsing reporting?

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
You might take a look at these guys: http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internet browsing reporting? Greetings, I'm looking for another solution, and this

RE: USB to Serial interface

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
I use this one. Always works... http://www.iogear.com/product/GUC232A/ -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: USB to Serial interface All, Just search my archives, and don't see a

RE: data recovery service

2011-01-12 Thread Martin Blackstone
The Brady Bunch From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: data recovery service Speaking of caveat emptor, do you know where I learned that phrase? -- hint -- TeeVee show, original air date

RE: domain controller in the cloud???

2011-01-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
EMP. Of course at that point we can all just go home. From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? Coronal Mass Ejection for instance? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at

RE: HDD Dock (USB or eSATA)

2011-01-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's what I have. +1 From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HDD Dock (USB or eSATA) I have one of these, got it with a 1TB drive for around $80, it works great on both 2.5 and 3.5 drives, YMMV

RE: Patch Cable for patch panels

2011-01-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
I have a real strong dislike of snagless cables. Once you plug them in, they never come out! And once in a while you need to move something and its like a fight to get them out. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Blacklist avoidance

2010-12-22 Thread Martin Blackstone
You need to outsource this. Contant Contact comes to mind as a provider. From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blacklist avoidance My marketing department wants to start sending emails to customers

RE: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

2010-12-22 Thread Martin Blackstone
My CDW rep and I have an agreement. You don't call me unless I call you first and I will buy from you From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? I don't

Hanging Workstation

2010-12-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
Ever since this last round of Windows updates my home machine has started a bad habit of just hanging at random times. It becomes completely unresponsive. Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Hanging Workstation

2010-12-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
+Scroll,Scroll and send me the dump I can look at it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hanging Workstation Ever since

RE: Hanging Workstation

2010-12-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
flavors of Windows. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since this last round of Windows updates my home machine has started a bad habit of just hanging at random times. It becomes completely unresponsive. Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks

RE: Small/Mid Firewall?

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's what we put in our remote offices. We use a Palo Alto at the HQ. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small/Mid Firewall? +1 From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu]

RE: Verizon Blackberry

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
I originally thought these BES issues we have been having was just my BB till everyone started howling. Then I knew I was really screwed. -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 5:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Small/Mid Firewall?

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
[mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small/Mid Firewall? How do you like the Palo Alto? We have an eval unit and are seriously considering it. On 12/11/10, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: That's what we put in our

RE: Small/Mid Firewall?

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
to recreate from our Websense reports. Are you using it to decrypt ssl sessions? Does the HA work as advertised? Kind of tough to test that with only one eval unit. On 12/11/10, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: I love it. It gives you great reporting in to exactly what people

RE: Verizon Blackberry

2010-12-09 Thread Martin Blackstone
Just give me the frickin fix. Im sick of this sh*t. From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Verizon Blackberry A now admitted known special situation... :) On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:13 PM, William

RE: Windows 2003 Terminal Services NLB

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Blackstone
My eyes!! From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2003 Terminal Services NLB We currently have a couple of identical Windows Server 2003 R2 (Std x64 Edition SP2) running Terminal Services

RE: Hotmail SPAM

2010-11-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
Hotmail, gmail, yahoo. All of them lately. Even one of my own accts got hit. From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hotmail SPAM Sorry if this has already been discussed, I've been off list for a

RE: Wireless Question

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
We use Aruba. It will do all you need. I've had ours for 3 years and not one minute of unplanned downtime. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Question We are about to lease a new space for a

RE: Wireless Question

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
. /snarky question --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:50:48 -0800 Subject: RE: Wireless Question We use Aruba

RE: Wireless Question

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:50:48 -0800 Subject: RE: Wireless Question We use Aruba. It will do all you need. I've had ours for 3 years and not one

RE: Linksys WAP54GX withg SRX

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
Did you try http://192.168.1.1/ That's the default for Linksys I believe. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Linksys WAP54GX withg SRX My boss has this in his house it lost connection he uunplugged

RE: PC Memory

2010-11-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
Most of the major mfgs have a configurator page. I like the Crucial one best. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Memory The subject of Dell vs Kingston memory reminded me of something that's

RE: PC Memory

2010-11-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
Should have had my coffee first. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 6:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Memory No I think he's trying to figure out after the fact. _ From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com

Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
When one of the servers is down DNS becomes totally unreachable until they are both available. So two DC's both hosting DNS. Shut down one, and the other stops serving DNS and DHCP. Once they are both up, everything comes back. Has anyone seen this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's not it. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers Hah, Memories! This once bit me in the ass when I had a rather short expiry on a zone. jlc From: Martin

RE: Windows CE

2010-10-28 Thread Martin Blackstone
. Will they continue development on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will they also continue development on CE 6.0 - Original Message From: Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 9:17:59 PM Subject: RE: Windows CE http

RE: Windows CE

2010-10-27 Thread Martin Blackstone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/default.ms px -Original Message- From: Santino Codispoti [mailto:santino.codisp...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Windows

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

2010-10-26 Thread Martin Blackstone
+2 But to be fair, it really is a religious war. You will find people who like one or the other. Personally I am a huge ESX fan. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

SQL Question

2010-10-18 Thread Martin Blackstone
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RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
and I didn't think about it, but as a test I could disable the 4.0 , register a phone then, and if it works I know I can proceed From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0 Are you

RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Blackstone
Are you trying to use the same SRP ID on both servers while they are both running? From: Level Five - List [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BES 4.0 - 5.0 I have a bes 4.0 on win2k that's being migrated to 2008/bes5

RE: Hardware installation problems

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Blackstone
I would test this on another laptop and see what happens. Lots of these dongles are crap with crap drivers. We use these a lot at my company and I have found the IOGear ones the most reliable. -Original Message- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Small server

2010-09-28 Thread Martin Blackstone
It almost seems like SATA would be fine for a single app. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small server curious, why do you shun SATA ? On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:14 AM, James Kerr

RE: SAN question

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Buy a NetApp. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN question I want to ensure that the data integrity remains intact, even if it takes a couple days to recover.

RE: SAN question

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
of conversations and traffic. -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 7:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN question Buy a NetApp. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent

RE: SAN question

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Don't you mean 2? On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Buy a NetApp. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN question I

RE: SAN question

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
mistake, I bow to your superior intellect. Grovel even! On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: 4. Buy a clustered controller config and a second one for a SnapMirror destination. There you go, the perfect config for everything you need! From: Jonathan

RE: SAN question

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Yes! From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN question But call 'em an IBM N-Series and get in to a bidding war between Martin and me :) On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Martin Blackstone

RE: Spam appliances/services

2010-09-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
I still use Brightmail. I think it does a hell of a good job. It runs as a VM (the package it for you), so no appliance needed (unless you want to buy one which they will be happy to sell you) From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:57

RE: OT the OT OT KVM recommondation

2010-09-22 Thread Martin Blackstone
You mean They really blow through them at first. From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT the OT OT KVM recommondation We started buying diapers/wipes several months ahead of the birth of our

RE: ESXi fun

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
How is your VM storage attached? Local disk, NFS, iSCSI, FC? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi fun Would it see the disk OK even if it hasn't been configured in the HP ACU? I'm an ESXi

RE: ESXi fun

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
though - NetApp is being built as we speak. On 21 September 2010 13:25, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: How is your VM storage attached? Local disk, NFS, iSCSI, FC? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:01 AM To: NT System

RE: ESXi fun

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
(there is some serious process implementation needing doing at this place). On 21 September 2010 13:39, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: I loves me some NetApp!! Any chance you have a spare server you could slap the disks in? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent

RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
I was going to suggest Kerio as well. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server? Gmail? Xmail? IceWarp's Merak and Kerio are cheap and include a LOT of

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