Re: Private video server

2011-04-20 Thread Durf
I did this a couple years ago for a client with training needs. I wound up installing dotNetNuke and using a commercial addon for it that implemented a media library. Worked great. --Durf On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Ben N bennordlan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for some software

Re: Private video server

2011-04-20 Thread Durf
Oh - the dotNetNuke app I used did the conversion on the fly when uploading, just like YouTube. There was also a utility to do batches on the back end. -- Durf On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: I did this a couple years ago for a client with training needs. I

Re: Anonymous strikes back at HBGary with stolen emails | Leak prevention - InfoWorld

2011-02-16 Thread Durf
it is due to be releasing soon. So in that light, if true, HBGary was a useful patsy used as a provocateur and a lightning rod and put up for sacrifice to maybe deliberately draw out Anonymous and get them to overplay their hand. --Durf On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Sean Rector sean.rec

Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?

2011-02-02 Thread Durf
...@gmail.comwrote: Drop box runs within the user process. How big or how many data files are you dealing with, though? Only the changed bits are transmitted, so the sync process for Dropbox is very quick. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting - I'll look

File distribution with local peer to peer feature?

2011-02-01 Thread Durf
. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and technical reasons. Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful

Re: File distribution with local peer to peer feature?

2011-02-01 Thread Durf
company doesn't technically own each site, just manages it. Thanks all! -- Durf On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I believe Win7 offers this sans server side requirement. “ BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so

RSS feed for current versions of common software?

2011-01-19 Thread Durf
of common apps would be idea. I'm aware of the various software services and packages offering download of such things, but just want the straight info if possible. Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks, Durf. -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll

Re: RSS feed for current versions of common software?

2011-01-19 Thread Durf
apps, to be distributed then to secondary staging points and then used as the target for update scripts. I was planning on just firing an FTP or WGET job whenever a new update hit, but the CNET app looks about perfect. Thanks! - Durf On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz

Re: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates

2011-01-19 Thread Durf
Back to the original question, though - given a network where Adobe software has been installed in default configuration, and the Download Manager is popping up with a new version announcement, is there any simple way to automate directing the client to go ahead and update? On Wed, Jan 19, 2011

Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch

2011-01-13 Thread Durf
I have found Netgear to be good on the storage side as well. Their NAS line, since the purchase of Infrant, seems to be quite solid. --Durf On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, Andrew, thanks for the recommendation on the Netgear. I was going

Re: NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

2010-09-02 Thread Durf
less bad day than it could have been! -- Durf On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote: FYI guys for anyone using NOD32 and XOP , there’s a problem with DEF5418, Current solution from ESET is to reboot the affected PC *Update for bad

Re: NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

2010-09-02 Thread Durf
Same here. Seeing a few sites where client machines here and there still aren't acting normally. Any resolution? -- Durf On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote: Yeah that really did mess up my THU, but at least it didn’t happen tomorrow J

Re: Latest Microsoft Patches - HP Universal Print Driver

2010-08-16 Thread Durf
I am also observing a similar issue on a client 2003 Terminal Server with Fallback Printing enabled to use a classic HP driver, which is also essentially what the Universal Print driver does. No further relevant info, nothing in the eventlogs that is relevant. --Durf On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1

Re: Latest Microsoft Patches - HP Universal Print Driver

2010-08-16 Thread Durf
Additional point of information: The server itself was not yet patched this round of updates, but the XP and Windows 7 clients attaching to it have been. Connecting with a printer that uses Fallback printing (a Xerox in this case) leads to the printer being created, but printing garbage. -- Durf

Re: Latest Microsoft Patches - HP Universal Print Driver

2010-08-16 Thread Durf
is created. Restarting the print spool has no effect, and there aren't any garbage files in the spooler folder. --Durf On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We're seeing the following in the System Event log on our print server whenever a user prints

Re: Online Filesharing Service

2010-08-12 Thread Durf
We're fond of Sharefile.com - the security and account interface is well thought out, pricing is reasonable, and they include a small command-line client for scripted downloads. --Durf On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David Minich dmin...@datamovers.uswrote: I am looking for recommendations

Re: backing up too much data

2010-07-28 Thread Durf
to admit, as a consultant in the real world, I have had very few clients actually sign off on and carry this process through to the end. -- Durf On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote: I have been backing up all our data to tape drives. A vice president

Re: Handling Developers

2010-06-18 Thread Durf
containing such information. Setting up your Dev environment in such states should include care *not* to fully duplicate the data in the production environment unless you want to give yourself real headaches when your Devs want to work remote. - Durf On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Jon Harris jk.har

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
GFI EventSentry. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Alex Carroll acarr...@crabco.net wrote: I have a request from my CEO to audit everything that happens on our network. When users open files, when they change files, delete files, use any programs, go to any websites (we use ie7, firefox),

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
on events. That's it, you're done. Aside from literal keystroke logging on the workstations, these two items will handle everything else on the network that is appropriate. Whether they *should* do it or not is a whole different question, and not what the OP asked. -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7, 2009

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
The performance hit is minor for a network of that size and not worth worrying about. And, for any and all of those solutions, the Audit log is the solution. What is the problem that would NOT involve gathering and reporting on Audit logs? That's just standard practice. -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
No, you really just need a couple of tools. Why are you making this more complicated than it has to be? Have you implemented this before? Audit Logging settings for the top four events, and GFI EventSentry. What else, specifically, are you saying they need? Please be specific. -- Durf On Wed

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
No, not really. GFI EventSentry's whole purpose is to handle this. You run reports out of it and set alert conditions. The *entire idea* is to use that software to handle the complexity for you. Do you have another recommendation? -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Roger Wright rwri

Re: Auditing Everything

2009-01-07 Thread Durf
with other products and techniques. Please, you all, stop saying different unless you have actual knowledge to the contrary. There are a lot of reasons why the OP *should* not do such a thing. But they *can* if they need to. -- Durf -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Devin Meade devin.me

Re: Redfly terminals for Windows Mobile devices

2009-01-04 Thread Durf
on a larger device. -- Durf On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Eric E Eskam ees...@usgs.gov wrote: Durf stygm...@gmail.com wrote on 12/29/2008 09:21:45 PM: I'm signing up as a reseller and preaching the heck out of this solution to the Blackberry and iPhone crowd. Glad to see they got their price down

Re: Redfly terminals for Windows Mobile devices

2008-12-29 Thread Durf
with a serious device like the HTC Diamond Touch. -- Durf On 12/14/08, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Been using one since April. Love it. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redfly terminals

Re: BIG IP

2008-12-22 Thread Durf
balancing and not just bandwidth aggregation or failover. Ping Manny at Alvaco for any questions, he's very helpful. -- Durf On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Matthew Bullock mbull...@root9.com wrote: Have a look at Zeus. http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtmglb/index.html I haven't used the GLB

Re: GPO WMI Exclusion

2008-12-20 Thread Durf
Correct. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Durf, I'm unclear how this helps, as Loopback Processing allows the User Pol to be applied to a computer, so in my case I want to exclude the user based section from only two computers? I guess I

Re: GPO WMI Exclusion

2008-12-17 Thread Durf
object. -- Durf On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Given that proxy settings for ie are user based, what's the best way to exclude a GPO from applying these settings to only two computers regardless of who is logged on? In this case denying

Redfly terminals for Windows Mobile devices

2008-12-14 Thread Durf
eye out. -- Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Redfly terminals for Windows Mobile devices

2008-12-14 Thread Durf
I'd be looking to this as a laptop replacement for field consulting myself, otherwise I'd agree. -- Durf On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: *From:* Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] *Subject:* Redfly terminals for Windows Mobile devices Anyone using

Re: SAN question

2008-12-09 Thread Durf
miss it, but if you just want cheap storage on a stick the price is very hard to beat. -- Durf On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to stick with Dell, check out the MD3000i iSCSI unit. mb From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: TS 2008 Cal downgrade?

2008-12-02 Thread Durf
Interesting - OK, I'm just going to presume it isn't successfully finding the 2008 TS licensing server for some reason. I'll go through the Registry hack for it and see if the issue remains. Thanks. --Durf On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Dallas Burnworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any

Re: BBS Software for dialin file transfers

2008-11-12 Thread Durf
Keep in mind that you can use RRAS for network dialin access as well. You can then use regular old FTP, Sharepoint, what have you, for client file access. --Durf On 11/11/08, Michael Pears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that is looking to build a new dialin server for modem only

Re: To All Marines on the list...Happy 233rd Birthday!

2008-11-10 Thread Durf
And of course, let us all hope that precious Marine lives are not wasted in useless wars of aggression. However one defines it. --Durf On 11/10/08, Todd Lemmiksoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since today is the 233rd Birthday of the Marine Corp and the day before Veterans Day. Happy Veterans

Re: webiste to create zip file

2008-11-06 Thread Durf
Is this just because users are too dumb to run 7zip locally...? I don't have anything helpful to contribute...just mind boggled. --Durf On 11/6/08, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys Sort of a weird request but I'm looking for a website that will allow users to upload a file

Re: Insane Play

2008-11-04 Thread Durf
Apparently these Trojans are not detectable by ordinary means! (The video is gone) --Durf On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Adam Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://www.yardbarker.com/high_school/articles/Video_Stupid_Crazy_Touchdown/362398 -- -- Give a man a fish

Re: Firewall reporting

2008-11-01 Thread Durf
www.untangle.org Put it on a two-NIC system between the firewall and your LAN. Stay away from the Re-Router on XP unless you've got a really beefy machine to use. -- Durf On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Chinnery, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in need of a good reporting tool

Re: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned

2008-10-23 Thread Durf
Exactly. Think of all the poor suckers who install Antivirus XP 2009 without a care in the world. As soon as that sucker incorporates this exploit, things will get hopping. -- Durf On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All it takes is a hacked website

Re: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned

2008-10-23 Thread Durf
If I had my way at a large enterprise, I'd only be allowing access via RDP or ICA through SSL VPNs, preferably with two-factor RSA authentication. Ideally from thin clients. I'd happily send them home to employees preconfigured. -- Durf On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Steven Peck [EMAIL

Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects - rule of thumb for storage?

2008-10-22 Thread Durf
for estimating how much they need. The Sharepoint developers just shrugged. Anyone have a good rule of thumb for scanning documents en masse? How to figure the disk cost per, say, banker's box full of documents or something? Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day

Re: Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects - rule of thumb for storage?

2008-10-22 Thread Durf
files, totalling 21GB. Each one named and sorted in to a sub folder based on age and type of document. Dont know if that helps. Olly *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 22 October 2008 19:59 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects

Re: Who is CREATOR OWNER?

2008-10-10 Thread Durf
: EVERYONE - MODIFY CREATOR OWNER - FULL CONTROL If Joe creates a document, and you check the ACL, it will look like: EVERYONE - MODIFY CREATOR OWNER - blank, as you noted JOE - FULL CONTROL and OWNER I may be glossing this a bit, but that's the basic gist. -- Durf On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Re: Stupid DNS question...

2008-10-09 Thread Durf
that read same as parent in the top-level zone - your DC's are essentially already aliased to mycompany.com. -- Durf On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW - I'm fine if the answer is can't be done without installing IIS - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth

Re: New Drives for Proliant ML310 G2

2008-10-06 Thread Durf
What he said, or what the previous poster said recommending using Acronis, BESR, or a similar imaging product. I've done dozens of these, and doing it the Microsoft Restore Mode way will only cause you grief and long hours. -- Durf On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:07 PM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED

Hyper-V Guest storage allocation options

2008-10-05 Thread Durf
Got into talking with a co-worker about how best to allocate Guest OS storage from the Host OS's direct-attached storage in Windows 2008 Hyper-V. Assume a Windows 2008 Enterprise w/Hyper-V host and a couple of 2008 server standard guest OS installation with fairly stringent I/O options (SQL and

Re: Good text editor

2008-10-02 Thread Durf
PFE32 (Programmer's File Editor), if you can still find it around anywhere. It was a free product. Very old-school, but very powerful. -- Durf On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning everyone, What's the best text editor out there for writing code and scripts

Re: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-02 Thread Durf
I think he means $\bin\laden. Little known Linux directory where self-exploding binaries are keps. -- Durf On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that the same as a b-in-laden? -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Windirstat

2008-10-01 Thread Durf
The free version of TreeSize Pro also has some limited reporting. There was another Sourceforge utility around somewhere that not only did directory sizes but permissions auditing as well, and wrote the results to an Access database. I'll see if I can dig it up. -- Durf On Tue, Sep 30, 2008

Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships!

2008-10-01 Thread Durf
That's what she said. -- Durf On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yawn Shook From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships

Re: Open iMac

2008-09-30 Thread Durf
About those Apple Geniuses... http://gizmodo.com/5055539/apple-store-geniuses-might-actually-be-dunces -- Durf On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Christopher Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, need a clearer definition on open. There's properly (which apparently you need to be an Apple Genius

Re: Setting up notifications for Dell Server failures

2008-09-29 Thread Durf
There is no automatic email option in OpenManage - I don't know why, but there isn't. However, there is a run a program option, and it is dead easy to configure a canned VBscript to send you an email. -- Durf On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Jim Majorowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm

Re: Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

2008-09-23 Thread Durf
If it were only possible to sell short on stupidity we could fix this whole stock market mess... --Durf On 9/23/08, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find this particularly disturbing because I would have assumed that modern-day college students would have been more savvy

Re: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR

2008-09-19 Thread Durf
For those following along at home - if you get into this situation on a newer Dell model that has a DRAC card installed, you can use the Virtual Media feature to map a floppy image to a virtual floppy drive. Works great. -- Durf On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Murray Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Psychotic messages from list?

2008-09-19 Thread Durf
MeToo @ AOL.com -- Durf On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Anyone else getting absurd reject messages from the list regarding messages sent (successfully) within the past week? I can't go into details without doing exactly what the message says I'm doing wrong

Re: E Book reader.

2008-09-19 Thread Durf
Same here, but reading PDFs is miserable on a WM phone. I have yet to find a really good PDF reader. -- Durf On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Rod Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been tempted by the Amazon Kindle for a while. But, I can't justify a device that does *only* books. I read

Re: Argh Maties

2008-09-19 Thread Durf
Q: What does a Boston pirate say? A: AH! -- Durf On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A pirate walks into a bar with his ship's steering wheel shoved into his pants. He gets to the bar, the bartender asks Whats with the wheel in your pants

Re: E Book reader.

2008-09-19 Thread Durf
I tried, but my flux capacitor failed the requirements check. -- Durf On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Re: E Book reader. Same here, but reading PDFs is miserable on a WM phone. I have yet to find

Re: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Durf
of their engine/defs blowing anything up. -- Durf On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the bad dat got pushed out lastweek (and trust me, according to the forums, many were effected) there wasn't a trace of issues in the console. Today when it blew out my DVR's

BESR (LiveState) v8 - Cannot lock volume error

2008-09-17 Thread Durf
or has an active paging file. The same job, when run manually later in the day, will run fine and complete successfully. Symantec support has been little help, directing us to the FIXDRIVERS.BAT file which has been applied repeatedly. Has anyone else encountered this and resolved it? -- Durf

Re: Interesting read on Symantec's latest effort

2008-09-17 Thread Durf
The idea of whitelisting files thorugh checksums is as old as the hills. Tripwire has been doing this in the open source world for years and years. -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Rod Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think Symantec is simply copying a technology idea

Re: We're all doomed

2008-09-17 Thread Durf
My 401K is now a 201K... -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Robert Cato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only 10%? My broker called me to say my account is -$600. I have to write myself a check, just to get back to a zero balance. Tongue in cheekmostly On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:54 PM

Re: Oops = new word?

2008-09-16 Thread Durf
Does this mean we can expect a slew of eOut of the eOffice eMessages from folks who are ettending meetings or on eVacation? - Durf On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:45 PM, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I was writing to someone about attending a webinar and typed myself into an expression I

Re: site-to-site VPN for proxy sharing

2008-09-13 Thread Durf
Proxy servers are typically not gateways, as they run on the application layer. Give each site its own subnet and set appropriate routing, then just set the proxy in your browser properties via GPO for your users. --Durf On 9/12/08, Adam Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying

Re: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Durf
That's exactly what I use. Works well. -- Durf On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Adam Meixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkisofs though I don't know where to download the windows port of it. I stole mine from the bartPE package. *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent

Re: Fort Lauderdale area

2008-09-12 Thread Durf
Bo! Bo! You're coming out for a beer before you go. -- Durf On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ROFL... To tell the truth, there will be a lot I will miss here. There is a lot of fascinating history here, including hidden gems and yarns

Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?

2008-08-23 Thread Durf
I've done it just fine in the past. This may be dependent on what version of the OS on both sides you're using, but I had no major issues. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Eustace Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Stay away from SOnicwall if you expect to setup any VPN's to Cisco devices

Re: Sonicwall pro 2040 recommendation ?

2008-08-23 Thread Durf
to date. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 I've NEVER had any problem getting a variety of SonicWALL models to talk to other vendor's equipment. Frequently it's simply a matter of knowing the appropriate magical incantations. Sure they have

Re: Citrix printing

2008-08-21 Thread Durf
Purchase Tricerat Screwdrivers for about $1750 (per server), and use whatever printer you want. :) Great product. -- Durf On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Erik Fog-Morrissette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all Can anyone suggest a printer for the following configuration: I have

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-18 Thread Durf
he was the manager not the owner because he was legally barred from ever owning a business again, and had everything in his wife's name, including the million dollars worth of business debt. -- Durf On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good lord, Nikki do we

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-18 Thread Durf
job to job during the boom suffered mightily in the bust. Unions have their place and purposes. If we wind up in a huge depression in the next few years, it'll be interesting to see if the above IT person attitude changes. -- Durf On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [OT] Friday moan

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
for the EMC to initialize the arrays... -- Durf On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Our managing partner came in today asking me how much help I could provide to the tax practice leading up to the September 15th and October 15th extension deadlines. I'm still

After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
. Yes, I'm on the beeper this weekend (OK, there's no actual beeper) so it's on my mind. :) -- Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
Martin, largely I agree - but it's a bit different when you're in consulting. The money's going into someone else's pocket, as we charge more for after-hours work. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If I had to choose, I would say #1 But I

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
Thanks Ben - this is kind of what I'm looking at as well. We lost our top consultant about a year ago due to similar issues. The wife/life factor is something that just cannot be ignored, and if it means we're losing good people, then that's an issue. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:58 AM

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
This seems like a very reasonable policy. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company has an established policy for on-call compensation - I'm not a conslutant: First on-call $20.00 per weekday evening $50.00 per weekend/holiday There's also

Re: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
the love as much. I'm probably thinking my next job after this will not be consulting - I'm ready to settle down and grow my own network. What's keeping me going right now is frankly the opportunity to see a wide variety of the new Microsoft 2008 technologies before I do that. :) -- Durf On Sat

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
working hours with minimal downtime. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: # 1. Just got out of the consulting business. We were suppose to get payed overtime but we never saw that or were ever offered flex time. If your consulting and your employer

Re: After-hours work

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
You know, I should have thought to ask whether folks were working salaried, hourly/fulltime or hourly/contract. I suspect this does substantially impact how compensation is structured. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Mike Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the combination

Re: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
of that and more than eager to exploit it? I'm sure a lot of lawyers are law geeks too, but they sure as heck seem to find ways to get compensated for their time. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you say seems to ring true. I came over to being a computer

Re: So, Why Do We Do It?

2008-08-16 Thread Durf
are on-call #1 - because we don't cost the company overtime. Be careful what you wish for... -- Durf On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that if more of us were hourly, weeks would rarely exceed 40 hours! *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Windows Defender or some other antivirus/anti spyware solution?

2008-08-14 Thread Durf
AVG 8 is a pig if you turn on all the features though, especially the Link Inspector. Whatever you use, remember to leave UAC turned on and the users running as non-admin. :) -- Durf On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest that since AVG's Free

Vista Antivirus 2008 malware removal

2008-08-14 Thread Durf
seen this before and fixed it by means other than burning down the system, which is what I'm going to recommend otherwise? -- Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

Re: Vista Antivirus 2008 malware removal

2008-08-14 Thread Durf
Yes, that was all done by the previous tech before I even got in front of it. It hasn't cured it. I'm a little beyond the first Google hit by now. :) It's quite mysterious. I'm suspecting there's a fake driver installed somewhere. -- Durf On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL

Re: Vista Antivirus 2008 malware removal

2008-08-14 Thread Durf
It's not hooking DNS, that's the interesting thing. Direct NSLOOKUP queries work fine, only the appropriate local servers are listed.Somehow it's actually redirecting the traffic itself, probably through a hidden driver. Ah well - off to the nuke pile with it. -- Durf On Thu, Aug 14, 2008

Re: Windows Defender or some other antivirus/anti spyware solution?

2008-08-14 Thread Durf
these guys a straight job! -- Durf On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Stu Sjouwerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: We have it in there, but this thing mutates every few hours so you cannot really catch it with a static definition. We're in the process to get a heuristic def for this one! Stu

Re: DC Offline

2008-08-12 Thread Durf
or (heaven forbid) a Roquefort, you may find that you have only a week or two in a shipping crate at typical tolerances before the flavors and aromas are just...off. Just make sure you pair it with a proper wine. HTH, -- Durf On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ghost like products

2008-07-22 Thread Durf
I've been eyeing Clonezilla (free software): What is Clonezilla ? Linux World and expo exhibitor You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost(R), and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it

Re: DNS delete this record when it becomes stale

2008-07-18 Thread Durf
Why do you want to stop DNS pruning? It's how it is supposed to work. -- Durf On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 DCs in 2 sites. 1 forward lookup zone, corp.company.com. My DCs and my mail servers keep getting the Delete this record when it becomes

Re: VMWare in DR site

2008-06-30 Thread Durf
to SunGard, as the Iron Mountain solution works well with their requirements - IM will drop tapes and drives directly to the SunGard facility - and SunGard charges quite a lot for direct data sync. Yours, Durf On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Active Elk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, They basically

Re: Home folder

2008-06-26 Thread Durf
either of those, you shouldn't be missing much. Your users might. :) -- Durf On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Mayo, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Joe, but that is not the case. At this time I am just trying to get some input on unexpected ramifications of clearing the Home Folder

Re: NOD32 v2 definition issue?

2008-06-25 Thread Durf
Latest defs still popping false positives. Anyone got anything on this? -- Durf On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rescanned my local system and the file that popped up for me the first time did not pop up this time. Definitions were updated to the 3218

Re: Patching the kitchen

2008-06-18 Thread Durf
Wonder if it runs Java... - Durf On 6/18/08, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $2000 coffee maker! That thing better do more than just make the best damn cup of coffee I've ever had... 2008/6/18 James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9970757-7.html

Re: Firefox 3.0 Download Day

2008-06-17 Thread Durf
FF3 bump above 180, with extensions and themes and all enabled. I've also ironically found it handles the MS eOpen site much better than IE7, which contstantly throws me into a loop when logging into my Passport. -- Durf On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: June 18 is the last day to buy Genuine Windows XP from Dell

2008-06-06 Thread Durf
Yes - but the real question is, will drivers be provided, updated and supported going forward, and for how long? It will be quite painful if you have to start hitting the OEM for every driver. -- Durf On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes But that's

Re: Deny Login if not secure

2008-05-29 Thread Durf
implemented it myself. Many vendors embed this sort of thing in switches. Citrix builds this as well into the Secure Access Gateway. -- Durf On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Steve Kelsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a GPO setting or script that can refuse to allow a logon if a file (antivirus

Re: Mac on 2003 Domain

2008-05-27 Thread Durf
be better served: a) getting a real therapist b) changing careers Cheers, - Durf On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just tired of listening to Mac heads make up wild stories. Paying $5k for a laptop that is a Mac when a top of the line laptop workstation

Re: Why XP is doomed

2008-05-11 Thread Durf
Experience = 3.5), doing a clean install of Vista SP1 integrated on it, and seeing how it *flew* compared to the laptop, I redid the laptop, and now it performs fine. The desktop still seems subjectively a bit faster for everyday use, though, which is odd as the scores are so divergent. -- Durf On Sun

Re: Why is Search so crap in Outlook 2007

2008-04-11 Thread Durf
I was going to go that route, but then got a beta of Xobni instead, and I have to say, it beats plain old search. -- Durf On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Nikki Peterson - OETX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak

2008-04-10 Thread Durf
Group Policy Management is back - IF you log on with a domain account. Even using RUNAS. Kinda useless for a travelling consultant, unfortunately. Looks like I'm back to using an admin workstation or virtual PC instance. -- Durf On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED

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