RE: [OT] External hard drives

2010-03-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
The limitation is the speed of 5400 RPM drives. Neither FW nor eSATA in common laptop (2.5” enclosures) supply power, so you have to carry extra cables (power or USB) to power the thing, and you end up using a USB port as well. Unless you want to run VMs off this thing, just stick to USB 2.0 –

RE: Attachments again ??

2010-03-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
This is not an Outlook problem – this is a malformed message problem… Though Outlook does have its own share of issues… Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:21 AM To: ozDotNet Subject:

RE: [OT] External hard drives (Done)

2010-03-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
No problems that I know of with current Dell models (and we have about 5k-6k of them). The last time I can remember this being a problem was with a D600, and that was many years ago. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Permission denied

2010-05-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm just looking through this: You say you have the little yellow triangle icon in IE? And when you double-click on this you get a Permission Denied error message in the explanatory dialogue? If so, this is a client-side issue: there is some permission denied on some javascript object or

RE: How to validate directory path

2010-06-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
+1 terrible is one of those subjective adjectives that casts the subject in a negative light, and by implication the person who posted it. If you are going to take pot-shots from the sidelines (i.e. not provide an illustrative counter example to demonstrate your point) then you should keep

RE: [OT] HealthSMART problems

2010-06-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Poor contracts are definitely a problem. The rest (IMHO) is a combination of science and art, and when you have enormous projects then: a) You simply can’t hire 500 “a-team” people b) There is way more complexity and requirements than people imagine in the beginning c)

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
All that debt incurred was income someone else earned, and which be invested, and used to pay back the government (in higher taxes) down the track. Spending money doesn't just make it disappear somewhere - every dollar spent is someone else's dollar earned. Debt itself isn't a problem - just

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 2:24 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter On 10 July 2010 15:40, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hi, As mentioned – debt

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
Connors da...@codify.commailto:da...@codify.com wrote: On 12 July 2010 17:28, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: But saying don't buy from the Chinese is just self-defeating. Then the Chinese shouldn't buy our coal. Or Americans shouldn't buy Dr Low's consulting

RE: [OT] My Win 7 PC too slow..disk queue time issue solved

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2010 6:49 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] My Win 7 PC too slow..disk queue time issue solved On 15 July 2010 00:03, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: These days, disk I

RE: Working as a developer in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
I don't know about the contract market here in SG. But I work for HP here at the moment. Compared to Australia: tax rates much cheaper. Cost of accommodation much higher - and leases are usually 12-24 months. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] XP STOP 0x0000007B

2010-07-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
STOP 0x7B = INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Look at the next set of parameters, it might tell you what it what it's looking for. However BIOS settings and fan speeds are unlikely to be the issue. What OS are you using? You can do a startup repair in Windows 7 or a Repair install in XP. I can't

RE: [OT] XP STOP 0x0000007B

2010-07-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, If this is XP, you can try a Recovery Install. This should preserve user accounts, but you may need to reinstall some applications as well as service packs/patches. This is not the same as Recovery Console. It's where you choose to install Windows again, but it detects that there is an

RE: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
VMWare Server isn’t really designed as a desktop virtualisation product (hence the “server” part of the name). That said, it is free. I’d try VMWare Workstation and see if that solves your problem (I have no issues running Win7 clients in VMWare Workstation), or you can use the free VMWare

RE: [OT] Ebook Reader

2010-08-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
What type of books will you reading? Do you need to order books directly from the reader, or are you happy to buy on your PC and transfer? How important is it that the store have Australian rights (i.e. you can easily buy using an Australian CC?) The Sony models are the classiest (I have an

RE: NetSqlAzMan

2010-08-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
Protocol Transition is a feature of the server where the service resides Client --- Server1 Server2 If Client --- Server1 is NTLM (or Digest), then Server1 can do Protocol Transition and get a Kerberos ticket for Server2 service, even if the original protocol is not natively delegatable

RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
The small kindle is very light and quite small. The DX, I think, would be the smallest you could get to read A4 PDFs (at least in portrait mode) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010

RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
/newspapers/magazines. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010 3:31 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader? On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ken Schaefer

RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
You definitely need external lighting if it's dark. However both devices I had (Sony and Kindle) have a number of zoom options (the kindle has about 6-7 levels of zoom). E-book formats are design to be re-flowable (like HTML) so you can easily zoom in/out Cheers Ken -Original Message-

RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
? Generally speaking are they easier on the eye to read in a well lit room? |-Original Message- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer |Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 12:35 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: verdict on kindle

RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
I have a Samsung phone that has an AMOLED screen, and it’s only marginally better than an LED screen for outdoor use. It’s still completely different to e-Ink. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Friday, 3

RE:

2010-09-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
That is the way that e-Ink works. The battery is used to reset the display to whatever the new content is. Battery isn't used (AFAIK) to display a static page. I found that I got used to it pretty quickly and it doesn't bother me anymore. I'm assuming you are seeing the screen flip to black

RE: Re:

2010-09-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
I've played with doesn't do that. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 22:36, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: That is the way that e-Ink works. The battery

RE: Access Database Replication

2010-09-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Access used to have JRO (Jet Replication Objects) for replicating two Access (Jet) databases. Dunno if that's an option. Alternatively, can you keep the Access front end, and just put the data into a backend SQL Server? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] Root certificates

2010-09-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
There can be intermediate CAs between the root CA, and the actual issuing CA. You'd need all the certs in between so as to be able to chain the cert back to its root CA's cert. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent:

RE: Password Reset, was Re: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

2010-09-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
-Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Subject: Password Reset, was Re: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps Personally, I'll settle for never seeing my current password being sent to

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
Some people want to know whether it's worth investing in a platform - i.e. will it have a foreseeable future, or is it a dead end? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Wednesday, 22 September

RE: [OT] Virgin Blue

2010-09-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
A failure of some kind at Navitaire. It also had a small impact on Jetstar. VAust uses Amadeus - I don't think they were affected - only the domestic ops of Virgin Blue. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf

RE: Rant

2010-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Just because a UI is now in neat HTML doesn’t mean that every backend system, and every other system used to access this data, can cope. I worked on Westpac’s IB upgrade project (the monitoring part) and it’s a huge amount of work just to upgrade one small part of it. Cheers Ken From:

RE: Rant

2010-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
make it to the right person but at least I tried. cheers, Stephen On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hi, Just because a UI is now in neat HTML doesn’t mean that every backend system, and every other system used to access

RE: Rant

2010-10-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
or is that still a reasonable thing to do given there are other systems in the enterprise that are 10-20 years old? Cheers, Ben From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 1

RE: [OT] Desperate for Office 2003

2010-11-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Also, if you sign into MSDN subscriptions using the Live ID that your previous subscriptions were under, then you should still have access to your old product keys, even though you can't download anything. Office 2003 had a static activation key from memory. Cheers Ken From:

RE: Friday question - How to find my MSDN Subscription

2010-11-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
MSDN subscriptions page, after you login, should show your expired subscriptions. I don't think this is an MSDN problem :-) You forgot your identifier. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent:

RE: Friday question - How to find my MSDN Subscription

2010-11-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
You can't download anything - just access your pre-existing product keys. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Friday, 26 November 2010 1:07 PM To: Ken Schaefer Cc: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Friday

RE: [OT] Developer Laptop

2010-11-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
Sony Z series? The screen might be a bit small though (13) FWIW, when working at my desk at home, I have two monitors connected (one via HDMI, and one via a USB video card), so I don't really use the laptop panel at all. I wouldn't be too hung up about the 8GB of RAM. 8GB SoDIMMS are only just

RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?

2010-12-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
Apparently most of these phones use SD cards for their storage (even if soldered to the board). Some appear to be replaceable (buy you may void your warranty). You will also lose all your data as the phone creates a file system that unifies the storage across any onboard storage and the SD

RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?

2010-12-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card? This sounds like a htc/telco agreement..more dat across the air..more money From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 6:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD

RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?

2010-12-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:07 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card? No - there is no more data. MSFT posted officially that it's a performance issue. In order to deliver adequate

RE: [OT] ESXi install failure

2010-12-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
If you have MSDN, just install Windows Server 2008 R2, and then install the Hyper-R role. The alternative (Server Core install or Hyper-V Server install) gives you cmd.exe as a shell only. If you only have a single box and don't come from a IT sysadmin background, then doing everything using a

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
A couple of things: a) IIS 7 doesn't display anything detailed when accessed remotely, unless you change a configuration to allow detailed error messages to be displayed remotely. Try accessing the service locally on the server, and see if you get something more detailed. b) IIS 7

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Did you try any of the suggestions given to you yesterday to get a more descriptive error message from an appropriate source (IIS, http.sys or Windows Event Log)? Making random configuration changes in the hope that it fixes the problem usually isn't a productive way to solve problems in my

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
You can give permissions to that account using icacls. It's a dynamically created user identity. It's for security reasons. Here is an explanation, and also how to use icacls to set the permissions: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2008/01/29/15759.aspx Failed Request Tracing is

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
Some other places Greg could try: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-IIS-7-Kenneth-Schaefer/dp/0470097825/ www.iis.nethttp://www.iis.net (is Microsoft's IIS site, has a very active forum. But the advice there will be the same as here IMHO) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2011 12:48 PM To: g...@aquarius.com.au; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: 500 - Internal server error Glen, Ken, Folks After a couple of hours, thanks for procmon telling which

RE: 500 - Internal server error

2011-01-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, The inbuilt Users group contains all authenticated users (including IIS_IUSRS and IUSR). The IIS_IUSRS group dynamically contains all accounts for web app pool identities - IIS adds these automatically. This supports the dynamic IIS AppPool\AppPoolName accounts - so that when they are

RE: Avoiding SQL Server 'sysadmin' accounts

2011-01-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Grant EXEC permission on the sproc to your accounts (assuming you don't have too many of them). That said, the use of SQL Server accounts is also diminishing in most large environments because SQL Server doesn't provide the sort of monitoring/logging of SQL Server accounts as is available for

RE: Windows 7 explorer quirks [OT]

2011-01-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
What software do you have running on the machine? (run msinfo32 and provide the list of running software). I suspect you have an Explorer shell extension that’s causing the problem Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Peter Maddin

RE: [OT] How to install SSRS?

2011-02-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Trying just running the larger file. You might be able to upgrade the installation. I know that you can upgrade from Express to Standard or Enterprise this way (i.e. without uninstalling first) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Something for Friday

2011-02-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
Sure it is, if you like to cook like this: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-12-28/ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Friday, 18 February 2011 10:08 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Something for Friday Well, actually,

RE: [OT] Domain groups ineffective

2011-03-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Did you logoff and log back on? The groups in your security token are populated when you logon. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:59 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Domain groups

RE: [OT] Domain groups ineffective

2011-03-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Can you run: whoami /groups from a command line. That will give you a list of all the groups that is in your current security token. Compare that to the icacls list that Jorke's command gives. Also, have you changed any UAC settings on your machine? Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT} Rated songs lost as well

2011-03-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Your domain level has nothing to do with your version of Windows Media Player. I suppose you could say that the OS you are running WMP on is the issue. But most organisations have their Domain Controllers and client machines separate, and upgrading the domain (i.e. replacing the DCs) has no

RE: [OT} Rated songs lost as well

2011-03-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Another option is to harness virtualisation, and split out the roles- have a DC as a VM, and some other OS (Windows or otherwise) as a jukebox, backup server, or whatever. That way upgrading one thing doesn’t have unintended consequences with unrelated components Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT} Rated songs lost as well

2011-03-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
HI, You have a physical host that is a DC, and you then have a server as a guest VM (that is presumably joined to the DC’s domain?) If the physical machine goes bust, you’re going to have to create a new DC, and rejoin the machine to the new domain. This means your previous user accounts on

RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
There’s no way that people are going to be able to use software installed on the laptop to do work. There’s no enterprise, especially a bank, that would allow such a thing (banks, especially, have regulatory requirements to meet). I’m going to strongly suspect that access to company apps will

RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and then delete the message and any attachment(s). From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, 30

RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
What do you think XP Mode is? Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Chris Walsh Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 1:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives Haha, when one talks about Virtualization, one shouldn't

RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives I know what XP Mode is, Virtual PC by itself is worse than the XP Mode implementation of it. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:44 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE

RE: Getting IIS web logging folders

2011-04-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Just note that the logging location can be set at the web server, web site, folder and file level (in case you are using this code for someone else's IIS server) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday,

RE: Getting IIS web logging folders

2011-04-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, That's because the default settings do not allow overriding at a lower level. But that prohibition on overriding can be changed (at any level). If this is just for your own server, then there's no issue. If this is code to run on other people's servers, then it's a different story :)

RE: adding ssl to asp.net website

2011-04-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Richard Carde Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:46 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: adding ssl to asp.net website On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.aumailto:asale...@tpg.com.au wrote:

RE: adding ssl to asp.net website

2011-04-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 5:12 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: adding ssl to asp.net website On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

RE: Royal wedding

2011-04-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
I ordered my sick bags too, but they didn't arrive in time. So now my retinas have to endure the burden of reading email from people who evidently have enough time to pound out whinging emails to email lists in between retching. I wish they would retch more, and email less. (just joking, but I

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Most of the mini machines have a pretty cramped keyboard. I would not use it for dev work (or any serious typing). The screen resolution tends to be low as well. Powering an external, high res monitor can be painful, depending on what sort of graphics chip it has. For skype/web browsing etc,

RE: [OT] TabletPC recommendations

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'd recommend a convertible model then, rather than a pure slate. Trying to work in MS Project would require a mouse/keyboard to do any effective work. Toshiba M780, Lenovo X220T, HP 2740P etc. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think that's a desktop with a battery personally :-) You could carry around three Sony Zs for the same weight. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 8:40

RE: Help I'm being threatened.

2011-05-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
Probably doubtful, as they have no contract with the end-party. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael Ridland Sent: Monday, 23 May 2011 1:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Help I'm being threatened. Hi While building a website for

RE: [OT] Freezing computer

2011-05-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
If the entire machine is locking up, then I concur with previous posters that this is most likely a hardware issue. User mode applications are not going to cause your entire machine to stop responding. Also, if the machine is hanging even during the boot process, then I doubt any Adobe product

RE: Sudden violent death of SSDs

2011-06-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
, 3 June 2011 1:51 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Sudden violent death of SSDs Which types of drives Ken? Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:25 PM To: ozDotNet

RE: [OT] Backups

2011-06-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
Windows Home Server for me. There's also a thread on cloud backup that you might want to read :) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT]

RE: [OT] Backups

2011-06-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:17 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Backups Oops I forgot to say I don't want to backup to the cloud. I won't always have net access anyways. I shall look into Windows Home Server. Thanks On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Ken

RE: Calling out to all you geeks to help me buy\build a machine (preferably laptop) that can support following System Requirements.

2011-06-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think this really depends on what you want to run. With an 8GB laptop and a couple of SSDs, you can run 4-5 VMs without too many issues – even I/O intensive ones like SCOM or Exchange. But this would mainly be for testing things on an ad hoc basis If you’re looking to have a permanent lab

RE: [OT] Toshiba Satellite Notebook BIOS password

2011-07-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Try and find the service manual for the model - that may tell you what you need to do to clear the BIOS password for that machine. Otherwise, take it back to a service centre if you don't have the inclination to try to do it yourself. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Web Service Application Pool Identity

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi Those are the same. IIS_IUSRS is a group. IIS dynamically puts your web app pool identity into that group. However if you grant read/write access to a folder to that group, then any other website running on the server would also have access. If we are talking about IIS7 / IIS 7.5, then IIS

RE: Web Service Application Pool Identity

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
Actually they are not the same :) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330 Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2011 5:51 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Web Service Application Pool Identity Hi

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
Applications like VMWare Workstation will let you run 64bit VMs even if the host OS is 32bit Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Winston Pang Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD /

RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
Pang winstonp...@gmail.commailto:winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, nice, thanks Ken, I was using virtual box, but it crapped itself. So I thought it was across the board. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Applications like

RE: Kerberos Issue

2011-11-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, The MSSQLSvc SPN should be registered automatically during SQL Server setup. It would appear under the computer account or user account that the SQL Server services are running under. Then, you need to permit delegation at your front tier (hosting your web service) to the backend SQL

RE: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs

2011-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
You can't use non-VLK (e.g. retail) media and VLK keys Another option would be to use MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). You can write some scripts to run the installers for the various things you want to install, and a little GUI that allows the person running the setup to choose which

RE: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs

2011-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
have each developer change the product key after installation) so I'm reading-up to find if this is even possible. -- Regards, noonie On 16 November 2011 11:57, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: You can't use non-VLK (e.g. retail) media and VLK keys Another

RE: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object,

2011-11-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
On the other hand, you just head over to the sysadmin lists and see the admins complaining about how much time is consumed supporting developers who get their machines compromised or otherwise borked. Putting unauthorised networks into an environment is a huge no-no in my book. Most developers

RE: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object,

2011-11-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
both happy. On 19 November 2011 01:06, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: On the other hand, you just head over to the sysadmin lists and see the admins complaining about how much time is consumed supporting developers who get their machines compromised or otherwise borked. Putting

RE: ASP.NET web site

2011-12-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
Definitely a converted ASP application (plenty of articles touting how easy it as to convert ASP to ASP.NET by tweaking a bit of syntax back around 2001/2002). This type of page is the result. The use of ADODB and adovbs.inc is a give-away Cheers Ken -Original Message- From:

RE: [OT] Video not visible in IE9

2011-12-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Shows up fine for me - using my bog-standard corporate laptop - no fancy add-ons, codecs, other browsers etc. installed. Maybe you have something extra installed that is breaking the whole thing? E.g. a security product, add-on or similar? Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Network shares as virtual directories (answer?)

2012-01-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
Domain Admin is definitely overkill. IUSR etc. are local accounts - whilst the username might exist on another machine, the password is most likely different (unless you manually sync the passwords). If you have an AD domain, then you can create a regular domain user account. Restrict the

RE: Network shares as virtual directories (answer?)

2012-01-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Saturday, 7 January 2012 3:51 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Network shares as virtual directories (answer?) On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Domain Admin is definitely overkill. IUSR

RE: [OT] 10-11 inch notebook

2012-01-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
Even a current netbook will be fine for 99% of internet/Word/Excel IMHO However, the smaller the machine, the more cramped the keyboard. 10 is a minimum (and uncomfortable IMGO) and 11 would be better. Pay attention to screen resolution as well. Trying to do anything in Excel on a low res

RE: Decrypting web.config file on different machine

2012-01-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Do they have a backup of the non-existent machine? If the backup tapes still exist, then maybe there's still hope. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Friday, 20 January 2012 3:30 PM To:

RE: [OT] bat file association problem

2012-01-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hmm - in Win7, there's no Explorer GUI way of changing .bat file extensions (as far as I can find). How did Greg manage to change it in the first place? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith

RE: [ot] Port Forwarding LDAP

2012-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Is there a second NIC in the server hosting the web application? If so, can you use a direct connection (aka cross-over cable - though most NICs support MDI-X now, so you can just use a regular cable)? Set up a HOSTS file entry on the web application server so that it knows how to get to the

RE: [ot] Port Forwarding LDAP

2012-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Monday, 6 February 2012 6:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [ot] Port Forwarding LDAP On 6 February 2012 20:26, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

RE: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM

2012-02-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hyper-V won't run on Windows 7 VPC only supports 32bit VMs Installing Hyper-V role disables sleep/hibernate on the host PC (you can get this functionality back by setting a Hyper-V service to start manually, but once it's started, you can only shutdown) You have two routes to go down: a)

RE: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 4:46 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM Laptops are like phones (and women, come to think of it). There's always a better one

RE: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
think it’s worth it Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 6:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Ken Schaefer k

RE: Clouding an application

2012-02-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
I’d ask for some more detail. 5000 users/day could be as little as 104 concurrent sessions (5000/24 hours @ 30 minutes/session), or as high as 625 concurrent sessions (5000/8 hours @ 60 minutes/session. Or it be even higher if that 5000 users all comes in during a single 1 hour period. 300

RE: Windows 8 Consumer preview

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm not aware of any Android or iOS devices (except regular iMacs/Macbooks/Mac Minis/etc) that use x86 CPUs. Since the ARM version of Win8 isn't out yet, the answer would be no Put Win8 onto my HP Slate 500 last night - need to work out how to fix the N-trig digitizer, but otherwise seems to

RE: OT: windows environment variables not working

2012-03-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
+1 on checking your shell extensions. Not saying it's the culprit here, but it is the #1 cause of explorer issues that I've seen. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2012 9:32 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE:

RE: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable

2012-03-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
HDMI v1.3 supports 2560x1600 IIRC – older versions are limited to 1900x1200 (or similar) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] My new monitor is

RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
Folio 13 doesn't have a touch screen (in case that was one of your deal breakers). Lots of ultrabooks at that price point, if you are just looking for Win8 support. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 6:57 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au Folio 13 doesn't have a touch screen (in case that was one of your deal breakers). Lots of ultrabooks

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