RE: [OT] Surface

2014-09-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
://www.lythixdesigns.com www.linkedin.com/in/lyynxhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/lyynx On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Not sure which docking station you got – I just put the Surface down, and push the left and right “arms

RE: [OT] Surface

2014-09-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
I have a few hundred GB of VMs, plus another few hundred GB of setup files. Not really suitable to access that all from Dropbox et al ☺ So, this is geared towards people who need to carry stuff around with them From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On

RE: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
I have one. Get the docking station, and external monitor/keyboard, if you’re going to be doing a lot of work at a desk. As far as a device goes, it’s great if you need/want tablet functionality. If you just want a laptop, then there’s probably other options. I also got a 4K monitor, but the

RE: Enumerate user rights from Group Policy

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
Whoami.exe /priv? Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:17 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Enumerate user rights from Group Policy Greetings, Before I give up on this I thought I'd ask the

RE: Enumerate user rights from Group Policy

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb664922 is a fancier tool that can do something similar. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:53 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Enumerate user rights

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-06-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
I remember paying about $1000 for a 1024x768 15” LCD monitor circa 12-13 years ago, and how amazingly thin/light it was compared to my Sony 17” Trinitron at the time. Now, I doubt you can even get a mainstream LCD that small. Instead, it seems you can get something that’s almost the equivalent

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
Already out – discussed on the list on the 9th… From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dave Walker Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2014 9:31 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor Anyone looking to get a U28D590D 4K / 3840 X 2160

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:48 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor It’s

RE: [OT] Copy Paste from protected Web page

2014-05-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
warming up WireShark as I write ;-) -- noonie On 20 May 2014 13:48, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I’d start by finding out whether the challenge is coming from the proxy server or not. Packet capture on the proxy server can probably help you here

RE: [OT] Copy Paste from protected Web page

2014-05-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
I’d start by finding out whether the challenge is coming from the proxy server or not. Packet capture on the proxy server can probably help you here, as it should show what the proxy server is doing vs. what is coming directly from the web server. Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT] Laptop to replace macbook

2014-05-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
You could get a Macbook Air, and run Windows on it. Or a Sony Pro 13”, mentioned by Ben I have a couple of colleagues that are quite happy with the Asus Zenbook as well. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent:

RE: [OT] 4K TVs

2014-05-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Do you need to have the 55” one? You can get a 28” 4K Samsung monitor for around $750 these days. The pixels being closer would probably give you a smoother picture at close range. However, to output 4K, your GPU, chipset and display port (HDMI or DisplayPort) need to support the resolution.

RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD

2014-03-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 4:55 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they work and wear-levelling and

RE: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: unsubscribe Or to put it another way, going back to Outlook 2003 is a purely positive experience and I can’t think of a single

RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD

2014-03-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Early generation SSDs had a bunch of issues (I’ve lost several OCZ Vertex SSDs – pity they had such crap controllers). I don’t think you need to worry too much about current generation SSDs. Here’s some stress testing of current SSDs:

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think there's two separate issues here: a) How, as a user, do you generate good passwords? What's considered good is continually changing - Microsoft (and others) were touting pass phrases not that long ago, and even then it was pretty obvious that attacks would migrate using whole

RE: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
I run Windows on my Mac Mini, so not a MBP per se But basically Apple just package up some drivers (most of the hardware in the machine is standard Intel stuff). I think main complaint is that the power management isn't as good as on the MacOSX side of things. Cheers Ken -Original

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
I don’t think there’s any need to muck around with anything. Just find your Mac here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634 and there’s links to the relevant Boot Camp driver package for your Mac (including the new Mac Pro) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
QHD type displays are a pretty new phenomenon in the PC laptop world. I don't think it's necessarily fair to expect apps that might be 2-3 years old to cater for today's hardware/software. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [OT] FTP diagnosis

2014-03-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
The old IIS FTP was a holdover from IIS6. A brand new integrated IIS FTP was released out-of-band for IIS7. This includes new features like an equivalent for HTTP Host headers for FTPS (Rob, the IIS PM leading this co-wrote the RFC) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] FTP diagnosis

2014-03-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
Same difference - you have a connectivity issue, and we just need to work through where it's breaking. Are you trying to access the FTP site through your NAT router? Yes/No Are you trying to access the FTP site directly across your LAN? Yes/No Are you trying to use active or passive? Cheers Ken

RE: [OT] FTP diagnosis

2014-03-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
Didn't we go through all of these in October last year? Are you actually trying to use FTP through your NAT router? If so, are you using Active or Passive FTP? It makes a big difference. Username/password is transmitted on the control channel (- server:port 21), so that should always go

RE: Favicons

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
From memory, if IE fails to find a favicon.ico file in the past, it doesn't ask for one again (basically, why generate another request that will result in a 404?) Not sure what the timeout period is, but if you bookmark the site/add to favourites, it makes another request for favicon.ico.

RE: [OT] Nameserver records

2014-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
If you want orthogonal.com.au (or any host under that - e.g. www.othogonal.com.auhttp://www.othogonal.com.au) to point to your IP address, then you need to request your DNS hoster to create the necessary records (A, CNAME, MX) and point that record to your IP address. If you want to be

RE: [OT] Nameserver records

2014-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
DNS works both ways - your clients needs to resolve other hosts/domains out on the internet. This is where the DNS servers configured on your router (and on the Win2k8 server) come in. If your client is using the router as a DNS server, and the router doesn't know where a particular host can be

RE: [OT] Nameserver records

2014-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
are resolving. Adding new primary zones was the vital clue. So thanks for the clues on that. Now I feel like a real part of the Internet. Cheers, Greg K On 24 February 2014 10:13, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If you want orthogonal.com.auhttp

RE: [OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
Is it possible that his IE is using a proxy server of some kind, and this is caching the result? If he's deleted all his temporary files inside IE, then I don't see how IE itself could be loading the old version of a website - dunno where XAP files are stored though. Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT] Anyone encountered NationZoom?

2014-02-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
I can't find any hits for browserzoom, but there is a relatively common piece of malware called Nationzoom. Perhaps that it what your friend has? If so, Malware Bytes will remove it (according to the instructions at:

RE: Google Chromecast

2014-02-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
So, are you able to play media from your laptop to the Chromecast device? I couldn't work out if that was possible from the interwebs. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (gregATgreglowDOTcom) Sent: Tuesday, 11 February

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
something about an entire platform. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 7 February 2014 3:36 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... OK - you asked

RE: SCCM?

2014-02-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
SCCM is more of a deployment and configuration management software (e.g. to deploy software, patches, perform inventory etc.) If you're looking for a monitoring tool, then SCOM is usually mentioned. SCOM can monitor non-domain joined machines Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Regardless of its technical merits, it’s destroyed a metric bucketload of shareholder value. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ILT (O) Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2014 8:54 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Today was very quiet on

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 7 February 2014 10:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... You can’t get Here Maps (previously Nokia Drive etc.) instead? That has options to use/avoid toll roads, defaults to Australian addresses etc. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
For text messages, you can: http://forums.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-8/230367-sms-backup.html http://www.windowsphone.com/en-au/how-to/wp8/basics/back-up-my-stuff The one main gripe I have is that you used to be able to start typing someone's name on the onscreen keyboard in WM6, and it would

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
with Outlook locally and do whatever you want with them from there. Windows Mobile 2003 did it better than Windows Phone 8! ARHRHHHRGHRRHIRGRGRHOGRGR /rant From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
From the earlier link (about 1/3 of the way down) Notes * Your phone will wait for a WiFi connection to automatically save backups. If you don't connect to WiFi for a week, any changes to your App list and settings will be saved using a mobile data connection. * Backup saves the apps on

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

2014-02-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
The 4% seems remarkably low – according to MSFT’s last annual report 65% of the Windows BG’s revenue comes from OEMs, and assuming 50% of that is destined for consumers, that’s already $6bn (out of $78bn). Add in revenue from Entertainment GB (Xbox etc.), plus, some dribs and drabs from other

RE: [OT] Raid 0

2014-01-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] Raid 0

2014-01-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Raid 0 I have two super fast SSDs running in Raid 0 on my laptop. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

RE: IIS7 Application Pool Identity on domain joined machine

2014-01-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Off the top of my head – does the application think it’s going to a non-local SQL Server (dunno why it would think that, but you never know). Then the app pool would be connecting as computername$ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David

RE: NBN Petition

2014-01-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
It’ll be exception now, but will just turn to “ordinary” down the track as more subscribers come on-board requirements for applications and media increase. Not to mention that there’s still latency issues. Same thing happened with 2G, 3G, and every other “G” prior. The only thing that LTE

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
broadband already (so no NBN for you.) T. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2013 12:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: NBN Petition I think there’s uncertainty because NBNCo

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Monday, 16 December 2013 9:18 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition On 15 December 2013 20:04, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I can’t see any

RE: [OT] Cookies cleanup

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
https://disconnect.me/ is pretty popular From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Friday, 13 December 2013 11:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Cookies cleanup Use something like ghostery. https://www.ghostery.com/how-it-works

RE: [OT] Cookies cleanup

2013-12-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
Once you install: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X then you can uninstall IE :) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 13 December 2013 12:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT]

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
Well, Turnbull's strategic review is out. And whilst we're all likely to get the rubbish mixed-technology mix option (some FTTP, some FTTN and some HFC) due to the headline cost of building the network, the NPV savings over FTTP are miniscule once we factor in the need to upgrade to something

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2013 3:11 PM To: Ken Schaefer; ozDotNet Subject: RE: NBN Petition Thanks for the update Ken. Haven't read it yet but will do so. I'd love to see FTTP done if it can be rolled out in a commercial way, with commercial timeframes. The previous plan sounded nice

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2013 3:51 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: NBN Petition not going to be there in my working life might not be the words you're looking for but the point is that

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2013 4:38 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: NBN Petition If you were trying to run a commercial business based on rolling out an NBN, where would you start? Would

RE: [OT] We need a senior developer ASAP!

2013-12-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
Presumably a more experienced/skilled developer is more productive, and will thus produce greater value per day, and hence can be paid more. Vice-versa if you’re less experienced, or don’t have the specific skillset mentioned. Seems pretty simple to me. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] Facebook advertising

2013-12-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
How is this corrupt, or greedy? How is this invasive? Certainly, it's opportunist - but that's most of the free market. It's people developing new products and services and trying to sell them to you, and marketing/advertising is how they get it to you. If they can do that cheaper/better,

RE: [OT] Facebook advertising

2013-12-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
Advertising doesn't exist in a vacuum - it exists (like every other good and service) because people think it's worth paying for - unfortunate as that may be. Watching Gruen Transfer/Gruen World is enlightening for those outside the marketing/advertising world. But personal dislike doesn't

RE: [OT] Facebook advertising

2013-11-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
You visit any site participating in an ad network, and a cookie can/will be set indicating you've visited that site. Subsequently visit any other site participating in the same ad network, and you'll targeted ads. Using a cookie blocker or ad blocker (or simply clear your browser

RE: [OT] rules in Outlook.com (2)

2013-11-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Try: Where To: or CC: is ozdotnet@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com I use that for desktop Outlook, and it works. Having a cursory look at Outlook.com, it appears you can create the same rule there. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On

RE: [OT] Email forwarding

2013-11-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
GoDaddy provide free DNS hosting for domains registered with them ZoneEdit is another provider I use (but only for a couple of domains) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 10:22 AM To:

RE: [OT] Syslogd client

2013-11-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Snare seems pretty popular in the commercial world - they have a free/open source version. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 10:59 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Syslogd client Anyone know of a

RE: [OT] Syslogd client

2013-11-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Subject: RE: [OT] Syslogd client But the question you always have to ask is, how crippled is the Open Source version? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:16

RE: [OT] Going cloudy with metaballs

2013-11-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:53 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Going cloudy with metaballs I guess my point is that unless you're a bank or whatever with 60K rank and file to

RE: [OT] Going cloudy with metaballs

2013-11-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Probably should caveat that with Microsoft accounts for logon will only work on Windows 8+ ADFS/SAML works for web based apps that support it Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Monday, 18 November 2013 6:13 PM

RE: Priority Application Pool in IIS

2013-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
In what way do you want to give it priority? Your requirement is very vague at the moment, Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 5:18 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Priority

RE: Priority Application Pool in IIS

2013-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 7:39 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Priority Application Pool in IIS In what way do you want to give it priority? Your requirement is very vague at the moment, Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
into for decades. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2013 8:27 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition On 13 November 2013 15:24, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
If the NBN lasts for as long as the copper network, then won’t these prices fall over time? First we used to pay for a line that had no internet capability at all. Then we started paying for 56bkps what we pay for 8mbps now. Is there anything to suggest that over the longer term this trend

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2013 12:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition On 13 November 2013 10:56, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: If the NBN lasts for as long as the copper network, then won’t these prices

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
November 2013 3:59 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition On 13 November 2013 11:14, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Even over 20+ years? I don’t think, 20+ years ago we had any real idea how compute, storage, network and other infrastructure technologies were

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Well, Google has been on record as saying that they prefer a more forward-thinking broadband strategy (aka FTTP): http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/australian-it/nbn-tick-from-google-executive-chairman-eric-schmidt/story-fnb8jsrk-1226208893554

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2013 1:59 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition On 5 November 2013 10:16, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.commailto:david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: On

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2013 7:53 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition We could solve all of Australia's problems with FTTB (Fibre To The Boat) http://fttb.org/ -Burela On 5 November 2013 06:45, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Most distribution networks are natural monopolies - that usually leads to a sub-optimal market outcome (under-production of the good, as the monopolist doesn't face the same marginal cost and revenue curves a free market faces) Secondly, the first person that wants such a service generally gets

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
I have Crashplan, and live in inner city Sydney. I'm unable to even get my daily, incremental, Windows Home Server backups of my clients backed up to Crashplan's servers each day, due to the limited upload speed I get on aging copper in this area. The problem I see with FTTN is that it's

RE: [OT] FTP client problems

2013-10-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Probably because Server 2012 supports FTPS – I remember speaking to the PM on the IIS team about this at the time, and Microsoft invested a fair amount of time and effort into developing FTPS (including contributing the RFC for the equivalent of Host header support for FTPS) Cheers Ken From:

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
Does the user actually have permission to restore the item to the root of c:\? I tested on my Win8 machine, and the user is prompted with a UAC prompt. Maybe the inability to restore the file might dictate whether the file goes into the recycle bin or not? Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT] FTP client problems

2013-10-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
Did you miss this step from Jorke's post? ...and attach the cap Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2013 4:11 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] FTP client problems I haven't tried FileZilla

MSDN subs

2013-09-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
Where do people source these today? From memory, MSDN subs qualified for Open Licensing, so you could buy them with SA to get a 2 year deal all up - is this still the case? Looking at the Premium level at this stage. Cheers Ken

RE: MSDN subs

2013-09-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
(not counting gst). Yep they do the two year thing too. s far as I know that's not changed but I renewed mine over a year ago. On 25/09/2013 5:31 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Where do people source these today? From memory, MSDN subs qualified for Open

RE: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
There’s no USB1.0 port ☺ Specs are here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/23/microsoft-new-surface-pro-2-gets-official/ http://gdgt.com/microsoft/surface/pro/2/ (click the “versions” link to see links to all 4 models) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Are you talking about the Surface RT? Or the Surface Pro? They’re two different products. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 2:34 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Mark II I reckon

RE: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 2:37 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Mark II Are you talking about the Surface RT? Or the Surface Pro? They’re two different products. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun

RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
There's also this just-announced competitor from Sony: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/sony-vaio-tap-11-hands-on/ Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 5:14 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 3:23 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2 There's also this just-announced competitor from Sony: http

RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
, 6 September 2013 9:18 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Surface Pro 2 How is the Helix? On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I replace my Surface Pro with a Lenovo Helix. However the person that has the Surface now loves

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
And we’ll pay him $195K/year. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 4:11 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] NBN revisited http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQPXXHUilU this is pretty

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
of the way. That's what business lobbying is about. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 9:26 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] NBN revisited There are multiple

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 11:21 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] NBN revisited I think you have a naïve view of what business lobbying is about then. Tax breaks or write-offs for x, import restrictions on y, government grants for z Free markets are best

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
transaction costs, monopolistic markets etc., and so government has a role in trying to ameliorate these failures. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 12:34 PM

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
The problem with cost-benefit analysis’ for something like this type of project, is that there will be a huge “unknowns” number, the size of which people will just argue about. It’s just “kicking the can” down the road. Look at the copper network – when that was being rolled out the concept of

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:31 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited They only way to deliver something of this size is to be transport agnostic, stage the delivery and

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
is the “one true path” Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:50 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ken Schaefer k

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:54 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited Your antipathy to the current NBN is well known. I have an antipathy for piling up money and setting it

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
My experience of long, complex deployments is that the first bit's always pretty hard. You're always running into new challenges and issues. However, once you get enough template rollout processes, then things start to pick up - it becomes cookie-cutter. Cheers Ken From:

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Or just buy a Mac Mini and run Windows MCE / XMBC / Frontrow etc. on it From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2013 7:12 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs I got one of these little bad boys for my

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
So what are you running on the Brix to provide the UI? Or are you just navigating Win8 using a keyboard or mouse? (I think the thrust of the question was are you using MCE as the UI, or something else?) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
The Samsung ones are usually OEM only, so if you want a low height 512GB mSATA drive, then Ramcity's a good source. Otherwise, there's plenty of other manufacturers out there (Crucial, Mushkin etc also ship 512GB ones, but they are a bit thicker). www.amazon.comhttp://www.amazon.com has a

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think the X220T supports a regular 9.5mm SATA drive, so you could buy anything up to the 960GB Crucial M500. The regular SATA drives are faster than mSATA drives. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of osjasonrobe...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday,

RE: FW: 240GB SSD?

2013-08-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013 9:01 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: 240GB SSD? Samsung 840 (or the Pro if you can afford it and have SATA3). Crucial M4 or the newer C500 Where are you based? www.staticice.com.auhttp

RE: 240GB SSD?

2013-08-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Samsung 840 (or the Pro if you can afford it and have SATA3). Crucial M4 or the newer C500 Where are you based? www.staticice.com.auhttp://www.staticice.com.au is pretty good for locating stores/prices/stock. Then just pick a place close to you... Cheers Ken From:

RE: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-07-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
I don’t think this is spam – LinkedIn has a feature were you can add your “contacts” from your Yahoo!/Hotmail/Outlook/Gmail mail account. You just have to be careful that you haven’t added distribution lists etc. to your address book. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

2013-07-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
URL seems to suggest that it's an Atom, but the description says i5. I'd clarify that. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013 1:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet? Hi, Anyone

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