Re: access point recommendations

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
You forgot to apostrophosize chasin'. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote: > You better hope South Carolina wins the College World Series, its their > only freaking sport, besides Pig chasin J (Joking folks) > > > > Z > > > > Edward Ziots > > CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network

Re: virtual ethernet service

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
explains that? > > > > > ------ > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:23 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: virtual ethernet service > > > > It's a four lette

Re: virtual ethernet service

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
It's a four letter word beginning with t, followed by h, and ending with is. And we all know that everything is dependent on what the meaning of is is. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:19 PM, David McSpadden wrote: > Can someone explain this to me? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

Re: access point recommendations

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Also have a look at some used Proxim APs and see if they can give you what you need. Rock solid, all kinds of nifty features, and they go for about $110 each on Ebay for the AP-4000 model. I've used them at the non-profit school discussed a few threads ago. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Carl

Re: Hyper-v backup question

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I've read some discussion of this method, but it seems overly tedious (and likely incomplete) because of all the possible Event IDs for different types of failures (VSS errors, disk space errors, who knows what...) On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:29

Re: Hyper-v backup question

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
least as far as I > know. > > > > So…. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2

Re: Hyper-v backup question

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
> > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:03 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subjec

Hyper-v backup question

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I do pro bono work for a small, non-profit K-8 school. They wish to finally install their first server for the next school year, and I've set them up with a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 host (the free OS) with guest machines doing the actual work. I've got everything working just fine, but I would like

Re: Archiving Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I used to use the MailStore home product until moving to Windows 7. It always worked extremely well. I've never tried the 'server' version. Maybe it's worth a look. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: > We use Kerio Connect as our mail server. After trying a numberof > alterna

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-26 Thread Richard Stovall
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > And that should be "... for which he's castigating you." [G,D,RLH] > > Eh? I thought you were of Scottish derivation. Is there some Canuck in there too? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: RE: Help -- "Bricked" PC

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
t; -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker> > > Sent from my Motorola Droid > > On Jun 25, 2010 11:36 AM, "John Aldrich" > wrote: > > Well, that’s one of the reason for using “clunker” PCs. I don’t want to use > a “good” machine for an

Re: Users login in from remote location to an Windows 2003 server

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Stefan Jafs wrote: > Ok, I have a new VM Remote Desktop Server running, just waiting for the > CAL's. > Do the users connect just like before with RD? > Yup. > Are there any other differences for the users? > Nope ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that I

Re: Help -- "Bricked" PC

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
New PS maybe? Or even better, a new PC. :-) On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Our CEO brought in a couple “clunker” PCs to use as AS/400 terminals. One > of them had an ATI Rage 128 video card, which the Windows 98 image did not > have drivers for. I downloaded the drive

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Very like Lee. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Cameron wrote: > Shouldn't the "If I did" have a comma after it? > > LOL! > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Richard Stovall wrote: > >> Though I'm sure that was a joke, the slippery slope of publi

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Though I'm sure that was a joke, the slippery slope of public castigation is steep indeed. Four example, I would never point out that he used the present participle where his sentence construction called for the infinitive. If I did I would almost certainly make some silly mistake myself and weak

Re: 4th Tuesday

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Zounds! That's awful. What patch(es) can you identify as problematic. I have a friend who maintains dozens of SBS installations and I'd like to give him a heads up if possible. Thanks, RS On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Mike Hoffman wrote: > We had an SBS box which died after patching this

Re: FTp scheduling with event logging

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Powershell? On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Oliver Marshall < oliver.marsh...@g2support.com> wrote: > Hi chaps > > > > Can anyone recommend an FTP tool that I can use to schedule uploads on a > Windows server and that will log to the event log when it succeeds or fails? > > > > Olly > > > > >

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
. A file is not required to have a .txt > extension to be opened and read. > > If file extensions are hidden and the file has an .exe extension, you might > think you're renaming the extension when you are really creating a file > named file.txt.exe. > > Jeff > > On

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Err. That should have been "They're harmless"... On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Richard Stovall wrote: > I'd say the preponderance of evidence indicates that you can forget about > them. They're not harmless in and of themselves, and don't appear

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
ep. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:18 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Questionable files > > > > Googling for several of

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
locksXP\43\Online\EN_US\BASEoffer_ALL_EN_US_7083-01 > > BlocksXP\43\Online\EN_US\EarthlinkBB_ALL_EN_US_7092-01 > > BlocksXP\43\Online\EN_US\FAQforEIS_ALL_EN_US_7058-01 > > BlocksXP\43\Online\EN_US\iTunesMFU_ALL_WW_7088-01 > > BlocksXP\43\Online\EN_US\NON-ISP-conte

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Looks like they might be subtitles for a video file. http://www.ehow.com/about_5066018_srt-file.html Slap a .txt extension on them and have a look. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Hey, guys… I am cleaning up a computer a

Re: Where to download Windows 2008 (not R2) ISO?

2010-06-21 Thread Richard Stovall
Same here. We use DL's for almost everything like this. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:51 PM, David Lum wrote: > This is why for my clients I create a distribution list along the lines of > Microsoft.licenses@.com, that way you don't have to know who > bought what when and who in Sam Hill's e-mail a

Re: Disable paging file?

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
I've been following this thread with interest (and a little bit of jealousy aimed squarely at those servers, if not the budget that allowed their acquisition). :) I'm curious about two things. 1) How long would it take to write out a complete 256GB memory dump? 2) As someone else asked, what ki

Re: OT: How do you join?

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
Complete the application and pay the fee? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Marty Nelson wrote: > I’d really appreciate it! > > > > -Marty > > > > > > *Marty Nelson | Systems Administrator* > Transdyn, Inc. | 4256 Hacienda Dr., Suite 100 | Pleasanton, CA 94588 > T: 925.225.1600 | F: 925.225.1610

Re: How to block, but not block?!

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
I've never heard it called a monitor before. :) On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > So you're saying you can put your monitor on the photocopy machine to copy > the data ? > > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > ' Security is an ongoing proc

Re: Technet

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
I saw that too. I think there was a www prefix that shouldn't have been there. (http://www.technet...) Either they fixed it or I couldn't find it again. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jeff Bunting > wrote: > > Just seems they're being va

Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
This has been a very informative thread. The following may be useful when setting things up if you're running IIS 7. There is a link for IIS 6 and Apache as well. http://www.sslshopper.com/article-ssl-host-headers-in-iis-7.html On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chyka, Robert wrote: > Who do

Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
> all hosts in the SAN field. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, 16 June 2010 1:13 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question > > > > +1 on

Re: DISK WIPING TOOL

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Stovall
DoG regs, I would think. (Sorry) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, wrote: > > Perhaps if those who re-wrote the regulations saying that overwrite is no > > longer sufficient were to receive a couple hundred thousand old hard > drives > > (es

Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Stovall
The only caveat I can think of is if you ever need to do SSL on more than one of the sites. You'll need different IPs in this case since the host header is encrypted. You can solve the translation problem by adding a second internal IP to the server. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Kennedy, Ji

Re: WSUS Q

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Stovall
The following Thursday. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Lum wrote: > Sent this to the PM list too... > > I have WSUS clients checking in every 4 hours and the GPO setting also days > "download and install Thursday at 6pm", if I approve patches Thursday at 8pm > does this mean the clients

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
his together in a hurry I apologize. Rs On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, David W. McSpadden wrote: > Yes, perfectly correct. > > > -- > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, June 11, 2010 10:17 AM > >

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
t make sense? > > > > Also, I have 2 more departments that I am going to swing over to my > exchange in the next couple of weeks. > > Some of my users will end up with as many as 4 smtp accounts because of > their jobs. > > > > Thanks > > > ---

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
, David W. McSpadden wrote: > I think you have it but If I pick from the GAL won’t that use my default > SMTP?? > > > -- > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, June 11, 2010 9:57 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
If this is indeed your problem, you have to enable "Advanced Features" from the View menu in ADUC. Once that's done you can see the Security tab on the properties of the user object in question which is where you set the proper permission. I have to say, however, that I'm not convinced this will

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
arkets Bing… > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:39 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Google and stupid background pictures > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Mazzaccaro < &g

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Mazzaccaro < david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com> wrote: > I think that was the market test (which they failed)! > LOL > I'm not so sure that's true. Like many others, I hated it when I first saw it, and I still do. What you have to admit, however, is that eve

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Is there any reason not to use a Software Restriction Policy with a path rule set to disallow %WINDIR%\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\HelpCtr.exe or perhaps even %WINDIR%\pchealth\helpctr\binaries ? I tried the former on a test OU and it blocked the POC code at http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/b10a58b75029f79

Re: Internal routing

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
domain.com RESOLVES CORRECTLY; ALL HOPS TIME OUT > > route print: > > This is interesting. If you look at the destination dmz-ip, it lists a > different gateway than the default. It lists a core switch as the > gateway. > > > telnet fails to that by dmz-ip. that port i

Re: OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
this direction I'll also provide an update. Cheers, RS On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Richard Stovall > wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as > > "Ethernet First Mile&

Re: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Issues > *Subject:* RE: Ethernet First Mile > > > > It sounds to me like a Native LAN or Metro Ethernet type product; Ethernet > First Mile, is probably some form of marketing term. Regardless of the > terminology, I would make darn sure your segment is sonet (loop-fed\ring

OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as "Ethernet First Mile". I have a very compelling offer for internet bandwidth from a local provider (Cavalier Telephone) for 5 Mbps with an SLA. It would halve my current charges from Level (3). Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerfu

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
The few times I've had to deal with this the problem turned out to be connectivity-related instead of the number of GPOs. Can you ping all of your DCs from the workstations? Has it always been this way, or did something change? Is it all of the workstations all of the time, some of them all of t

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
the OS. Doh… > > > > Otherwise all the trouble I had before is now gone. It could have simply > been corrupted, but I will be keeping a close eye on this server and doing > some follow up tomorrow. > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > *From:* Richard Stoval

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
This sounds awfully suspicious. Do you have a good backup of the volume in question? Without knowing any more, and assuming I had a good backup, I'd try a simple reboot first. If that failed to correct the problem(s) I'd look to begin some serious malware / rootkit detection from multiple vendor

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
It's 2003. OK, it's 2010, but his server is Windows Server 2003. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Charlie Kaiser wrote: > Are you running an elevated command prompt? > > *** > Charlie Kaiser > charl...@golden-eagle.org > Kingman, AZ > *** > > > -Origina

Re: DHCP Renewal Process for Reserved Address

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
When making significant changes to a DHCP scope, I always start way ahead of time and gradually reduce the lease time to something ridiculously (but appropriately) short - even on the order of 5 or 10 minutes in some cases. When the time to flip the big switch rolls around I can be well assured th

Re: Nested VBS in logon scripts

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > > > First, set your vendor on fire. That's one ugly kludge. (Or at > least demand your money back. Seriously.) > Agreed. This thing sounds positively hateful. (And unlikely to be stable, etc.) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that IS

Re: Low disk space on c: on DC

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
I have a Powershell script that runs as a scheduled task every night that recursively looks for all the computer objects in our "Servers" OU and its children, pings them to see if they're alive, then runs a disk space query on the ones that respond. I get a handy little e-mail report every morning

Re: Server Core

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Core Configurator http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/ It's not a panacea by any means, but it does help bring Server Core (and perhaps more importantly, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2) to the table for the rank and file admin. RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
You misspelled "+1". :-) On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > I concur... > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > >> Sbsmigration.com --- about USD $200. >> >> If you've never done it before - highly recommended.

Re: OT (bit of topic), anyone delt with recovery ITunes Store bought Music,(backedup to external drive) and restored to a brand new install???

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
I may do a > malware scan on it. > > So if all the files are in the same location as before, itunes should see > as if nothing changed, just maybe authorize it. > > > > If thier an app for that, what the name? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > >

Re: OT (bit of topic), anyone delt with recovery ITunes Store bought Music,(backedup to external drive) and restored to a brand new install???

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
I've done this before for myself. I took the entire iTunes directory (which also includes several other .itl and .itdb files). Just image the drive first and you can always recover if it doesn't go well. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:33 PM, justino garcia wrote: > OT (bit of topic), anyone delt with

Re: DNS question

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Good catch. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > BTW, CNAMEs pointing to MX records is a no-no. It may or may not work; but > isn't RFC compliant (unless this has changed recently?) > > Jeff > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > >> In fact that is what I do

Re: Server Core

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Are you kidding? That's *why* there's hope for you. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:47, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: > >>FreeBSD is the non-GUI platform I implement now. > > > > Ahh Kurt, > > There's hope for you yet:) > > Heh. > > I doubt it. I have a

Re: Blue screen viewer

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Stovall
That's like all the sides of the house, isn't it? On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote: > I will have to dig up a few of them and make an ISO and send it too ya. I > got them at home. > > > > Most of my gadgets are the “blackhat/Whitehat/GreyHat” hacking side of the > house. > >

Re: setting up 2008 server for remote office

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Stovall
I agree. Should she also consider making the new server a DC + Global Catalog for login purposes when connectivity between sites is lost? RS On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Malcolm Reitz wrote: > Yes, no reason to create a new domain. > > > > I’d build the new server at the main office and join

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
Just a thought. If you're just learning about Group Policy and GPOs, I highly recommend using a lab environment to test and figure out what it's all about. You can easily set up a domain in your virtualization environment of choice, and it's well worth it to mitigate the potential risk to your pr

Re: PIX replacement

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
Yes. I had the exact same scenario, and went live with an NSA 240 last December. I had read awful things about SonicWall support (on this forum, I think), and I asked very pointed questions about that to both the reseller and the SonicWall SE I spoke with. I was assured that things were better,

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
In the bat/cmd world, here is a sanitized version of what I've used which seems to work with both XP and Windows 7. - echo off setlocal set imgname=whatever.exe set exeName=whatever.exe set found= set user= for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('tasklist /v ^| findstr /i "%imgName%"') do se

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
I have done this in the past by using a batch file to start the executable. It first uses tasklist to check the running processes and if it finds the exe in question it exits with a message that the app is already running and the user name of the owner. If the app isn't running it starts the exe

Re: Internal routing

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Can you post the results of a 'route print' command, and a "tracert -d fqdn' from one of the affected machines? Going back over the thread, you initially said that https is working. Is that still true in each of the following cases? https://dmz-ip https://fqdn What about the suggestion to telne

Re: Shavlik offers 'cloud patching' with free service

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Agreed. I was checking it out for use at home myself. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Rod Trent wrote: > For 10 computers or less and 100 scans a month – sounds like they are > targeting home users. > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thur

Re: Shavlik offers 'cloud patching' with free service

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
I played with this at home several months ago after reading something Susan Bradley wrote about it. It just flat didn't work. Your post prompted me to go back and try again, and I did have some success this time. I can remotely scan and patch XP and Server 2008 (not R2) machines on my home LAN,

Re: Internal routing

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
How did you determine that "it is trying to route to the public IP address." By running netstat one one of the clients? If you do an nslookup pointed to an internal DNS server on one of the clients having the problem, it resolves the correct DMZ ip, right? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, mqcarp

Re: Ping...

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
Tough crowd. Gotta have thick skin to play here... On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sean Houston wrote: > I like how you don't just assume we're all ignoring you... > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > >> Sorry for the "ping", but I don't think I'm getting messages b

Re: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this?

2010-05-26 Thread Richard Stovall
Old guys? :-) On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Malcolm Reitz wrote: > Same here. Who calls IT “data processing” anymore? ;-) > > > > -Malcolm > > > > *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 26, 2010 13:25 > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Big Changes Ahead

Re: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this?

2010-05-26 Thread Richard Stovall
That's just your subtractive opinion. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Subjection skills ain’t what they used to be. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:40 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *S

Pac-Man D-Day (Was: Holy PAC-MAN Batman!)

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Stovall
s-attacking-my-computer.html > > > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 11:00 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Holy PAC-MAN Batman! > > > > Is anyone else getting a playable PAC-MAN on the Google home pa

Re: OT, vintage memories

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Stovall
He's just alliterate. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You sir, are out of practice. Why have you been hiding from us? > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > >> Phillip Partipilo putts around public in

Holy PAC-MAN Batman!

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Stovall
Is anyone else getting a playable PAC-MAN on the Google home page? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Wierd logoff / restart issue

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Stovall
I agree with all the others. Nuke and pave. You should be able to come by a Dell XP disk pretty easily. And who knows about Act? It's kind of a mess these days. (OK, I haven't had to support it in over 4 years, so I don't really have current information about it.) -Original Message- F

Re: Wierd logoff / restart issue

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Stovall
What brand is it? On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Got a laptop running XP Pro. It's had some malware on it that has been > particularlly difficult to find. The only way I found it was to reboot into > safe mode, command-prompt only and run a scan on it. The malware was My

Re: Paetec outage?

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks. That's right around when it hit our backup connection. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Chris Hamby wrote: > We had two customers go down yesterday afternoon from around 4:30 - 5:30 pm > EST. > >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

Paetec outage?

2010-05-13 Thread Richard Stovall
Anyone else with Paetec internet service experiencing issues? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool > > > > Wrong species. > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Richard Stovall > wrote: > > Why are you trying to ram your opinion down our throats? > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:57 A

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
ca.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:40 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool > > Don't you mean go bck to what you were doing? > > >>> Richard Stovall 5/12/2010 7:34 AM >>> > Nothing to see here, go bock

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
x27;t you mean go bck to what you were doing? > > >>> Richard Stovall 5/12/2010 7:34 AM >>> > Nothing to see here, go bock to what you were doing. > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Link > wrote: > > > You guys have to be kidding me. &

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
-- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:20 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool >> >> Yes, that would make me very angora-y. >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:17,

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
In other news, chevre-elry is dead after all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8428650.stm On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > Groan, that was baaa’d > > > > *Erik Goldoff*** > > *IT Consultant* > > *Systems, Networks, &

Re: Web based survey software?

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
"Absolute Poll Manager supports both Microsoft Access and SQL Server. You don't need to own a license of MS Access in order to use the application with a Microsoft Access database." (from http://www.xigla.com/absolutepm/features.htm) ??? If you can use an Access back end I would bet that SQL Expr

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Why is this funny only on Tuesday? On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > http://ipgoat.com/ > > > > [Click the goat] > > > > Sorry. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
A whole lot of the decision should be based on accounting needs. Payroll done internally? If so, is it important to have it done in the software, or can/will someone do it all by hand including all the local, state and federal filings. What about inventory for parts and finished goods? Does it

Re: Wireless Routers

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Please. You need a Spinal Tap. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > Sweet…they go to 11 (name that movie J ) > > > > I’m on a roll today, baby. > > > > Shook > > > > *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM > > *To:* NT System Ad

Re: Wireless Routers

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
African, or European? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > Another silly question; > > > > What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? > > > > Shook > > > > *From:* Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM > > *To:* NT System Ad

Re: Citrix Synergy

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Stovall
Any relation to JR? That would be cool. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Webster wrote: > Bichon and the father of MBS’ pup. Sir Simon of Searcy is his AKC name > and he is a big time daddy’s boy. > > > > > > Webster > > > > *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > *Subject:* Re: Citrix

Re: Tool to find wireless password

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
Try this. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > I’ve got a client on the side who I’m adding wireless to his desktop for > him. I don’t know if he knows the wireless passcode or not. O

Re: [OT] RE: Sunbelt forums down?

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
I just KNEW that we wouldn't get through the day without someone calling him on that. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > That on-top of not being offered to try Michael's tool (from another > thread)... > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Fri, May 7, 201

Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
Sallah: [catches def and points to dead server] Bad defs. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > It is/was a Vipre issue. Force a defs update and you'll be good. Must > have been a bad def. > > >>> "Luke" 5/7/2010 10:56 AM >>> > > The Network Administrator and I have been wor

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
Indeed. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > LOL > > -- > ME2 > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > >> RFC2549 > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Re: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
implementation. I've looked and > can't find anything on the fixed version - all the write ups are like this > and are usually undated and don't specify which version of the protocol > > > > ...Tim > > > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
When I was younger I used to opt for frequency over amplitude. Now I'm not much interested in either. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also remember listening to radio via amplitude modulation! ;-) > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Thu, May 6, 2

Re: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.schneier.com/pptp-faq.html I suppose, as with many things, it's all about what your security needs are. I agree with the less is more/better philosophy in general, but usually that's thought to be true because of 2 things - reduced risk from insec

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
In my experience the problem with Vipre on older workstations isn't memory but CPU usage. Particularly on single core CPUs. It's an order of magnitude better since the new definitions format was deployed, but in the past I've seen really terrible performance when updating or installing definition

Re: Cool Bike

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Stovall
Steampunk motorcycle. I like it. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > That's cute. > > I'll take this: http://www.confederate.com/cm4/p120fighter.php > > -sc > > > -Original Message- > > From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:

Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks Kurt. I'll make sure we're all patched up. I have to question, however... Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (SP3, SP2 and previous) SP3? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Why does this not surprise me? > > Kurt > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Core S

Re: Recycler Files

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Backups available? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Cameron Cooper wrote: > Tried that on the user's computer and there wasn't anything in the Recover > Deleted Items. Exchange is set to empty that folder after 7 days. > > _ > Cameron Cooper > Network Administrator |

Re: Any certification on removing malware??

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
I've know some folks who should receive certifications for GETTING malware... On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM, justino garcia wrote: > Any certification on removing malware?? How about using and configuring and > setup of antimalware software. > > -- > Justin > IT-TECH > > > > > > ~ Finally, pow

Re: SBS Server 2003 “The local policy of this syst em does not permit you to logon interactively.”

2010-05-01 Thread Richard Stovall
It sounds like there was a big change. You deleted an account and created a new one. Please forgive me if this seems obvious, but does the new account have the same group memberships as the old one? Don't BE service accounts typically call for Domain Admin privileges? ( http://seer.entsupport.s

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