Re: [H] Seeking SW
Students are getting a good deal on it. IMHO, it's not worth more than $50. But typical of MS to overcharge for their software like we are all businesses with deep pockets. John R Steinbruner wrote: Do you have any relatives who are students? Or know of any students you can ask? MS is giving free downloads of Server 2008 R2 to students for learning purposes thru Dreamspark.. https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx You can get Server 2003 too, or a whole bunch of other stuff like SQL server, Virtual Server, Visual Studio, etc On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:03 PM, DSinc wrote: Does anyone have a new/used copy of Windows 2003 Server? I'd like to buy the CD and the License. I think, after CW's last share, it is time to push my very old server closer to 'modern.' It now runs Windows 2000 Server. And, damn, it runs well still. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Seeking SW
my kid is registered for next year, wonder if that would coint. needs a windows live/hotmail account. fp At 10:29 PM 11/2/2009, John R Steinbruner Poked the stick with: Do you have any relatives who are students? Or know of any students you can ask? MS is giving free downloads of Server 2008 R2 to students for learning purposes thru Dreamspark.. https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx You can get Server 2003 too, or a whole bunch of other stuff like SQL server, Virtual Server, Visual Studio, etc -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- The greatest headaches are those we cause ourselves.
Re: [H] Seeking SW
John, I do have a Nephew that may still go to Dalton State (Junior college?). I did peek/poke into DreamsPark last week. It seems that MS does recognize the Nephews school. Besides, I'd like to avoid ownership/authentication issues between MS-Nephew-Me. Thanks, Duncan John R Steinbruner wrote: Do you have any relatives who are students? Or know of any students you can ask? MS is giving free downloads of Server 2008 R2 to students for learning purposes thru Dreamspark.. https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx You can get Server 2003 too, or a whole bunch of other stuff like SQL server, Virtual Server, Visual Studio, etc On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:03 PM, DSinc wrote: Does anyone have a new/used copy of Windows 2003 Server? I'd like to buy the CD and the License. I think, after CW's last share, it is time to push my very old server closer to 'modern.' It now runs Windows 2000 Server. And, damn, it runs well still. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Seeking SW
Stan, The old W2K Server OS was not a gift. It was part of the server I bought; a legal license transfer. Stan Zaske wrote: That's good that CW gave you your copy of Windows 2000 Server. I payed him by PayPal and never received my copy of Windows XP 64 bit. But hey, his house burned down and I'm sure he was very much unconcerned with my problems. DSinc wrote: Does anyone have a new/used copy of Windows 2003 Server? I'd like to buy the CD and the License. I think, after CW's last share, it is time to push my very old server closer to 'modern.' It now runs Windows 2000 Server. And, damn, it runs well still. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
Finally. After about 14 hours and minimal sleep, the solution. Setup a vm, used acronis to clone into the vhd rather then turn the tib straight to vhd. Then booted ubcd, and reset ide controller. Turned off native hyper-v ethernet, and installed legacy device ethernet.. For some reason win2k pukes bad on the native. Tried that about 3 times. Installed extensions and walla! Their active directory and pdc virtualized in tact, and went from 200mb free on an 8gb drive to 120gb free. What a gigantic pain in the ass. But a trick I will remember for later and thought I'd share! Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:09:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q If you've got a working VM for it now, make a full clone and try it on the clone. If it hoses everything there's no loss. You can keep attempting different hacks on clone copies until you get it right, as long as you keep the original VM untouched. I'm assuming you can do this easily. I use VMWare so I'm not sure whether your vm program has similar/same capabilities. lopaka From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 3:17:41 AM Subject: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Ok, I've got an unusual active directory problem, that at 5AM is still keeping me up thinking about options. Have a machine that is dying, running Windows 2000 Server. It's a stand alone PDC. But this machine also has a specific piece of software that may never be replicated and so we have to preserve it. The hardware just won't stand for that, though. So, we virtualized the drives, etc. and all is good. Boots up fine in HyperV server, software starts, etc. Issue: it took about a week and a half to get this all back on track with the help of some vendors on some specific pieces of hardware. In the meantime, we left the dying box run, thinking we'd do this as a test to then merge over just the changed data as we finished. Except they've added a few new users and PCs, which I didn't count on happening :( So, I can't run a System State restore in Win2k, because it will bomb (registry is changed since this has been repair installed to make work on a VM) tried that with a copy of a VHD. The machine name it has (SERVER1) is the same as the physical machine name, etc.. in all purposes it's a clone. Has anyone tried to just manually copy only the NTDS folder from one to another assuming machine names and IDs are the same? This technically should work in this goofy circumstance in win2k, but I can't find anyone who has tried such a feat..
Re: [H] WMP11 opinions sought?
Have it, don't actually USE it. If it is technically embedded, it should be kept up to date, just like IE8. (Which I seldom use too.) It, (and MS-IE8) give me too many Cookies I need to approve manually. Nothing else I use (too many to list) requires manual hand holding like that. In fairness to MS, I never tried to fix that behavior. Rick Glazier From: DSinc I use WMP9. OS is XPpro SP3. Getting lots of pop-ups to update to WMP11. Opinions sought about WMP11?
Re: [H] Outlook question
I know you can have it check multiple accounts and have the emails come to the inbox (or wherever you want them to go). I do not know about the appointment stuff though. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:46 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Outlook question Can I have two email accounts going into Outlook and setting appointments from each? T
[H] Outlook question
Can I have two email accounts going into Outlook and setting appointments from each? T
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
Congrats, sounds like a stressful but in the end successful venture ;) And I do remember the few of use still left over from Toms hardware and the overclocking list. Many years and many projects later lopaka From: tmse...@rlrnews.com tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 6:05:26 PM Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Finally. After about 14 hours and minimal sleep, the solution. Setup a vm, used acronis to clone into the vhd rather then turn the tib straight to vhd. Then booted ubcd, and reset ide controller. Turned off native hyper-v ethernet, and installed legacy device ethernet.. For some reason win2k pukes bad on the native. Tried that about 3 times. Installed extensions and walla! Their active directory and pdc virtualized in tact, and went from 200mb free on an 8gb drive to 120gb free. What a gigantic pain in the ass. But a trick I will remember for later and thought I'd share! Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:09:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q If you've got a working VM for it now, make a full clone and try it on the clone. If it hoses everything there's no loss. You can keep attempting different hacks on clone copies until you get it right, as long as you keep the original VM untouched. I'm assuming you can do this easily. I use VMWare so I'm not sure whether your vm program has similar/same capabilities. lopaka From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 3:17:41 AM Subject: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Ok, I've got an unusual active directory problem, that at 5AM is still keeping me up thinking about options. Have a machine that is dying, running Windows 2000 Server. It's a stand alone PDC. But this machine also has a specific piece of software that may never be replicated and so we have to preserve it. The hardware just won't stand for that, though. So, we virtualized the drives, etc. and all is good. Boots up fine in HyperV server, software starts, etc. Issue: it took about a week and a half to get this all back on track with the help of some vendors on some specific pieces of hardware. In the meantime, we left the dying box run, thinking we'd do this as a test to then merge over just the changed data as we finished. Except they've added a few new users and PCs, which I didn't count on happening :( So, I can't run a System State restore in Win2k, because it will bomb (registry is changed since this has been repair installed to make work on a VM) tried that with a copy of a VHD. The machine name it has (SERVER1) is the same as the physical machine name, etc.. in all purposes it's a clone. Has anyone tried to just manually copy only the NTDS folder from one to another assuming machine names and IDs are the same? This technically should work in this goofy circumstance in win2k, but I can't find anyone who has tried such a feat..
Re: [H] Seeking SW
I see. Once upon a time I was interested in increasing my main boxes RAM to 4 GB's and wanted a copy of Windows XP Home x64. CW told me he had some copies laying around that he wasn't going to use and offered me one. Being a gentleman, I offered to pay postage and PayPal'd him $5. Well, needless to say it didn't happen and I'm not going to bitch about a few bucks. Probably should take that as a lesson considering last nights exchange with him. DSinc wrote: Stan, The old W2K Server OS was not a gift. It was part of the server I bought; a legal license transfer. Stan Zaske wrote: That's good that CW gave you your copy of Windows 2000 Server. I payed him by PayPal and never received my copy of Windows XP 64 bit. But hey, his house burned down and I'm sure he was very much unconcerned with my problems. DSinc wrote: Does anyone have a new/used copy of Windows 2003 Server? I'd like to buy the CD and the License. I think, after CW's last share, it is time to push my very old server closer to 'modern.' It now runs Windows 2000 Server. And, damn, it runs well still. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Seeking SW
Am I missing something? I sent you email several times with info, if you didn't get you might check your spam folder. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:01 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Seeking SW I see. Once upon a time I was interested in increasing my main boxes RAM to 4 GB's and wanted a copy of Windows XP Home x64. CW told me he had some copies laying around that he wasn't going to use and offered me one. Being a gentleman, I offered to pay postage and PayPal'd him $5. Well, needless to say it didn't happen and I'm not going to bitch about a few bucks. Probably should take that as a lesson considering last nights exchange with him. DSinc wrote: Stan, The old W2K Server OS was not a gift. It was part of the server I bought; a legal license transfer. Stan Zaske wrote: That's good that CW gave you your copy of Windows 2000 Server. I payed him by PayPal and never received my copy of Windows XP 64 bit. But hey, his house burned down and I'm sure he was very much unconcerned with my problems. DSinc wrote: Does anyone have a new/used copy of Windows 2003 Server? I'd like to buy the CD and the License. I think, after CW's last share, it is time to push my very old server closer to 'modern.' It now runs Windows 2000 Server. And, damn, it runs well still. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
Dude it is still an overclocking list! I do it every day and will never stop trying to get the best bang for my buck. Buy, use for awhile then sell on Ebay and get something newer and better. Next year is looking real good for AMD. InHell, who dat? Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Congrats, sounds like a stressful but in the end successful venture ;) And I do remember the few of use still left over from Toms hardware and the overclocking list. Many years and many projects later lopaka From: tmse...@rlrnews.com tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 6:05:26 PM Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Finally. After about 14 hours and minimal sleep, the solution. Setup a vm, used acronis to clone into the vhd rather then turn the tib straight to vhd. Then booted ubcd, and reset ide controller. Turned off native hyper-v ethernet, and installed legacy device ethernet.. For some reason win2k pukes bad on the native. Tried that about 3 times. Installed extensions and walla! Their active directory and pdc virtualized in tact, and went from 200mb free on an 8gb drive to 120gb free. What a gigantic pain in the ass. But a trick I will remember for later and thought I'd share! Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:09:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q If you've got a working VM for it now, make a full clone and try it on the clone. If it hoses everything there's no loss. You can keep attempting different hacks on clone copies until you get it right, as long as you keep the original VM untouched. I'm assuming you can do this easily. I use VMWare so I'm not sure whether your vm program has similar/same capabilities. lopaka From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 3:17:41 AM Subject: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Ok, I've got an unusual active directory problem, that at 5AM is still keeping me up thinking about options. Have a machine that is dying, running Windows 2000 Server. It's a stand alone PDC. But this machine also has a specific piece of software that may never be replicated and so we have to preserve it. The hardware just won't stand for that, though. So, we virtualized the drives, etc. and all is good. Boots up fine in HyperV server, software starts, etc. Issue: it took about a week and a half to get this all back on track with the help of some vendors on some specific pieces of hardware. In the meantime, we left the dying box run, thinking we'd do this as a test to then merge over just the changed data as we finished. Except they've added a few new users and PCs, which I didn't count on happening :( So, I can't run a System State restore in Win2k, because it will bomb (registry is changed since this has been repair installed to make work on a VM) tried that with a copy of a VHD. The machine name it has (SERVER1) is the same as the physical machine name, etc.. in all purposes it's a clone. Has anyone tried to just manually copy only the NTDS folder from one to another assuming machine names and IDs are the same? This technically should work in this goofy circumstance in win2k, but I can't find anyone who has tried such a feat..
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
You know, I spent today after we got done with solving the AD doing their new Point of sales.. little units that handle their software (it's Jonas if anyone is familiar: http://www.jonasclub.com/ ) Anyway, outside of the fact their touch screens are old school (COM port driven) and Chit printer technology still is crap, we spent the day converting boxes and putting in new POS systems that run off Mini-ITX Intel Atom 330 MB. I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I have nothing bad to say about it. You can find those boards for like $80 945G+Atom330 onboard. One of the best bangs/buck out there, period. I'm going to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a ClarkConnect Firewall. We get so focused on the high end, but I can't think of anything at all bad to say about this board. Nothing, absolutely nothing. -Original message- From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:59:33 -0800 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Dude it is still an overclocking list! I do it every day and will never stop trying to get the best bang for my buck. Buy, use for awhile then sell on Ebay and get something newer and better. Next year is looking real good for AMD. InHell, who dat?
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I have nothing bad to say about it. You can find those boards for like $80 945G+Atom330 onboard. One of the best bangs/buck out there, period. I'm going to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a ClarkConnect Firewall. I used to be a fairly big ClarkConnect fan until I tried pfSense. It doesn't have the glitz of CC, or the all-in-one multi-purpose functionality, but it is infinitely more robust at what it does do. I would seriously consider it in places where something like a Cisco ASA (or older PIX) might be a more traditional solution. Commercial support is available, and it even can be configured in a stateful HA pair. Something like an Atom board with a cheap CF card or USB thumbdrive would make an excellent DIY pfSense platform that would probably be good for at least 300-500mbit/s of throughput. I did a test of one deployment with an older Netburst-based single core 3.33GHz Celeron and got full wirespeed gigabit of routing/firewall throughput. Greg
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
I've switched almost exclusively to building and using ITX systems at home. They are small, use little power, and still have enough kick to run any of the games I still play. I've got quad AMD and quad intel boxes and these things are tiny but can do some hardcore processing. I've been stripping commercials from a bunch of TV recordings using a comskip script and can strip and re-encode an hour mpg into high quality xvid in just a few minutes. The atom platform is solid. My PIAF (PBX-in-a-Flash) VOIP system is based on a single core atom CPU and can handle multiple IAX SIP calls concurently without a hiccup. I've also run this off a Pentium-M ITX system and those do well even though they are old school. lopaka From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:15:01 PM Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q You know, I spent today after we got done with solving the AD doing their new Point of sales.. little units that handle their software (it's Jonas if anyone is familiar: http://www.jonasclub.com/ ) Anyway, outside of the fact their touch screens are old school (COM port driven) and Chit printer technology still is crap, we spent the day converting boxes and putting in new POS systems that run off Mini-ITX Intel Atom 330 MB. I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I have nothing bad to say about it. You can find those boards for like $80 945G+Atom330 onboard. One of the best bangs/buck out there, period. I'm going to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a ClarkConnect Firewall. We get so focused on the high end, but I can't think of anything at all bad to say about this board. Nothing, absolutely nothing. -Original message- From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:59:33 -0800 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q Dude it is still an overclocking list! I do it every day and will never stop trying to get the best bang for my buck. Buy, use for awhile then sell on Ebay and get something newer and better. Next year is looking real good for AMD. InHell, who dat?
Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q
There are things I like about pfsense. However, as a paid product, the thing I like about clark is the ability to get system monitoring for credit card acceptance compliance statements... Which you can't get with pfsense. That, and tiered blacklist and filter groups to deny content to people or specific workstations. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:45:45 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I have nothing bad to say about it. You can find those boards for like $80 945G+Atom330 onboard. One of the best bangs/buck out there, period. I'm going to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a ClarkConnect Firewall. I used to be a fairly big ClarkConnect fan until I tried pfSense. It doesn't have the glitz of CC, or the all-in-one multi-purpose functionality, but it is infinitely more robust at what it does do. I would seriously consider it in places where something like a Cisco ASA (or older PIX) might be a more traditional solution. Commercial support is available, and it even can be configured in a stateful HA pair. Something like an Atom board with a cheap CF card or USB thumbdrive would make an excellent DIY pfSense platform that would probably be good for at least 300-500mbit/s of throughput. I did a test of one deployment with an older Netburst-based single core 3.33GHz Celeron and got full wirespeed gigabit of routing/firewall throughput. Greg
