Re: OT: Microsoft's MS-DOS is 30 years old
actually the genesis of MS-DOS is a little more convoluted ... Tim Paterson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tim PatersonBornJune 1, 1956Occupationcomputer programmerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programmer , software designer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_designerWebsitePaterson Technology http://www.patersontech.com/ *Tim Paterson* (born 1956) is an Americanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States computer programmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programmer, best known as the original author of MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system in the 1980s. Paterson was educated in the Seattle Public Schools, graduating from Ingraham High School in 1974. He attended the University of Washingtonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington, working as a repair technician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technician for The Retail Computer Store in the Green Lake area of Seattle, Washingtonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington, and graduated *magna cum laudehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_cum_laude * with a degree in Computer Science in June 1978. He went to work for Seattle Computer Products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products as a designer and engineer. He designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M operating system on an Apple II. A month later, Intel released the 8086http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 CPU, and Paterson went to work designing an S-100http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus 8086 board, which went to market in November 1979. The only commercial software that existed for the board was a standalone version of Microsoft BASIChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC. The standard CP/M operating system at the time was not available for this CPU and without a true operating system, sales were slow. Paterson began work on QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) in April 1980 to fill that void, copying the APIshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface of CP/M from sources including the published CP/M manual so that it would be highly compatible. QDOS was soon renamed as 86-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS. Version 0.10 was complete by July 1980. By version 1.14 86-DOS had grown to 4,000 lines of assembly code.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-0 In December 1980Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft secured the rights to market 86-DOS to other hardware manufacturers. While acknowledging that he made 86-DOS compatible with CP/M, Paterson has maintained that the 86-DOS program was his original work and has denied allegations that he referred to CP/M's code while writing it.[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-1 When a book appeared in 2004 claiming that 86-DOS was an unoriginal rip-off of CP/M,[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-2 Paterson sued the authors and publishers for defamationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation .[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-3[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-4 The judge found that Paterson failed to 'provide any evidence regarding “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the Gary Kildallhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall chapter. Instead, a careful review of the Lefer notes ... provides a research picture tellingly close to the substance of the final chapter' and the case was dismissed on the basis that the book's claims wereconstitutionally protectedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution opinions and not provably false.[6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson#cite_note-5 Paterson left SCP in April 1981 and worked for Microsoft from May 1981 to April 1982. After a brief second stint with SCP, Paterson started his own company, Falcon Technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falcon_Technologyaction=editredlink=1, which was bought by Microsoft in 1986. Paterson did a second stint with Microsoft from 1986–1988 and a third stint from 1990-1998. During his third stint at Microsoft, he worked on Visual Basichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic . After leaving Microsoft a third time, Paterson founded another software development company, Paterson Technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paterson_Technologyaction=editredlink=1, and also made several appearances on the Comedy Centralhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_Central television http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television program *Battlebotshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlebots *. Paterson also races rally cars in the SCCAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCCA Pro Rallyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SCCA_Pro_Rallyaction=editredlink=1 series, and even engineered his own trip
Re: Invalid Physical Volume Library Media Identifier
try the following:
- Select 'Tools\Options\Catalog' and uncheck the option Use storage
media-based catalogs.
Stop Backup Exec services (starting with Notification Server service).
- Rename \Program Files\VERITAS\Backup Exec\NT\Catalogs directory to
Catalogs.old.
- Create a new \Program Files\VERITAS\Backup Exec\NT\Catalogs directory.
- Start Backup Exec services (starting with Agent Browser service).
- Run Backup Exec.
- Then Run inventory job
-And then Run catalog job
On 20 March 2011 23:27, Gary Whitten li...@undiscoveredworlds.com wrote:
Sorry, if you already tried this but didn’t see it mentioned. Did you try
to inventory the tape first before cataloging it?
I found this article:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH26992
*From:* Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]
*Sent:* Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:11 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Invalid Physical Volume Library Media Identifier
Sorry I didn’t get back sooner. No, that did not help – Inventory of the
drive shows as successful (even though the light on the drive doesn’t even
blink) but in the details it says Bad Media, and a Catalog job shows the
same error.
*Jay Dale**
* Senior Systems Administrator
c:*832.373.7883*
*From:* Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:19 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Invalid Physical Volume Library Media Identifier
Try this,
Remove all drivers.
Make sure that BE is not running. No background drivers or tasks.
Unplug the unit from the computer.
Restart the server.
Plug the unit back in to the server. Don't run any Wizard that wants to
load drivers. Just Cancel that.
Run BE.
See if BE see's the Quantum Tape Drive. If it does, attempt to catalog a
tape.
If BE doesn't see the tape drive, load the driver from Symantec. If it
see's the Quantum Tape Drive, attempt to catalog a tape.
If it can catalog a tape, then it should be good to go to read the tapes
that you have backed up on. Then you should be good to go to restore, or
whatever you need to do, to the server.
Let me know. I'm at home and am on my computer for the next four hours.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.com wrote:
I did find drivers from Symantec for that unit and applied them. The
driver for the tape drive now say they're Symantec drivers, but still get
the same error
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 19, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote:
Whose drivers are you using for the Tape Backup? If you are using Quantum,
then go to the Symantec site and get their driver for the Quantum unit.
Had this issue some years ago. I had updated the driver set from Compaq and
got the same error. When I called in support they said to load their driver
for that unit.
Try that.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.com wrote:
We have a client that originally had their server set up by a very
inexperienced person (basically they're real cheap) and after months of
convincing we planned on wiping and reloading it.
We did an entire Full Backup of the server using Symantec Backup Exec 10d
10.1, verified it, then wiped and reloaded the server with Windows Server
2003 R2 with SP2. We reloaded Symantec BE, same version, but now it won't
recognize the tapes. When we try to catalog the tape it fails with the
Invalid Physical Volume Library Media Identifier message.
The tape drive is a Quantum DLT-V4 with Symantec drivers installed. It was
backing up just fine before the reload to these tapes. The drive is a SATA
drive in a Dell PE 2900.
It's also giving error messages in the Application Log that says the
following:
Adamm Mover Error: Read Failure!
Error = ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION
Drive = QUANTUM 1
{EE32BEEC-DAE3-4560-BD79-706689D065A3}
Media =
{0006----}
Read Mode: SingleBlock(0), ScsiPass(0)
Write Mode: SingleBlock(1), ScsiPass(1)
Can someone help with this? This is time sensitive as their server is
currently not working and they cannot work until the server is recovered.
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IE8 password problesm
Does anyone have a solution for ie8 intermittently forgetting login details for websites? This is proving to be a real pain to sort out! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: IE8 password problesm
Problem gets worse though even after logging into a site sometimes browsing to different pages within the site will re-require login. Tedious, wierd, very frustrating, and incredibly inconsistent Seems we are not the only ones experiencing this (google shows lots of people experiencing this) and as fas as I can see, no cure.(unless someone here knows something)! 2009/12/23 Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us Well we tell all of our users to not let IE remember the Password and that sort of thing does not happen. Really no we have not had that happen yet, however our users have not had IE8 that long, with a few exceptions. And yes we really do stress that they should not choose remembered passwords, as a matter of fact when our director finds them on a computer she is working on she just deletes them for the users. That is usually fun when they call later and say they can't get a site to work. -Original Message- From: Adrian Montagnani [mailto:adrian.montagn...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE8 password problesm Does anyone have a solution for ie8 intermittently forgetting login details for websites? This is proving to be a real pain to sort out! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: upgrading an expired Vista eval
you could try to rearm windows
If you install Windows 7 and don't enter an installation key, the 30-day
activation clock starts. To see how many days you have left, click Start,
right-click Computer, and choose Properties. At the bottom of the dialog
under Windows Activation, you'll see the number of days left in your trial
period.
When that number gets perilously close to zero, you can extend the free
period another 30 days via the following steps:
- *Step 1:* Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command
Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Enter your administrator password.
- *Step 2:* Type the following command and press Enter:
*slmgr -rearm*
Note the space after *slmgr* and the hyphen in front of *rearm*.
- *Step 3:* Restart Windows 7.
Once the OS restarts, the Properties dialog described above will indicate
that Windows 7's activation grace period has been reset to a full 30 days.
You can run the *-rearm* trick a total of three times. If you perform a *
-rearm* at the end of each 30-day period, you end up with 120 days of full,
unfettered Windows 7 use without having to supply an activation key in the
interim.
Regards,
Adrian
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Someone called me with this question and I don’t have the answer.
He installed an eval of vista and it has expired. He has the rtm of win 7
with a key and was hoping to do an in place upgrade. Is this possible?
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