Re: Remote Access policy
Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote on 07/09/2009 12:27:06 PM: Does anyone have a decent remote access policy they could share with me? I?m tasked to create one, in the next couple of weeks, and I?m not sure of verbage. I?d appreciate any help you guys could offer on this. Check out NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-46 Guide to Enterprise Telework and Remote Access Security http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html There are lots of good Special Publications out there - and you have paid for them :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: IE zero day exploit Microsoft new for 1+ yrs of this flaw
Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote on 07/10/2009 08:37:04 AM: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135370/ Microsoft_admits_it_knew_of_critical_IE_bug_in_early_08? source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-07-10 You know this type of stuff really burns me up, they knew since early 08 of this flaw, and did nothing about it, to fix it and get a patch out. No they gotta wait till hackers start exploiting this on a mass scale, and then they start paying attention. Scary part is how many other exploits do they know about that could have system-compromise type payloads, and haven't done anything about it. It's hard to believe there are people who want to argue against full disclosure, isn't it? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: DHCP Failover
Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 07/14/2009 02:37:02 PM: Windows Server comes with a DHCP server. In terms of failover, there is no such thing for DHCP. For Microsoft DHCP maybe, but ISC DHCP supports failover: http://www.iqware.co.uk/dhcp-3.php We use it and it works. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Blogging
MarvinC marv...@gmail.com wrote on 07/06/2009 10:30:55 AM: Maybe it's me just being cheap but I have a problem paying for something like this SquareSpace which was probably conceived from an Open source platform. I'd rather donate to the developers of the plugins before paying a monthly fee. It does look good though. Nice and clean, like WP. Unlike many (I'll be nice and not use most) open source projects, SquarSpace is polished. The interface to it is top notch, and you have to remind yourself you are using a web site in a browser and not a dedicated desktop application. It really is that polished. And from what I can tell, it's their own code - I haven't seen anything else that looks close to them. Now, if you don't want to pay for that ease of use and convenience, there are free options out there that have been mentioned. But if you want a well polished user interface, that you won't have to tweak and configure to get useful, with your own domain instead of myname.wordpress.com, and with a site that scales, then SquareSpace is a great solution. Don't take my word for it though, some googling will turn up many more people and their experiences. It's the first of these kinds of hosting solution providers that I have run into that I have yet to hear a negative thing about - and that in and of itself is interesting since the Internet typically is just one giant echo chamber for negativity... Sure you can get cheaper discount hosting, but as the old adage goes, you get what you pay for. And really, SquareSpace isn't that much more then most of the discount guys (well, the ones that are worth messing with anyway). You can set up a free account - they don't even require a credit card up front. I set one up and have played with it and am seriously contemplating using them for my own personal use (blog and photography) based on what I saw. And hopefully it goes without saying that I have no vested interest in them, am not a paid endorser nor have anything to gain other then being a potentially satisfied customer :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: IPhone 3g Nightmare
Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote on 06/24/2009 04:56:36 PM: The ability to carry additional batteries is pretty important to many roadwarriors Not really. I picked up one of these at Costco for $30: http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-eneloop-Booster-Powered-Devices/dp/B001LWZ4BG I got two full charges out of it, and it charges my 3G in about 40 minutes. Others have reported getting three charges out of it. It's cheaper then any dedicated cell phone battery I have had to buy in the past, and I can use it with any USB powered device (just about anything these days) - not just a dedicated battery for my phone. The other nice thing about the eneloop batteries is they don't discharge (for all intents and purposes) when stored - indeed, they come pre-charged (so if you are on the road and looking for some emergency power) I would much rather have a smaller phone that I can stick in my pocket without needing a holster then a removable battery. Even when I'm on travel, I typically have a car charger/FM modulator so I can play songs off my iPhone or use it as a hands free speakerphone in my rental car. The only time I am stuck is if I am on a coast to coast flight, and the above battery pack works great. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: IPhone 3g Nightmare
Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote on 06/24/2009 05:32:13 PM: Though it does concern me somewhat that the world is ga-ga over a phone whose features aren't quite caught up with the rest of the world yet. It's like rolling out a ball point pen and a spiral ring notebook in a world of keyboards. See, here is the difference between IT and regular users - the iPhone hit's all the area's of features and ease of use that are important to users. That's why the world is going ga-ga - you can actually accomplish useful work *without having to be an IT geek*. The features you as an IT manager are concerned about matter not to end users :) Apple will add them - but now except for all but the largest or heavily regulated business, the iPhone with OS 3 is good enough. As an avid Microsoft supporter, the concept of good enough should be more then familiar to you, Rod. How many years were Blackberries out before you didn't have to use the Blackberry desktop manager and could configure them wirelessly? How soon we forget... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: IPhone 3g Nightmare
Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote on 06/24/2009 09:40:53 PM: Sync personal phones with corporate data? Never thought I?d hear that phrase. Better get used to it. The intermingling of corporate and personal assets is an accelerating trend. So is unmanaged IT services - i.e. the recent spat of articles talking about companies allowing users to pick their own computers, commoditization of IT support/outsourcing, etc. Not that I think we ever fully achieved it, but the days of thinking you are going to have end-to-end managed IT services are over. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Blogging
MarvinC marv...@gmail.com wrote on 06/25/2009 05:33:42 PM: Then all you need is a hosting plan. Simply get with a host provider, GoDaddy, Gator, Blue... Be sure to check out Squarespace: http://gadgetopia.com/post/4496 Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: Filling method guideline
Here's a plan to plan for your plan: http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/policy/requirements-guidance.html :-) All kidding aside, there is some good information in the NARA site if you poke around a little. Nothing as granular and cut and dry as the OP was looking for, but by at least thinking about the processes in the link I provided you will answer many of those questions. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Confused a bit re: sbs.
Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote on 06/26/2009 03:51:59 PM: That's what SBS does ? it expects to be the boss or it won't be happy. Do your testing on an isolated network. Don't expect to administer it as a regular Windows Server either - otherwise known as Wizards are your Friend! Check out Susan Bradley's blog - lots of good SBS stuff: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/default.aspx Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Tiered Storage Solutions for the little guy?
Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote on 07/02/2009 11:50:55 AM: Anyone have any thoughts about or experiences with tiered storage solutions for smaller shops (100 users and 5 TB of storage on file servers)? I've been anxiously waiting to see some performance numbers for a Drobo Pro connected to a Windows Server via iSCSI - I think it would be ideal for this kind of environment. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen???
Art- I haven't been on the list for a while, and I did some scanning but didn't find any further posts from you - have you had any more success? How's performance of the Drobo Pro? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 05/21/2009 07:29 PM Subject: Was RE: Drobo Pro - Now Hyper-V blue screen??? This has been an interesting experience so far. It shows that I need to read more to figure out what is happening. To pick up from where I left off earlier after adding a Virtual Machine to the N5200 Pro via iSCSI. Bouncing back between the physical server, two virtual servers and a Windows 7 RC machine ( I know using beta software to test stuff) I get a message about the file system having errors and needing to be fixed. Will look at that later and remove the Win 7 machine and use a XP or Vista machine. Everything appeared to be working fine. I could stop/start the NAS VM without issue. Next step was to test what would happen if the power went out. So I shut down all three VMs on the server and powered off the server. Since this is a test box there was no UPS. Powered on the server and waited. The physical server boots and then loads a virtual SBS2008 and five minutes later starts Server 2008 Standard and after another 5 minutes starts the test VM from the N5200 Pro NAS via iSCSI. Except it didn?t work out that way. After a while I logged on to the physical server and started Hyper-V Manager. Hmmm.. the NAS VM was off. The first two VMs (each on a separate disk on the physical server) booted just fine. OK maybe I forgot to set the auto startup correctly. No it?s set correctly. Try to start the NAS VM and nothing except file not found. What! Looked on the physical server for the network connection and found nothing there. It was blank. Alright I must have set up something wrong. Checked the settings on the server and NAS and all look correct. In Hyper-V Manager created a new hard drive again using the iSCSI connection to the NAS. Then create a new virtual server and it creates the folders and installs fine. Install Integration Services and it looks good. Change the Time Zone and join to the SBS2008 domain. Joins fine. Sits overnight. Checked for updates needed and there are several. Install the updates and reboot, Comes up fine. Check for updates again and see the .NET 3.5 one. Click install, goes through install and shows reboot now. Click reboot, look away, look back and see a blue screen in the NAS VM. Now what did I do? Looked at the screen and went to get a pen to write down the error but not thinking click start the VM again. No go. Get a message about the file or directory being corrupted or unreadable. While deciding I need to start over from scratch, I?ve decided to update this adventure, go get something to eat and drink and start over again without Win 7 this time. From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drobo Pro Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/19/2009 01:01:56 PM: Added N5200 Pro and configured for iSCSI. Ah, thought you had a Drobo Pro. I have been looking at Thecus - they seem to be a tight competitor to Qnap. The more I think about it, for the price if it performs you can't beat the Drobo Pro - even if I can't boot off of it. I think I'm going to go ahead and order one as I just don't need all the extra features that Thecus and Qnap offer. I'll post back once I get it and have a chance to test it out. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DFS file locking
I was going to suggest AFS: http://www.openafs.org/ but right on the home page is states read-only replica copies - d'oh! If all the file servers can work off the same drive (i.e. a volume on a SAN) you can use a clustered file system like Melio http://www.sanbolic.com/melioFS.htm or PolyServe. I think PolyServe supported file locking over the WAN but there were some obvious performance implications. Now that HP has bought them, I'm not sure if you can buy it as software only and if it has the same functionality - it's been too long since I originally looked at them and their web site is crap. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 05/28/2009 04:17 PM Subject: RE: DFS file locking Damn! That?s crazy! Any 3rd-party solution available for something like this? From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS file locking Nope. Last one to save wins. Carl From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DFS file locking Is DFS smart enough to prevent two people from opening the same file on two (or more) replication partners at the same time? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.43/2138 - Release Date: 05/28/09 08:10:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpeg
RE: Drobo Pro
Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/19/2009 01:01:56 PM: Added N5200 Pro and configured for iSCSI. Ah, thought you had a Drobo Pro. I have been looking at Thecus - they seem to be a tight competitor to Qnap. The more I think about it, for the price if it performs you can't beat the Drobo Pro - even if I can't boot off of it. I think I'm going to go ahead and order one as I just don't need all the extra features that Thecus and Qnap offer. I'll post back once I get it and have a chance to test it out. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iPhone and battery life
Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 05/19/2009 11:38:04 AM: And speaking of Web OS, that was iPhone 1.0 and Apple got loudly criticized for it. Palm has been doing this for YEARS and YEARS; consider WebOS the OSX of Mac OSes. OSX was totally redesigned, re-coded from the ground up; and they did a great job at it. Was it a 1.x release? Hi Sam - again I am not articulating my thoughts clearly. At least they made sense to me at the time :) Let me try again as I wasn't referring to the readiness of the software but instead the architecture of the development model - glorified web apps were the original iPhone App dev model and Apple was severely trashed for it. Granted Apple didn't have quite the same offline capability of the Pre for Web apps, but it was a very similar development model. While the Web OS apps may be lightweight (and maybe how they are pulling off background apps without trashing the battery or performance - we don't know since no one other then a Palm employee has been able to hold a Pre) as others have pointed out you aren't going to see near the complexity, flexibility or depth in individual applications. The dev envornment just isn't that deep. It doesn't have legs :( Now given time, I'm sure Palm can beef it up and evolve the phone, just like Apple did. Unfortunately for Palm, time is one thing they don't have. They weren't first to market and they are almost bankrupt. That and teaming up with the #3 trailing carrier isn't necessarily a recipe for success. That's why I think Microsoft needs to buy them. Windows Mobile is dead in the water - look how long it's taking them to unify their mobile OS's: http://www.hunterstrat.com/news/windows-mobile-photon-to-unify-smartphone-and-pocket-pc/ And it's *STILL* not done. Windows Mobile is only (barely) treading water because of the Exchange and mobile office support. Apple is actively working with Microsoft to beef up Active Sync (oh the irony) and the iPhone will already display Office files (I just tested with Excel attachment and it works rather well, worksheet tabs and all). I'm sure it's a matter of time before some enterprising developer publishes an office compatible editor. Just like Vista, whether you think it's a fair perception or not, Windows Mobile is not in. Web OS is - it could be an easy win for MS and a much needed injection into their mobile efforts. And MS does have the resources to mature Web OS. Even though I have no interest in owning a Pre, I do sincerely hope the Web OS is successful and hangs around. Competition is good for *everyone*. And who knows, they might have a compelling solution eventually and I may then have an interest in owning a future Pre - choice is also very good! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
'net based backup? (was Re: Access Based Enumeration on WS08)
Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote on 05/20/2009 09:57:04 AM: There were four servers in the building. If you don?t have your DR plans updated, I highly recommend reviewing them. Ouch - that stinks Bonnie :( On the bright side it will make renovations easier, but I'm sure it's not the way anyone would prefer :( Your point about DR reminded to ask the list is anyone using anything like Mozy or BackBlaze to do off-site backups of their servers? Especially with SBS - if anyone has any experience I would be interested. I use Mozy at home, and other the it taking forever to do the initial backup, I'm pretty happy with it for the cost. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Access Based Enumeration on WS08
Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote on 05/20/2009 09:57:04 AM: In Windows Server 2008, is there a way to enable Access based enumeration by default on all file shares? I haven't played with Server 2008 much, but your question intrigued me so I did some googling and found this excellent article: http://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2008/06/28/access-based-enumeration-abe.aspx I think the second from the last graphic is what you want? Share the root (even if temporarily) and check both boxes? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: UNC failure
Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote on 05/20/2009 09:00:59 AM: DNS, although being in AD is about 5 serial numbers out from the SBS server. Bing - DNS isn't replicating. The serial numbers should be identical. I've used: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/321046 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727055.aspx in the past to help track it down. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Free Terminal Server 2008 RK ebook from Microsoft
Carl Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote on 05/20/2009 10:18:13 AM: http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urws8un4p7 Get it while you can! Downloaded and saved, thanks! Chapter 2 is worth it alone - lots of great, general purpose information and one of the clearest discussions of Windows memory management I have seen. Even if you aren't actively using Terminal Server, I would grab a copy of this book for the information in the early chapters. You can't beat the price either! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Free Terminal Server 2008 RK ebook from Microsoft
Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote on 05/20/2009 10:51:03 AM: Just copy the .pdf out of your temporary internet files. Granted I'm using IE 8, but I just picked File - Save As... ...after I thought about it for a moment :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone using Radiant Systems Aloha Point Of Sale?
Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote on 05/20/2009 10:25:38 AM: hundred more of the 2K-4K files. We're having problems with our backup software not being able to complete nightly backups getting stuck on these directories. Sounds like the backup software is choking on the large number of files. Can you switch backup types - instead of doing a file system backup have you tried an image backup? I've used commvault in the past and very, very happy with it. Fast, flexible and a joy to use. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Internet based backup
John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/20/2009 11:58:56 AM: ?Course the ?up-front? costs would be fairly large? Not necessarily. Dell SC series servers can routinely be had for under $300. Tie it to something like the new Drobo Pro for storage and you can have a complete solution for around $2K including disks. Hmm... I might have answered my own earlier question along these same lines :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Looking for good PCI Express SATA controller
I need a quick recommendation from someone actually using one of these things with Server 2003 - validation that it works with SBS 2003 would be even better. I'm just looking for two ports, Hardware RAID 1 (mirroring), support for native command queuing, SATA 3 speed (preferable) and most importantly stable Windows server drivers. Ability to boot from the controller is also a requirement. While the Internet is full of information, finding the *most pertinent* information isn't always that easy. So if someone has a good SATA PCI Express SATA controller that they are happy with, please reply with make/model. Thanks! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iPhone and battery life
Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote on 05/18/2009 03:26:08 PM: If you are talking about the old proprietary ROMs that Apple used to put on their motherboards, they haven't had those in a very long time. On the Intel-based machines, it is my understanding that they are using trusted platform module (TPM). No, Apple doesn't use the TPM (otherwise the hackentosh guys would be DOA and Paystar wouldn't even exist). I'd have to double check, but I don't think Apple even has the TPM modules on any Mac motherboards. For all they get slammed for being proprietary jerks, they really aren't. They could have gone after the hackentosh guys at any time but didn't. They may eventually be forced to by Paystar and the EFF - if you want to get pissy with someone, get pissy with those two for pushing things. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iPhone and battery life
Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 03:04:57 PM: I do NOT need any music features on my mobile phone, I'd rather have a separate discreet device with its own battery, I use a GPS in my car, don't need to prop up my phone ... Well, I'd say you are in the minority - even Garmin is coming out with their own converged GPS/phone (but I really hope they have their software on the iPhone post OS 3.0) There is already tight iPod integration with most cars these days - with the expanded dock support of 3.0, I would imaging the ability to integrate you iPhone with a screen and everything else in your car is not far off. Next logical progression, really... At this I take offense ... I am not desperate, and definitely not uninformed on the issue ... Fair enough. yes apple FINALLY switched to an Intel cpu and you can run Windows now on their computers ( if you wanted to ) but they still hold tight to the ROMs, not nearly the open design the PC has ( which, granted, leads to some of the pc problems ) Sure they hold tight control over their hardware - that's what allows them to provide the tight end to end experience. For me, that's a feature not problem to be solved :) But they still aren't a monopoly. And Apple doesn't have to stay on Intel CPU's. If, through PA Semiconductor, they have their own breakthrough with ARM there is nothing to say they won't switch again. I highly doubt it because they do get a huge windfall in being able to easily run Windows along with Mac OSX - but Apple is far more flexible in processors then any other company (they have shifted processor architectures - successfully - twice now). Sigh !!! I saw what was there ... didn't need a sheep to preach about how virus free the mac was, or how it almost never crashes ( I've seen more than my share, I used to support macs as well ) ... I like Coca-Cola too, but tend not to hang with their staff as they are somewhat cult-ish too ... watch one when someone else asks for a Pepsi, they get visually disturbed that the competition exists ... Mac ( and Apple ) has it's place... there are still things it does better than Wintel, but I don't worship at either alter ... I'd just like the tool that fits my needs the best at the time. Again, that's sales. It's what every company who is pushing their product does. I don't see them talking up their products any more or less then other successful retailers. Do I accuse the Geek Squad drones at Best Buy of worshipping at the Microsoft alter when they start to hard sell me on the latest Windows bearing laptop? You and I may not appreciate it, but it does work for enough people for them to do it. Otherwise they wouldn't bother. OK, so exactly what applications am I missing out on having on my phone ? I haven't run across much that I need to have on a device with a little screen and cramped input It seems like if you want it, there is an app for it. Heck, even if you don't think you need it there's an app for that :) Here are some I use in no particular order: Shazam - samples 10-20 seconds of a currently playing song and then tells you what it is. Great when you are listening to the radio and can't remember what that song is or hear something new and want to find out what it is. Midomi is similar, but not as accurate. However Midomi will let you sing or hum into it, and it's fairly decent about figuring it out. Sportacular - summarized sports scores in an easy to read format, categorized by sport. I'm not a huge sports fan, but it's a great fun app. You can drill down to individual games and it provides real time updates. The pro ESPN app will even stream video of events - I'm not that big of a sports junkie, but I have friends who are and swear by that app. Weatherbug Pro - for 1$ you get a pretty comprehensive weather application with full maps, ability to save favorite locations and more. The built in weather app isn't bad, but Weatherbug pro takes it to the next level. Pandora - personal radio station in my pocket. Works (amazingly well) over 3G and edge even. Love pandora... Yelp! - Reviews of restaurants and more. Even better, it's location aware so if I am on travel and I want to find a restaurant near me, in just two taps I have all the restaurants around me with reviews. It's incredibly handy. There are others like Local Pics and CityGuide that do similar functionality, but I always seem to come back to Yelp! 1Password - syncs with the desktop version. Encrypted password storage. Beats post it notes :) Car Care - I'm kind of OCD on recording my milage and tracking maintenance - great app with a simple interface. A pretty clever import/export engine too. I was able to load in five years of back records with one email. Google Maps - built into the iPhone, incredibly useful. Traffic information is very handy - different purpose from GPS. Location aware - tap a
RE: iPhone and battery life
Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 05/18/2009 03:46:06 PM: The simple fact is that they are alienating the developer community (for many reasons), and they are getting sick of it. Really? Have you looked at the Android app store? Or even the Blackberry app store? No comparison! They can, and may, freely go elsewhere and develop. There are many in the Apple Dev Community that are desperate to quit writing for Apple and support the new WEB OS platform. Sure, but they aren't going to make money like they can on the Apple App store. I'm sure the remaining developers in the Apple App store will miss them :) And speaking of Web OS, that was iPhone 1.0 and Apple got loudly criticized for it. I find it amusing that now that it's Palm doing it (really, anyone other then Apple) the concept is suddenly the greatest thing since sliced bread. And ATT exclusivity is a fatal problem for the iPhone but Sprint exclusivity isn't a fatal problem for the Pre? People are funny... I guess time will tell, but most of the fussing is just that, fussing. Now, I do agree with those who criticize Apple for the inconsistency in their approval process. At almost a year into the process I would sincerely hope they would be further along, but I think they are past overwhelmed with developer response to the iPhone. As others have pointed out, it looks like they are taking steps (like parental controls) to address some of the current issues. This is where Apples traditional secrecy drives me crazy - at least give people a heads up that you not only acknowledge the issue but have a solution coming for it. Oh well Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/18/2009 05:02:37 PM: I plan on trying to boot from it this week if I can get some time. Please keep us informed! Have you had a chance to benchmark/speed test it? Light is being polite. Some things I have found by just trying things and some from the forums. Which forum are you using? I haven't decided that the lack of information is that Thecus doesn't want to do it or they haven't realized the potential. I think a little of both. From what I gathered, they were genuinely surprised at the level of interest in iSCSI in the SMB space. Thanks for your feedback! And even though I said Qlogic twice yesterday, Qlogic just makes iSCSI accellerator NICs - the other array I was looking at is Qnap: http://www.qnap.com/ One of the nice things I like about Drobo, and compels to keep looking at them despite their lightweight technical information and support is their volume/array management. Qnap is close, but no where near as simple as plug in the disk and the array figures it out like Drobo is. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 05:36:57 PM: Ultimately, that's still arguing that when the carrier limits functionality, it's evil, but when Apple does so, it's okay. I never said any such thing, but thanks for assuming. I am satisfied enough with what Apple has restricted that I am willing to use their product. I think it's extremely disingenuous for people to criticize Apple/ATT for locking down features and then not bothering to notice things like the Blackberry outright missing WiFi on the Verizon version - purely because the carrier demanded it. You're implicitly accepting whatever limits Apple sets when you buy their hardware. Sure. Same as with any other manufacturer. No one is holding a gun to my head and forcing me to buy Apple (or anyone else) Can you use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone yet? For a long time, you couldn't. Can you use one not made by Apple? Nope, you still can't. But I think that has more to do with the immaturity of their bluetooth stack then some overt control-based conspiracy. But conspiracies are always more exciting, no? If Apple were such the control freak, why would they be opening the dock connector in the 3.0 SDK? I've read or been told that in certain areas of the world, where the GSM platform is ubiquitous and carriers don't have the option to lock customers/SIMs to handsets, there is extensive selection of phones, with a wide spectrum of prices and capabilities. It's common to theorize that because of the freer market, there's a lot more choice, to the benefit of both the customers and the overall market. Sure, but that's not the US market. Never has been. It might be someday, ironically because of the iPhone. The iPhone is the first phone, at least in the US, where it was designed for you and me, the end users. All other US based phones before it weren't designed for us, they were designed for the Wireless carriers. Motorola didn't work for you and me, they worked for Verizon, Singular, Sprint, etc. Apple, for the first time, successfully broke that model. The offered to Verizon first, but Verizon being the real control freaks refused to cede the control so Apple went to ATT. ATT didn't even SEE the iPhone until two weeks before it shipped. That was a huge leap of faith, a total break from tradition and because of that I have no problem with ATT being rewarded with an exclusive deal with Apple. They SHOULD be rewarded for breaking with tradition and shifting control of the hardware and software more to end user. Is it perfect? No. But ATT has done more then any other US carrier for customer choice with the iPhone and I don't think they get a fraction of the credit they deserve for it. It was a very bold and non-traditional move - a thing that is not often rewarded in the corporate world. Verizon sure as heck never would have made such a move on their own (indeed, they refused first). They are only now talking with Apple because they have been FORCED to by competition. They look like chumps right now, and rightfully so. As you are correct to point out, customer choice benefits the market far more. Maybe they will finally get it but I'm not optimistic. The record companies *still* don't get it. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: iPhone and battery life
Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 05:49:53 PM: Back in the day, you couldn't even use a *hard drive* with their computers unless the mfg ID was APPLE. That has NEVER been the case for any Apple computer. Mac or otherwise... For a while you couldn't use Apples software to format a non-Apple hard drive. So manufacturers bundled in their own. Often with extra features. But hardly a show-stopper. People keep claiming they've changed their ways, but they keep continuing old habits. People continue to make unfounded and outrages claims about how proprietary they are, and most continue to still miss the point. To some extent, this is what gives Apple an edge in the ease of use area. It's a lot easier to make sure everything works together when you control the definition of everything. And that's why Apple offers an integrated solution. End to end. It's what gives them, consistently, the highest customer satisfaction scores and a market cap 60% of that to Microsoft. Not bad for 4% market share. But at the same time, it limits freedom and limits creativity. What a load of horse hockey Sure, creativity can exist, but only in the channels Apple defines. Thinking outside the box is strictly forbidden, unless it comes from Apple itself. Ugh. Then by your strict interpretation, Apple should be suing these guys out of existance: http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook Amazingly, they aren't. Fascinating, eh? We've taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing. The pictures that bring pleasure to your eyes. Being a tad melodramatic? Some people -- most people, I'd wager -- don't care about that. But some of us do. Then go buy something else - no one is forcing you to use Apple. Sheesh, stop being so insecure, there are more then one way to do things and there doesn't have to be one right way to do things. It's life, not Highlander. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: iPhone and battery life
Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 12:16:32 AM: The Diamond is smaller: http://www.iphonekiller.com/2008/06/13/3g-iphone-vs-htc-diamond/ Slower phone, smaller screen, less storage and by your own website, worse (!!) battery life. Fine - let me clarify. For the mix of features, I like the flexibility in other areas that the extra space of Apple not having to waste space supporting a removable battery allows for. Bit of a rant warning - feel free to skip :) There are tons of phones that beat the iPhone on any one, two or even three check boxes. For me, individual check boxes aren't what's important. It's the overall experience. Until the other handset makers and carriers (looking at you Verizon with your inane desire to control every feature) figure that out, they will always be trailing. Same in general for geeks - many are confused as to why Linux hasn't taken over the desktop since it has one of the biggest check boxes of all - FREE! The problem is the overall value proposition for Linux as a desktop OS, esp. for normal people, sucks. Sure, that's changing - slowly - but the biggest detriment to Linux is the geek culture that tends to look unfavorably at people who haven't RTFM (the often non existent manual, too) or spent half their afternoon searching through google and usenet on their own. I like to get into technical details as much as the next person, but I prefer them to be meaningful technical details - not what obscure incantation I need in order to get my sound card to work with my window manager. Same thing with other tech gadgets - people expect them to just work, and many tech companies are not very focused on the end user experience so for many people, they don't just work. Often the customer is treated with disdain - or even ridiculed for being too stupid to figure it out (sound like any help desks you know, or even some threads in here?). That's why folks are attracted to Apple. They are boarding on fanatical on their attention to the end user. Sure, they screw it up sometimes (ejecting a disk by dragging to to the trash is still pretty counter-intuitive) but they tend to get it right more then the other guys, and in areas that are more significant. How many other computer or gadget companies are there where I can go to a local store for support? I can show them the problem, and more often then not walk out of the store with a functioning replacement. There is a reason Apple has the highest customer satisfaction ratings - by far - of the computer industry. And no, it has nothing to do with image - but companies and anti-fanboys are free to continue to think so. They are also free to continue loosing profit as Apple siphons off the cream and leaves the high volume, low margin (or no margin in the case of netbooks) behind. These concepts aren't rocket science. It just takes a different perspective and the ability to look further then short term gain and cost-cutting. And allot of hard work Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Drobo Pro
Linda C Jones linda.jone...@gmail.com wrote on 05/17/2009 09:38:48 PM: Using the plain old Drobos for backup in a couple of cases. They are quite simple to use -- meant for end-users. Yup, I have one of the four slot units at home to keep all my photography and video on and I love it. The pro is eight slots and it supports iSCSI. Seems like a perfect external array for a small business environment - especially if I can boot off of it. I hate direct attached storage - our iSCSI SAN has me spoiled :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: iPhone and battery life
Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 10:15:51 AM: Not my web site, Erik. Eric, thanks :) I posted the link as a comparison/ reference to size and other aspects. Settle down - I use an iPhone too. And no problem - although I did label it as a rant. FTR, I have yet to see what I consider a truly comparable product to the size/battery/visuals/and particularly the touch sensitivity and intelligence of the iPhone 3G. And that's basically what I was driving at, and obviously missed the mark. Less is more - thanks for your concise summation and the reminder. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 10:12:24 AM: Thank goodness I get to make my own decisions now for what I'm gonna use .. Now? What's different about now? You haven't been able to make your own decisions in the past? Who made them for you? For me, individual check boxes aren't what's important. It's the overall experience. To me, that sounds like saying a MFP is a better choice because it copies, faxes, prints, scans all in one box compared to maybe having separate components. .. No, you missed my point entirely. Let me try again - I have acquaintances who won't even look at products like the iPhone because it's missing a check box feature - like a removable battery. If I engage them and press them to how many times they actually used the removable battery, often I can get them to admit it was just a few times - but they stick to their guns and discount the product because it doesn't have one of their must have features. Heck, I've had people reject a product just because of the manufacturer - which to me is just plain daft. I own Apple, Microsoft and heck even Sony products - if the company produces a product that meets my requirements, I'll use it! The anti-fan boys are worse then fan boys if you ask me... if having them all together is important to YOU , then yep, it's better for YOU ... just like in my old stereo days, I like having discreet components when they provide a better experience than the hobbled all in one, but that's just ME But mobile phones, by their nature, *ARE* integrated devices. Unlike a stereo system, it wouldn't make sense to have a mobile phone that was modular and consisted of multiple parts. So the sum of the parts *IS* more important then just one or two individual components. If I had a phone with a battery that lasted for a week, but the browser was such garbage that I never wanted to use it, then it fails at one of the things I use all the time. Wait, I do have that phone - it's my work issued Blackberry :) I used to have discrete devices for my digital life - a separate phone, music player, GPS and storage. If I tried to mount everything on my belt I felt like Batman. Not a good thing since I didn't have the cool car and martial arts skills to go with it. Now I have everything in one device. And that one device not only does what the sum of those old parts did, in many cases it EXCEEDS their capabilities (with the exception of Turn by Turn in GPS, which 3.0 should address) Isn't technology grand? How many other computer or gadget companies are there where I can go to a local store for support? How many other computer companies are there that have the ability to monopolize the hardware and software and operating systems all under their own brand ? All of them. Apple isn't a monopoly. You aren't forced to buy their stuff. Is Microsoft any more a monopoly for ditching Plays for Sure (leaving their previous partners high and dry) and producing the Zune? Can we stop with the silly and erroneous Apple is a monopoly arguments? At best it just makes you look desperate, at worse you look seriously uninformed. And I have been to a local Apple store, when I decided on a new phone after 3 years with my PPC 6700 ... the place was like a cult chapel, everyone lining up for the cool-aid ... Sigh. You saw what you want to see... I've been to multiple Apple stores and never experienced the cult like atmosphere that so many insecure PC people insist on perpetuating. Are the sales people enthusiastic? Sure! They are there to sell a product - if they said to you Hi - would you like to see our latest mediocre offering that wouldn't exactly motivate you now, would it? And being enthusiastic about your product isn't something I hope is limited to the Apple store - that's just good business - something successful companies do. I could get no real data from the sales nogs on comparisons, only the PREACHING on how great the iPhone was ... Just like any store, there are different technical levels of people in any store. Had you been referred to the Genius bar (perhaps by politely asking if there was someone who could offer you more technical details), you would have more then likely gotten someone who could pull up the technical reference sheets from the Apple web site for you and engaged you in a conversation. Then again, I'm kind of surprised you just didn't do it yourself. Or google and find any one of the articles out there comparing the iPhone to just about any phone. I find it fascinating you went to a brick and mortar store to research specifications. To be honest, I think the iPhone is a good phone, but I just didn't see anything about it compelling me to go that route over any other ... Applications. But then you have to use it for more then five minutes to see the value in the wealth of third party applications. Apple blew past Plam
RE: Drobo Pro
Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/15/2009 04:03:03 PM: I'm not using any special adaptors yet, just what's included normally. So far everything works fine. But I will say their manuals ... are not the best. Thanks for the idea, Art - I went and looked at Drobo's web site and sure enough they had the manuals posted. And just as you alluded to, they are pretty weak in the iSCSI department. Then it dawned on me, they are pitching iSCSI as just another direct attached storage method - and their dashboard manages all the connections. This means that more likely then not, the Drobo Pro won't work with something like a Qlogic card that abstracts the iSCSI drive from the OS :( I'm on hold with them right now to see if I can get someone to verify this over the phone, but I may be back to looking at Qlogic... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
I'm going to quote myself :) Eric E Eskam ees...@usgs.gov wrote on 05/18/2009 04:32:28 PM: I'm on hold with them right now to see if I can get someone to verify this over the phone, but I may be back to looking at Qlogic... Ok, just got off the phone with them and the currently do not support booting from iSCSI. However I chatted with one of their SE's and he indicated they are getting many requests for it. Of course he couldn't say if it would be added or not, but I think it's safe to assume that if they have a way to do it, support for that will more then likely come. So I'll just upgrade my internal system disk for now, then add the DroboPro later when I need more storage or performance for Exchange. Plus I would like to wait and see if someone benchmarks the things - I would like to see some real world performance numbers for them. And I still may go with Qlogic :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 05/18/2009 02:53:24 PM: I admit surprise on that one. Not that VZW doesn't suck that (they do, believe me), but that you consider Apple better on this front. We're talking about a company that only lets you load software from *their* store, and reserve the right to block *any* software for any reason, without notice or explanation. The difference is Verizon forces manufactures to not only drop software features, but also hardware. Witness no wifi on the BlackBerry Storm (or bold, I can never keep them straight). I can jail brake my iPhone if push comes to shove, but you can't jail brake and get hardware functionality that doesn't exist in the first place. And as others have pointed out, there have been more then a few hiccups in the App store approval process, but it's still evolving. Version 3 with the parental controls has the potential to address many of the current (and valid) concerns. I don't think you are ever going to see mobile devices as free wheeling as general purpose computers - carriers have too much to loose in terms of their wireless capacity. Everyone loves to diss ATT for their network - who's to say Verizon would do better? The iPhone has over 80% of the mobile web browsing marketshare. That's a huge disparity in use. Sure other carriers like Verizon have smartphones, but are they driving the traffic of the iPhone? I guess if the rumors of an iPhone coming to Verizon are true, we will get to see :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: iPhone and battery life
Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote on 05/15/2009 09:49:41 AM: If *ONLY* Apple made it with an interchangeable battery like most phones nowadays ... The iPhone is significantly thinner then most phones nowadays - precisely because it doesn't have a removable battery. I prefer having a thinner phone with me constantly vs. having the option of replacing the battery. Something I never did on all my previous phones that have a removable battery. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Drobo Pro
Art DeKneef art.dekn...@cox.net wrote on 05/15/2009 04:03:03 PM: I'm not using any special adaptors yet, just what's included normally. So far everything works fine. But I will say their manuals ... are not the best. Thanks, Art. So I take it you aren't booting from it? Since their array management is pretty simple, am I to assume the manuals are light in the management of the iSCSI side of things? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Drobo Pro
Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote on 05/14/2009 01:44:02 PM: Anyone using a Drobo Pro in any sort of environment? Any thoughts or experiences about it you wouldn't mind sharing? Great minds think alike - I was going to ask about using a Drobo Pro with SBS 2003 I found some PCI express Qlogic iSCSI cards for $400 - I'm seriously thinking about picking one up, getting a Drobo Pro and converting my SBS server to it - including getting it to boot from the Drobo Pro via the hardware support for iSCSI boot in the Qlogic. Was wondering if anyone else had tried it yet - oh well, I can be a trail blazer :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: iPhone and battery life
Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote on 05/15/2009 08:53:43 AM: So far, I like it very much? EXCEPT battery life SUCKS! Those of you that have iPhones.. what are you doing to help this? I also use my iPhone as my iPod - I have a car charger/audio adaptor cable in my car, and at my desk I have a nice logitek speaker that keeps it charged as I play audio - it's an older version of this: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/ipod_mp3_speakers/devices/4320cl=us,en $90 at Costco - worth every penny. I drop it into this when I get to my office. For the rare time when I'm not around power, I have a Richard Solo backup battery: http://richardsolo.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=326 Got it on sale for $40 - since I usually only need it when I'm on travel, it's nice that it has a laser pointer and flashlight built in - double duty. I think I used it once to charge the phone, all the time in meetings as a laser pointer. Other then that I just keep a retractable USB iPod cable I got for free at a trade show with me and plug it into my laptop if I'm in a pinch. The nice thing about it using the iPod dock connector is they are pretty ubiquitous - although I would like it if it had a standard mini-USB connector too - one less cable to carry. Annoying, but not fatal since all other aspects of the iPhone make up for that one shortcoming. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtualization Questions
David Lum david@nwea.org wrote on 01/05/2009 09:14:08 AM: Until you see the price tag for a SAN HDD that needs replaced. At least for the SAN we have here as the price per GB is lousy compared to standard SAS drives. Ouch - yeah, there is new technology out there - EMC, IBM, Hitachi - for quite a few workloads. Check out the performance numbers for iSCSI SAN's like Equallogic running SATA - there are articles with benchmarks out there - SATA gets allot of badmouthing, but if you pay attention it's usually from vendors trying to sell higher priced SAS :) I mean for some loads there are legitimate needs for the big iron or SAS or FC drives, but I have a sneaking suspicion they are in the minority. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtualization Questions
RM r...@richardmay.net wrote on 01/05/2009 10:58:42 AM: Seconded. Mgmt is hellbent on EMC. The storage (for tier 1) is over $10k/TB when you include the shelf and whatever else is needed. On the other hand, there are nice little 2U and 3U SAN's from companies like IBM which use SAS disk that mere mortals can afford. Less than $2k/TB for SAS and way less for SATA. Like I told David, don't discount SATA. Equallogic used to be pretty liberal on their loaners - not sure if they still are from Dell, but it can't hurt to ask if you can get a loaner for a week to do some testing on. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. And as you add more shelves, it gets faster (more spindles, more cache, another controller, 3 more gig-e ports for I/O, etc.)... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: File name is too long
Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote on 01/06/2009 11:55:14 AM: I'm trying to copy files from an NT server to a Windows 2003 server. I am running into the problem of file/path name limitations. I am trying to do this from Windows Explorer, and I keep getting the file name is too long error. Is there another utility I can use to accomplish the copy? File Server Resource Manger (Server 2003 R2 and above) might be able to screen out long file names: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754810.aspx But as noted, robocopy is a much better copy utility - in addition to handling long file names/paths it can also resume interrupted copies, copy only new files that have changed since the last copy and a whole host of other things. There are also some GUI shells for robocopy too that were discussed on the list. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Utilizing SMS...
David Lum david@nwea.org wrote on 01/06/2009 11:09:39 AM: I?m trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and licensing ? problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare it down to software that actually requires purchase? Through software asset management :) You need an asset repository to reconcile your purchases in your accounting system with what SMS sees as being installed. BMC/Remedy, IBM Tivoli and HP/Perigrine are the big daddy's in this space, although LANDesk Process Manager looks like a promising upstart (and cheaper!). It's allot of work to fully impliment true software asset management, but you can get some significant payout's and cost savings. http://www.iaitam.org/ is a great resource. That's the long term best case scenario :) If you are on software assurance with Microsoft, get with your MS Sales rep and get your free certificate for Asset Intelligence for SCCM 2007: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3411685SiteID=17 You can engage CSS and ask for the certificate or any MS contact for that matter. Just have them send mail to 'Get AI System Center Online Cert' and a copy of the cert will be sent to them and then to you. It's an entitlement that you have under software assurance: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3397518SiteID=17 http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1301339,00.html It won't fully answer your question, but it will make the reports from SCCM far more readable and useful! And if you are under software assurance, it's free (can't beat the price!). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Audit logging and reporting
Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote on 01/07/2009 03:30:11 AM: Can anyone recommend an SME friendly package that will both allow them to store the mass of logs that will inevitably be created when they turn on full security auditing, as well as report on this data. None of 'em are cheap - well, at least for ones that will do more then just let you check off a compliance box (anyone can set up a central syslog server and a free windows log to syslog service). I've been eying http://www.splunk.com/ Oh yeah, you need lots of disk :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's
Webb, Brian (Corp) brian.w...@teldta.com wrote on 01/02/2009 05:25:25 PM: There were several sessions on security at VMWorld this past year and the people leading those sessions would definitely say there are security issues that come about from using virtualization. In some ways the security picture gets better, in some ways worse. Christofer Hoff is a great source on security and virtualization. His latest article: http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2008/12/virtualization-so-last-tuesday.html If you read through his virtualization posts ( http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/virtualization/ ), you will get a pretty good idea of what the fuss is about. I dunno, virtualization is neither good nor bad. It's just another tool, and it will take us a while to understand and secure it, just like anything else. There are definitely issues, and it pays to read up on the potential pitfalls. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: File share
Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote on 12/23/2008 01:24:28 PM: We have a cisco asa but and my understanding could be wrong here, but if I install the VPN client on a home computer, the user starts the vpn client and connects, isn't their home computer now connected to my internal LAN? If their home computer is infected, it could possibly infect computers here at the school? I'm sure there are ways to secure the VPN but I'm working with faculty here and trying to keep it as simple as possible. Kidaro (or what used to be Kidaro): http://www.kidaro.com/ It's now Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MEDV) and part of MDOP - If you are on Software Assurance it's a great deal (and if you are education, practically free). http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/med-v.aspx That is the worst page trying to sell a product that I have ever seen. It tells you absolutely nothing useful - sigh Basically MEDV (yet another horrid name) is a managed Virtual PC instance. You hand your end users a DVD with an installer, the Kidaro client and an encrypted VPC image. They can install it at home themselves. The Kidaro client securely manages the VPC image. You have total control over the image, can update it centrally, etc. You can configure the image to connect to your servers via VPN automatically even. You can also control if the users can copy/paste between the VPC image (basically your environment) or their home computer. Same for printing. You can lock it down (if need be) so that the only thing they can do remotely is take a screen shot of the VPC window. Bottom line - you get a totally managed environment that you can control and enforce policy on, without messing with their computer or programs on their computer. It's the slickest remote access solution I have seen. MS bought them because you can also run applications seamlessly without showing the VPC desktop - think Citrix application publishing without the hassle of running a Citrix farm. Got one or two stubborn applications that won't run on Vista? Run them seamlessly on XP via Kidaro - at least that's the MS sales pitch. I still think it's better as a remote access solution :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Virtualization Questions
Roger Wright rwri...@evatone.com wrote on 12/29/2008 09:30:01 AM: Taking a look at the potential implementation of virtualization and have several questions: 1.Does/should utilization of a SAN have a direct impact on virtualization decisions? Is it better to go with local or SAN storage? SAN! Once you have a SAN you will never go back to direct attached disk. SANs don't have to be expensive or hard to use, either. We have an Equallogic PS series iSCSI SAN and it works great and is a breeze to set up and configure. No degree required :) 2. Do vendors who normally require a dedicated server accept a virtualized server as equivalent? Depends on the vendor. 3. What type of servers (DB, Oracle, FP, etc.) don?t make good candidates for virtualization?I would think that SQL/Oracle would probably be least recommended. Depends on the application. There is very little that isn't a good candidate for virtualization. 4. Is clustering still possible with VMs? Sure. Although with some solutions like VMware site recover manager, you may not need to do clustering any more. Depends on what you were trying to accomplish with clustering. 5. What kind of logic determines the best combination of host/guests? IOW, is it recommended to put all FP servers together on one host, or should it be a combination of FP, DB, etc.? Generally you want to balance out your load. That's where VMware gets the big bucks - they have management tools that simplify monitoring and performing load balancing of virtual hosts across your server farm. Microsoft is playing catch up with HyperV and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Managerbut they have a ways to go. Even if you don't virtualize, SAN's still rock! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: LCD monitor vs LCD HDTV?
David James bigdadd...@gmail.com wrote on 12/31/2008 02:55:28 PM: I can run my ps3 1080p over the HDMI input, but when I hook up the PC over HDCMI it only goes to 1366 x 768. computer resolution and HD resolutions are different somehow, I've never quite understood why a 1080p tv won't do 1920 x 1080. More then likely your HDMI Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) is wrong or your computer is reading it wrong. More then likely it's a driver issue in Windows since the PS3 works correctly. This is nvidia specific, but the concepts are universal: http://analogbit.com/node/23 Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: LogMeIn
David James bigdadd...@gmail.com wrote on 12/30/2008 10:57:20 AM: I'm just saying, you inherently trust a lot of companies, and to say one service that is used like Blackberry in a high percentage of businesses, then 'flush' other services Oh man, you don't have that user that thinks you should move to google docs? Long live the cloud :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: BBS Software for dialin file transfers
Michael Pears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/11/2008 04:43:25 AM: Is there any experience with type of setup still in use out there? I used this back in the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_(BBS) It seems they went open source. There is also a link on that wiki page to a list of BBS software. Synchronet seems to be updated recently too (although I have never heard of 'em before). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Altirs Client Management Suite
Rod Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/12/2008 04:12:56 PM: Plus, there?s a huge ConfigMgr 2007 community over at myITforum.com that can help you 24x7. Those other products don?t have that. Altiris will tell you that they have their Juice community ? but it?s not as active and the Altiris folks don?t monitor it. At myITforum.com you can generally get an answer to question in minutes, sometimes from a product manager at Microsoft. And Rod's not just being modest because he runs that community :) Don't underestimate community support. The SMS email list at myitforum.com is a huge resource (much like this list). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day
Rod Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/17/2008 10:08:14 AM: I know, I know. Hype pretty much runs the industry these days (ex. iPhone), but following the crowd gives me a bad feeling. Ya know, sometimes crowds form for reasons other then Oooh, shiney. Just because they aren't drinking your kool-aid doesn't make them irrelevant :) Plus, I've never had much luck with Firefox, so I don't see the benefit. It's slow, eats away at memory, etc. IE eats away at memory - the problem is it's embedded in the OS so you just can't see it as easily. As for speed, between noscript and adblock, FFX absolutely spanks IE hands down on performance. And not just at throwing pixels at the screen, but in filtering out crap I'm not interested in. It's a shock for me to surf with a browser other then firefox these days since I'm so used to surfing with certain extensions. If IE (or Safari on the Mac - same issues) had the plugins that provided functionality that I can get from Firefox, I would probably just stick with the default too. Once you have had a better experience, it's hard to except the mediocre status quo :-) Now, Opera, on the other hand. No hype. Great product. That's the only 3rd party browser I would recommend. Well, now we are back to personal preference. Can't stand Opera's interface. And paying for a browser? How 1993 :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Vista CAL Licensing - revisited
Andy Ognenoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/13/2008 05:46:03 PM: 1) You can't virtualize a volume Vista license unless you have software assurance, but if you do have SA, you can have 4 VMs plus the host with that 1 license. 2) No retail Vista licenses have downgrade rights, even Ultimate. It doesn't surprise me. They are really pushing software assurance. And since they have totally blown the value equation as far as covering upgrades, they are trying to come up with other ways to justify/force you go subscribe. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Feature Pack is one very good and well-worth the money benefit of SA - if you are on SA and you haven't looked at MDOP, you *really* need to. Every Internet facing server that has anything but anonymous web users (and that's not the technical IIS definition but that we really haveno way of identifying them) needs an external connector license or standard CALs if the identified user is an employee or affiliate (more than 50% ownership). Hmm, I haven't heard this before - I will make note of it and make sure to bring it up in future licensing discussions - thanks! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Smart Phone
Barsodi.John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/10/2008 05:43:36 PM: http://robert.balousek.net/2008/03/07/iphone-sdk-no-background-processes/ Nice post from a balanced perspective... I find his conclusion specious at best: If you are running an application such as AOL Instant Messenger on your iPhone, every time you receive a call or browse away from the application you would be signed out, you would lose any unread messages, and your conversations would end. That is just a bizarre conclusion and I would love to know where he got that impression. I also like how he quote's himself to make his thoughts seem more important - gotta love those bloggers. The SDK *actually* points out that when a user switches away, the application quits. It advises the programmer to have the application automatically save it's state. So, if you have a lazy programmer, you will get your blogger's assumed behavior. Again, I don't know of many application developers who wouldn't account for this - if you didn't, your user experience would be pretty crappy and people wouldn't use your software. I could make a crack about how Windows Mobile users are used to crappy software so maybe that's why he just assumed that's what would happen, but that would be sophomoric now, wouldn't it? As for some real points: 1) Very few apps need background multitasking 2) Background multitasking is potentially dangerous and can dramatically impact the user experience on a phone. It can also kill battery life if not done right. 3) It's still a beta SDK, not all the details are fully published. I'm sure AIM will background multitask just fine - otherwise what's the point? And if it really performs like your blogger friend is speculating, why would AOL even bother to produce an application for the demonstration? If Apple has a vetting process where Apps have to be certified in order to be authorized to run in the background, I'm OK with that. I've killed my WM phone a few times with poorly written Apps. It's a phone, not a desktop and resources are precious. If they are very restrictive on it to the point where smaller developers can't get multitasking, *then* it would be a legitimate complaint and I'll be right there with him. But I think it's a little premature for such rampant speculation, and a little naive to assume that Apple doesn't have a process in mind to address this issue (again, if they didn't it would be pretty stupid to demo an app like AIM). 4) More hand waiving and drama over pre-release code, but I really can't say I'm surprised. The blogger you quote has many other balanced reviews... I think we need some perspective here. Again, before the SDK announcement there were lots of people who were speculating that Apple/ATT would NEVER allow VOIP or Instant messaging - their speculation was wrong and both were addressed in the presentation. Apple - no matter what you think of them - is not stupid. By the release, I think it would be a safe bet they will have something for multitasking. If they didn't have more changes to the SDK, it would more then likely be the release SDK, not a beta - otherwise, why wait until June? Speaking of the right tool for the right situation, where does the iPhone fit in the enterprise realm? What an inane question. With the 2.0 release, the iPhone will have all the enterprise management features of a WM phone with ActiveSync, and just about feature parity with BlackBerry. The answer to your question is certainly wherever a BlackBerry or WM phone makes sense, an iPhone will makes sense. Or is it automatically discounted by you simply because it comes from Apple? And as soon as applications start hitting the iPhone an iPhone will make even more sense. Salesforce.com and Epocrates seemed pretty excited about putting enterprise applications directly on the iPhone. Heck, Epocrates showed off functionality that they don't have on any other mobile platform - a direct quote from them. Then again, if you had actually watched the presentation instead of following third hand information from blogs you would already know that. The iPhone has a pretty compelling developer environment and lots of folks are pretty excited about it. Perfect? Nope. But then again, it's the first release and I've yet to find that perfect product from any manufacturer. Also, iPhone's and iPod Touch's are pretty easily updated - not exactly the norm for other cell phones - the current SDK certainly isn't going to be the last iteration of it. However, I think you are going to find many applications that will have no problem working within the current SDK, and will make a compelling business cases on their own. And speaking of updates, funny how after the iPhone release, we are finally staring to see (vendor provided, legitimate) upgrades offered on WM phone's that don't entail you having to buy a whole other phone. Amazing how that competition
Re: OT: Firewall recommendations
Angus Scott-Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/10/2008 05:53:40 PM: I use IPCop http://ipcop.org/ -- free firewall distro that runs on older PCs that every company has lying around. Hmm, I'll have to compare it to M0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ I picked up an embeded PC that is fanless and boots off flash - was trivial to load M0n0wall on it, and it can be updated with two clicks. I was impressed at the ease of installation. Configuring the rules has been interesting - I was going to put my wireless router on a third interface and basically run it open, but couldn't get it to bridge from one port to the other. Then I ran out of time that day and just haven't gotten back to it :) Will be interesting to see how ipcop does rule management. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Bad logon attempts
David W. McSpadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/11/2008 10:44:59 AM: Basically my pointy headed boss keeps getting locked out but she says she doesn't fail on any of her attempts. I am trying to find the common issue that is locking her out. Email program at home banging away with the wrong password? Some other synchronization software banging away with the wrong password? Is her account always authenticating against the same DC? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Smart Phone
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/11/2008 10:26:02 AM: (Making snide remarks in the guise of I could make snide marks like $SNIDE_REMARK but I won't is both a waste of bandwidth and an insult to our intelligence. Fair enough - then again dismissing an entire product/company for being $SHINY is also insulting. Sure, two wrongs don't make a right but there it is. I'm not weighing in on either side of this inane iPhone debate, but could you all at least try to keep it to a dull roar, please?) And I was waiting for this... always amazes me - while it's a debate, it's still technical in nature and it's about a technology that will affect anyone who supports BlackBerries or WM phones. There are plenty of those threads on this list about those, so I'm assuming that the topic of smart phones is kosher. There is also tons of off topic chatter that goes on and on with one and two word responses - funny how those never get called out, yet technical discussions that drift across someone's technical religion do. Amazing, that... Oh well, no one forced you to read the inane iPhone debate emails (and at least the subject line is somewhat accurate), just as no one forces me to read the other offtopic emails - just a PITA to sort through and delete them from a sheer volume perspective... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Smart Phone
Barsodi.John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 08:26:51 PM: Agreed. Too much marketing hype and trend factor there ? though such is any Apple product. Yup, because you dominate market segments (i.e. the iPod) on hype and trendiness alone /roll If you want to see something really interesting, go to Apple's site and watch the announcement from last Thursday. Honestly watch it. If you still think all they go over is still hype and trendiness after watching their presentation about the iPhone API's, SDK and the developer testimonials, then there really isn't anything to discuss further with you since you are apparently incapable of rational thought. To just ascribe Apple's success first with the iPod, and now with the iPhone as hype and trendiness is just ignorant. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Bomgar remote control appliance
Rick Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 06:17:19 PM: We?ve owned one since the company was Network Streaming ? we love it. Does a fantastic job as a helpdesk tool ? easy on end users, we do a lot of our ?out of town exec? support through it. Thanks to everyone who answered! It's always nice to get real world validation :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Smart Phone
Angus Scott-Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/07/2008 12:42:56 PM: Get a Palm Centro smartphone free with two-year Sprint plan | The Cheapskate - CNET Blogs http://www.cnet.com/8301-13845_1-9888429-58.html?tag=head I wonder if the Palm version has the same crappy phone app as the Windows Mobile versions of the Treo... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Secure Web access to AD Home Folder for students...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/07/2008 03:17:08 PM: Students and Staff at my school are wanting to have access to their files from home. I've implemented this over SSL using WebDev in IIS. Works great! JR That's my suggestion too. Although it's WebDAV :) http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/WebDAV-IIS.html Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Wireless Network Configuration
I'll 2nd, 3rd, whatever - wired beats wireless every time (esp. for five machines!) Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/09/2008 03:40:23 PM: For a mere 5 machines the single best thing you can do to secure the wireless connection is to use WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK with a really really strong password. Also just wanted to emphasis with WPA2-PSK (WPA1 is broken - not quite as easy as WEP, but it's still broken) the length of the password is important. 32 characters is the minimum I would use. 63 is the maximum and I would just use that. You only have to set it once for each machine, and this site will generate a nice 63 character random pass phrase for you: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Wireless Network Configuration
Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/09/2008 06:02:28 PM: Bzzzt, both crackable... Please try again... I'd be interested in a link that talks about WPA2 - I'd only seen references to WPA1, or WPA2 with a short (say under 21 characters) password. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Desktop/laptop backup solutions
Edwards, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/10/2008 12:46:45 PM: Looking to find out what everyone else is doing to backup desktop/laptop systems in the enterprise. One of our groups uses Arkeia and they are happy with it: http://www.arkeia.com Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Smart Phone
Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/10/2008 03:27:36 PM: I think the phone app on the Palm Treo is actually worse than the Windows Mobile version. I lasted about a day trying to use the 650p before I decided I wanted nothing to do with it. I don't see how that's possible! I don't care if the phone is free, the stress of trying to use it would probably give me a premature heart attack... Or in jail for hitting someone with it as I chuck it across the room in frustration :( Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Smart Phone
Barsodi.John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/10/2008 04:20:10 PM: Ah, you must be an apple fan and that?s ok. You shouldn?t get so defensive. I'm not an Apple Fan although I do appreciate products and tools that work. I have no religious hang ups or allegiances to any one vendor over another - I prefer to use tools that fit the situation - without regard to who makes them or any religious debates. You made an ad hominem attack - I called you on it. Who's getting defensive? Have you read into the SDK any further? Did you see how locked down it is? Locked down in what ways? Yes, you have to sign your apps and yes you have to distribute them through Apple - but then again the model they are using will give way more exposure to the average developer (i.e. Sunbelt vs. MS) then having to market yourself out there. Quite frankly, it's way more open then I expected. Heck, AOL showed off AIM right out the door and people just swore up and down that Apple/ATT would never allow that because it would cut into text messaging fee's. So, are these more baseless assumptions or do you have real examples of restrictions that are actually restrictive in the real world vs. the hypothetical land of illusion? Probably not, you?re just excited that you can now have an Ipod that connects to an Exchange server. Go Apple. See, there you go with the baseless ad hominem attacks again - nasty habit... And for the record, I'm more excited with the upcoming Lotus Notes push support that Apple panned - thank god I don't have to deal with Exchange (outlook isn't bad, but the back end is horrid). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Secure Internet Printing
Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/04/2008 07:57:36 PM: Don't? I think the term is an oxymoron, given the state of the IP stacks and other software on all printers I've heard of. Some vendors have a pretty good security posture. Lexmark, for one. We have an enterprise contract with them, and I was surprised at just how thorough they are. Turns out they sell quite a bit to the government and military spaces, and have been adding features as their various government and military clients have been asking for them. So not all vendors are clueless. Most of them, but not all :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Google/Dell rant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 01:01:03 PM: What part of uninstall for all users is not being understood? /rant You don't have a clean, standard image that you apply to each new machine? Easiest way to eliminate the crapware that gets bundled with new computers. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: InDesign vs QuarkXPress vs ... (was: Why do we buy software?)
Devin Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 11:34:41 AM: We have had Quark for years and will move to InDesign in the next few weeks. I am not in this loop, but I think it due to both cost and just plain problems that we have had with Quark running on the Windows platform over the years. I recall a conversation that Quark was written for the Mac and ported to windows (correct me if I am wrong). Yup, Quark started on the Mac - but it sucked over there too - just a poorly written app. InDesign finally got Quark to rewrite and clean up many of their issues, but it may be too late - the momentum seems to be clearly in Adobe's favor at this point. Those who have moved to the newer versions of Quark seem pretty happy with it. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Google/Dell rant
Sean Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 01:07:06 PM: I know EXACTLY what you mean, that annoys the piss out of me. We purchase a lot of Dell equipment and a majority of the PCs we get have that exact same issue. Image, image, image! Equipment has also shipped from vendors with viruses/malware on them... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Secure Internet Printing
Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 01:49:02 PM: What happens when you run a full-on Nessus scan against one? Most printers will implode long before it's done. We run routine nessus scans and so far no problems. That could be fun, maybe I'll run a full scan against one of our local Lexmark MFC's tonight and see what happens. Wouldn't surprise me if it does nothing to it. As I have said in the past, Lexmark is so far the ONLY printer vendor I have ever been able to give me documentation as to why their MFC being a fax and plugged into the network is not a security issue (and I am still happy to email that Whitepaper to anyone who asks me off list - several took me up on it last time). http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596_1179391791_0_en,00.html Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Treo question
Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 01:57:49 PM: Or the Sony XPERIA X1 will be out supposedly 2nd half 08... I'm drooling over this to the point of dehydration... (not really). Rumor has it it's really a HTC ODM design (hope they fix the video acceleration bug) I would recommend an HTC anything over Treo. I broke the screen on my HTC PPC 6700 and Sprint didn't have any screens to fix mine with, or any other PPC 6700's to give me so they offered me a Treo. Like an idiot I took it - I can't stand it. Compared to the HTC it's a brick. Can't wait for my contract to be up in August - hopefully the 3G iPhone will be out then. I won't be looking back... Apple has licensed Active Sync for those of you who are stuck with Exchange: http://www.macworld.com/article/132399/2008/03/enterprise.html and IBM is coming out with their own push solution for Notes. I've had it with Windows mobile. Now that the SDK is out, I'm sure someone will have an RDP client and I will be more then happy... BTW - if I was RIM, I would be crapping myself right about now too. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Bomgar remote control appliance
http://www.bomgar.com/ Anyone have or evaluate this? Comments? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Google/Dell rant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 03:23:51 PM: I'm in the process of making one now. Thing is, this is reallythe only crapware that they bungle with the PWS systems we've bought. Are you sure? How can you be sure? If you are going to go through the trouble of building an image, format the hard drive and start with a fresh install. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: iPhone gets ActiveSync support for Exchange
Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 03:46:24 PM: Ok, this is the big day! http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/iphone-heads-to-enterprise-ville-with -tktk-support/ or http://tinyurl.com/24gylb More then that... http://www.macworld.com/article/132376/2008/03/liveupdate.html SDK, remote wipe and a bunch of stuff. Read through the transcript - some of the applications that are already developed sound very, very cool! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Treo question
Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2008 04:01:36 PM: We tested a few HTC PPC 6700s at our business. Nobody liked them. And it?s only WM 5.0.If you are going to buy something now, spring for WM 6 or 6.1 WM 6 wasn't out when I got mine. And they didn't have any to replace mine with because the PPC 6800's (with WM6) were late :( We don?t like moving parts and sliding keyboards. We are accustomed to the treos, and using a device with one hand... The Treo's screen is half size because of the keyboard. The keyboard is also half the size on the Treo - I could type much faster on my HTC. Sliding out the keyboard is a two second affair - and it also rotates the screen into a much more friendly orientation for doing things that require the keyboard. Then again, you have never known the joys of having a larger screen - being stuck with that tiny square display. The phone app on the HTC was much more intelligently laid out - it was far easier to make call, switch between calls - basically everything related to the phone functionality was leaps and bounds better then the Treo. I mean, after all, it is supposed to be first and foremost a phone! I'm constantly amazed and appalled at how poor the phone management is on the Treo compared to the HTC - or any other phone for that matter. It?s just a preference. Sure. Your problem is you started with the Treo. You don't know any better :-) If you would ditch the Treo and use a PPC 6800 for a month, I would be interested to see if you really want to go back to a Treo or not. Oh yeah, you can do all the dialing for phone and most other stuff on the HTC's from the touch screen - with one hand. It's not necessary to have the full keyboard. I miss that also from my HTC - the touch screen buttons were much larger and easier to hit, and you didn't have to use near as many modifier keys as you do with the Treo's itty bitty keyboard. That's the problem with short term evaluations, you don't get to get into the nuances of the products :-) I can't wait to ditch this POS. If the 3G iPhone was out, I would seriously consider paying the early termination fee to dump it Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Smart Phone
I think Active Sync support for the iPhone in June my sway things a little. But just a little ;) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 03/06/2008 05:00 PM Subject: RE: Smart Phone Treos and HTC devices seem to be the overwhelming favorites at the moment. Joe Heaton From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Smart Phone Anything new in the smartphone with Activesync arena? Salesman needs a new gadget and I haven?t followed the scene in ages. What are you guys using with Mobile OS 6 that?s stable and workin well? Thanks, jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: server options
Louis, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/04/2008 09:54:47 AM: The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to save some money and are getting an Equallogic. Why even have disks in the servers? Just boot from SAN... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Best practices in setting up a web site with IIS
Jim McAtee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/29/2008 06:51:07 PM: The first approach is done in DNS, which is pretty straightforward. (BTW, I'm not sure about best practices, but I've never liked using 'www.subdomain.domain.com' host names. There's no reason to prepend the www. except where it's expected at the topmost level. People seldom type in these sub-host names manually, so are unlikely to add a www.) Like them or not, I would still configure DNS to answer both ways (with and without) as many people type www automatically - for everything Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?
Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/29/2008 07:09:02 PM: The connection is between an HP 4108gl chassis, which all our users are plugged into, and a Cisco 3560 layer 3 switch, which is doing the routing between the VLANs on the HP. So all traffic outside the subnet the servers are on, comes in the HP, goes over to the Cisco, then comes back to the HP to hit the servers. Then does the reverse to get back to the workstations... So all your server/workstation traffic is being shuffled - twice - across one gigabit port? Isn't that the classic definition of a bottleneck? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
QA with Amazon about the Server 2008 Security Resource Kit
Question 6: In your opinion, which network faces the biggest security risks today: the small office with multiple power users or large corporation with a large LUA base? Answer 6: The unmanaged networks. I have seen very well managed and very secure networks in both small and large organizations, and I have seen poorly managed and very insecure networks in both as well. It is not really a matter of size but of how much time and effort is put into the security aspects of it. One of the largest weaknesses seems to be training. Security today is about end-points. The attacks are against people [emphasis mine] far more prevalent than those against technology and vulnerabilities. We need to, as an industry, understand how to push the security out to the assets that we are trying to protect. Another great article by Jesper: http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/02/28/q-amp-a-with-amazon-about-the-server-2008-security-resource-kit.aspx Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Gmail - how do you get a human to help with an account issue?
Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/29/2008 08:45:24 AM: I know they're aiming to make a self-service system, but they need to have a human at least monitoring that processing and able to intervene when needed. No they don't. Yahoo is just as bad in this regard. Once I locked myself out of a Yahoo account that had some stuff I needed to be able to get to, I decided that the free systems were just too expensive. I set up an account with Apples .Mac (I have several Mac's at home too) and haven't looked back. On the few occasions I have needed assistance, I was able to get it. It sometimes takes more then 24 hours, but I do get a response from a real human. For less then $10 a month, I get an ISP agnostic email account, and bunches of other benefits - esp. with OSX 10.5 - but I was happy with just the stable email support. There are other fee based email systems out there that cost less - I think if you look around you can find something that will give you a human for support - I just like the mix of features I get with .Mac. I have a gmail account I use for stuff I don't care about and as a throw away address, but I would never do anything important in there... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Updates that may/may not affect you
Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/29/2008 12:18:28 PM: How do you guys handle Microsoft updates that don't seem to affect you? For instance, the WebDAV patch recently. I was looking at the KB and security bulletin, didn't know what WebDAV was, so Googled it, looked at the wikipedia entry, went to ask our web developer about it, and he didn't know what WebDAV was, so I'm guessing we're not using it here. So should I still install the update, or is it not needed? If you are not going to disable it, you should patch it. WebDAV is a file transfer protocol, similar to FTP - the client is built into Windows Explorer. You might have users or applications using it to access things that neither you nor they are aware of. I would patch it... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: DPM 2007 vs BUE/Commvault/etc ?
Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/29/2008 02:14:38 PM: DPM uses shadow copy from what I've gleaned...gives you much more flexibility when it comes to restores... Actually, they both provide similar functionality for restores - they just use different methods to provide it. Commvault also has much more functionality then DPM - esp. for non-Microsoft software. Once again, it comes down to what your requirements are. Commvault is an awesome backup system, but it could be overkill for some folks whereas DPM could be a perfect fit. If you know what your absolute requirements are, followed by your nice to have's you can then do an objective match to a products features and make a cost effective selection. To do something like that the right way generally takes at least a few weeks of effort - maybe more. I spent a few months doing analysis for storage before selecting our solution - so far it was worth the initial effort. I know Planning is a dirty word to most of us IT Geeks :-) but it really is a Good Thing (tm). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Anything against implementing WDS?
Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/26/2008 04:27:15 PM: Unless I'm missing something, it still doesn't work with Outlook 2k7?? The IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search that I linked to works just fine with 2K3 and 2K7, and it's no where near the pig that WDS is... http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/emailsearch/requirements Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Scripted SQL Backups
Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/27/2008 01:00:12 PM: This is one of the things I don't like about MySQL... There isn't a way to perform a hot backup, since a MySQL backup really is just a script to recreate the database. Huh? http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=19 That's just one reference... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Windows Moblie - desktop access?
Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/25/2008 05:17:11 PM: Does Windows Mobile allow you to connect to the network, and basically work as if you're at a desktop? Yes http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/07/02/windows-mobile-remote-desktop-connection/ Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: FYI: Security boffins unveil BitUnlocker
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/25/2008 09:28:44 PM: As far as I know, if you're using a host-based crypto system, where the CPU is doing the work, the keys have to be stored in RAM. There's no way around it. No? Watch Intel put the TMP module on die instead of the memory controller Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Fw: 2008.02.18 NANOG 42 Keynote talk--Amazon, and taming complex systems
Fascinating read - if you read through the meeting minutes with the presentation you can follow along. Good stuff! Would have been a great presentation to attend. BTW - NANOG = North American Network Operators Group (i.e. telco's, ISP's, large organizations, etc.) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar - Forwarded by Eric E Eskam on 02/26/2008 01:16 PM - From: Matthew Petach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NANOG list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02/18/2008 04:05 PM Subject: 2008.02.18 NANOG 42 Keynote talk--Amazon, and taming complex systems Wow. I just gotta say again--wow! Kudos to Josh for pulling in a very key pair of speakers on a very important topic for all of us. I stopped jotting down notes from the slides, and focused on what they were saying very quickly, because the lessons learned are so crucial for any network attempting to scale. Apologies in advance for typos, etc. that leapt in while I was typing. And definitely read through the presentation--I thought we were doing well at rolling out datacenters in 5 weeks, but these guys completed pwned us, rolling out datacenters in two weeks!! URL for talk is at http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0802/keynote.html Matt 2008.02.18 Amazon Keynote Talk Josh Snowhorn introduces the keynote speaker as the program committee member who got Amazon to present. Tom Killalea, VP of technology, Dan Cohn, principle engineer Earth's most consumer-centric company for the past 13 years Consumers Sellers Developers Consumers and Sellers Provide a place where people can find and discover anything they may want to buy online 800,000 sq foot warehouse in Nevada, have about 13 buildings spread around doing fullfillment. Sortation devices make sure the right people get the right products. Software Developers Web Scale computing services... want to give people access to their resources; free up developers from doing the heavy lifing of launching a web service, and focus on the interesting bits. Don't deal with Muck, focus on APIs. Let developers focus on delivering solutions. Developers want a few key items: Storage Computing Queues Queries bandwidth utilized (Amazon web services and website) the orange line is the historical website traffic. The blue line is vendor services, the web services business is now a larger bandwidth consumer than the internal websites. They've been doing rapid growth, but have also increased the ratio of network devices to engineers. Jim Gray A plantetary-scale distributed system operated by a single part time operator. Can we provide infrastructure muck so the network engineers don't have to worry about it? Goal is to abstract it as much as possible. How should we trade off consistency, availability, and network partition tolerance (CAP) Eric Brewer claims you can have at most 2 of these invariants for any shared-data system This is a challenge of tradeoffs; hard consistency is nearly impossible in very large systems, you deal with versioning. Real-time dynamic dependency discovery? Goal is to not have it be a static system. Recovery-oriented computing? Can you protect yourself from downstream damage? Communications infrastructure that scale infinitely Answers involve taking a holistic view MAYA, Machine Anomaly Analyzer maps server to remote service being called, showing latency and health of the remote service All of the content is scheduled by people, so the dependency tree is different over time; can't keep track of it over time, but you want to see what's happening right at the moment. They show a call to the main amazon page, and all the tendrils are remote calls that have to happen before the main page gets rendered. Simplicity, auto-configuratabiliy across the whole infrastructure stack Needs a different approach to engineering; put the cycle together, share objectives across the different engineering disciplines involved in building and designing the system. Other constraints Software above the level of a single device Tim O'Reilly Client requests come in to page rendering components, then request routing to aggregator servcies, which have request routing to services such as Dynamo, S3, order database, etc. Applications with fault zones wider than a single rack. (melted servers shown) fault zones wider than a single datacenter Latency graphs--a significant issue Orange reads, red writes; average latency, and 99.9% latencies. Very accute attention paid to both; look at the bad as well as average. Aim for 99.9% latency, to see how they do with convergence time, and fast restoration. Change management maintenance windows (none) latency considerations availability considerations With no maintenance windows, they have to be very sensitive to latency and availability
Re: Internet Restrictions
Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/26/2008 02:12:47 PM: I have a user that can?t play by the rules. Well? more than the others. He can only use one computer, and it?s for ordering parts and checking the company email. (Hosted off-site). I need a program that I can monitor remotely, that can restrict internet usage to ?approved? sites, and that is low on the price. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. google for squid Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Anything against implementing WDS?
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/emailsearch Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 02/26/2008 04:07 PM Subject: Re: Anything against implementing WDS? Then you never tried the Lookout tool that MS purchased and then depricated in favor of WDS. Lookout was 10x as fast for Outlook as WDS. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Malcolm Reitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The integration with Windows Desktop Search is my favorite part of Outlook 2007. It makes finding email sooo much easier. Malcolm -Original Message- From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 03:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anything against implementing WDS? I think the trend is not to organize but to search for it, at least that the new world order according to Google :) I'm thinking about deploying it but keep it disabled and give the user an option to enable it. that should satisfy the few who want it and the rest don't care. Need to investigate now how to best do that. regards Osama Salah -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:07 PMd To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anything against implementing WDS? To give this thread, I too am curious about people's experience managing Desktop Search programs. I have a few users that have used it; it involves the occasional slowness of their machine, and corrupted indexes from time to time. Other than that, not much of a pain. We used cached mode in outlook, so our server is not taking a hit... Personally, I fear these programs will replace normal organizing of correspondence that we require our users to perform. Thoughts? -Original Message- From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anything against implementing WDS? Neither, sorry didn't realize there are so many WDS's I meant Windows Desktop Search. rgds OS -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anything against implementing WDS? WDS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System or http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/windows deploymentservices.mspx? I assume that it's the former rather than the latter. There are 2 big drawbacks against WDS: * each hop cuts the bandwidth in *half* * Your security is severely limited - the only real access control options are WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK. Anything else is proprietary to the AP vendor you use. Lack of standardization is the cause of the second point. Osama Salah wrote: are there any drawbacks, disadvantages, pitfalls in implementing WDS in the company (about 1000) users? We have never used and a few users asked for it. I was wondering if there is anything I should be careful about or if it's all roses. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- Disclaimer: This communication contains information that is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, distribution or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this communication or the information in it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. -- ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- Disclaimer: This communication contains information that is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, distribution or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this communication or the information in it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you
RE: Lenovo?
Vincent Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2008 10:21:19 PM: I am not arguing this at all. I am saying for the day to day business that I do dealing with mid-size companies that do not have the ?Pay for better service option with Dell? ? their out of box warranties are inferior to IBM/Lenovo. My experience ? your mileage may vary. So what you are saying is, they aren't disciplined enough to spend the $40 extra for business class service and need a vendor like Lenovo that just bundles it in and doesn't give you a choice? Gotcha! Heck, with that attitude I'm surprised they aren't at Staples buying Acer laptops with Vista home edition sigh Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Looking to hire US SCOM/MOM expert
Bruce Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/23/2008 05:18:25 PM: Thanks for the tip, but I think one spam a day is enough for now. I'll wait and see how many flames I get from ntsysadmin first. Well, since Rod runs myitforum.com and he invited you to post there, I think you are safe :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: EFS and decrypting files
Greg Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/23/2008 04:16:33 AM: Both the original certificate and data recovery agent used in the encryption were lost in the crash and applying new ones gives me the denied message. Am I up the creek? Kind of hard to decrypt without the encryption keys :( Hope you have an unencrypted backup (first rule when using encryption!) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: CS Forum
Lumumba, Juma \(ILRI-ICRAF\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/25/2008 03:28:52 AM: My responsibilities have since changed and will be more on the Customer services side of things. Does anybody know of a good IT Cusomer services newsgroup or forum? Get your company to join the Held Desk Institute: http://www.thinkhdi.com It's cheap and you get a ton of stuff from them. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Lenovo?
Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/24/2008 02:43:26 PM: Dell: Kind of a scam on the sales side. They show you the best price around, but unless you are a knowledgeable shopper, you are going to end up with a crappy warranty. Hmm, Cnet doesn't agree with you: Dell's baseline warranty lasts for three years--once the standard among corporate laptops but now somewhat rare; its inclusion of next-business-day, onsite service is further beyond the business norm. Of course, toll-free, 24-7 tech support is also part of the term. In addition, you can attempt to troubleshoot your own issues using various features on the great Dell support Web site, which provides FAQs, troubleshooting tips, real-time chats with a support representative, and a user forum. http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/dell-latitude-d630-intel/4505-3121_7-32445398.html Now again, if you are buying the consumer version of their laptops, then I don't know what you are complaining about. I go back to my Acer/Staples comment. Being informed really isn't that hard. Heck, as (I hope) an IT professional, it's your job to understand these nuances. That happens to be the laptop I am typing on right now - it's my full time machine and I have next day service with it. Our techs are also Dell certified and can get parts in 4 hours with a simple phone call. Other vendors offer similar services, but Dell is the easiest BY FAR to work with to get this level of support. It just depends on what you are interested in - the good thing is, there is a choice :-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: That's the Govt for ya
Um, if you look closely, he quoted E-Mall (electronic mall selling firm's products) How a mall for selling products (probably better know as a web store or e-commerce site - bad choice of terminology on their part) translates into an email address is the real puzzler... There go those darn citizens that flunk reading comprehension ;-) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar From: John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 02/25/2008 01:39 PM Subject: RE: That's the Govt for ya So ?E-mail? = ?website.? Crazy internets. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: That's the Govt for ya So, I?m filling out an SBA form, and it asks for my ?E-Mall (electronic mall selling firm's products):? I put in an e-mail address and I get a popup error. It says: ERROR, Email must begin with http:// or https://. Hmm?. Dave === Beach Computers Affordable Hosting Solutions http://www.beachcomp.com === Cheap Domain Warehouse Get Your Own Dot! http://www.cheapdomainwarehouse.com Disclaimer and confidentiality note: The contents of this communication are intended/meant only for addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The contents of this e-mail shall not be forwarded to any third party. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email, so that the sender's address records can be corrected. Views and opinions are solely those of the sender unless clearly indicated as being that of Beach Computers or any of it's affiliated companies. Beach Computers cannot assure that the integrity of this communication has been maintained or that it is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Good Friday Morning
Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2008 08:50:53 AM: List, Today is moving day for me, I will be relocating our data center to our brand, spanking new building starting at noon and going until the job is complete. Your tips, tricks, thoughts and prayers are coveted during this time, as my list involvement will be next to nothing over the weekend. Good luck! I coordinated a data center move in a past life and it was quite an experience! Hopefully by now you have everything documented and a plan for what order to bring your stuff back up. And people you trust physically moving everything :) We had the new space pre-wired and ready to go for power and network, so it was as simple as setting the racks in place, plugging in the PDU's, re-racking all the equipment, then plugging it all back in. Took the better part of a day, and we had some clean up over the next week but it was nice once everything was back up and working! Oh yeah, count on a few hard drives dying. I think we had two - luckily in different RAID groups - that failed to spin back up. That goes without saying - having at least one good backup of everything - I had two ;) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Lenovo?
Vincent Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/21/2008 11:27:18 PM: I guess you are used to mediocre support because a far as I am concerned Dell support is mediocre at best... sigh... If you only pay for basic support, you get basic support service - how hard is that to understand? As someone else pointed out, Gold Support is a fairly inexpensive add on. Dell gives you the choice - you can save money and get no-frill's support, or you can pay a little more and get top-flight service. You can also extend the warranty out to five years - and that is also at a fairly nominal cost compared to the cost of the system. If you want longer warranties, you can get them from third parties like Trident systems. Dell's hard cap at five years is my only complaint with them - it's not a big deal with desktops, but it is annoying for servers. If you spent more time listening and less time being flip and sarcastic, the above might be more obvious - unless you had no intention of being reasonable and just have an axe to grind. But I assure you, the Dell support we receive is not mediocre. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
