RE: Interview Q ideas

Correct Z.V., I wasn't hired to make the decisions, I was hired to find the best solution to the decisions that have already been made and it's my responsibility to "make it happen" the cheapest, easiest and most reliable way possible that will provide the most security to the users, data and the

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

Thanks Steve, Good call...but we checked this earlier thinking there was a script pointing to an old server. We even when as far as to "disconnect" the mapped drives and run the net use command to reestablish them. No luck yet :¬( -Jeff. >-Original Message- >From: Steve Ens [mailto:[E

Re: mapped drives - having no FREE space

Hey Jeff, check his logon script...sometimes this causes mapped issues. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Jeff Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fascinating question David, > > The same exact results do come when the user logs onto other computers. > That was covered in the original email I po

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

Fascinating question David, The same exact results do come when the user logs onto other computers. That was covered in the original email I posted below. The ISO image as a drive was an interesting question...unfortunately the user has no such devices connected. Thanks. - Jeff >-Origin

RE: Heat and Power calculations

To help with BTU in the future, multiply wattage by pi (3.14 is good for rough numbers) -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Heat and Power calculations hi, Does anyone on this list

RE: What is it about these names?

just dyslexia ... have you heard about the dyslexic agnostics ? They lay awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog ! _ From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: What is it about these names?

Re: Grant permissions to register DLL to non Admin

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Eric Wittersheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way I can grant my developers permissions to register dll files > to their local machine with out giving them local admin privies? I doubt this could be done to any effective gain. Even if you created a w

Re: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Group, I really appreciate the feedback. Slow and steady wins the race, right? If Mozy backs up the data reliably, albeit slowly at first, then the job is done right and that's what matters. I'll give it another whirl the remainder of this week to finish my backup and concentrate on what a

RE: Interview Q ideas

CEO's, DEAN's, and directors get to make these type of decisions. Who are we to argue? You said it yourself that the CEO is quiet smart about technology. If they screw up their machines then so what? We fix it again and again and again. If the CEO said we will switch to all open source, so what? W

RE: Heat and Power calculations

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RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

If you really were wouldn't that be in the form of a Haiku? /ducks -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML emai

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

I think I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics

RE: What is it about these names?

I used to work for a guy who told us he was delexious...the words he came up with were hilarous From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is it about these names? I'm ca

RE: What is it about these names?

Yeah, couple oopsies there. It's what I get for rushing on an email to get to a meeting. I blame meetings. -- Mike Gill > -Original Message- > From: Suhail Muhammed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Cc: NT System Admin Iss

RE: Interview Q ideas

I ended up asking him very close to #6 actually. I did a very open "A user calls and tells you they can't log in, what do you do?". This guy assumed (as many probably would) that I meant "log in to the network". Since I have got these very ambiguous calls I know "can't log in" can mean network, app

RE: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Mozy captures delta changes after the initial full backup. My initial 10 GB backup took most of a weekend, but the nightly changes usually complete in 10 minutes or less. It processes my open PST file each night. Now, I haven't actually tried restoring my file since it's in the 3 GB range, but I

Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

LOL - touche 2008/4/9 Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > According to the Chinese -- there are no Japanese. > > > -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 spor

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

According to the Chinese -- there are no Japanese. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email Nah, its Ja

Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

Nah, its Japanese. 2008/4/9 Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That would only be blocked in Tibet. > > -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:10 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically

Re: for old timers

The towers were before my time, but I heard all sorts of stories while working at Eastman Software. Eastman Software became eiStream which later became Global 360. When I was at ES before and after Y2K, they never saw profitability and had many layoffs. I can only imagine what happened after I

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

LOL, I wish it was that simple..it's the darn office docs that freaked me out... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

What if the user logs into another system? Has the user loaded any software that supports mounting ISO images as drives or maybe a USB drive/s is installed and is acquiring the same drive letter/s as the mapped drive? Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: Jeff Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Heat and Power calculations

http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/calc/Power%20Calculator%20Catalog.xls …Tim > -Original Message- > From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:21 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Heat and Power calculations > > hi, > > Does anyone

Heat and Power calculations

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Re: Grant permissions to register DLL to non Admin

I would put them in their own domain and let them have at it. Most dev houses I've worked at have had to succumb to that to mitigate work stoppages. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Eric Wittersheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is there any way I can grant my developers permissions to re

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

That would only be blocked in Tibet. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email ミスターのおかげで無料です。これはまさに私が必要に

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

Yep, its pretty sad. I cant remember the last time I saw anything that was hours and not days. I dont know how they get away with that verbiage in the contracts. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Charlie Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

ミスターのおかげで無料です。これはまさに私が必要に応じて！ On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Free, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably the symptom in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817878/ > > When you open file attachments that are considered safe, Outlook 2003 > places these attachments in a subdirectory under the you

RE: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Jeremy; I've been using Mozy Pro for some time and like the product. However, it does take a while for the initial backup to complete but after that the backups are great. We do throttle the bandwith. However, we only use for laptop users. I recommend to laptop users that the best time to bac

RE: What is it about these names?

I think it is just like you were thinking "at" and typed "as". "I mean they literally look as the word and say it wrong." Sorry, couldn't resist! :) Suhail __ For every child Health, Education, Equality, Protection ADVANCE HUMANITY From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: for old timers

Micheal, you are right; just checked out the rooftop from Google Earth. On my visits, I wasn't fortunate enough to arrive by helicopter but had to use the front door... One of my ex Wang colleagues told me that after the liquidation, the towers were sold in 1992 for $500,000! Wang Imaging was a

ASR vs full backup

Hi, I'm trying to schedule a nightly full backup of my SBS 2003 server. Ntbackup backs up the OS and the data drives plus the system state. I'm testing this for making an ASR bare metal restore. However It fails after trying to restore the system state. I've tested a previous ASR backup (usin

Grant permissions to register DLL to non Admin

All, Is there any way I can grant my developers permissions to register dll files to their local machine with out giving them local admin privies? They are using the Gacutil from VS 2008 to try to register them. All of their computers are XP SP2 fully patched and are in a Windows 2000/2003 domai

RE: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Good considerations. For PSTs, good luck backing them up. 9 Times out of 10, if a Laptop is powered on, Outlook is open and the PST will be locked. As for Mozy, by default it throttles speeds for you, it's customizable. You don't won't it maxing out your upload speeds anyway... the point is t

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Charlie Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you talk to HP these days, their "4 hour" service contracts are "best > effort" now. We've been bitten twice by that. Took 3 days to get the > part when they had a depot issue and then UPS lost the shipment. Wow.

Re: Interview Q ideas

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Tom Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our CEO is quite smart when it comes to technology however, he has > stated to my upper managers he does not like to be controlled or > protected to the point he cannot override the system. Have you tried actually workin

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

Careful with that pr0n! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal emb

Re: Interview Q ideas

Oh, come now. Keeping your resume up to date is *always* good advice. Even if you have a good job now, thing happen - who knows, someone might come knocking with a 30% pay raise and the job of your dreams. At least, that's one of my recurring dreams, anyway... :) On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:53 A

Re: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Sam, Good to know. I'm thinking of deploying something very simple to just backup office files so when a user's hd dies we can recover the data. This is also only for those pita users who refuse to store their data on the server (read executives) and for my true road warriors for whom it ma

RE: OT: What is it about these names?

As in poeple on a roeple??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: What is it about these names? Well, they're poeple here... -- Richard Mc

Re: What is it about these names?

True. Only Firefox users are all that smart. They can read - more than two (IE) letters, even. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Foxfire users aren't the smartest folks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wedn

RE: Domain Controller HD setup

-Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain Controller HD setup Is there something wrong with using NTBACKUP to write the System State to tape, removable HDD, or optical disc on a reg

Re: mapped drives - having no FREE space

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Jeff Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All 3 mapped drives for one user indicates 36.0 KB. What if you try to copy a 100 KB file to the mapped drive. Does it work? Have you checked Event Viewer for any useful messages? What about the logs under C:\WINDOWS

RE: What is it about these names?

You're a braver man than I gave you credit for Mr. Trent. ;-) From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is it about these names? Foxfire users aren't the smartest folks. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: What is it about these names?

Well, they're poeple here... -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Micheal Espinola Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/09/2008 03:27:42 PM: > Are you

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

Reading this thread is somewhat amusing. I think people have been reading the best practices docs for so long they've stopped thinking about why the docs say what they do. Adding a server to put the DC on separate hardware from Exchange does not increase availability. In fact, it *decreases*

Re: OT: What is it about these names?

Are you surrounded by dyslexic people? On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm can't get over how many people around me mispronounce Firefox; Foxfire, > and Linksys; Linsky (as in ski). Am I the only one? I mean they literally > look as the word and say i

RE: What is it about these names?

Foxfire users aren't the smartest folks. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is it about these names? I hear ya. If I had a dime for every time my users said foxfire... lol. From: Mike

Re: Interview Q ideas

I like doing what-if scenarios in interviews For example in #6, a user states their PC is not on connecting to the Internet, how do you isolate the problem? This shows how well they know their stuff on the net side of things. As they isolate the problem down one branch, take care of some assum

RE: For anyone that has done a silent install of SQL 2005

Michael, Thanks for the help, I got squared away now, plus the silent install for SP2. Working like a charm. There was a ADDLOCAL statements that are legit in the documentation online and in the M$ land but when you put them in the template.ini it bombs. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Li

RE: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

Nope, Sata is hot-swappable. They show up as fixed, local disks. -Original Message- From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server Whe

RE: What is it about these names?

I don't know Max. I guess they just can't read. From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: What is it about these names? I'm can't get over how many people around me mispronounce Firefox; Foxfire, and L

RE: What is it about these names?

I hear ya. If I had a dime for every time my users said foxfire... lol. From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: What is it about these names? I'm can't get over how many people around me mispronounce Firefox

RE: What is it about these names?

Hehe. I was staying at a hotel back in December and never could get connected to the "Lynskie" wireless network that the front desk told me to connect to (no SSID broadcast). Took me a bit to figure out why. I've gotten the Foxfire thing from techs of one of our academic software. That certainly

RE: What is it about these names?

I'm can't help but guess they're dyslexic. From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: What is it about these names? I'm can't get over how many people around me mispronounce Fir

RE: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

When you connect the drive via eSata is it still listed as a removable drive? If not, that means you have to take the system down to disconnect, right. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

OT: What is it about these names?

I'm can't get over how many people around me mispronounce Firefox; Foxfire, and Linksys; Linsky (as in ski). Am I the only one? I mean they literally look as the word and say it wrong. -- Mike Gill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Charlie Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depending on the frequency of changes to the AD data, I'd > drop the VM DC at least once a month and copy those files to a backup > device somewhere. Is there something wrong with using NTBACKUP to write the System Stat

RE: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

I had these issues too... Moved to eSata and life has been great even since. You will like the speed boost when it comes to restoring your data! My speed trials yield substantial improvements in restore times. -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

I know the OP. A lot of communicating between offices. Just needs practical setup so he doesn't have to take his corp down to retrofit something later. - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:00 PM Sub

Re: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

I tried the USB 2.0 PCI/xpress card and a dual tailed USB cable. Neither have worked. My USB drive is not support by WD on servers so I don't have much wiggle room on thier end. If it was me I would try the SATA card and see what you get. I have 4 hotfixes from MS on my box now and still don't

Re: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

In my case is a SBS 2003 running Exchange. I recently purchased a PCI USB 2.0 card, however, the 250 WD Elements works completely fine... Should I just get another brand or test the drive buying a SATA card? Miguel --- "David W. McSpadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I am getting the same

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have roughly 80Gb of crap that we'll need to store for File Sharing. > > Not being flip here but you need a lot more space than what you have. Hmmm... even if you just mirrored two of the 146 GB drives... and threw the r

Re: Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

I am getting the same thing using a 250 WD Passport. On a DL380 G5. I have an open ticket with MS support right now they can't get it nailed down. I do know when I stop Doubletake my latency goes away even though the backup drive and USB drive are not in the replication set. - Original Mess

Re: Domain Controller HD setup

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Aaron T. Rohyans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 x 73Gb SATA and 3 x 146Gb SATA Given that: I'd mirror the two 73 GB drives. I'd install the OS to a 20 or 30 GB partition on the mirror set. I'd defrag the filesystem, fix the size of the swap file, but leave it

Delayed Write Error while using ntbackup with USB drives in 2003 server

Hi, I'm using ntbackup successfully in a 250 Gb WD external USB unit. I bought a 750 Seagate drive and enclosure to be able to keep more backups. However I get a delayed writer error, although the backups seems to be fine (I can open it). I fear that although it looks good the backups are not b

RE: for old timers

64K? Luxury. In my day, computin' required a stack of punch cards, a slightly undertrained monkey, an old lady with horn-rimmed glasses named Gladys, a teletype terminal and an original copy of a franciscian prayer book. And we were happy to have it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

RE: Interview Q ideas

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RE: Interview Q ideas

There's been several recommendations to look for another job, but frankly, I don't see a necessity for that. There will always be people at the top of the heap who want to play outside the sandbox. In a lot of cases, it's how they got to the top of the heap and how they made the business successful

RE: BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

I love BackupExec, but can't stand DLO. It's a pain to configure and set exclusions. I had like 4 support cases open once to do a simple exclusion of My Music / My Pictures, but continue to back up *.* in My Docs. It stumped their 'scripted' support team. I'm sure it's doable, but no thanks at

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RE: Trimming SQL log files (*.LDF Files) - SQL v8

I've seen this happen on different recovery models in SQL db's. In a bulk-logged, someone will change the model to simple and the trans log backups start failing. Also, once you get a good full db backup, I'd let SQL do the shrinking itself by setting the db to auto shrink. Then run the tran lo

BUE Desktop/Laptop Option

Anyone have any experience with this product? I'm trying a demo of BUE12 in my lab and I've started playing with this feature. A lot to learn but so far so good. Wondering if there's gotchas waiting that aren't obvious at first. Even if you only have experience with the 11d version I'd appr

DriveImageXML failure

Greetings! I have a 74 Gb image, created by DriveImageXML, from a Dell PWS 380. The time has come to restore... It says the 74.5 Gb volume must be at least as large as the 74 Gb image... (That is, the volume is in fact as large as the image, but the restore claims otherwise and will not run.

Re: Interview Q ideas

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RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

Probably the symptom in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817878/ When you open file attachments that are considered safe, Outlook 2003 places these attachments in a subdirectory under the your Temporary Internet Files directory as an extra precaution. When Outlook 2003 first tries to use a temporar

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

Some of the droppings Outlook leaves behind in that location (think attachments) is pretty scary from an information disclosure perspective. Take a look on a machine that is heavily used for email that hasn't had the TIF emptied in a while. I discovered this *feature* some time ago so I now routin

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

Thanks Bonnie, We "Disabled Quotas" on the server without change to this one user who still sees only "36.0 KB" on all the mapped drives...and on every computer in the department she logs onto. We also moved her to another object in the AD...away from any policies, again no change. Any

RE: Trimming SQL log files (*.LDF Files) - SQL v8

You have to have two separate jobs - one to back up the database and one to back up the transaction logs. When the tranlog backup is complete, it should flush completed transactions from the tranlog. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Mal

AV for thin clients ?

Chaps, Whats the opinion about AV for thin clients? Given that we use XPe based units, which are more or less function machines, and that the time between reboots of them (and thus a 'reset' of the running files) is large, is there a good reason for AV to be installed on a thin client? I th

RE: Interview Q ideas

Fill his computer full of viruses so that he can't do any work. Utterly unprofessional, very immature and possibly illegal, but would probably get him back onside;-> -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 April 2008 18:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: Interview Q ideas

"Bob Fronk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/09/2008 01:33:21 PM: > Just keep documentation that you have been told to ignore policy and/or > standard procedures, so when he brings the whole network down one day, > you can point to it and say "told ya". And be sure to wave when they then turn arou

Re: Interview Q ideas

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RE: for old timers

I had a ZX-81 with 1K of memory for my first computer. I then moved on to the mighty 16K Spectrum. Once onto the 128K +2, some games took over an hour to load, meaning that I could never get out of doing homework. And today's kids whinge about load times on the Xbox! They've obviously never waited

RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

Cool--glad it helped. I never remember who is on both lists. I remember having to use all my google-fu to find this the first time I saw it. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

I think a Disk Quota or use of the "File Server Resource Manager" in any event has Global consequences, but in this case only one user is being affected. -Jeff >-Original Message- >From: Mike French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:36 AM >To: NT System Admin I

RE: for old timers

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Re: for old timers

Something to note about the old Wang tower: The building forms the letter W when seen from the sky. This was [I guess] to impress visitors flying in via the helipad on the roof. I'm somewhat of a local and spent some time at Eastman Kodak which was previously a software division at Wang before K

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RE: Trimming SQL log files (*.LDF Files) - SQL v8

Have a good backup before you do that. You lose the ability to restore transactions since the last backup. Actually, the backup job should be shrinking the log files for you. Are you sure you have it configured correctly? Malcolm From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed

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RE: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

We have a similar issue resolved by flushing this folder. There is a user who cannot open adobe attachments. One of my guys wrote her a batch file to run when this happens. Bob Fronk > -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09,

RE: Interview Q ideas

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RE: Interview Q ideas

And keep your resume up to date -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Interview Q ideas Get it in writing and obey. :-) Also, audit what he does... It's his company, so if he wan

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RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

Thanks Bob, Interesting because we were scheduled for a T1 voice/data circuit..."cut date" was Friday. This was postponed. The IAD is offline and no steps where taken. Originally the department manager felt it was IT because of the scheduled disruption. So, it stands that global shares and per

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Re: for old timers

Well Ray [and all of us old "Wangers"], don't know if you ever went to the towers but it is quite sad to see it now: http://alum.wpi.edu/~tfraser/Stories/Wang/index.html This bloke's site is quite interesting and has lots of old hardware for those that are interested. On the 09/04/2008 17:52, R

Re: Outlook 2003 sporadically blocks internal embedded graphics in HTML email

:-) I just wrote you a little 'thank you' in the Exchange thread. Your solution was spot-on. The folder in question for me was: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK5E Flushing that folder instantly resolved the image display problem I was sporadically having. On Wed, Apr

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