Re: OT Friday: Wilkinson Sword: Mow the Lawn

Racial stereotype in there? I must have missed it within all that WIN. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Seen online at the end of my Friday. Probably SFW unless you have > some radical FemiNazi types hanging around ... > > Seen on Instapundit http://www.paj

OT Friday: Wilkinson Sword: Mow the Lawn

Seen online at the end of my Friday. Probably SFW unless you have some radical FemiNazi types hanging around ... Seen on Instapundit http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/ WOMEN’S RAZOR AD: Mow the Lawn. “This UK TV commercial for the Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women Bikini razor w

RE: Redundant Print Servers

Hi, That was what the customer decided to do. The alternative was sticking print servers out in several hundred branch offices (to support 2-3 client PCs each). And in Australia a branch office can be a whole days drive there/back for a support technician - so they get quite expensive to mainta

RE: Perhaps a dumb GPO question...

This isn't the project I'm working on, but I know we're pushing out Office 2007 as a PoC right now via GPOs and SCCM 2007, so it's definitely possible to do. I can make some inquiries next week... Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: View PAE setting on W2K8

Instead of two levels of page tables to navigate through, you have three. So effectively looking up where something is stored in memory is 50% longer for that phase. That said, looking up where something is in RAM is very fast. Most machines are bottlenecked somewhere else (e.g. waiting for user

RE: View PAE setting on W2K8

On x86: PAE is required for DEP (Data Execution Prevention) because the NX (No Execute) bit is stored in one of the extra bits that become available in the page table. Thus even if you don't have >4GB of physical RAM in your box, PAE will always be enabled on Vista/Windows Server 2008 for this s

Re: R: Run As Command

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >  I never actually log on to the local admin account of the computer > on my desk.  I just have a RUNAS'ed CMD prompt, and sometimes an > Explorer window from it. I use the MakeMeAdmin script from this page for this. ===

Re: Run As Command

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Cameron Cooper wrote: > No, the users won’t have the local admin password.  We would like it to work > this way…. User logs into the computer (with power user permissions) and > then double clicks an icon on the desktop.  When the program loads it uses > the local

Re: RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

I just used this yesterday to migrate 12 printers from one 2003 server to another. Brought them all over except for one printer for some reason. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: R: Run As Command

Oops Meant to say that all users are Standard Users and not Power Users... Aye Saturday can't come soon enough! _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com

Re: Run As Command

Ditto here with tools such as Total Commander. One caveat of course, is that any userdata assigned (Documents and Settings\Username\Bla Bla) during the RUNAS, will be for the Admin account. -- Peter van Houten On the 03/04/2009 20:38, Ben Scott wrote the following: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:26 P

RE: Run As Command

No, the users won't have the local admin password. We would like it to work this way User logs into the computer (with power user permissions) and then double clicks an icon on the desktop. When the program loads it uses the local admin permissions without prompting the user for the local

Re: R: Run As Command

That's good to know. Thanks for that Tip On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, wrote: > > True! That's why, once I did a total wipe on my desktop machine, I've > been > > running with lowest level rights. The only "trick" I had to learn was >

Re: View PAE setting on W2K8

Isn't PAE a non-trivial memory performance hit? Or perhaps it used to be non-trivial, but newer memory technologies are fast enough to make it trivial today? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Ben Scott Subject: Re: View PAE setting on W2K8 > On Fri, Apr

Re: R: Run As Command

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, wrote: > True!  That's why, once I did a total wipe on my desktop machine, I've been > running with lowest level rights.  The only "trick" I had to learn was how > to run an .MSI.  (Run a command console as a local admin, then do the MSI by > command line.) If y

Re: R: Run As Command

True! That's why, once I did a total wipe on my desktop machine, I've been running with lowest level rights. The only "trick" I had to learn was how to run an .MSI. (Run a command console as a local admin, then do the MSI by command line.) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Informat

Re: View PAE setting on W2K8

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Juned Shaikh wrote: > but I am wondering that why would you need to have PAE in win2k8? becuase > you have 32 bit installation or you need this on Win2k8-64 Bit for 32 bit > enabled > applications? PAE will let some versions of 32-bit Windows use more than 4 GiB

Re: R: Run As Command

The hacker who just owned that machine with the user logged on certainly does. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > > But, only if they know they can do so! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > *ASPCA®* > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 6

RE: RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

Printmig.exe -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another? Check this link out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/

Re: Run As Command

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Cameron Cooper wrote: > We have all our users setup with Power Users permissions on all of our > computers, and would like to know if there was a way that we can set a > program to run as an admin while the user still has the Power Users > permissions? Power Use

RE: Internet cafe setup

I used deepfreeze at my last job.. also a school. 1500 machines all in the domain, and worked GREAT From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Internet cafe setup We used DeepFreeze for all of our class

RE: View PAE setting on W2K8

if you are running 32-bit or if you are running 32-bit emulation in 64-bit (i.e., running 32bit SQL server on 64bit windows). From: Juned Shaikh [jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: View PAE setti

re: View PAE setting on W2K8

Thanks for the info.. but I am wondering that why would you need to have PAE in win2k8? becuase you have 32 bit installation or you need this on Win2k8-64 Bit for 32 bit enabled applications? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Run As Command

Opps... I meant to say ChillkatSE and CPAU. I used 7zip just to pack the files Bob From: Hart, Robert [mailto:robert.h...@genexservices.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Run As Command I have used ChilkatZipse with 7zip to create a p

Re: Email List

Oops! Did not read carefully. Thought this was addressed to me. Hey it's friday everyone is entitled to little brain flatulance every now and then ;) Original Message: - From: mse...@ont.com mse...@ont.com Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:02:14 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.c

RE: Run As Command

I have used ChilkatZipse with 7zip to create a package to install the DST patch on some remote machines, that we posted on a website. The user just had to run the exe and it installed with admin rights. I see no reason why you could not use it to just run a program in admin mode. You would have t

RE: Run As Command

Never used it for day to day use but we use the below to put out shortcuts to installation programs we keep on shares for users. http://www.wingnutsoftware.com/ Da: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Inviato: venerdì 3 aprile 2009 18.49 A: NT System A

Re: R: Run As Command

But, only if they know they can do so! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail,

Re: RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

Check this link out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722360.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: R: Run As Command

Although when you really get down to it, there is no difference between power user and admin. Power user has the ability to add accounts (including their own) the the local admin group. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825069 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, HELP_PC wrote:

Re: R: Run As Command

So, if you set up your own machine and happen to be a domain administrator (but not logged in as one), do you have someone else enter the admin password so that you will not know it? Not knowing passwords is one thing; not being logged in with elevated rights (ie, an admin) is something else...

RE: Win 2003 R2 quotas

You should be using the MMC for doing FSRM (File Server Resource management); Ideally thsi is what you do: With a faint idea about your environment, but since you said it is school - I would think in those lines. You select entire volume (ie. D:\) and enable soft quota (Monitoring ONLY) - crea

Re: Run As Command

Don't know if this is what you are asking for, but for "Shortcut properties", Advanced, there is a "run with different credientials" check box. You can continue to (try and) run as "Current user". Or, you can select "The following user", fill in the name and password, and go. -- Richard D. McC

R: Run As Command

They shouldn't know local admin password GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Inviato: venerdì 3 aprile 2009 18.49 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Run As Command We have all our users setup with Power Users permissions on all of our computers, and

Re: Internet cafe setup

We used DeepFreeze for all of our classroom and lab machines at my last job, also in a domain, and also worked quite well. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Glen Johnson wrote: > Humm. > > We have over 300 machines froze in our domain and they seem to work pretty > good. > > What problems are yo

FYI: register.com is having a DNS issue. Hosted sites are effected.

-- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Run As Command

We have all our users setup with Power Users permissions on all of our computers, and would like to know if there was a way that we can set a program to run as an admin while the user still has the Power Users permissions? _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+

Re: Email List

Looks like the Ed's of the world are attaining their goal of world domination Ed Flipsen Manager OLCN Network Services Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Rubens Almeida Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:27:16 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email List I

RE: Email List

You are now. I just changed my name from Rubens to Jim because there were too many Rubens on this list. Jim -Original Message- From: Rubens Almeida [mailto:rubensalme...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email List I'm starting to

Re: Email List

I'm starting to be scarred... I think I'm the only Rubens on this list!!! On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Lum wrote: > OK Sherry you’re freaking me out… > > > > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:44 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject

RE: Email List

OK Sherry you're freaking me out... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email List Wow, imagine if there were two Sherry's or two Jonathan's or two Don's, wow, that would be absolutely an amazing thing

Re: Email List

Wow! I don't have a Yahoo mailbox. My ISP is ont.com. That's strange. Original Message: - From: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:52:36 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Email List TRULY! On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Sh

Re: Whimsical query about battery backups on RAID cards

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > Seriously, are they really relevant anymore?  What kind of idiotic firmware > would hold any writable data in a cache memory, unwritten to disk, when it > is completely idle ... I don't think any would. The battery was always intended

Re: Email List

TRULY! On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > Wow, imagine if there were two Sherry's or two Jonathan's or two Don's, > wow, that would be absolutely an amazing thing wouldn't it? > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: > >> We had two Mike's on this list

RE: McAfee ePO agent vuln scanner (was RE: Conficker detector)

I have tested the Mcafee Stinger/Conflicker tool it doesn't do that well at detection. EYE's is better. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Rubens Almeida

Re: Email List

Wow, imagine if there were two Sherry's or two Jonathan's or two Don's, wow, that would be absolutely an amazing thing wouldn't it? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: > We had two Mike's on this list? Who could imagine such a strange and > wondrous occurrence? > > > On Fri, Ap

RE: Redundant Print Servers

Ken, Did you guys take a look at the bandwidth utilization when sending all the remote site print jobs to the central print server and back to the local printers again? I can understand why you'd want to centralize the print sharing, but, admittedly without having really looked in to this, I'd

Re: Email List

We had two Mike's on this list? Who could imagine such a strange and wondrous occurrence? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Don Ely wrote: > Whomever now owns your Yahoo mailbox > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM, mse...@ont.com wrote: > >> I did not ask to be unsuscribed. Who emailed you

Re: McAfee ePO agent vuln scanner (was RE: Conficker detector)

Not sure if you guys have this on your Conficker tool kit, but here's the Stinger to detect it: http://vil.nai.com/vil/conficker_stinger/Stinger_Coficker.exe Funny thing is, it can't be found on the regular Stinger site :) Regards, RCAlmeida On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote

Re: Email List

Whomever now owns your Yahoo mailbox On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM, mse...@ont.com wrote: > I did not ask to be unsuscribed. Who emailed you to unsubscribe me? > > Regards, > > Mike Semon > > Original Message: > - > From: Donald Bittenbender dona...@sunbelt-software.com > Da

RE: Email List

I did not ask to be unsuscribed. Who emailed you to unsubscribe me? Regards, Mike Semon Original Message: - From: Donald Bittenbender dona...@sunbelt-software.com Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:13:29 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com, mwcj...@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Email

RE: Email List

Hello Mike, you had signed up for the NTSysAdmin list. I have gone ahead and manually unsubscribed you. You'll receive no further emails. J -- Donald Bittenbender IT Developer/DBA Sunbelt Software (727) 562-0101 x291 --- The end of bloated AntiVirus as you know it, http://www.sunbeltsoftw

RE: McAfee ePO agent vuln scanner (was RE: Conficker detector)

Thanks for that tidbit, between that and the conficker scanner that really works, ( as compared to Mcafee which isn't catching jack diddly) making my life a lot better. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan

RE: Quickie SBS 2008 question regarding std vs premium

In SBS2003 R2 Microsoft changed it so you didn't need to purchase extra CALs if you added another Exchange or SQL Server. Prior to SBS2003 R2 if you added another Exchange Server you needed to purchase CALs for the second Exchange Server. You have never been able to move Exchange to another server.

Re: Time to relax content filters?

I feel your pain "Academic freedom" anyone? And thanks to an ever shrinking budget, I'm in charge of 11 servers and over 350 workstations. I'm also the backup for the only other IT person on campus who is in charge of the Distance Education classes. So between two of us, we do all the netwo

SV: New server

Thanks for the tip unfortunately there was no change after the changes. Fra: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sendt: 19. marts 2009 16:23 Til: NT System Admin Issues Emne: RE: New server If you can set the speed/duplex on the switch and the server then do it.

RE: Quickie SBS 2008 question regarding std vs premium

I don't think that licensing aspect has changed. I was replying to the part about buying Server licenses for the boxes he already had. It wasn't clear to me what he meant by that so by trying to clarify made it worse. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April

Re: Time to relax content filters?

A State University but not on the main campus. 15 months and I am. Jon On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM, David Lum wrote: > What does your company do? Sounds like there’s enough waste that a > dedicated competitor could come in and undercut price and exceed on quality > quite easily. 15 dedic

RE: Whimsical query about battery backups on RAID cards

Sometimes a UPS breaks. Disable the write cache and see if you notice a difference. Of course it will slow you down, but maybe it's OK for you. Rene -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus..

Andy, you rock. I will contact you off list. -Sam -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus.. Actually, what you're needing sounds useful so I think I

RE: Time to relax content filters?

Starts with a Z? Sending limits are your friend. Do you have a mail retention policy? Are you on Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MC

Whimsical query about battery backups on RAID cards

Seriously, are they really relevant anymore? What kind of idiotic firmware would hold any writable data in a cache memory, unwritten to disk, when it is completely idle, which is pretty likely for many implementations of a RAID (well at least for a small biz like us), is it really worth the expens

RE: Time to relax content filters?

PS - After Reading David post. Our work ethic is defiantly there, if you don't get your work done, you get axed. But you are also allowed to shoot Nerf Darts at the next cube over while surfing Facebook, as long as you get your work done. Do I think there are times that people should stop scre

RE: Time to relax content filters?

I work for a large Internet Dot Com retailer, you would recognize the name, I guaranty it. We are in the Fortune 500. "We are a service company that just happens to sell.." Culture is our number one focus and we are asked to bend over for our customers and as an extension for other employe

RE: Time to relax content filters?

What does your company do? Sounds like there's enough waste that a dedicated competitor could come in and undercut price and exceed on quality quite easily. 15 dedicated workers will smoke 45 slackers every time. Anyhow, sounds like a work environment I would leave at the first opportunity. A

RE: Friday Fun - Amazing Honda Commercial

I have it as a test link on our Sharepoint site from a different link http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE,

RE: Friday Fun - Amazing Honda Commercial

I remember when this came out, it's AMAZING. Rube Goldberg eat your heart out! Dave From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Friday Fun - Amazing Honda Commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmd5AFIxZ0

McAfee ePO agent vuln scanner (was RE: Conficker detector)

Man I love this list - it makes me look so involved in my job. You McAfee users see this one? http://www.eeye.com/html/downloads/other/ePOScanner.html Scans for vulnerabilities in the McAfee AGENT. Sweet! I had a couple... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971

OT: Friday Fun - Amazing Honda Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmd5AFIxZ0 I'm not including the text that was sent with this to me, because it's not entirely accurate, was mostly true according to Snopes. This commercial was done in 2 shoots, with no CGI except for the lighting on the car doors at the end. If you think domino

RE: Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus..

Actually, what you're needing sounds useful so I think I might try to do it myself. I'll keep you updated. You need this right away? - Andy O. >-Original Message- >From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:57 AM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Sub

RE: Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus..

I have done this before with MapPoint 2006 and 2009 and a customized add-in I made from a code samples I found on the web. My add-in just does a single shaded circle around the points but its variable sized. I’m sure it wouldn’t be too difficult to customize the code to allow multiple circles as

Re: Quickie SBS 2008 question regarding std vs premium

Thanks! That was my understanding, and I'm pricing out an upgrade to SBS 2008 based on some price savings I've realized, and hitting a gotcha like an SBS User CAL limiting the number of servers it was good for would've been a major hindrance. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, wrote: > No, a

Re: Time to relax content filters?

In bikinis there are no lies, only statistics. -- Peter van Houten From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to relax content filters? I thought the saying was, "There are lies, damned lies, and then t

RE: Time to relax content filters?

Yes, but the other one I thought more funny. Rene From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to relax content filters? I thought the saying was, "There are lies, damned lies, and then there are st

Re: Time to relax content filters?

I thought the saying was, "There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics." On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:41 AM, René de Haas wrote: > Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what > they conceal is vital. > *- Aaron Levenstein* > > * * > > *J*** > > Rene > > > >

Re: Time to relax content filters?

Yes and it does wear on the nerves over time, the dislike I just ignore. I have alot less work since I got most of them down to user. I am still fighting the Lab Manger but since he wants to upgrade his system I see the light at the end of the tunnel on him. He gets his upgrade and loses Admin s

Re: Time to relax content filters?

Our users haven't had admin privs in about 6 years. The whining never completely stops. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Ziots, Edward wrote: > I just tell them it isn’t your computer as much as they want to think it is, > it’s a company asset, which means they don’t need admin rights to do there

RE: Time to relax content filters?

Must be nice to get a refund, I have owed the Gov the last two years. Silly tax man, stealing all my money. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [m

RE: Time to relax content filters?

I just tell them it isn't your computer as much as they want to think it is, it's a company asset, which means they don't need admin rights to do there work, nor are they getting them. I am still fighting this battle at my workplace with some, but its getting easier over time... Z Edward Z

Re: Register.com suffers further DOS attack

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Peter van Houten wrote: > Conficker mischief? > South Africa's Telkom also suffered a massive DNS outage on April 1st > Register.com suffers further DOS attack - The Inquirer: > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/638/1051638/register-com-suffers-dos-attack

Re: Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus..

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Sam Cayze wrote: > I need to import a Excel/CSV of multiple cities into a map program, and > output shaded regions of with 3 shaded regions.  (50 Mile Radius, 100 Mile > Radius, 150 Mile Radius).  Kinda like territories. You could probabbly do this by hacking at

Re: Time to relax content filters?

MUCH deeper ingrained. I made total enemies of some staffers when I removed Admin privileges from all but a couple several years ago. I am down to only 2 with those privileges now one on a Mac the other the Laboratory Manager. I am been told by my boss the leave the Mac user alone at all cost. T

Fwd: Register.com suffers further DOS attack

Conficker mischief? South Africa's Telkom also suffered a massive DNS outage on April 1st Forwarded from Shavlik: Original Message Subject: Register.com suffers further DOS attack Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:07:34 -0700 From: Susan Bradley Reply-To: Patch Management Mailing Lis

Re: Time to relax content filters?

I once worked for a company with a similarly lax attitude - till the Blaster virus disappeared up their backsides faster than a rat up a drainpipe, and their inbound sales center ground to a halt for a few days. After that, they became very security-conscious, and started paying a lot more attentio

Re: Time to relax content filters?

"However I am lucky to have the full backing of the CEO, he likes people to come to work to work, not to do anything else.' Now that is a novel idea! I wish ours did. He is allowing staff to come and go at will, not show up at all for days, and use "company" time to browse the Internet without an

Re: Time to relax content filters?

We only have about 500 users. We are just about 98% thin client though, which means users have no local storage. So their personal "dumping grounds" cut across my file storage. It's mostly a case of changing people's perceptions of things. They expect these WinCE thin clients running on Citrix desk

RE: Time to relax content filters?

James, I hear ya. And glad to have the feedback. Security is a big concern for my stated mindset on employee PC use. I still lock these guys down to the 'T'. No admin rights, no USB drives during virus scares, no IM, OpenDNS block any porn, etc... Trust me, I have still done my fair share in al

Re: Time to relax content filters?

You must have fantastic employees. Ours are far from that. When they did have access to every website on earth and could play music on their PCs, they didn't reciprocate with utter devotion. When we did block Facebook, I had customer service advisors phoning up at 8.05 asking why they couldn't get

RE: Time to relax content filters?

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein J Rene From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Time to relax content filters? >>>All

RE: Time to relax content filters?

Unless you like paying people to work on there Facebook page and talk with there friends, etc etc rather doing the work they are supposed to be doing and getting paid for. [With all due respect / not trying to start an argument here, I am just passionate about this subject, and well, kinda e

Re: Time to relax content filters?

Normally yes, but not in this case. The deductions are a one-time thing - relating to the costs of the IVF procedure, which should give us our child in about 6 months. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 14:49, James Kerr wrote: > Then they are taking too much from your paycheck. Change your W4 settings > ;-)

Re: Registry Cleaners

I find deleting HKLM makes it pretty much goosed in an instant. We honed this skill on a member of our SMC team who was less dangerous with a blue-screening machine than a functioning one. He reported successful backups on servers that had been decommissioned years previously. 2009/4/2 Sean Martin

RE: Time to relax content filters?

>>>All surveys these days are loaded 79.89% of all statistics are made up ;) From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to relax content filters? "Coker said the study loo

Way OT: Calling all Map Gurus..

Alright, this is really pushing the confines of this list... But I recall a while back a great deal of Map Software knowledge many of you had. I need to import a Excel/CSV of multiple cities into a map program, and output shaded regions of with 3 shaded regions. (50 Mile Radius, 100 Mile Radius

Re: Time to relax content filters?

That would be "hang themselves" :-) 2009/4/3 James Rankin > "Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation" > > So basically they studied the most productive workers anyway. All surveys > these days are loaded. I am currently collating WebSense data to be used as > disciplinary

Re: Time to relax content filters?

"Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation" So basically they studied the most productive workers anyway. All surveys these days are loaded. I am currently collating WebSense data to be used as disciplinary material against our worst offenders in the web-browsing stakes. And