RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

I would call HP... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 12:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue In a DC 7700 Hp with 2 DDR 2 modules (Kingston Value RAM 2GB each )

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RE: OT Antivirus

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R: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

I don't think they will give support for Windows 7 on that old machine (2 years). Xp didn0t have the issue GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Inviato: lunedì 21 settembre 2009 9.27 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

RE: OT Antivirus

Which reporting program, which metric, and what OS do the values for memory usage represent? MS made a significant change in the default way Task Manager reports memory usage in Vista and later OSes which essentially makes comparison with values obtained from earlier versions of Task Manager usele

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RE: OT Antivirus

Thanks for the techy info Richard, wasn't aware of that change in reporting. Have got the behemoth 'Windows Internals 5' book by Russinovich sitting on my desk but have yet to read it! I had just grabbed the figures for each version from Taskmanager on the relevant platform: Kaspersky Anti

Re: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Weird Windows 7 64 bit issueCan you get another 2GB Module for testing ? To rule out if it is something in the characteristics of the modules, or the amount of RAM that the motherboard/OS is not liking... - Original Message - From: HELP_PC To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Mond

MS 2003 Server Service stopping from time to time.

Hell, I'm having an issue on a Microsoft 2003 Enterprise edition File/Print box running SP2 "Server Service" stopping from time to time. I'm then forced to restart the Server Service. Does anyone have any ideas on whats causing the Server Service to stop? Joe Haralson ~ Finally, powerful

RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Bad RAM. Often times ram that isn't in spec for load presented to the interface controller will fail only when fully populated. -sc From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue In a DC

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

I have Windows and Unix boxes pointing to the same sources, yet my Windows box is consistantly 24 seconds behind. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 6:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why is Windows Time service

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Do you know for a fact that your UNIX box is not 24 seconds ahead? -sc > -Original Message- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:56 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why is Windows Time service crap? > > I have Windows and

RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Have you run a full memory test? There is a tool called memtest that does this for you. Just in case it's still under warranty... Miguel --- El lun, 21/9/09, Steven M. Caesare escribió: > De: Steven M. Caesare > Asunto: RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue > Para: "NT System Admin Issues" > Fech

RE: MS 2003 Server Service stopping from time to time.

Anything at all in the logs? From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:joe.haral...@ge.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS 2003 Server Service stopping from time to time. Hell, I'm having an issue on a Microsoft 2003 Enterprise editi

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RE: OT Antivirus

I wasn't aware of the change either until very recently. I was convinced that the AV product of our favorite forum host was a memory hog despite all marketing to the contrary. I started digging and found out what was actually going on. (I can now say with confidence that their claims about Vipre

Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction?

How are you checking the DNS?? DNStools.net?? iptools.com??? - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM, David W. McSpadden wrote: Specif

RE: Is this a good SMTP transaction?

Looks like Ben is using dig. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Information_Groper -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: 21 September 2009 14:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction? How are you checking the DNS?

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Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction?

thanks - Original Message - From: "Ames Matthew B" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: RE: Is this a good SMTP transaction? Looks like Ben is using dig. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Information_Groper -Original Message- Fr

RE: Real a/v Testing

I've been off for a week, but if you're still looking for a site, try http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm Another source I used was to go to my email content filter and save a few quarantined-for-viruses messages. I was going to save the attachments, and scan with Vipre, but Vipre

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

I set up redundant time servers. When I do a ntpq -p on all the Unix servers, everything is in line with each other. It appears the Windows servers are the ones that are off. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:0

Special characters in passwords

Anyone know of any special characters that can NOT be used in Windows passwords? Joseph L. Heaton Windows Server Support Group Information Technology Branch Department of Fish and Game 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 Cell: (916) 919-5816 ~ Finally, pow

RE: Special characters in passwords

Yeah, asterisks don't work... -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Special characters in passwords Anyone know of any special characters that can NOT be used in Windows passwords?

RE: Special characters in passwords

According to MS just about everything is fair game... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_tips.mspx?mfr=true John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x3

RE: Special characters in passwords

If you're running a mixed environment of Windows and UNIX, I would recommend avoiding the "@" character. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Special characters in passwords Anyone

RE: Special characters in passwords

Are you sure? Microsoft lists the asterisk as one of the recommended special characters... Was your issue with a specific application/version of Windows? Maybe they've fixed that issue. Joe L. Heaton >>> "Kim Longenbaugh" 9/21/2009 7:40 AM >>> Yeah, asterisks don't work... -Original Me

Re: Special characters in passwords

Wouldn't use the "@" character tho' even though it is legal. . On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, John Cook wrote: > According to MS just about everything is fair game... > > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_tips.mspx?mfr=true > > J

RE: Special characters in passwords

We've had a few cases where the $ wasn't liked in windows passwords for some reason, tend to stay away from it, everything else seems to be game. Can't recall off hand what the issue was. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insu

RE: Disk based backup

Sorry, I didn't know what i was thinking about...I meant LTO5 that they will be release in the coming year... --- El mié, 16/9/09, Miguel Gonzalez escribió: > De: Miguel Gonzalez > Asunto: RE: Disk based backup > Para: "NT System Admin Issues" > Fecha: miércoles, 16 septiembre, 2009 2:23 > ar

Re: Special characters in passwords

See Mr Maglinger's response. If you're in a mixed environment Unix/Linux interprets strings with the @ as e-mail addresses On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Joseph Heaton wrote: > Are you sure? Microsoft lists the asterisk as one of the recommended > special characters... > > Was your issue wi

RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Vista and win7 allocate memory differently from XP and would notice a RAM problem sooner than XP. Carl From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue I don't think they will give support

RE: Special characters in passwords

It's been a while since I tried it in AD passwords, with XP, 2000/2003 servers. Maybe it wasn't Windows as such, but our password policy that wouldn't allow it. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin

Re: Special characters in passwords

I would recommend not using any of the high ASCII (ALT+255) characters (for your regular user population). This isn't an MS problem, but a user problem. I use high ASCII only on service accounts and other places where I only have to touch something once in blue moon. I had a "knowledgeable" user

RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Even if it is still covered, I am fairly certain that when you tell HP you used 3rd party memory, they are going to tell you to remove that memory and replicate the problem with the factory memory installed. Tell them that removing one of the Kingston sticks solves the problem, and they may eve

RE: Special characters in passwords

Unix interprets the "@" in passwords as a kill command. And please, call me Paul. :-) From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Special characters in passwords See M

RE: Special characters in passwords

Surely! ;-) -- richard "Maglinger, Paul" wrote on 09/21/2009 10:00:55 AM: > Unix interprets the "@" in passwords as a kill command. And please, > call me Paul. :-) > > From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:57 AM > To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: Special characters in passwords

Interesting, and good to know. Thanks, Paul. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > Unix interprets the "@" in passwords as a kill command. And please, call > me Paul. :-) > > -- > *From:* Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] > *Sen

RE: Special characters in passwords

No, Paul... not Shirley :P >>> 9/21/2009 8:06 AM >>> Surely! ;-) -- richard "Maglinger, Paul" wrote on 09/21/2009 10:00:55 AM: > Unix interprets the "@" in passwords as a kill command. And please, > call me Paul. :-) > > From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monda

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

I'm wondering why they have not done this yet as well. Using more that 2 heads in parallel would at some point be enough to saturate existing SATA interfaces. There is no way they could do 8 heads in parallel and have enough bandwidth (even with 3.0 Gbit/sec SATA) to prevent saturating the SATA b

RE: Special characters in passwords

All right, serious reply this time... Interesting - about a month ago, I set up a Ubuntu linux box. Its (only user) password does contain the "@" character. I've had no issues with the system. However, I'll try to remember this next time I set up a *nix system. I will hopefully also remembe

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

It may have been done already (2 heads running in parallel). I have a Seagate 1.5TB drive that is surprisingly fast (115MB/sec sustained) that may be doing this, or they may just have a very high bit density. The 750GB drives we have run about 70MB/sec with the same test. Tom -Original Mess

Re: Special characters in passwords

It may depend on where the @ is in the string. On my Ubuntu system I had it as the last character in the password and there were several apps (like setting up network proxy settings) that had indigestion with that. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, wrote: > > All right, serious reply this time

Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

I'm very curious as to when did harddrive manufacturers swich to having independently operating heads? Is this a new development that I missed? For as long as I can remember, the heads (regardless of how many there are) are operated by a single head motor. So while it can interleave data across m

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

But this info is not in the specs of thee HD isn't it? So how do you know that is actually that fast before buying it? Miguel --- El lun, 21/9/09, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) escribió: > De: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) > Asunto: RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup) > Para: "NT System Admin

RE: Print server driver updating

Thanks for the input, Ben. One problem with the Xerox drivers is an annoying interaction with Acrobat (I need to test the new one to see if it even helps). The problem is that when you select a non-default paper size (say 11x17) normally Acrobat will pick that up and you can have acrobat set to "

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Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction?

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM, David W. McSpadden wrote: > How are you checking the DNS?? > DNStools.net?? > iptools.com??? I don't like to depend on third-party web sites for this sort of thing; you can never be sure what they're doing. I prefer to run programs on my computer, under my cont

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

The heads are all locked together. There is no need to have them move independently. From: Scott Kaufman [mailto:bskauf...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup) I'm very curious as to whe

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

There is if you want to read from different portions of different platters... And write performance is nowhere near the speed of read performance at the moment. Cheers Ken From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 1:54 AM To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: LogMeIn Scout freeware

Its pretty neat. I really like the ability to disable the other forms of RA that are installed on systems. -- ME2 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Just discovered this tool, might be useful to some folks here: > > --- Included Stuff Follows --- > > LogMeIn

Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Scott Kaufman wrote: > So while it can interleave data across multiple > platters, all the heads would still be at the same > location on the platters. In a sequential read or write operation, by interleaving data across the platters (actually, sides of platter

Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) wrote: > I'm wondering why they have not done this yet as well. > Using more that 2 heads in parallel would at some > point be enough to saturate existing SATA interfaces. Unless they *are* already doing it, and the current speeds of hard

Re: LogMeIn Scout freeware

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Re: Print server driver updating

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) wrote: > The problem with the HP driver (4.5) happens when I try to set up a > direct print from a PC to the printer (not going through  the print > server).  I had to use version 4.7 on the PC's that I set up to print > directly.  I am gues

Re: Special characters in passwords

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Charles Whitby wrote: > It may depend on where the @ is in the string.  On my Ubuntu system I had it > as the last character in the password and there were several apps (like > setting up network proxy settings) that had indigestion with that. In the name servi

Re: Special characters in passwords

On 21 Sep 2009 at 8:07, Joseph Heaton wrote: > No, Paul... not Shirley :P Go to your room and stand in the corner. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Special characters in passwords

Asterisks work just fine, actually. -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Kim Longenbaugh wrote: > Yeah, asterisks don't work... > > -Original Message- > From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...

Re: OT Antivirus

Steve, thanks for the rundown on this I appreciate it. JK On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Steve Burkett wrote: > Yup. Kaspersky does 2 different versions of AV for Servers: Kaspersky > Antivirus for Windows File Servers and the newer Kaspersky Antivirus for > Windows Server Enterprise Editio

Re: DFS Setup - was "Backup Server"

Thanks Mike - not too sound too dumb, does that mean it really isn't an option for SBS 2003 at all - so an upgrade to SBS 2008 would be the only/best answer? Don K - Original Message From: Mike Hoffman To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 2:32:24 AM Subject:

Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > It promises a sustained transfer rate of just 140MBps ... I presume they mean 140 Mbyte/sec, which is 1140 Mbit/sec (ignoring overhead). In other words, it can't even saturate first-generation SATA (1500 Mbit/sec), let alone second-generati

Re: Special characters in passwords

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Asterisks work just fine, actually. I noticed that most people's passwords are **. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

Related: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/seagate-2tb-barracuda-xt-worlds-first -sata-6gbps-hard-drive/ Haven't been following the thread, but just saw this on Engadget. "Ready for this speed freaks? Seagate just announced the world's first 2TB disk with full support for the third generation SA

Re: Special characters in passwords

Excuse me, mine is ***. ** is way, too short. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew S. Baker > wrote: > > Asterisks work just fine, actually. > > I noticed that most people's passwords are **. > > -- Ben > > ~ Fin

RE: DFS Setup - was "Backup Server"

Don With SBS03 it sort-of works. Server 2003 R2 improved things, so if you have member servers then they can do DFS using the wizards and it works a lot better. If you only have 3 servers and 3 locations then I would recommend upgrading the SBS2003 to 2008 and then it will work a lot better, or

Re: Why is Windows Time service crap?

That's just... Odd. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:21, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > I set up redundant time servers.  When I do a ntpq -p on all the Unix > servers, everything is in line with each other.  It appears the Windows > servers are the ones that are off. > > -Original Message- > From

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

As it stands, it's not an issue. All my UNIX run Oracle databases, all my Windows are SQL, and ne'er the twain shall meet. Just a irritation knowing that it's there. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:33 PM To: NT Sys

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Multiple Windows machine are exactly 24 seconds behind multiple UNIX machines? -sc > -Original Message- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:21 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why is Windows Time service crap? > > I set

RE: Special characters in passwords

And using ALT characters for usernames and PW's is great fun. -sc > -Original Message- > From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:41 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Special characters in passwords > > According to MS just about ever

RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue

Specifically they do process address randomization. -sc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird Windows 7 64 bit issue Vista and win7 allocate memory differently from XP and would notice a

Re: Special characters in passwords

The only time I had issues with high-ASCII characters was at a small startup that had one of the first IP KVMs I had ever seen. It used SQL 2000 to keep track of permissions for logging in, and it really barfed on high-ASCII characters in the password. Wouldn't work at all. Kurt On Mon, Sep 21, 2

Re: Special characters in passwords

Yeah, I don't have problems with 'em. This user had a problem, repeatedly. Some people know just enough to be dangerous and make my life more difficult... On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > The only time I had issues with high-ASCII characters was at a small > startup that had o

Re: Special characters in passwords

And a cat is fine too. -- ME2 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Asterisks work just fine, actually. > > -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Kim Longenbaugh < > k

Re: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Agreed... -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > That's just... > > Odd. > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:21, Maglinger, Paul > wrote: > > I set up redundant time servers. When I do a ntpq -p on all the Unix > servers, everything is in line wit

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Let me do some poking around... -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why is Windows Time service crap? Multiple Windows machine are exactly 24 seconds behind multiple UNI

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Found it. We have 2 Windows NTP servers. One hadn't been changed from NT5D5 to NTP, and the AnnounceFlags hadn't been changed from 10 to 5. Will look at everything tomorrow and see if things have sync'd up. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent:

Stream live video.

Our church wants to stream live services onto the interweb and also save them for later viewing? I don't think HD quality is needed and only maybe 10 to 20 live sessions? Realistically I'm thinking maybe 5. Anyone have suggestions how to do this. Hardware and software recommendations. For back

RE: Special characters in passwords

Don't laugh! I used to have a user whose password was 7 Murray -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Special characters in passwords On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andre

RE: Special characters in passwords

Hold down he Alt key and type 255, six times. The password looks like , but is NOT six spaces. In the DOS days, we named directories with an alt-255 as the last character or two. You could not see it in the folder name, and it was nearly impossible to type it in unless you knew the trick. --

RE: Stream live video.

I happen to be working with a few folks on a service for this sort of thing. What sort of specs are you looking for video-wise. Feel free to email me off list. -sc From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subj

RE: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Cool... that sounded like configuration wonkiness. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:44 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why is Windows Time service crap? > > Found it. We have 2 Windows NTP s

RE: Special characters in passwords

Got you beat, Lovepuppy and Unix_God -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Special characters in passwords Don't laugh! I used to have a user whose password was 7 Murray

RE: Stream live video.

We do this using the Windows Media Services built into Windows Server. It works great for streaming to all of our locations for company meetings etc. You can stream it live as well as "archive" to a .wmv file for later viewing. We used to use the Media Editor tools for editing the captures after

Re: Stream live video.

Have you had a look at www.livestream.com? They may have what you are looking for. Andrew. On 9/21/09, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I happen to be working with a few folks on a service for this sort of > thing. > > > > What sort of specs are you looking for video-wise. > > > > Feel free to email

Re: Stream live video.

There are a number of free or low-cost streaming options. Our church recently started using UStream.com and an for Sunday AM messages. I believe all broadcasts are automatically saved and archived. A sample: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2196299 Make sure you check into the licensing restricti

RE: Special characters in passwords

There's a fix for that. "Password must meet complexity requirements". :-) -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Special characters in passwords Don't laugh! I used to have a u

Re: Stream live video.

+ 1 for Ustream (plus flash encoder) +1 for Windows Media Encoder. I've used both and they do the job well. I've found it easier to user WME for scheduling and scripting. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Glen Johnson wrote: > Our church wants to stream live services onto the interweb and also

RE: Special characters in passwords

We had an older lady, sweet as could be. Her's was PleaseMe. -Original Message- From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Special characters in passwords Got you beat, Lovepuppy and Unix_

RE: Anti-spam solution

Since we dropped them a few months back, I'm not violating any TOS... They bl0w, period. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -O

Re: Special characters in passwords

Why do you think she was so sweet? :-) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > We had an older lady, sweet as could be. Her's was PleaseMe. > > -Original Message- > From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:10 PM >

Re: Why is Windows Time service crap?

Agreed. -- ME2 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Cool... that sounded like configuration wonkiness. > > -sc > > > -Original Message- > > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:44 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issu

Re: Special characters in passwords

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > There's a fix for that.  "Password must meet complexity requirements". It should be noted that Passw0rd! meets complexity requirements. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Special characters in passwords

I wish password policies supported blacklists... More specifically; regular expression-based blacklists... -- ME2 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Maglinger, Paul > wrote: > > There's a fix for that. "Password must meet complexity requirem

RE: Special characters in passwords

I remember some old unix of my past days where you could use the backspace as a character for your password. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Monday, Se

Re: Special characters in passwords

Back in the days of BBS chat systems, flooding the keyboard buffer with backspaces in a chat session would cause the modem on the other side to disconnect. -- ME2 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > I remember some old unix of my past days where you could use the backsp

RE: Special characters in passwords

Ah I remember the birth of the Winmodem, and other crappy software modems of the time, some wouldn't enforce a delay between +++ and ATH0, so if you crafted a ping packet with those characters it could bump those modems offline. Good times. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter,

Win7 and USB Thumb Drives

I have 2 types of thumb drivers that won't work on any of my Win7 x64 PCs. They work fine on XP 32. Win7 can't find drivers. I've googled to death, what's going on here? Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Win7 and USB Thumb Drives

What thumb drives are these? -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > I have 2 types of thumb drivers that won't work on any of my Win7 x64 > PCs. They work fine on XP 32. > > Win

RE: Win7 and USB Thumb Drives

FileMates, and I forgot the other Brand. But it was when my PBX Vendor was here and he had a file to give me, kinda annoying when it didn't work. I looked on their support site, nothing but drivers for Win98. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Se

RE: Special characters in passwords

Great fun on terminals^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Pauls too! -sc -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 5:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Special characters in passwords I remember some old unix of my past days where yo

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