OT: RJ-9 to mic/speaker jacks?

2009-11-17 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! We have a big multi-location video conference coming (in two weeks interrupted by a 4-day holiday weekend). Unfortunately, as some locations are unable to access the video conferencing group, it seems we must use WebEx. With WebEx connections, audio for all requires all attendees

Re: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread David W. McSpadden
Actually when I was creating the 'a' record in the zone board.imcu.com I left the name blank (It said it would use the parent name if left blank.). I did this because I have other imcu.com records that I do not maintain. My web site provider hosts those records for www.imcu.com. When I made the

Re: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread David W. McSpadden
Thanks again. I will look up the Open DNS part and check into it. -- From: Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE:

Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread David W. McSpadden
I have an email mailer I am supposed to send out. It is going to 12000 customers that have asked to be notified by email. I got that script late last week and I have it set up to run from my machine, relay off my exchange server, through my Ironport, and out my firewall. I do not host the mail at

RE: RJ-9 to mic/speaker jacks?

2009-11-17 Thread Sean Rector
I found this on Google: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?sourceid=navclientrlz=1T4EGLC_en US345US346q=RJ-9um=1ie=UTF-8cid=795370652766964975ei=PaoCS7XqMdSlnQ eGxIVqsa=Xoi=product_catalog_resultct=imageresnum=5ved=0CBgQ8gIwBA# I'm not 100% sure it'll do what you want, but its

RE: RJ-9 to mic/speaker jacks?

2009-11-17 Thread Sean Rector
And this... http://www.google.com/products/catalog?sourceid=navclientrlz=1T4EGLC_en US345US346q=RJ-9um=1ie=UTF-8cid=3760576067343168249ei=PaoCS7XqMdSln QeGxIVqsa=Xoi=product_catalog_resultct=imageresnum=8ved=0CCIQ8gIwBw # Sean Rector, MCSE From: richardmccl...@aspca.org

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Richard Stovall
The reverse lookup (PTR record) is created by the ISP that actually assigns the ip address space you use. You'll need to ask them to create one for you. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Not wanting

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread James Kerr
No, your not, use constant contact. if we can afford it, you can too. - Original Message - From: David W. McSpadden To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:51 AM Subject: Not wanting to be a spammer I have an email mailer I am supposed to send out.

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread David W. McSpadden
They either won't or don't know how but it is an avenue I can never get them to understand. From: Richard Stovall Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Not wanting to be a spammer The reverse lookup (PTR record) is created by the ISP that actually

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread David W. McSpadden
What is constant contact? From: James Kerr Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Not wanting to be a spammer No, your not, use constant contact. if we can afford it, you can too. - Original Message - From: David W. McSpadden To: NT

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread John Aldrich
Agreed. Let someone else take the hit, if there is one. Someone who's business it is to do bulk emailing knows all the ways to do permission-oriented bulk emailing without getting in trouble! Stay away from the Millions CDs, though. that'll get you in hot water. J John-AldrichTile-Tools

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread N Parr
Our ISP refused to set up a PTR. Many of them are ignorant about how it works or don't want to take the chance you would get one of their IP's blacklisted. Finally told them we were going else ware and they caved with the stipulation if we get blacklisted they won't do anything to help us.

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread John Aldrich
www.constantcontact.com - they are a legitimate bulk emailer. I use quotes around Legitimate because I am a rabid anti-spammer, but I do recognize that bulk email is a fact of life these days and Constant Contact has the grudging OK of one of the big anti-spam groups, SpamCop.net.

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread James Kerr
http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp I cant recommend it enough, a great service. Use this to keep in touch with your customers. - Original Message - From: David W. McSpadden To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Not wanting to

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Start hosting your own DNS and cut out that middleman. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Not wanting to be a spammer They either won't or don't know how but

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
That won't fix PTR issues if the IP's are owned by the ISP, they are authoritative for the records on the IP address space. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Not wanting to be a spammer Start

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Richard Stovall
The reverse zone is almost certainly managed by the ISP. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Not wanting to be a spammer Start hosting your own DNS and cut out that middleman.

RE: Folder Redirect

2009-11-17 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Sounds like you will need to set people up as the primary user on each machine. But, this really doesn't keep the other files from trying to cache-just purges them at log off for anyone not listed, in conjunction with the policy setting. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811660 -Bonnie From:

Hard drisk failures and temperature, use, etc.

2009-11-17 Thread David Lum
The PDF linked from this page has data from Google that their research shows temperature and activity levels correlate less to drive failures than generally thought. The data was gathered from more than 100,000 consumer-grade PATA and SATA drives over a timeframe of Dec '05 and Aug 2006. A

RE: RJ-9 to mic/speaker jacks?

2009-11-17 Thread RichardMcClary
Thanks - I'd forgotten about recorder taps. Seems like we have one of those around here somewhere... Next trick (but more easily solved) - need either a M-to-F gender changer or a 1/8 F-to-RCA plug. I seem to have a drawer full of the M-to-RCA (things like this keep Radio Shack going!)...

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Part of hosing your own DNS would be to get the forward and reverse address space delegated to you, making you authoritative for those records. In my opinion, uncooperative ISPs should become former ISPs asap. From: Kennedy, Jim

Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We're working on cloud computing initiatives (like everyone), and I'm also doing a fair amount of research into the area. (Of course, the whole idea of cloud computing is itself fairly silly, when it's just a renaming of the concept of a network-connected computer. But whatever, it's the hot

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That can be difficult. As an aside.. if anybody has FIOS business class (which you need for static IP's), I have a contact in that division that is not only willing to set up a PTR record, he's actually competent! It might save you the 6 hours of call tree surfing I had to do... -sc

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Hey Webster, or anyone else. I am still having some trouble grasping the point of streaming Applications vs published applications. Do you have an article that shows the pros and cons of each, or can you explain in semi-plain English? Thanks.. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]

RE: FrontMotion/FirefoxADM

2009-11-17 Thread Michael D Faulkner
Ben: Via GPO: Lock down proxy settings, prevent installation of add-ons. Two that come to mind. Have to admit, never installed an MSI via GPO. Will that work under Vista, standard user, with UAC enabled? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent:

Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Kelsay
Am I the only one that hates this feature? It seems like such a security nightmare, where users will hover over a popup to read it ,and the hover-click feature will automatically execute it. (Honest, I never downloaded that porn, it just clicked itself! And they are right. ) How to disable it?

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Our opinion here is that it is an acceptable solution for no- business-critical applications (spam filtering being the biggest), but for anything that is critical to operations it is not considered and never will be. Cloud computing makes my business IT systems only as reliable as the skills of

RE: Hard drisk failures and temperature, use, etc.

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That was an interesting read... thanks David. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hard drisk failures and temperature, use, etc. The PDF linked from this page has data from Google that their

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Webster
10,000 foot view: Published Applications: Installed on XenApp server and run from XenApp Streamed Application Option 1: Application is streamed to server and run from server (i.e. NEVER installed on the server) Streamed Application Option 2: Application is streamed to client and run from

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Well, it's much more than just a network connected computer. That's part of it, of course, but the idea of the cloud tends to focus much more on the provisioning, scalability, high availability, and geographically dispersed capabilities of such systems, among other things. We are doing some

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
One of the models many are exploring is internal cloud... or hybrid, which brings some of the benefit without exposing the issues related to external reliability (or competence). -sc From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:21 AM To: NT

RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
H my Win7 boxen don't do that. Any chance this is a mouse/touchpad driver feature? -sc From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click Am I the only one that hates this

SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
None of mine do either and I have over a dozen running Windows 7 that I use regularly. Tim From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click H my Win7 boxen don't do

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread mse...@ont.com
Cloud Computing is taking over where application service providers (ASP) left off. ASP was ahead of its time and not ready for prime time. I just got back from a conference where some executives told me cloud computing is coming and get ready. Cost will drive this model whether we like it or not.

RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Kelsay
It is on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with home premium. The web has a lot of people complaining about the feature, so it must be there. The fact that yours does not do it show me that there is a way to turn it off. Maybe it is only on the home premium. I was just getting worried that when we roll

RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Maybe that is it. I'm running Enterprise, so maybe it's home? -sc From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click It is on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with home

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Anderson
Aside from very fast roll out of additional XenApp Servers any thing else I should consider when choosing which way I should deploy my apps? I am inclined to go with published as it just sounds eaisier. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:27 AM

Re: Network audit software to list all EXEs on a machine

2009-11-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 14 Nov 2009 at 0:08, Sam Cayze wrote: EZ Audit. Tried it, uninstalled software is only listed by name and EXE size, no date- time stamp nor any way that I could see to make EZAudit calculate some sort of MD5 or other hash for identification. Is there some way to make EZAudit do this? --

Re: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Roger Wright
Cloud Computing: I've used it for email filtering, and you're right, for functions like that it makes sense. After all, all external email has to travel the cloud anyway. Obviously, less so for mission critical functions like databases where the Internet connection itself is the biggest single

RE: Folder Redirect

2009-11-17 Thread Chris Blair
Thanks Bonnie. I will look into this and give it a try. Thanks, Chris Blair www.IdentiSys.com chris_bl...@identisys.com 952-294-1200 x270 From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Folder

RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Doesn't do it on by default on mine either (x64 Ultimate) From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click Maybe that is it.

Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread Tom Miller
Here's a fun one: we have this beast of a medical records system application that I made available via our older Presentation Servers 4.5 farm on Windows 2003 server. Come XenApp and Windows 2008 and the thing won't work. There are some compatibility issues with 2008 and 64-bit. Other

RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Terry Dickson
I have Enterprise running on a few dozen boxes already and have never seen this. -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Webster
You can me now or you can pay me later! Take the time to profile apps, save them to a share (or web server) and publish them as streamed. This is done one time (in theory at least). Or: For Each XenApp Server Do For Each Application Do Install App Install updates Next Next

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread Webster
Stream the app. Webster From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Subject: Another Citrix ? Here's a fun one: we have this beast of a medical records system application that I made available via our older Presentation Servers 4.5 farm on Windows 2003 server. Come XenApp and Windows

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread David Mazzaccaro
The app wouldn't happen to be MedForce Scan would it??? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Another Citrix ? Here's a fun one: we have this beast of a medical records

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread mse...@ont.com
You can run a mixed farm with XenApp 4.5 and 5.0. Unfortunetly application virtualization won't fix this if it won't run on Windows 2008. Mike Original Message: - From: Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:04:28 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread Tom Miller
Ha! No, it's called CMHC. The thing is huge: runs on AIX, some users use terminal emulation to get to it, some a very crappy web interface. The web interface wants full access to system and there are painful work-arounds on Citrix, and those don't work on the new version XenApp. If you

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
The security of the Cloud, is the real issue, can you really trust your data and applications being co-mingled with others data and applications, especially when you have to comply with PCI/HIPAA/GLBA/Sox and other regulations ( especially PCI which has some stringent controls and makes

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread Webster
Or how about adding an x86 2008 server to the mix? You can do like Citrix does and run two farms. One x86 and the other x64. Then present them both via Web Interface. Your users will never know there are two farms. They only see the icons they are allowed to see and access. You can use the

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
LOL we have it, and yes it's a beast, java based, so there goes your virtualization gain ( if there was one to be had). And Yes this application is used in the healthcare space, IMHO its craptacular Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA,

RE: Another Citrix ?

2009-11-17 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Thanks for the warning! If you ever come across MedForce, feel free to give me a call. Running in over Citrix here. I've got another one too... Mestamed ... ever deal with that piece of crap? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Again, there are many different models. Cloud computing does not always equal external hosting. Internal cloud for larger organizations can be a compelling case. We've been working some with David Linthicum to define NIH strategy. I've not read his book, but he's got a lot of good, and

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
Others have already offered great input-things like vetting the cloud vendor to ensure security is what it needs to be (both for internal needs and regulatory purposes), and planning/maintaining an exit strategy from the start. Our most mission-critical data as a school district is our

Re: Citrix question, could use some guidance

2009-11-17 Thread Jon Harris
Thanks for the 10,000 foot view I was looking at that recently and was getting lost in the terminology. Jon On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: You can me now or you can pay me later! Take the time to profile apps, save them to a share (or web server) and

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Meixler
There of course business concerns with cloud computing such as reliability, security, and cost however after having spent significant time with EC2 and goGrid over the last 6 months there are also very many drawbacks to each way of implementing a cloud. Examples such as, EC2 instances always

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That's a good example of what may be a hybrid cloud: hosted by a larger part of the org, yet accessed as a hosted service. Are you provisioning your own apps or using a SOA in the true sense of cloud, or is more along the lines of web-apps and databases... a more traditional ISP model? -sc

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Very cool. Are you using S3 too? -sc From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cloud computing... your opinions There of course business concerns with cloud computing such as reliability,

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
The thing is that when I control the facility myself, then I can build my own redundant systems. For instance we have MPLS, MAN and satellite connections between all of our facilities for redundancy on many levels. When you move to the cloud I no longer have the ability to do that (Microsoft is

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
Statistically, do we have any reason to believe that cloud computing is less secure than internal hosting of data? Assuming one is dealing with a reputable service provider, are the odds really any greater of there being a security breach in the cloud versus an internal breach? For instance,

Re: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 17 Nov 2009 at 10:32, Steven M. Caesare wrote: One of the models many are exploring is internal cloud... or hybrid, which brings some of the benefit without exposing the issues related to external reliability (or competence). -sc Nor exposing your company data to a legal attack on

Re: SUSPECT: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 17 Nov 2009 at 10:54, Steve Kelsay wrote: It is on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with home premium. The web has a lot of people complaining about the feature, so it must be there. The fact that yours does not do it show me that there is a way to turn it off. Maybe it is only on the home

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
Again, though, it comes down to economies of scale. If an organization is large enough to produce its own, then the benefits of it using the cloud are diminished. And if an organization has deep pockets, it can reproduce internally what others can only experience by joining a larger community.

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I heard of an instance recently where a bank inadvertently sent an email to a customer that contained sensitive info. The bank got a court injunction shutting down that users email account so they could purge the email. An apples-and-mineral comparison to be sure, but that innocent end user

Re: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: But I don't understand how creating nothing but a zone named board.imcu.com would successfully resolve back to an ip address the browser could use. board.imcu.com. SOA ns.example.com. whate...@example.com. [...]

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Meixler
Yup. We love S3 and CloudFront. Though we admittedly don't have numbers to prove CloudFront's effectiveness S3 is brilliant for simple and cheap on line storage of assets, like jpgs or pdfs, for a website. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

activating 2008 ts license server

2009-11-17 Thread Eldridge, Dave
I am working with MS clearinghouse to move a 2003 terminal license server to a 2008 server. I was able to deactivate the 2003 but I don't see a prompt to add the 2008 license server. I clicked on ad tools, term services but I don't get an option for TS License manger to activate one by phone.

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: As an aside.. if anybody has FIOS business class ... Likewise aside: I was fairly astounded recently when I called Comcast to get a custom PTR record for our Comcast Workplace static IP feed, and the first tech

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: Part of hosing your own DNS would be to get the forward and reverse address space delegated to you, making you authoritative for those records. Getting reverse space delegated is often damn-near impossible,

RE: activating 2008 ts license server

2009-11-17 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
So, you right-click the server name, choose properties, and are not able to choose telephone as a connection method? -Bonnie From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: activating 2008 ts license server I am

RE: activating 2008 ts license server

2009-11-17 Thread Eldridge, Dave
Forget it. I found it . I didn't add it when I installed the ts in the first place. From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: activating 2008 ts license server I am working with MS clearinghouse to

RE: Event log monitor/aggregator

2009-11-17 Thread Jim Slattery
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RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Perzactly... I just gave a similar example before I read your post. That can be a big deal. -sc -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cloud computing... your opinions

Re: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Jon Harris
Last place I was forced to look into this and due to the lack of perceived security I was able to kill it before it got going. Keeping or editing sensitive information where you do not control where it is stored or who can or can not look at it just makes it too dangerous to be used. How would

RE: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ben is absolutely correct here... DNS BIND by Crickett Lu is required reading if you are going to be doing some significant DNS hosting for yourself. Or even if not, it's great reference scan material... -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: In testing yesterday it seems that everyone will flag me as a spammer because the email source can not be reverse looked up properly. You also have an SPF record. You'll have to set that properly, or your message is

Re: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: H my Win7 boxen don’t do that. I don't have any Win 7 boxen yet, but I noticed on Vista that if you enable the GPO item for Turn on Classic Shell, and then rename a file, Windows Explorer will switch to

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
We looked at S3 pricing for a small startup I'm involved with, and it actually seemed rather expensive compared to some competing models. Admittedly we were looking at storing long-form video, so perhaps our requirements were the more significant problem. So are you using CloudFront as an

RE: Not wanting to be a spammer

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Egads. Start buying lotto tickets. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Not wanting to be a spammer On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Steven M. Caesare

RE: activating 2008 ts license server

2009-11-17 Thread Eldridge, Dave
I found it . I had to add the license manager. L thanks From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: activating 2008 ts license server So, you right-click the server name, choose properties,

Re: FrontMotion/FirefoxADM

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Michael D Faulkner michael.faulk...@colorado.edu wrote: Have to admit, never installed an MSI via GPO.  Will that work under Vista, standard user, with UAC enabled? Yes. MSIs which are Assigned via GPO are installed using the NT machine trust account during

RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Kelsay
Thanks for all the responses. It must be specific to this machine or group of machines. If it is not an enterprise problem, I'll deal with it locally. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Cook
I was talking to Steve Riley last week (he's working foe Amazon these days) and he quoted me 12 cents an hour for a basic server on Amazon Web Services - around $1000 a year. He also wasn't saying much about S3 indicating AWS was the direction they were heading for the long haul. Pretty secure

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ø If an organization is large enough to produce its own, then the benefits of it using the cloud are diminished I don't think you can generalize that. Here at NIH there are the resources for the scientific community to build their own stuff... yet they may need a 500 node compute

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ya, that's not bad, factoring in space, cooling and power. We were looking more at the storage costs tho, and the associated bandwidth charge getting the data in and out. I think it was that xfer cost that was gonna hurt us. We may need to revisit... thanks for that. -sc From: John

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Cook
He also said there was another pricing model that has you pay an up front charge and less per hour, I think he referred to it as a reserved server instance. I'm looking at it for a VAR I do some work for. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
If you find any specifics about it would you mind forwarding them (or links) along? Thanks. -sc From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cloud computing... your opinions He also said there was

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Meixler
i believe EC2 reserved instance pricing is only available for Linux instances From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cloud computing... your opinions He also said there was another pricing model that has you

RE: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Free, Bob
Umm, my copy is by Paul Albitz Cricket Liu, granted my book is ~12 years old but the last time I saw Cricket he had not changed his name. But as you infer, it remains the bible of DNS. His firm (infoblox) had some pretty nice educational type materials and test software up on their website.

RE: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Lol... man I brain farted on that. Right you are thanks for the correction. -sc -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: https and certs issues Umm, my copy is by Paul Albitz Cricket

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread John Cook
Not according to Steve, he pointed it out specifically since I was talking about a 24/7 uptime server and I don't do 'nix (except for VMWare of course!) John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell

Re: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Link
What about Zetta for storage? http://www.zetta.net/ I'm giving them some serious consideration for our offsite backup storage repository. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Ya, that’s not bad, factoring in space, cooling and power. We were looking

RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click

2009-11-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Gotta be. I have several Win 7 boxes and have never seen this. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Mouse Hover to Click H my Win7 boxen don't do that. Any chance this is a

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Interesting... cloud based NAS as opposed to SAN or object storage. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cloud computing... your opinions What about Zetta for storage?

RE: Cloud computing... your opinions

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Schorr
We've written quite a bit on the subject of Cloud Computing and potential issues on our blog: http://www.rolandschorr.com/blogs/index.php?blog=1 One of the big issues for me, that doesn't seem to get much play, is the issue of geolocation. When I control my data I control where on the planet

Re: https and certs issues

2009-11-17 Thread Harry Singh
I have a similar requirement at one site. Everything is resolavble to company.com, inside and out. They use checkpoint Fw's. Rulebase additions from inside network to outside nat'd address pasthru the firewall just fine. I enter static DNS entries on the AD-INT zone and all works like a charm. I

facilities wiring question

2009-11-17 Thread James Kerr
Can anyone recommened what solution they would use if you have 50 CAT5 wires that I need to attach to 50 other CAT5 wires? What would you use? Would this work?

RE: This is a new one on me...

2009-11-17 Thread David Lum
BTDT. 11:15 patch/reboot, forgot to make it PM. Oopsie17 servers David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: This is a new one on me...

2009-11-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
Good one, Try when you do that to 5K in workstations, that is a BIG WHOOPSIE... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: David Lum

Re: facilities wiring question

2009-11-17 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Ah, the good old 110 wiring block. Yes, I would use that style of connector. I would actually use two of them, one for each termination of a wire. Then I would connect them using these: http://www.hometech.com/hts_images/uc/uc-e511c803_1.jpg Hope that helps! --Matt Ross Ephrata School

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