Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, We are looking at a new VM host here and I have to decide if we go for HyperV (our current option), VMWare (the cheaper version whatever that is) or Xen. Any comments? I used to like HyperV but after some issues with snapshots I'm going off it and I feel it doesn't make best use of the

RE: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Davies,Matt
Oliver, I would take a look at Vmware's ESXi its still free, and really easy to setup and use. If you want the either all or some of the features then for small site the Vmware Vsphere for small businesses, is I think good value for money. We are using ESXi on remote sites to host local

Re: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread tony patton
Personally I'd go for VMware, but that's mainly because I have no experience of the other 2. I tried Xen years ago, but found that all the VMware stuff is a lot easier to use, I started with VMware Workstation about 10 years ago. It really all depends on what features/capabilities you

Re: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
VMWare On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Jeff Cain je...@sunbelt-software.comwrote: Vmware ESXi would be my first choice. Thanks, Jeff Cain Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software Email: supp...@sunbeltsoftware.com Voice: 1-877-757-4094 Fax: 1-727-562-5199 Web:

Re: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
+1 If you have a small environment, like I do with only two hosts, you can step into vSphere for management for ~$1,000 at a later time. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Jeff Cain je...@sunbelt-software.comwrote: Vmware ESXi would be my first choice. Thanks, Jeff Cain Technical Support

Re: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
What are you looking to support on this VM, and what have been your problems with snapshots? I happen to love HyperV in 2008 R2. I like VMWare, and have used it pretty extensively, but if the requirement is to support a small environment and that doesn't require a whole lot of automatic

RE: Web app stress tools?

2010-07-15 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
So, are you having Ned Beatty fantasies again? From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web app stress tools? I KNEW I heard banjo music... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]

RE: Robocopy /SEC

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
True that adding the /SEC option is making the difference, I was trying to determine if the results I am getting are typical or if I should be looking for something else that could be exacerbating the performance hit. I didn't find much information Googling around, but I did see some people

NetoMeter - Step by Step Screencasts And Video tutorials. Windows, Exchange Server, Small Business Server, Virtualization.

2010-07-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
http://www.netometer.com/ Subscription-based website for training and instruction on Microsoft technologies… Has anyone used this before? -ASB ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Web app stress tools?

2010-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Shooky's personal theme music. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web app stress tools? I KNEW I heard banjo music... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent:

Re: Xen, Vmware or HyperV

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Ens
I use Hyper V as well. Works great. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: I had a Dr. Dr. it hurts when I do this problem with Hyper-V snapshots once... so I don't do that any more. They really should add are you SURE you want to make a snapshot? If

RE: NetoMeter - Step by Step Screencasts And Video tutorials. Windows, Exchange Server, Small Business Server, Virtualization.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
I have a customer that tried them. As with most providers of this type of material, it covers specific functionality, and doesn't teach actual techniques. That sounds a little weird, but I suspect you know what I mean. I find their use of generated speech quite disconcerting. Regards,

Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread David Lum
I'm weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have *any* password on paper ANYWHERE, but apparently some security guys don't have a problem with it: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20010621-245.html?tag=mncol;title 99% of the passwords I have to remember are for

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I write them in pig-latin so they are upersay ecretsay. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Passwords on paper? Seriously? I'm weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have *any* password on paper ANYWHERE, but apparently some security guys don’t have a problem with it: For shared/system passwords, we keep many of

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I keep almost all of my passwords (both work and personal) in my head. I have ONE password written down, but that's because I didn't create it, and there are too many variables for character substitutions (eyeroll). I used to keep a list of passwords for some infrequently used system in a list

Re: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: When I examine the email in the outbox, the address appears to be surrounded by single quotes, and you can't edit the email address -- it's a single entity, and pressing back-space on the ' character deletes the

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Cameron Cooper
We tell all our employees to never write down their password for network resources... although we did have an outside sales person that was let go and they shipped the laptop back. When I opened the box up, the laptop was still on, logged in and to top it off... err bottom... the password was

RE: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I'll agree with you Ben, but Angus is saying that the email fails to send when it looks like that... Angus - are they actually typing the email within word or within Outlook, which has Word defined as the email editor? Also, are both Word and Outlook fully up to date with patches and updates

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Sean Rector
+1 Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I'm weirder than I

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Shook
Awesome. Shook From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously? I write them in pig-latin so they are upersay ecretsay. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent:

RE: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Sean Rector
Sounds like a problem in the NK2 file. They can (when typing in the name) delete the suggested version and retype it. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Erik Goldoff
Argg ! I used to face that post-it and under the keyboard issue a lot at a previous employer … so I recommended that if a user HAD to write down their password I provided them a blank business card and told them to keep it in their wallet. That way it gets the same protection as their

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread John Hornbuckle
I'm not arguing with Schneier, though! From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Passwords on paper? Seriously? I'm weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have *any* password on paper

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
I just went and looked. Personally, I have 186 _different_ passwords for the various websites and applications I use. For my customers, I have 238. No way I could remember all of those. I use a password management application. Shooky sets all of his passwords to assw0rdpay Regards, Michael

VMware View question

2010-07-15 Thread Craig Gauss
Just seeing if anyone has had this issue. We recently updated our master images to include the latest and greatest patches from Microsoft. When trying to reboot the clone VMs they won't reboot without doing a power reset on them. Then when they come up the thin client isnt passing the

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
You missed an L in Shooky's. -sc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously? I just went and looked. Personally, I have 186 _different_ passwords for the various

SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Roger Wright
I'm running VIPRE on a Server 2008 R2 (64) box running SQL Server Express 2008 (64). I can't seem to locate the appropriate SQL Management Studio package to allow managing the installed instance, adding additional databases, etc. I've tried this but am told it's not compatible:

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
I take the approach that it is ok to write down passwords, as long as they aren't with your computer. I suggest putting them in the wallet. I ask if they ever lose their wallet that they let me know and we reset some passwords. It then goes back to authentication principles, something you know

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
When I first started working in IT about ten years ago every user had a permanent password and the IT department kept a list on paper. After about a month I could remember the passwords for all 150 or so employees, and everyone seemed amazed by that. Now I can barely remember their names anymore

Anyone ever do a UBCD4Win with the PGP plugin instructions?

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
I'm having trouble getting it to work, and was wondering if anyone else on this list had invented this wheel. I've followed the instructions I've found via Google Technical Support, but haven't been successful. The UBCD4Win builds, but I am unable to launch PGPwde when I boot from the CD.

Re: SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe doesn't work? Weird. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running VIPRE on a Server 2008 R2 (64) box running SQL Server Express 2008 (64). I can't seem to locate the appropriate SQL Management Studio package to allow

Re: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: I'll agree with you Ben, but Angus is saying that the email fails to send when it looks like that... Right, but the failure to send doesn't mean that *particular* behavior is related. It behaves that way

RE: SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread David Mazzaccaro
If you are going to install this because Sunbelt tech support says you need it to manage remote update servers... you don't. At least I didn't. Anyway... Here are the 3 easy steps that I took... On the Vipre Remote Update Server: 1) Windows Firewall Open ports: UDP 1434 and TCP 1433. 2)

Re: Robocopy /SEC

2010-07-15 Thread Steven Peck
This is kind of random, but have you thought about trying BITs? It seems to have an option to copy security information as well and it might handle it better (or worse). I don't really know but thoguht I would toss it out there. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa362813 Steven On Thu,

RE: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Good point, I'll agree. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread David Lum
Right, so how many of those are on paper? I have probably 35-40 password for various client things - crap now that I think about it, they are in Excel, but on my desk at home that never leaves or even VPN's anywhere, but I should KeePass those (adding note for self when I get home)... Dave

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread RichardMcClary
Paper gets lost. We have a user who wrote all her user names and passwords on the silver bezel of her laptop... David Lum david@nwea.org wrote on 07/15/2010 09:47:10 AM: I?m weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have *any* password on paper ANYWHERE, but

Ok HERE'S a weird one

2010-07-15 Thread David Lum
Currently we get Internet e-mail, and I can PING Google, but http, Telnet to Internet destinations don't work (http://www.google.com and other website fail). Anyone ever see selected protocols go down on a router? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk)

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Surely you misspelled had. (PS That is an awesome story...) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:57 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Paper gets lost. We have a user who wrote all her user names and passwords on the silver bezel of her laptop... David Lum david@nwea.org wrote on 07/15/2010

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Paper? The only time I use paper is when I have to send a fax. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passwords on paper?

Re: Ok HERE'S a weird one

2010-07-15 Thread Matthew W. Ross
First guess: Firewall. You're allowing ICMP packets through, but not the other protocols. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 15 Jul

Re: Ok HERE'S a weird one

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Someone left the enable password on a Post-It note attached to the Pix... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Currently we get Internet e-mail, and I can PING Google, but http, Telnet to Internet destinations don’t work (http://www.google.com and other

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread RichardMcClary
:-0 Not even to read an email??! Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote on 07/15/2010 11:06:27 AM: Paper? The only time I use paper is when I have to send a fax. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum

RE: Ok HERE'S a weird one

2010-07-15 Thread David Lum
Yep, SMTo and ICMP worked, http and others did not. Our ASA was generating error messages, a reboot fixed it - kind of what I suspected. Dave -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread James Rankin
Not only do I no longer understand paper, I have forgotten how to write On 15 July 2010 17:06, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Paper? The only time I use paper is when I have to send a fax. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP

Event ID 7023 - SIS and Groveler

2010-07-15 Thread jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
Not sure why it's happening, but my Windows 2003 R2 w/SP2 server keeps reporting this error on startup. Event ID 7023, The Single Instance Storage Groveler service terminated with the following error: The service has not been started. Manually starting the service results in the same problem.

Re: SCCM request

2010-07-15 Thread Joe Artz
MyITforum is a great place to look for information. They also have an active email list pertaining to ConfigMgr and MDT: http://www.myitforum.com/lists/, technet is also a good place to look. ConfigMgr is a large application that can do lots of things, so there is a bit of a learning curb with

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Shook
Mine are all the letter 'a'. :) Did you get that? Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously? I just went and looked. Personally, I have 186 _different_ passwords for

Re: SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Roger Wright
Just trying to add another db to the installed instance. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:41 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: If you are going to install this because Sunbelt tech support says you need it to manage remote update

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: The only time I use paper is when I have to send a fax. PC-based faxing. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Don't get me startedthis is a hot button of mine! :-P I hate it when (and it's very common) I receive PDFs that have to be filled out - but it's been disabled by the author. Lots of government forms are that way. AARRGGHHH But yes, when I'm faxing a word document or similar, I'll send it

RE: Robocopy /SEC

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
Looks interesting. If I get some time maybe I'll play with it. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy /SEC This is kind of random, but have you thought about

Office Move and New Network Setup

2010-07-15 Thread Cameron Cooper
We will be moving our office to a new building around Oct. 1st (for most of which I'll be gone on honeymoon in sept.) and with the move one of our sub-companies will move into the same office space. Currently they are on a separate network and will need to remain on a separate network due to the

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I hate it when (and it's very common) I receive PDFs that have to be filled out - but it's been disabled by the author. Lots of government forms are that way. AARRGGHHH Ohhh. I feel your pain. What I do is

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Mine are all the letter ‘a’.  J I've noticed that a lot of people have a password of . -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
Or somebody scans in a paper form to PDF and emails it you... I use PDF-XChange Viewer which lets you click and type anywhere on the PDF and save it with the additions, then email it back. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread tony patton
It's not uncommon here for people to print something, scan it to their email as PDF on one of the copiers, then email the PDF. And that's even with PrimoPDF installed on all the PCs in the company. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email:

Re: Office Move and New Network Setup

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: Currently they [sub-company] are on a separate network and will need to remain on a separate network ... ... Internet Frac T3 -- FW -- Managed switch At the managed switch we would setup a DMZ ... Not sure what you

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Smith m...@gatewayindustries.org wrote: Or somebody scans in a paper form to PDF and emails it you... I've caught people here printing something out only to scan it right back in. I resist the urge to beat them mercilessly and instead introduce them to

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:47, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I’m weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have *any* password on paper ANYWHERE, but apparently some security guys don’t have a problem with it:

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Robert Cato
http://howsecureismypassword.net/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Smith m...@gatewayindustries.org wrote: Or somebody scans in a paper form to PDF and emails it you... I've caught people here printing something out only to scan it right back in.

RE: Office Move and New Network Setup

2010-07-15 Thread Cameron Cooper
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/networksecurity/g/bldef_dmz.htm _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: Ben

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Greg Olson
Its amazing what you remember if you see something enough. I used to work at Costco years ago as a teenager and I can still remember some of the numbers for certain items (As back in the day before scanners you actually had a person calling the numbers out to the cashier and we would type them

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread N Parr
I'm constantly asking people why they are typing the domain name in to the search box. Makes me want to remove all the search toolbars. Why do you think Google makes so much money. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
We have a document management system - recently I caught somebody printing out several hundreds of pages of Word documents, so they could use the high speed scanner to put them back into the system as PDF files, using the OCR feature so it could index the documents for searching. This

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Marc Maiffret
It does sound funny the idea of paper passwords but the reality is the risk is extremely low of you having an attacker in your physical presence. Now there are of course the caveats of wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends snooping around. So remember in those cases that BrainPass is the best

RE: Ok HERE'S a weird one

2010-07-15 Thread Greg Olson
I remember this happening a while ago to us, and a more detailed check of the logs showed that the firewall had choked trying to defend against what it though was a denial of service against it. It was a Cisco bug, and upgrading to a more recent code version fixed it. Sorry I don't remember the

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
Depends on how you keep the -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:47, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I'm

Re: SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Roger Wright
I think I figured it out. I had to select Perform a new installation even though I had an existing instance. Not very intuitive, but okay now... Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Just trying to add another db to the

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
What does pdfcreator do for you that CutePDF-free doesn't do? (Other than install a malware toolbar?) PDF-Xchange looks very promising. Thanks Ralph. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
One nice feature it had was the ability to install with GP as an .msi though that has been removed. You can also install it on a print server so users can just map to it. The malware toolbar is fairly annoying though you can choose not to install it. I do think malware may be a bit strong in

Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Adam Meixler
Hi all, I know this has been asked a million times but haven't found it in the archive. We need to size a new UPS. Any suggestions on how to get accurate readings for our current power consumption? Thank you! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Quoting Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator, Inclusion of Malware) and some user comments on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator). [cid:image001.png@01CB242B.564F91C0] I apologize if either is inaccurate. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and

Re: Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Robert Cato
APC website On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Adam Meixler ad...@interlink1.com wrote: Hi all, I know this has been asked a million times but haven’t found it in the archive. We need to size a new UPS. Any suggestions on how to get accurate readings for our current power consumption?

Re: Office Move and New Network Setup

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/networksecurity/g/bldef_dmz.htm Yah, thanks, I know what a DMZ is. You still haven't explained how you're going to setup a DMZ on the switch. Routing tricks at the firewall? VLANs?

RE: Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Rod Trent
Server or workstation? The following solution is for managing and monitoring power consumption. Server: http://www.1e.com/softwareproducts/nightwatchmanserver/index.aspx Workstation: http://www.1e.com/softwareproducts/nightwatchman/index.aspx From: Adam Meixler

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ralph Smith
One problem I had with CutePDF a while back was that it would only save files to your local hard drive. That may have changed now. I've tried some different ones of these types of programs, and the one I've had the best results with is Bullzip PDF Printer.

Re: OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

2010-07-15 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 15 Jul 2010 at 11:00, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: I'll agree with you Ben, but Angus is saying that the email fails to send when it looks like that... Angus - are they actually typing the email within word or within Outlook, which has Word defined as the email editor? Within Word.

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: What does pdfcreator do for you that CutePDF-free doesn't do? Never tried CutePDF. For all I know, they're functionally identical. Some time back, someone suggested PDFCreator, we evaluated it, it did the job very

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
As they say, +1 for Bullzip as a company. Their MD5 utility adds the ability to calculate an MD5 sum from the right-click context menu in Windows. I use it darn near every day. http://www.bullzip.com/products/md5/info.php On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ralph Smith

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Nice! Definitely putting that in my toolbox. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:57, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: As they say, +1 for Bullzip as a company. Their MD5 utility adds the ability to calculate an MD5 sum from the right-click context menu in Windows.  I use it darn near every

Re: Anyone ever do a UBCD4Win with the PGP plugin instructions?

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Nevermind, PEBKAC. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I'm having trouble getting it to work, and was wondering if anyone else on this list had invented this wheel. I've followed the instructions I've found via Google Technical Support, but

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 15 Jul 2010 at 15:14, Michael B. Smith wrote: No way I could remember all of those. I use a password management application. +1 here ... encrypted password database in my Palm phone, synced to encrypted copy on my laptop. I export to a memo in the phone or print to a TXT file or

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
We were told by the DSS to keep a log of master system passwords in the security container (safe). Which is kind of irrelevant in our situation since we have standalone systems, and these guys never heard of flipping the CMOS reset jumper and booting a pnordahl disc. Phillip Partipilo

OT: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
We got a quote last week from Provantage for a single-proc license version of SQL Server 2008. I put in the PR on Tuesday, my purchasing person gets the PO to Provantage yesterday, and they kick it back today saying it's not available anymore. They're only selling R2, which, for this version, is

Re: Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Bob Hartung
I use a measuring Watts Up? Pro meter from www.wattsupmeters.com. The benefit of using a meter is you can get the power usage for a total system (monitor, printer etc.) or just one thing. You can also monitor as long as you want so you can get a good average. The only downside is you have to

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: Switching to a new phone is going to be a major PITA as neither of them is available on Android. I'm with you there (still have a Centro). Have you tried a WebOS phone (Pre, etc.) with the PalmOS emulator that's

Re: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: We were told by the DSS to keep a log of master system passwords in the security container (safe).  Which is kind of irrelevant in our situation since we have standalone systems, and these guys never heard of flipping the

Re: OT: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Stovall
Which version? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: We got a quote last week from Provantage for a single-proc license version of SQL Server 2008. I put in the PR on Tuesday, my purchasing person gets the PO to Provantage yesterday, and they kick it back

RE: Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Kill-a-watt - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/ Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Power meter Hi all, I know

RE: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Desmond
Have you thought about looking at a plan other than buying retail? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Whining...

Re: OT: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread don . ely
You should look into a select agreement... --Original Message-- From: Kurt Buff To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Whining... Sent: Jul 15, 2010 12:14 We got a quote last week from Provantage for a single-proc license version of SQL Server 2008. I put

RE: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread Cameron Cooper
Here ya on this one... we are looking to update our DB servers (hardware and software) - hardware - roughly $12,000 for two new servers - software - SQL 2008 R2 enterprise - roughly $27,000 per processor (we need unlimited CALs for our clients) x 4 processors in the new servers = boss and ceo

RE: Power meter

2010-07-15 Thread Greg Olson
I use a clamp meter http://www.tequipment.net/Extech380976.html Works across many different circuit types and is easy to use. Measure power from a single machine or from the end of a power strip. From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

2010-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
The security seal on the case would really be the only giveaway. Nothing preventing you from cloning the drive and working off the clone I suppose. There is no specific requirement for full disk encryption AFAIK as long as the data is in a GSA approved security container (and probably for

Re: SQL Server Express 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Jon Harris
That is one thing about SQL I am not missing. Installing an instance instead of adding an instance. Jon On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: I think I figured it out. I had to select Perform a new installation even though I had an existing instance. Not

RE: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread Matthew W. Ross
... and this is why I wonder why people don't develop for alternative SQL solutions ... (MySQL anyone?) But, I am not a programmer. Nor do I know or understand the real differences between different flavors of SQL servers. To me, a database is a database. Data goes in, and you pull data out.

Re: Whining...

2010-07-15 Thread don . ely
Go look at what Oracle costs and then you can complain... ;) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:01:43 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System

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