[ot] RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew B Ames
What the North Americans need is a trip to the UK, well Swindon in particular to visit our special roundabout, known as the Magic Roundabout. It is constructed from five small roundabouts to generate one large one. I guess it is ever Learner drivers nightmare :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Still have one 70+-year-old accountant at a client who is running Windows 95 > so he can run > Quattro Pro for DOS for his custom reports. Circa 2003, I briefly had a customer -- a small metal shop -- running a DOS-based accounting

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Amen ;) -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 22, 2011 10:35 PM, "Richard Stovall" wrote: > Winner! > > Absolutely, unequivocally, a winner. > > Winner, winner, chicken dinner! > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > >> Still have one

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Stovall
Winner! Absolutely, unequivocally, a winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner! On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Still have one 70+-year-old accountant at a client who is running Windows > 95 so he can run > Quattro Pro for DOS for his custom reports. > > > ~ Finally,

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
Still have one 70+-year-old accountant at a client who is running Windows 95 so he can run Quattro Pro for DOS for his custom reports. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Do any of you have a favorite "print screen" utility to allow you to dump > the contents of your screen to the printer? We have an intranet web page > that updates frequently and it doesn't print well in Chrome. I don't know > if it's Chrome o

Re: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions)

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Sigh. Watch for wrapping in my fileacl example syntax. There are 5 lines, and each line should begin with fileacl. And, this is the URL where you can download this tool: http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.asp Kurt On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 15:02, Evan Brastow wrote: > Amazingly simply quest

Re: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions)

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Evan, Don't get rid of inheritance as such, because it's your friend. Instead, work your way down from the top, and set the permissions on individual directories. We made a very deliberate decision to limit applications of permissions to no deeper than the 2nd subdirectory underneath the spot whe

Re: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions)

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Just remove the inheritance on the few folders that you need to setup different permissions on, rather than from the root itself -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 22, 2011 6:02 PM, "Evan Brastow" wrote: > Amazingly simply question, but I've not done this in

RE: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions)

2011-06-22 Thread Art DeKneef
If you stop Inheritable permissions from the top level folder, the bottom folders retain the current permissions. And allow you to change permissions on the individual folders. Also you might look into Access Based Enumeration on the new server. That way users only see folders they have access

RE: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread David Lum
Cool, I have actually started investigating just this, actually. Dave -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Da

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Rod Trent
Hehehe. If it was political I would have said: Look right and get run over by the left. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FontZilla Why'd you have to bring politics into this discussion

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Free, Bob
I had been driving around 35 years when I first encountered one.The three counties I drive in most have one each (that I have noticed so far) so they are still pretty rare, at least where I frequent. From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:12 P

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Where I'm at they stop at flashing amber lights and run through flashing red ones! And don't get me started on what bicyclists do!!! From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FontZilla LOL!! I've seen

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Why'd you have to bring politics into this discussion? LOL From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FontZilla It's "give way to the left" over here. From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] S

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Those lesser lights are from Barcelona... Basil, Faulty Towers From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FontZilla "Give way to the right", that's all we have to remember. Although we have mini-roun

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Rod Trent
It's "give way to the left" over here. From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FontZilla "Give way to the right", that's all we have to remember. Although we have mini-roundabouts too. They ge

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread kz20fl
"Give way to the right", that's all we have to remember. Although we have mini-roundabouts too. They get the lesser lights of the UK a bit confused. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: Steven Peck Date: Wed, 22 Jun

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steven Peck
I like them myself, but they engender so much confusion over here. You can generally tell the locals who have adjusted to them from the people from the other side of town who are trying to remember what the rules are from the driving test they took 20 years ago are. The locals are waving their ar

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread kz20fl
It is rather bizarre to see so much discussion about roundabouts. Over here we hardly notice them. Interesting cultural comparison. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: "Free, Bob" Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:55:41 To

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Hanna
+ same boat, mine perhaps a little smaller boat. Feel your pain. --steve --sent via blackberry -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:46:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network Sigh. 3

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:56 PM, David Lum wrote: > How big of  deal would it be to you guys if you re-realized you have 4 > Windows 2000 servers on your network – not file/print, but stuff that > supports the phone system. Do they *need* to be on your main network? If not, isolate them from y

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Free, Bob
Perfect depiction. You should see the roundabout they put in up in Arcata by HSU, can't tell if its meditation, medication or oblivion but the phenomena is about the same :) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+10 *ASB *(Professional Bio ) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Can’t you segment it, such as firewall off all but for example SIP ports > if it’s a sip based setup?*

Re: Cyberattack of the day...

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
He called the bat phone, though... *ASB *(Professional Bio ) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Andrew S. Baker > wrote: > > http://www.there

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Sigh. 3 NT4 servers and 6 Win2k servers, and a sprinkling of Win2k Pro and even some Win98 workstations. I have talked myself blue in the face trying to get these decommissioned, but so far, I'm unable to make it happen. I'm thinking of., well, what I'm thinking of is not ethical, but I can drea

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
We were in the same boat last year. We ended up virtualizing the servers, and then upgrading them to Windows Server 2003 and testing. That is not a supported configuration from the vendor, but we decided that was the lesser of the 2 evils. So far no issues. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Techni

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Tony Patton
Think that's bad? We have a contract that still has half a dozen or so NT 4 servers still in production. Not sure what they all run, but 1 has Oracle on it and another is a go between for Oracle and payable. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On 22 Jun 2011 20:57, "David Lum" wrote: ~ Finally, power

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL!! I've seen that as well on the East Coast. *ASB *(Professional Bio ) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > Out here in California we have these awesome new Yield and Stop

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Lundy
Which is what I would suggest even if the servers were current. There is little need for most back office servers to have internet access at all, IMO. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Can’t you segment it, such as firewall off all but for example SIP ports > if it’s a

RE: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread John Aldrich
We still have a single NT4 machine on our network. As you say, it's part of the phone system. Not really sure we *can* get rid of it. I don't think it has internet access, though...and it's ONLY used for reporting call center calls. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, J

RE: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Can't you segment it, such as firewall off all but for example SIP ports if it's a sip based setup? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2000 machines on your network How big of deal would it be to you guy

RE: Windows 2000 machines on your network

2011-06-22 Thread Guyer, Don
You may "have to" if your company needs to meet certain security compliances. We have to meet PCI. There's one left and porting the apps/services (built in-house) over to 2k3 is being a real biatch! Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent? On Wed, Jun 22, 201

Re: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: You'd think this would be easy. > > Not really, if it were easy, Malware wouldn’t uninstall it with ease. Actually, that's a good idea. Just install some "free anti-virus software" from a site in Russia. Chances are VIPRE will be uninsta

Re: Cyberattack of the day...

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/startssl_security_breach/ > In today's attack of the day... > An attack on web authentication authority StartSSL has lead to them > suspending their services and stopped issuing any further certificat

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Tom Miller
Michael, you'd think what you said would be correct. And it is, for the current version, under the \uninstall reg key. But there is no uninstall string for older versions. Weird. >>> "Michael B. Smith" 6/22/2011 2:48 PM >>> Sure, however the OP said that he had been instructed to remove it

Re: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Graeme Carstairs
Trend has an easy one even if passworded. Ntrmv -331 Kills it and deletes the folders faster than the uninstall does On Wednesday, 22 June 2011, Crawford, Scott wrote: > If you can uninstall it at all, malware can uninstall it too. > > -Original Message- > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Crawford, Scott
If you can uninstall it at all, malware can uninstall it too. -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent? >> You'd think this would be easy.

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sure, however the OP said that he had been instructed to remove it from there; thus indicating that - at least in this case - that issue did not arise. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca..

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steven Peck
Out here in California we have these awesome new Yield and Stop signs. The new improved yield signs are Octaganol, red and say 'Stop' but many seem to think that is merely a suggestion. The new improved stop signs are Triangular, red and white and say 'Yield'. Many people seem to think this is an

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Cayze
That's the thing. It can be configured not to appear in Add/Remove Programs. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent? If you can remove it

Re: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Sullivan
I would only try and deal with the machines that cannot cleanly upgrade. You can try using the cleaner on the machines that give you trouble then try installing the new agent. http://sunbelt-software.com/support/vc/VPPClean.exe I had a few machines that gave me trouble but restarting them first so

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
If you can remove it via control panel, then it can be removed via msiexec or similar. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:26

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> You'd think this would be easy. >Not really, if it were easy, Malware wouldn't uninstall it with ease.  These >software packages are designed to be hard to uninstall. With all due respect, I totally disagree with that statement. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog

RE: No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Cayze
>>> You'd think this would be easy. Not really, if it were easy, Malware wouldn't uninstall it with ease. These software packages are designed to be hard to uninstall. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: No e

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Ens
Thanks Bill, I was one of the lucky ones that got a "share" of a pair of season tickets. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Bill Humphries wrote: > You're welcome. Enjoy our hockey team. I only made one game this year. > > Steve Ens wrote: > >> Yes, all the season tickets sold out in a matter of

No easy uninstall for Vipre agent?

2011-06-22 Thread Tom Miller
Something for you Vipre users out there: Our biggest problem with Vipre is that new agents don't always install. We've used Vipre here for a few years, and the agent upgrade has always been the biggest problem. Luckily the software works well otherwise. I wanted to write a simple script to

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Rubens Almeida
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Do any of you have a favorite "print screen" utility to allow you to dump > the contents of your screen to the printer? We have an intranet web page > that updates frequently and it doesn't print w

OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Bill Humphries
You're welcome. Enjoy our hockey team. I only made one game this year. Steve Ens wrote: Yes, all the season tickets sold out in a matter of minutes (13000+) and there is a waiting list of 6000 more... we likes our hockey here. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Guyer, Don

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Rod Trent wrote: > Roundabouts assume everyone is a good driver and that people are generally > nice. Or at least that they follow the rules. Most people don't seem to know what a "Yield" sign means. If people yield properly, rotaries (that's what we call '

RE: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Cayze
:( FREEWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT 1. Gadwin Systems, Inc. grants Licensee a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to reproduce and use for personal purposes the executable code version of the Product, provided any copy must contain all of the original proprietary notices.

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread RichardMcClary
RIGHT! Proportional fonts mess up fancy sig files /\_/\ /*--.__/ o o \ / Richard ="= / \ `-. ( "--._)"-._m)m) Kurt Buff wrote on 06/22/2011 10:47:50 AM: > It really should be Courier New - monospace all the way! > > Kurt > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:35, S

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
It really should be Courier New - monospace all the way! Kurt On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:35, Sam Cayze wrote: > Hey, at least they moved away from Times New Roman! > > > > Die, T.N.R, Die! > > > > Loving the rest of the comments :) > > > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] >

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Ens
Yes, all the season tickets sold out in a matter of minutes (13000+) and there is a waiting list of 6000 more... we likes our hockey here. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Guyer, Don wrote: > Here in (lower) North America, some of us are quite familiar with them.*** > * > > ** ** > > But, yes,

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Cayze
Hey, at least they moved away from Times New Roman! Die, T.N.R, Die! Loving the rest of the comments :) From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: FontZilla Wow. The local government here in th

RE: FontZilla [OT]

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Bev Perdue signed bill 322 yesterday, declaring "Stock Car Racing" the official State sport for North Carolina. No denyin' they are rednecks now. (While I now live in Virginia, I was born and raised in NC - so I can say this.) :) Now, that being said, I hate roundabouts. Regards, Michael B. S

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Jonathan Link
They are more common in the eastern U.S. Even more so in the northeast... On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Guyer, Don wrote: > Here in (lower) North America, some of us are quite familiar with them.*** > * > > ** ** > > But, yes, I would agree, newbies can get quite confused when faced with >

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Rod Trent
Roundabouts assume everyone is a good driver and that people are generally nice. Don’t know if you notice as much as I do, but drivers these days are not as nice as they used to be. Plus, cell phone usage while driving makes people stupid. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: W

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread pdw1914
That's hilarious. Reads like a Python script. Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:34:00 +0100 Subject: Re: FontZilla From: kz2...@googlemail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Not in the slightest. I am long-sighted, and I can read the guy across the room's emails just fine from my desk. How

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Guyer, Don
Here in (lower) North America, some of us are quite familiar with them. But, yes, I would agree, newbies can get quite confused when faced with them the first few times. Winnipeg'ians are just overly excited about getting an NHL team back! Ain't got time to learn a new traffic pattern

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread N Parr
May not be as bad as you think since NASCAR is so popular. LEFT TURN! Although it's fun to sit on the square of a local town that has one and watch people that have lived there all their life still almost kill each other getting around it. From: Steve Ens [mail

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Ens
North Americans on the whole have problems knowing what to do with roundabouts. We've just started implementing them in Winnipeg and they've gotten quote a lot of complaints. lack of educamation. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Matthew B Ames wrote: > Haha, nice one. Good job it was not my

RE: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread John Cook
For XP (or anything else) Gadwin Printscreen - worth every penny, because it's free. If you've not used it you're missing out, it really is quite configurable. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issue

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Not like my old favourite FireSomething...that hasn't been working since > about FF 2.0, IIRC I bet that would keep working if you just turned off extension compatibility checking. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:33 AM, James Rankin wrote: > ... enforce 14-point Arial as the Outlook font for all users ... > ... council tax bills will no longer be able to display the address > correctly in the envelope window ... That thudding noise you just heard was everyone who reads ntsysadm

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew B Ames
Haha, nice one. Good job it was not my local council doing that. Instead we are having all our roundabouts removed and replaced with crossroads and traffic lights installed - all to help with traffic flow for the sailing events for the Olympics (2012)... apparently. Rather than using a 14pt

RE: FontZilla [OT]

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
HAHAHAHAHA I'm surprised to see this statement in a UK paper: "Typical example of too many chiefs and not enough Indians, one doesn't know what the other is doing. What a waste of time and money." (I put this up in 14pt for you.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://Th

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Roger Wright
Oh, come on, Fourteen point isn't so big! Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Sean Rector wrote: > I’m laughing my a$$ off at this. 14-point? You have got to be kidding me! > > > > Sean Rector, MCSE

Re: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
Not in the slightest. I am long-sighted, and I can read the guy across the room's emails just fine from my desk. However - to put this in perspective, here is another thing this council have done recently... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13873091 On 22 June 2011 15:30

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Sean Rector
I'm laughing my a$$ off at this. 14-point? You have got to be kidding me! Sean Rector, MCSE From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: FontZilla Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Roger Wright
For Windows 7 - the included Snipping Tools works easily. For XP - SnagIT is worth the cost. Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Do any of you have a favorite "print screen" utili

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
Local government seems to have the capability to ignore the advice of IT and wantonly pursue whatever project they feel fulfils the current "flavour of the month". But hey - they keep extending my contract :-) probably because everything takes so long to implement On 22 June 2011 14:52, wrote: >

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
Cheers! I like to think, if you're going to tack a load of text on the end of every email you send, at least put some effort into it :-) On 22 June 2011 14:52, Steve Ens wrote: > James has the best sigs around. > > Sent from my FriPad > > On 2011-06-22, at 8:49 AM, Roger Wright wrote: > > > Alm

RE: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: FontZilla Good thing you're not an Outlook user so you can

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread RichardMcClary
Good thing you're not an Outlook user so you can keep using your serif font! Do the people in your local government not realize that they will need to expand their disk storage greatly to compensate for the larger font? -- RMc James Rankin 06/22/2011 08:34 AM Please respond to "NT System Ad

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Ens
James has the best sigs around. Sent from my FriPad On 2011-06-22, at 8:49 AM, Roger Wright wrote: > Almost as funny (weird) as your disclaimer! > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
Not like my old favourite FireSomething...that hasn't been working since about FF 2.0, IIRC On 22 June 2011 14:48, Kurt Buff wrote: > They don't call it the 'bleeding' edge for nothing, but I know that if > I don't install it and get experience with it, my users will overtake > my ability to sup

Re: OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Roger Wright
Almost as funny (weird) as your disclaimer! Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:33 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work for, despite being in > the middle of the dee

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
They don't call it the 'bleeding' edge for nothing, but I know that if I don't install it and get experience with it, my users will overtake my ability to support them. That is, however, the only one of my few addons that isn't supported. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:23, Sam Cayze wrote: > Well yo

RE: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread Rod Trent
That's hilarious. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: FontZilla Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work for, despite being in the middle of the deepest cuts for two decades, have decid

OT: FontZilla

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work for, despite being in the middle of the deepest cuts for two decades, have decided to use our precious IT resources to.enforce 14-point Arial as the Outlook font for *all *users, just so that partially-sighted people can be sure they can read

RE: Large format printers (plotters)

2011-06-22 Thread N Parr
Our 750c gave up the ghost a few years ago after I don't know how many 10's-100's of thousand of feet of paper, it was a great machine. We replaced it with a 1050c which is still in use but pretty sure not supported by HP any more. Fortunately our VAR can usually dig up parts. When we started wea

How nice of Google

2011-06-22 Thread James Rankin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/google_chrome_frame_installs_without_admin_rights/ A decent whitelisting application should take care of this, but I know not all have them You can test the installation by getting a non-privileged test user to go to http://code.google.com/chrome/chromefram

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Cayze
Well you did upgrade on the day it was released :) Lots of my extentions wont work on 5, I'm waiting a day or two. Devs are getting a lot faster at this I must say. On Jun 22, 2011 2:10 AM, "Kurt Buff" wrote: > I loaded Fireshot this morning. > > This afternoon I upgraded to FF 5.0, and it said

Re: Print screen utility

2011-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
I loaded Fireshot this morning. This afternoon I upgraded to FF 5.0, and it said that Fireshot was not compatible with 5.0, so disabled it. I suppose it'll be back at some point, but that was a little disappointing... Kurt On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:14, Sam Cayze wrote: >>>what more could you