RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Alan Davies
Yeah .. and .. uh ... they deserve to fail since there are instructions on the page that tell you how to access the main site as per normal by just disabling JavaScript! Reading comprehension .. it's a skill ;o) Lobbying eh .. you gotta sit back and admire how well big business can dictate the

RE: Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not quite but sorta. I believe you'll find that instead of being SQL based it's now ESE based, plus it has been integrated with the Drive Extender technologies from WHS. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Troy Adkins
I was using that site as a test, and when I would go there, it would prompt me to download Silverlight, indicating it was installed, even though it is. Troy Adkins Network Administrator Virginia House of Delegates General Assembly Bldg. Room 815 804.698.1567 (O) 804.771.7917 (F)

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
Thanks! Let's see, near my knee is an under-desk basket with my dad's Post (bamboo and made in Occupied Japan) as well as at least one aluminum Post. Also two high-tech circulars - an SIC and a little pocket-sized one with a periodic table on the back and a slide-out card with numerous

RE: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Troy Adkins
On my other 64-bit machines, when I go to the Microsoft Silverlight site for the download, a 64-bit version is what gets installed. ...wellthe file name is xxxsilverlight64.exeso I assume it's Silverlight. Troy Adkins Network Administrator Virginia House of Delegates General Assembly

RE: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
Not sure exactly what Silverlight is, but isn't it MS's attempt to give an alternative to Adobe products? Looks like they're doing a pretty good job! From: Troy Adkins [mailto:tadk...@house.virginia.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Microsoft

Re: Size of this NT admin list

2012-01-19 Thread ANDREW F OFALT
what lurkers, trolls? I dont believe they exist. RUS - Original Message - Well over 50% :) On most lists, lurkers make up 80% + The percentage is probably higher for this list, given it's thousands of subscribers. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Not sure exactly what Silverlight is, but isn’t it MS’s attempt to give an alternative to Adobe products?  Looks like they’re doing a pretty good job! Yah, Microsoft positions it as an alternative to Adobe

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Bourque Daniel
Just tell them it's a new calculator with no battery, eco friendly... Now you're really cool!!! PS: Do you need a Staedler-Mars bamboo laminated slide-rule with it's leather carrying pouch or a vintage HP-45 calculator (still using it every day) with the original manual that show how it's

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
I'm sure someone wants it. Like I said, my dad's Post is bamboo. Nowadays, bamboo is considered to be high tech. As to calculators, I read somewhere that TI's calculators, SR-x actually stood for Slide Rule. -- richard -Original Message- From: Bourque Daniel

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
I used a circular in college. Dunno what happened to it. At one point, I could do order of approximations in Physics with a SR faster than someone could punch the buttons on a hand computer - and I'd always get sig-fig right - and they never would. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and

Re: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Erik Goldoff
think I still have my TI SR-51-II calculator in a box somewhere, it was my high school graduation present and went to Georgia Tech with me. couple of slide rules still in the home office too, at least one with leather case from the 50s that I think use to be my uncle's. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Bourque Daniel
Joking about getting rid of it. At some point, I hang it out of the server room with an « In case of Emergency only » sign...:o) -Message d'origine- De : Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Envoyé : 19 janvier 2012 08:35 À : NT System Admin Issues Objet : RE: Way

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
SIG-FIG, like the Intel/Excel situation where 4/2=1.8? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Way OT: Interesting! I used a circular in college. Dunno what happened to

Re: VM Backups and SQL

2012-01-19 Thread James Kerr
Indeed, I'm going to do a test this weekend. I've done a revert to an earlier snapshot on a VM and the database was fine and usable. I'm just becoming uber paranoid due to an issue we had a couple of weeks ago. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
Hey, I LOVED my SR-51-II back when in the bio sciences. I tended to ignore the standard deviation and other buttons. However, once I learned which memory registers had what values (upon each push of the summation key), I could crank out sums of squares at lightning speed! The SR-51 died and

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread David Lum
I know it was rhetorical, but off NWEA hours I’ve been jamming on a SBS swing migration (SBS2003 - SBS2011) and have been so heads down it’s amazing I even caught that. From: cynicalg...@gmail.com [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: ideas for migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit Server 2008

2012-01-19 Thread David Lum
Two DC's, one physical (2008 R2 Standard), one virtual (SBS 2003). For testing I ran disk2vhd on the physical one so in my lab environment (an old PowerEdge 840 with Xeon CPU and four SATA drives) it's all virtual. Disk2VHD totally rocks. Dave From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com]

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Something like that :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Way OT:

RE: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Bourque Daniel
HP with their RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) where much better then TI... De : Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Envoyé : 19 janvier 2012 09:06 À : NT System Admin Issues Objet : RE: Way OT: Interesting! Hey, I LOVED my SR-51-II back when in

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Sitting back and watching is what's going to allow this type of legislation to actually pass... Joe From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:52 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. Yeah .. and .. uh ...

RE: For your intellectual delectation...

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Very cool! My second consulting job (that resulted in my first published paper) was writing an analysis program for lower-GI studies in rhesus monkeys. I took the raw data, and basically performed a FFT on it and graphed the results (this was a lot of work way back in the day -- the input data

Re: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Bourque Daniel daniel.bour...@loto-quebec.com wrote: HP with their RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) where much better then TI... Nerdfight!! ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Alan Davies
Unfortunately your politicians that come up with these clangers don't listen to us outside of the US complaining that they're insane! ;o) Sounds a bit like those who put it forward have started to get an inkling that through their rose-tinted non-technical eyes, the issue is not quite as

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Erik Goldoff
We could get rid of all murderers in an instant with the Explosive Renewal Act 2012! Just have to blow up the city - we guarantee it will work though! :o) even more Draconian than preventing terrorists from blowing up airliners, have all passengers pass singly through a booth that has the

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Cynicalgeek
I absolutely love democracy in the media age. The bills lost several cosponsors yesterday and a fair deal of support. This isn't the end of SOPA/PIPA but it's a great start. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: We could get rid of all murderers in an

Re: OT: System Center Universe...

2012-01-19 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Horrible video feed, but thanks. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:24 -0800 Subject: OT: System Center

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
HTML5 is no panacea, either... It's a loosely defined standard that will be even more loosely adhered to. Welcome back to 1999. Proprietary plug-ins aren't necessarily a bad thing. Adobe's plug-in is both bloated and insecure, and that's the bad thing. * * *ASB*

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Mathew Shember
Indeed. I remember panicking because a needed book was missing from the library. You roll with the punches. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. 'Fail classes because of it'? A)

R: Way OT: Interesting!

2012-01-19 Thread HELP_PC
+1 Guido Elia HELPPC - HELPPC SERVICE -Messaggio originale- Da: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Inviato: giovedì 19 gennaio 2012 16.38 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Re: Way OT: Interesting! On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Bourque Daniel daniel.bour...@loto-quebec.com

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Rod Trent
Yeah.that's going to happen. Best next excuse to the dog ate my homework From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. 'Fail classes because of it'? A) over-melodramatic B)

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Slinger
Tough. Then they deserve to fail. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:08:57 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE:

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: HTML5 is no panacea, either...   It's a loosely defined standard that will be even more loosely adhered to.   Welcome back to 1999. HTML 5 is on the W3C standards track. It's still in draft status, but my

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Mayo, Bill
The world has changed. I don't think researching offline is as practical as it was when I was a kid. Back then, I had a set of encyclopedias. My kids certainly don't have that today, and encyclopedias are, frankly, antiquated. I know that my kids' teachers expect them to do research on the

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Slinger
Again, tough. If their only avenue of research is Wikipedia, they deserve to fail. Not only is offline do-able, but there are also other online sources. Let alone doing primary source research themselves rather than going through an aggregator. -Original Message- From: Mayo,

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote: It’s kind of like how difficult it would be to research Windows Server problems without the internet these days. It's always fun when I have a technical problem on one of our stand-alone computers. Which are in a

PowerShell question

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've got a PowerShell script that enumerates a list of groups and their members. Works great in the domain that I run the script from (acme.com). Trying to make the same script work against a trusted domain (Widgets). Using Quest CmdLets for this. The get-qadgroup command works fine, it's

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Mayo, Bill
I was responding directly to your assertion that they do off-line lookups, so other online sources wasn't part of your original argument. I think you assume that everyone has access to a well-stocked library, but that is not the case for everyone. I know several municipalities around here either

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
* Remember when Microsoft had nearly taken over the browser world? We sat on IE 6 for *years* and *years*.* My point being that although the underpinnings were open standards, HTML included, that didn't afford any automatic advantage. A proprietary plug-in doesn't prevent competition with

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
My dog ate my patch cable. -- Espi On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Yeah…that’s going to happen… ** ** Best next excuse to “the dog ate my homework” ** ** ** ** *From:* Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] *Sent:*

RE: PowerShell question

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
DFL and FFL? Is Exchange in the mix? And if so, what version (including SP)? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
Smart phone with a camera. To heck with that paper thing! On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote: It’s kind of like how difficult it would be to research Windows Server problems

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Richard McClary
My dog peed on my wireless router From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. My dog ate my patch cable. -- Espi On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Rod Trent

RE: PowerShell question

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
DFL and FFL are both W2K3. No Exchange in the mix. Christopher Bodnar Technical Support III, Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Webster
Some secure sites do not allow phone, smart or otherwise, into the data center or anywhere computers are located. Some of my CTP friends do work for the 3-latter agencies and nothing is allowed in the facility. They bring their photo ID, the clothes they are wearing and nothing else. Carl

DPM 2012 Beta

2012-01-19 Thread Steve Ens
Just a quick question for anyone using DPM. I'd like to be able to replicate snapshots to a different site. I've got my main backup server with attached disk onsite and then want to send a copy across to another building over the WAN. Is this easy (possible) to setup with DPM? I'm testing the

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Sam Cayze
My elected officials peed on our rights. From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. My dog peed on my wireless router From: Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
coughmomentary sarcasm on an interetz listserv/cough :P On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Some secure sites do not allow phone, smart or otherwise, into the data center or anywhere computers are located. Some of my CTP friends do work for the 3-latter

RE: PowerShell question

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
In that case, I've got no clue. Sorry... :( Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerShell question

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Don Ely
Did %dayjob% go out and do a salary survey on their particular position name? They might want to see if it exists... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I would call it something like network support specialist but that's just me. Instead *%dayjob%* came

RE: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Reads like entry-level SysAdmin to me. Hacker, Level 1. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What would you call this IT

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
My dog peed on my demark. -- Espi On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: My dog peed on my wireless router ** ** *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:42 PM *To:* NT System

RE: .CAB file as a Microsoft systems patch

2012-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's MS09-48. It's normally packaged as an EXE or MSU (depending on the Windows version). Not as a CAB. Running Windows Update on Server 2003/2003R2 or applying SP2 on Server 2008 should include it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From:

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Leeper
Helpdesk Level ll Did %dayjob% go out and do a salary survey on their particular position name? They might want to see if it exists... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I would call it something like network support specialist but that's just me.

RE: DPM 2012 Beta

2012-01-19 Thread Bob Fronk
You can protect a primary DPM server with a second DPM server. You can choose the protected servers/clients from DPM1 that will be protected by DPM2. I currently have this exact setup in production. BF From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:46 PM To:

RE: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Webster
I had someone contact me about this $45K to $60K a year position. Told them this was a 6 figure salary job position: JOB DUTIES: *Must have a solid foundation in Citrix XenApp (Citrix Presentation Server), XenDesktop, and Nescaler from initial installation through all troubleshooting

Re: .CAB file as a Microsoft systems patch

2012-01-19 Thread Jeff Bunting
I'd go get the appropriate patch(es) from Microsoft. It should come in a .msu package rather than a cab http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS09-048 Jeff On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: Greetings! ** ** We have “been

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Cynicalgeek
Too bad they didn't realize they could have used Wikipedia mobile or have chosen the Simple English version of the site, or disable Javascript in their browser...or a few other workarounds to access the site yesterday. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread James Kerr
Yeah, HR did research and they came up with the name Information Services Technical Support Assistant. I really don't think that title matches the job description. Support assistant to me sounds more clerical in nature and based on a few minutes of research by myself it seems that I'm correct. On

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yeah, I've had similar situations happen. Everyone wants Superman at Batman prices. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I had someone contact me

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Sean Martin
$45-$60k sounds like what the company I work for might offer... - Sean On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I had someone contact me about this $45K to $60K a year position. Told them this was a 6 figure salary job position: JOB DUTIES: ·Must have

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Rankin, James R
That's very amusing. Especially the CCP. bet that's the only Citrix cert you haven't got! I see a lot of this in the UK contract market, wanting people with CCAA and VCP and five years experience for £150 a day. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: Webster

Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Sanderson
I am looking for a KVM that will support dual displays. What I have is 2 docked laptops that each have 1 VGA and 1 DVI-D output and currently have PS2 keyboard and mouse being used but can go with USB if need be. I do not care if the KVM is a manual switch or if it is hot keyed. I need

RE: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread David Lum
Take out the certification requirements, the degrees, the ESX level 3 and AD level 4 requirements, the Citrix and storage knowledge requirements and that's all me! But hey my attendance is stellar (we get PTO/UPTO reports and I had all of 10 hours of unscheduled absence in 2011). ANDI like

RE: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Mathew Shember
Isn't that more like Robin prices? ;-) Thanks, Mathew From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What would you call this IT position? Yeah, I've had similar situations happen. Everyone wants Superman at

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Rankin, James R
That's a bit unfair to Batman. They're more DangerMouse prices. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:41:18 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread James Kerr
I think I'm going to post my ad up as Junior System Administrator even though the actual title isn't that. I just need to get a guy hired before I just out the window. j/k James On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Take out the certification requirements, the

RE: System Center Universe...

2012-01-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Rod, Are you going to be hosting any of the recordings, or have a link to them? I missed Wally's presentation entirely, just caught the end of the OM one, and got pulled away from the DPM one. Those were the 3 that I would have liked to have seen all the way through. Joe Heaton ITB -

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread John Cook
DangerMouse = Non Profit John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 06:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: What would you call this IT

Re: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:52, Gary Sanderson gary.sander...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a KVM that will support dual displays.  What I have is 2 docked laptops that each have 1 VGA and 1 DVI-D output and currently have PS2 keyboard and mouse being used but can go with USB if need be.  I

RE: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Art DeKneef
I have an Aten CS-1744 Dual-View KVM Switch that has worked flawlessly for me. Does manual or hot key between the 4 ports. The difference is that the dual view is just VGA ports so I think you would need the VGA/DVI converters and this has no PS/2 connections, just USB. The box also supports

RE: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Sam Cayze
Ever thought I've using Synergy? Used it before, it rocks. http://synergy-foss.org/ Sam From: Gary Sanderson [mailto:gary.sander...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dual Display KVM I am looking for a KVM that will

RE: System Center Universe...

2012-01-19 Thread Rod Trent
They will be available probably in a week or so. I'll post the links when they're up. Much of what Wally talked about today is in Episode 6 of the SCCM Guru event. You can actually watch/listen to that on the very last video up in this post:

Re: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Steven Peck
Synergy lost it's mind to often for me to bother with anymore in a Windows only environment. I used to use Multiplicity Pro from Stardock. Currently I use the Mouse without Borders tool http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27589 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Sam Cayze

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Which are in a locked room with no outside communications and can't exchange information electronically with the outside world. Transcribing error codes and cryptic messages onto paper... Smart phone with a camera.  To heck

Re: PowerShell question

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I've got a PowerShell script that enumerates a list of groups and their members. Works great in the domain that I run the script from (acme.com). Trying to make the same script work against a trusted domain

Re: Dual Display KVM

2012-01-19 Thread Leif Wahlberg
+1 Leif T. Wahlberg Sent from my iPad2 On 20 jan 2012, at 08:28, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Synergy lost it's mind to often for me to bother with anymore in a Windows only environment. I used to use Multiplicity Pro from Stardock. Currently I use the Mouse without Borders tool

Re: Microsoft Silverlight

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:  Remember when Microsoft had nearly taken over the browser world?  We sat on IE 6 for *years* and *years*. My point being that although the underpinnings were open standards, HTML included, that didn't afford any

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 19 Jan 2012 at 0:05, Free, Bob wrote: Take, for example, the Twitter account herpderpia (contains offensive language), which has been compiling those who have been crying and confused over the loss of Wikipedia. FWIW http://twitter.com/herpderpedia (not herpderpia) shows that there was

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 19 Jan 2012 at 17:12, Cynicalgeek wrote: Too bad they didn't realize they could have used Wikipedia mobile or have chosen the Simple English version of the site, or disable Javascript in their browser...or a few other workarounds to access the site yesterday. Yeah, but requires being

Re: amazon AWS + Free windows server

2012-01-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
The AWS Free Usage Tier will now include Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server. Customers eligible for the AWS Free Usage tier can now use up to 750 hours per month of t1.micro instances running Microsoft Windows Server for free. FWIW on another list

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Jan 2012 at 17:15, Kurt Buff wrote: Heretic! Burn the witch! Or install NoScript and Request Policy in Firefox, and gain some measure of control... +1 -- I never saw the blackout page. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Slinger
I repeat - fuck 'em. They deserve all the misfortune that comes to them (the muppets, not wiki). --Original Message-- From: Angus Scott-Fleming To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whoa...wkikpedia. Sent: Jan 19, 2012 21:41 On 19 Jan 2012 at 0:05,

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: Or install NoScript and Request Policy in Firefox, and gain some measure of control... +1 -- I never saw the blackout page. I did, but only because I'm a sometime Wikipedian and thus have the domains whitelisted

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 19:33, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: Or install NoScript and Request Policy in Firefox, and gain some measure of control... +1 -- I never saw the blackout page.  I did, but only

Re: Whoa...wkikpedia.

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:  I did, but only because I'm a sometime Wikipedian and thus have the domains whitelisted so all the fancy tools work.  That's the biggest problem with script blocking -- there are useful sites that usefully use scripts.

Re: What would you call this IT position?

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed! My bad. :) * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: Isn’t that more like Robin prices? ;-) ** ** Thanks, Mathew