RE: Windows 2000 ERD

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Underwood
lmost always a risky approach to use in general. Best Regards, JMU Jim Underwood Apollo Information Systems, Inc. Houston, TX 77058 EMail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:08 PM To: NT S

RE: HP to Acquire Compaq in $25B Deal

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Underwood
Interesting articles at www.infoworld.com: HP, Compaq target enterprise, services markets in $25 billion acquisition Merger highlights role of HP's Fiorina While the merger may not guarantee an improvement in sales/performance, does anyone see a downside to the merger (other than HP/

RE: HP to Acquire Compaq in $25B Deal

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Underwood
HP has posted a press release on their web site, calling it a merger: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/04sep01a.htm   JMU -Original Message-From: Jim Underwood Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:36 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: HP to Acquire Compaq in $25B Deal In

HP to Acquire Compaq in $25B Deal

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Underwood
In case you haven't heard, HP will announce on Tue 9/4 that they will acquire Compaq in a $25B deal.   According to the NY Times, both boards have approved the deal.   Here's the story reported by the NY times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/04DEAL.html Best Regards, JMU Jim

RE: Need KB DB Integration Tool

2001-09-02 Thread Jim Underwood
Hi Warren,   Thanks for the suggestion of Opentext LiveLink.  I checked out their web site, even went thru the demo.  Looks like a very cool product that really integrates all activities in a company.   But I think it's overkill for what I have in mind.  I'm looking for something much simpl

Need KB DB Integration Tool

2001-09-02 Thread Jim Underwood
Greetings all,   THE PROBLEM   Today we receive many great articles, tips, suggestions, and best practices from a variety of sources, in a variety of formats that are applicable for a variety of OSs and applications.  Some of these apply to only one OS or app.  Some apply to several.  Curr

Security Hotfixes Needed -- MPSA vs HFNetChk show big difference

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Underwood
Greetings to all:   I need some help in interpreting the results of two different MSFT security tools:     1.  MPSA - Microsoft Personal Security Advisor at    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/mpsa/start.asp     2.  HFNetChk - Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker at  

RE: Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size

2001-08-18 Thread Jim Underwood
their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams -Original Message-From: Jim Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:57 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size I'm lo

Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size

2001-08-18 Thread Jim Underwood
I'm looking for guidelines/recommendations for setting the pagefile size on a W2K Pro SP2 machine.   My guideline for NT used to be to set both MIN and MAX = (2 * PhysicalRAM) + 16   I just bought 512MB SDRAM (only $80!!! for 2 Kingston 256M ECC sticks) , so this works out to be quite a goo