RE: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carn

2001-09-18 Thread Ralph Davis
I am a strong supporter of law enforcement but I believe this amendment goes too far. It can be abused by local Private Investigators...do you really want a PI getting a wire tap on your phone/computer? The wording needs to be clarified and certain provisions spelled out before this becomes an

Re[2]: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carn

2001-09-18 Thread Ralph Davis
So Piss Poor Prior Planning requires a knee jerk reaction? Those F-16's flying around is just the close the barn door after the house is gone reaction, typical of our rulers. We have time. Those people won't attack again for a while. That's the nature of terrorism. You don't plan laws

RE: Accurace of Article.

2001-09-14 Thread Ralph Davis
I know I'm going to get some flames for this but Palestine exists only because the Roman Empire created it when they ruled that area of the world. They used Jewish territories to create the country of Palestine. So just who is occupying who's country? That aside, what happened with the WTC is

Re:Win2K looping upon bootup

2001-09-14 Thread Ralph Davis
Your machine is set to Automatically Reboot. This causes your problem. When a BSOD occurs, the system reboots. Since you can't get at the OS, the problem must be located in one of the driver or system loaded files. Insert and boot from the Win2000 CD and choose the Recovery Console mode.

New Virus??

2001-09-06 Thread Ralph Davis
Has anyone heard about this? I was told its spreading throught Europe. Any validity to it? There is a new Virus that has been spotted as of Sept 03, 2001. Please be aware. It spreads rapidly! ** | VIRUS WARNING - Win32.Apost.A@mm| ** Central Command is issuing a virus warning due to

Re:Dell servers vs. Compaq

2001-08-30 Thread Ralph Davis
Dell support has been good in the past. Dell is currently selling their servers at or just above cost to increase their market share of installed platforms. I would not take this as a good sign since this will increase their support calls...all other things being equal. I have never had a

Re:Hello

2001-08-29 Thread Ralph Davis
I live in the USA and I have used this list almost from its inception. It does get out of hand at times but it is the best free source of NT information I have ever found. The guys (and gals) are generous of their time and expertize. Enjoy your stay. ralph Reply

Re:Event ID 3013

2001-08-28 Thread Ralph Davis
Try these Technet articles for some possible solutions: Q252332 Event ID 3013 When Copying Files to a Server Under Disk Stress Q148426 Troubleshooting Event ID 3103 ralph Reply Separator Subject:Event ID 3013 Author: NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL

Re:RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?

2001-08-27 Thread Ralph Davis
I have exprienced slow data access from badly fragmented NTFS drives. I don't have any recent data nor do I have hard data from a test environment. I do know that after defragging my users' hard drives their computer response times more than doubled. IE it took less than half the previous time

RE: files marked as read only

2001-08-23 Thread Ralph Davis
So far I don't see anything close to a solution for this. It has nothing to do with ethernet or token net. I had exactly the same problem using a shared copy of office, strictly an ethernet system never a tokennet.This is a known problem with office which one of their service packs fixed.

Re:Password in win2k terminal server conman

2001-08-22 Thread Ralph Davis
I used the autologon feature as a test. Ran it for a couple of weeks then went on to something else. I remember it was simple to implement, had no security and appeared to be absolutely useless in my environment. ralph Reply Separator Subject:

Re:Can't access printer on network, problem with AD

2001-08-20 Thread Ralph Davis
HP4100 printers have a known problem working with win2000 machines. Is this an HP4100? If so contact HP for their latest firmware upgrade. ralph Reply Separator Subject:Can't access printer on network, problem with AD Author: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Domain Issue

2001-08-17 Thread Ralph Davis
Can you ping the DC by address and name from the workstation? ralph Reply Separator Subject:RE: Domain Issue Author: NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17/08/2001 10:57 AM Name resolution is through WINS. However, there are entries

Re[2]: Novell Password

2001-08-15 Thread Ralph Davis
By default, Netware servers convert all ASCII characters to upper case before parsing them against the password or user ID. Its a DOS backwards compability issue they haven't gotten away from yet. ralph http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm