Re: virtual ethernet service

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
this then what explains that? -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:23 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: virtual ethernet service It's a four letter word beginning with t, followed by h, and ending

Re: access point recommendations

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
You forgot to apostrophosize chasin'. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: You better hope South Carolina wins the College World Series, its their only freaking sport, besides Pig chasin J (Joking folks) Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security

Re: How to be a better spy...

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Stovall
A neighbor of a couple arrested in New Jersey jokingly remarked, They couldn't have been spies, look what she did with the hydrangeas.* Classic. *NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/world/europe/30spy.html?nl=emc=aua1 On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-26 Thread Richard Stovall
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: snip And that should be ... for which he's castigating you. [G,D,RLH] Eh? I thought you were of Scottish derivation. Is there some Canuck in there too? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Re: 4th Tuesday

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Zounds! That's awful. What patch(es) can you identify as problematic. I have a friend who maintains dozens of SBS installations and I'd like to give him a heads up if possible. Thanks, RS On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: We had an SBS box which died

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Though I'm sure that was a joke, the slippery slope of public castigation is steep indeed. Four example, I would never point out that he used the present participle where his sentence construction called for the infinitive. If I did I would almost certainly make some silly mistake myself and

Re: How would you enforce this?

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
Very like Lee. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't the If I did have a comma after it? LOL! On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.comwrote: Though I'm sure that was a joke, the slippery slope of public castigation

Re: Help -- Bricked PC

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
New PS maybe? Or even better, a new PC. :-) On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Our CEO brought in a couple “clunker” PCs to use as AS/400 terminals. One of them had an ATI Rage 128 video card, which the Windows 98 image did not have drivers

Re: Users login in from remote location to an Windows 2003 server

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I have a new VM Remote Desktop Server running, just waiting for the CAL's. Do the users connect just like before with RD? Yup. Are there any other differences for the users? Nope ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: RE: Help -- Bricked PC

2010-06-25 Thread Richard Stovall
don’t want to use a “good” machine for an AS/400 terminal. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 25, 2010 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help -- Bricked PC New PS maybe? Or even better

Re: FTp scheduling with event logging

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Stovall
Powershell? On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps Can anyone recommend an FTP tool that I can use to schedule uploads on a Windows server and that will log to the event log when it succeeds or fails? Olly Network

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Looks like they might be subtitles for a video file. http://www.ehow.com/about_5066018_srt-file.html http://www.ehow.com/about_5066018_srt-file.htmlSlap a .txt extension on them and have a look. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Hey, guys… I

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
\NON-ISP-content4US_ALL_EN_US_7071-01 BlocksXP\43\Online\EN_US\PeoplePC_RED_EN_US_6938-01 BlocksXP\43\Online\WW\WISISPSignup_ALL_WW_7080-01 snip Any idea what this is from? [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
wrote: Yep. [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:18 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Questionable files Googling for several of the strings below make them seem like installation

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Err. That should have been They're harmless... On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say the preponderance of evidence indicates that you can forget about them. They're not harmless in and of themselves, and don't appear to be the byproduct of some

Re: Questionable files

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Stovall
is not required to have a .txt extension to be opened and read. If file extensions are hidden and the file has an .exe extension, you might think you're renaming the extension when you are really creating a file named file.txt.exe. Jeff On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Richard Stovall rich

Re: Where to download Windows 2008 (not R2) ISO?

2010-06-21 Thread Richard Stovall
Same here. We use DL's for almost everything like this. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:51 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: This is why for my clients I create a distribution list along the lines of Microsoft.licenses@mycompany.com, that way you don't have to know who bought what when and

Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
hosts in the SAN field. Cheers Ken *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, 16 June 2010 1:13 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question +1 on SSL needs On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com

Re: Cisco ASA Question/IIS Question

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
This has been a very informative thread. The following may be useful when setting things up if you're running IIS 7. There is a link for IIS 6 and Apache as well. http://www.sslshopper.com/article-ssl-host-headers-in-iis-7.html On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chyka, Robert

Re: How to block, but not block?!

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
I've never heard it called a monitor before. :) On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: So you're saying you can put your monitor on the photocopy machine to copy the data ? grin Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an

Re: OT: How do you join?

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Stovall
Complete the application and pay the fee? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Marty Nelson mnel...@transdyn.com wrote: I’d really appreciate it! -Marty *Marty Nelson | Systems Administrator* Transdyn, Inc. | 4256 Hacienda Dr., Suite 100 | Pleasanton, CA 94588 T: 925.225.1600 | F:

Re: DISK WIPING TOOL

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Stovall
DoG regs, I would think. (Sorry) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Perhaps if those who re-wrote the regulations saying that overwrite is no longer sufficient were to receive a couple

Re: WSUS Q

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Stovall
The following Thursday. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Sent this to the PM list too... I have WSUS clients checking in every 4 hours and the GPO setting also days download and install Thursday at 6pm, if I approve patches Thursday at 8pm does this mean

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
If this is indeed your problem, you have to enable Advanced Features from the View menu in ADUC. Once that's done you can see the Security tab on the properties of the user object in question which is where you set the proper permission. I have to say, however, that I'm not convinced this will

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: I think you have it but If I pick from the GAL won’t that use my default SMTP?? -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 11, 2010 9:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
to swing over to my exchange in the next couple of weeks. Some of my users will end up with as many as 4 smtp accounts because of their jobs. Thanks -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 11, 2010 10:04 AM *To:* NT

Re: Added SMTP address to Exchange and I am getting an error trying to send

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Stovall
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.comwrote: Yes, perfectly correct. -- *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, June 11, 2010 10:17 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Added SMTP address

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Is there any reason not to use a Software Restriction Policy with a path rule set to disallow %WINDIR%\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\HelpCtr.exe or perhaps even %WINDIR%\pchealth\helpctr\binaries ? I tried the former on a test OU and it blocked the POC code at

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: I think that was the market test (which they failed)! LOL I'm not so sure that's true. Like many others, I hated it when I first saw it, and I still do. What you have to admit, however, is that every

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Stovall
also markets Bing… *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Google and stupid background pictures On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: I

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
The few times I've had to deal with this the problem turned out to be connectivity-related instead of the number of GPOs. Can you ping all of your DCs from the workstations? Has it always been this way, or did something change? Is it all of the workstations all of the time, some of them all of

OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as Ethernet First Mile. I have a very compelling offer for internet bandwidth from a local provider (Cavalier Telephone) for 5 Mbps with an SLA. It would halve my current charges from Level (3). Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful

Re: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
. Regardless of the terminology, I would make darn sure your segment is sonet (loop-fed\ring topology\whatever) protected and it’s a dedicated 5Mbps, not some oversubscribed shared connection to the POP. Shook *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Re: OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
in this direction I'll also provide an update. Cheers, RS On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as Ethernet First Mile. I

Re: Internal routing

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
CORRECTLY; ALL HOPS TIME OUT route print: This is interesting. If you look at the destination dmz-ip, it lists a different gateway than the default. It lists a core switch as the gateway. telnet fails to that by dmz-ip. that port is closed On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Richard Stovall

Re: Low disk space on c: on DC

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
I have a Powershell script that runs as a scheduled task every night that recursively looks for all the computer objects in our Servers OU and its children, pings them to see if they're alive, then runs a disk space query on the ones that respond. I get a handy little e-mail report every morning

Re: Nested VBS in logon scripts

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: First, set your vendor on fire. That's one ugly kludge. (Or at least demand your money back. Seriously.) Agreed. This thing sounds positively hateful. (And unlikely to be stable, etc.) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: DHCP Renewal Process for Reserved Address

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
When making significant changes to a DHCP scope, I always start way ahead of time and gradually reduce the lease time to something ridiculously (but appropriately) short - even on the order of 5 or 10 minutes in some cases. When the time to flip the big switch rolls around I can be well assured

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
It's 2003. OK, it's 2010, but his server is Windows Server 2003. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgwrote: Are you running an elevated command prompt? *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ ***

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
This sounds awfully suspicious. Do you have a good backup of the volume in question? Without knowing any more, and assuming I had a good backup, I'd try a simple reboot first. If that failed to correct the problem(s) I'd look to begin some serious malware / rootkit detection from multiple

Re: Strange CMD, and permissions troubles, Can-o-worms

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stovall
the trouble I had before is now gone. It could have simply been corrupted, but I will be keeping a close eye on this server and doing some follow up tomorrow. -- Mike Gill *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 07, 2010 5:23 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: Server Core

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Are you kidding? That's *why* there's hope for you. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:47, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: FreeBSD is the non-GUI platform I implement now. Ahh Kurt, There's hope for you yet:)

Re: DNS question

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Good catch. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, CNAMEs pointing to MX records is a no-no. It may or may not work; but isn't RFC compliant (unless this has changed recently?) Jeff On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com

Re: OT (bit of topic), anyone delt with recovery ITunes Store bought Music,(backedup to external drive) and restored to a brand new install???

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
I've done this before for myself. I took the entire iTunes directory (which also includes several other .itl and .itdb files). Just image the drive first and you can always recover if it doesn't go well. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:33 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: OT (bit of

Re: OT (bit of topic), anyone delt with recovery ITunes Store bought Music,(backedup to external drive) and restored to a brand new install???

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
as before, itunes should see as if nothing changed, just maybe authorize it. If thier an app for that, what the name? Thanks On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I've done this before for myself. I took the entire iTunes directory (which

Re: Migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
You misspelled +1. :-) On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I concur... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Sbsmigration.com --- about USD $200. If you've never done it

Re: Server Core

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Stovall
Core Configurator http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/ It's not a panacea by any means, but it does help bring Server Core (and perhaps more importantly, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2) to the table for the rank and file admin. RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: setting up 2008 server for remote office

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Stovall
I agree. Should she also consider making the new server a DC + Global Catalog for login purposes when connectivity between sites is lost? RS On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.comwrote: Yes, no reason to create a new domain. I’d build the new server at the

Re: Blue screen viewer

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Stovall
That's like all the sides of the house, isn't it? On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I will have to dig up a few of them and make an ISO and send it too ya. I got them at home. Most of my gadgets are the “blackhat/Whitehat/GreyHat” hacking side of the

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
I have done this in the past by using a batch file to start the executable. It first uses tasklist to check the running processes and if it finds the exe in question it exits with a message that the app is already running and the user name of the owner. If the app isn't running it starts the exe

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
In the bat/cmd world, here is a sanitized version of what I've used which seems to work with both XP and Windows 7. - echo off setlocal set imgname=whatever.exe set exeName=whatever.exe set found= set user= for /f tokens=* %%a in ('tasklist /v ^| findstr /i %imgName%') do set

Re: PIX replacement

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
Yes. I had the exact same scenario, and went live with an NSA 240 last December. I had read awful things about SonicWall support (on this forum, I think), and I asked very pointed questions about that to both the reseller and the SonicWall SE I spoke with. I was assured that things were better,

Re: Limit the amount of times an application can be opened?

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Stovall
Just a thought. If you're just learning about Group Policy and GPOs, I highly recommend using a lab environment to test and figure out what it's all about. You can easily set up a domain in your virtualization environment of choice, and it's well worth it to mitigate the potential risk to your

Re: Shavlik offers 'cloud patching' with free service

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Agreed. I was checking it out for use at home myself. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: For 10 computers or less and 100 scans a month – sounds like they are targeting home users. *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday

Re: Internal routing

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Can you post the results of a 'route print' command, and a tracert -d fqdn' from one of the affected machines? Going back over the thread, you initially said that https is working. Is that still true in each of the following cases? https://dmz-ip https://fqdn What about the suggestion to

Re: Ping...

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
Tough crowd. Gotta have thick skin to play here... On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sean Houston seanthous...@gmail.comwrote: I like how you don't just assume we're all ignoring you... On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Sorry for the ping, but I

Re: Internal routing

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
How did you determine that it is trying to route to the public IP address. By running netstat one one of the clients? If you do an nslookup pointed to an internal DNS server on one of the clients having the problem, it resolves the correct DMZ ip, right? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, mqcarp

Re: Shavlik offers 'cloud patching' with free service

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Stovall
I played with this at home several months ago after reading something Susan Bradley wrote about it. It just flat didn't work. Your post prompted me to go back and try again, and I did have some success this time. I can remotely scan and patch XP and Server 2008 (not R2) machines on my home LAN,

Re: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this?

2010-05-26 Thread Richard Stovall
That's just your subtractive opinion. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Subjection skills ain’t what they used to be. -sc *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin

Re: Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this?

2010-05-26 Thread Richard Stovall
Old guys? :-) On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.comwrote: Same here. Who calls IT “data processing” anymore? ;-) -Malcolm *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 26, 2010 13:25 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Big

Pac-Man D-Day (Was: Holy PAC-MAN Batman!)

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Stovall
-computer.html *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 11:00 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Holy PAC-MAN Batman! Is anyone else getting a playable PAC-MAN on the Google home page? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Holy PAC-MAN Batman!

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Stovall
Is anyone else getting a playable PAC-MAN on the Google home page? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: OT, vintage memories

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Stovall
He's just alliterate. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: You sir, are out of practice. Why have you been hiding from us? -- ME2 On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.comwrote: Phillip Partipilo putts around

RE: Wierd logoff / restart issue

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Stovall
I agree with all the others. Nuke and pave. You should be able to come by a Dell XP disk pretty easily. And who knows about Act? It's kind of a mess these days. (OK, I haven't had to support it in over 4 years, so I don't really have current information about it.) -Original Message-

Re: Paetec outage?

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks. That's right around when it hit our backup connection. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Chris Hamby tellys...@gmail.com wrote: We had two customers go down yesterday afternoon from around 4:30 - 5:30 pm EST. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!

Re: Wierd logoff / restart issue

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Stovall
What brand is it? On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Got a laptop running XP Pro. It's had some malware on it that has been particularlly difficult to find. The only way I found it was to reboot into safe mode, command-prompt only and run a

Paetec outage?

2010-05-13 Thread Richard Stovall
Anyone else with Paetec internet service experiencing issues? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
In other news, chevre-elry is dead after all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8428650.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8428650.stm On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Groan, that was baaa’d *Erik Goldoff*** *IT Consultant* *Systems,

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool Yes, that would make me very angora-y. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:17, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: In other news, chevre-elry is dead after

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
: Don't you mean go bck to what you were doing? Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com 5/12/2010 7:34 AM Nothing to see here, go bock to what you were doing. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: You guys have to be kidding me. On Wed, May 12, 2010

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool Don't you mean go bck to what you were doing? Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com 5/12/2010 7:34 AM Nothing to see here, go bock to what you were doing. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Link

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Stovall
System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool Wrong species. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Why are you trying to ram your opinion down our throats? On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com

Re: Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
A whole lot of the decision should be based on accounting needs. Payroll done internally? If so, is it important to have it done in the software, or can/will someone do it all by hand including all the local, state and federal filings. What about inventory for parts and finished goods? Does it

Re: Tues Funny: New IP Lookup Tool

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Why is this funny only on Tuesday? On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: http://ipgoat.com/ [Click the goat] Sorry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Web based survey software?

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Absolute Poll Manager supports both Microsoft Access and SQL Server. You don't need to own a license of MS Access in order to use the application with a Microsoft Access database. (from http://www.xigla.com/absolutepm/features.htm) ??? If you can use an Access back end I would bet that SQL

Re: Wireless Routers

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
African, or European? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook *From:* Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM *To:* NT

Re: Wireless Routers

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Please. You need a Spinal Tap. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Sweet…they go to 11 (name that movie J ) I’m on a roll today, baby. Shook *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM *To:* NT

Re: Citrix Synergy

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Stovall
Any relation to JR? That would be cool. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Bichon and the father of MBS’ pup. Sir Simon of Searcy is his AKC name and he is a big time daddy’s boy. Webster *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] *Subject:*

Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
Sallah: [catches def and points to dead server] Bad defs. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: It is/was a Vipre issue. Force a defs update and you'll be good. Must have been a bad def. Luke tesla...@gmail.com 5/7/2010 10:56 AM The Network

Re: [OT] RE: Sunbelt forums down?

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
I just KNEW that we wouldn't get through the day without someone calling him on that. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: That on-top of not being offered to try Michael's tool (from another thread)... -- ME2 On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:46

Re: Tool to find wireless password

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Stovall
Try this. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I’ve got a client on the side who I’m adding wireless to his desktop for him. I don’t know if he knows the

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
In my experience the problem with Vipre on older workstations isn't memory but CPU usage. Particularly on single core CPUs. It's an order of magnitude better since the new definitions format was deployed, but in the past I've seen really terrible performance when updating or installing

Re: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
http://www.schneier.com/pptp-faq.html http://www.schneier.com/pptp-faq.htmlI suppose, as with many things, it's all about what your security needs are. I agree with the less is more/better philosophy in general, but usually that's thought to be true because of 2 things - reduced risk from

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
When I was younger I used to opt for frequency over amplitude. Now I'm not much interested in either. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I also remember listening to radio via amplitude modulation! ;-) -- ME2 On Thu, May 6, 2010 at

Re: VPN stuff

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
and can't find anything on the fixed version - all the write ups are like this and are usually undated and don't specify which version of the protocol ...Tim *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:36 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Re: NOD32 Antivirus

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Stovall
Indeed. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: LOL -- ME2 On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: RFC2549 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

Re: Cool Bike

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Stovall
Steampunk motorcycle. I like it. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: That's cute. I'll take this: http://www.confederate.com/cm4/p120fighter.php -sc -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May

Re: Any certification on removing malware??

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
I've know some folks who should receive certifications for GETTING malware... On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Any certification on removing malware?? How about using and configuring and setup of antimalware software. -- Justin IT-TECH ~

Re: Recycler Files

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Backups available? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: Tried that on the user's computer and there wasn't anything in the Recover Deleted Items. Exchange is set to empty that folder after 7 days. _ Cameron Cooper Network

Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks Kurt. I'll make sure we're all patched up. I have to question, however... Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (SP3, SP2 and previous) SP3? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Why does this not surprise me? Kurt -- Forwarded message --

Re: SBS Server 2003 “The local policy of this syst em does not permit you to logon interactively.”

2010-05-01 Thread Richard Stovall
It sounds like there was a big change. You deleted an account and created a new one. Please forgive me if this seems obvious, but does the new account have the same group memberships as the old one? Don't BE service accounts typically call for Domain Admin privileges? (

Re: www.Sunbelt-software.com down?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Stovall
Gerald Ford as Gerald Ford. FORE! On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jay Dale jay.d...@3-gig.com wrote: Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford: Um, I was led to believe that there would be no math... Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiality Notice:

Re: Dell MD1000

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Stovall
I’m working at right now – they’ve been fine for over a year now. Haven’t touched them since I carved the raids. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Re: Dell MD1000

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks folks. I appreciate the info. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Dennis Depp dennis.d...@gmail.com wrote: We have several of these onultiple servers. We have had very few problems with them. Denny Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com

Re: IIS Problems

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
This sound suspiciously like the good 'ol non-paged pool memory exhaustion issue. Have a look at an archived list post and see if it's relevant. http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg63814.html

Re: Admin rights, UAC, etc. (was: WTF? Fake AV)

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Laugh it up, fuzball. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ziots, Edward

Re: IIS Problems

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Stovall
Depleting available non-paged pool memory could be caused by a whole host of things. If you can, next time run poolmon before rebooting to see if that is indeed your problem. You could also start running it now to see if the usage starts going up steadily. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Shawn

Re: Anyone tried EASEUS Todo Backup?

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Stovall
I have not used their imaging tool, but I have used the partition tool with great success and no problems. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.comwrote: Looking around for a free online Windows imaging product that permits commercial use, I stumbled over this

Dell MD1000

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Anyone have one (or more) of the Dell MD1000s? Any comments, good or ill? I'm thinking about creating a new file server and this is a relatively inexpensive option from a big vendor. Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Dell MD1000

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Stovall
: The MD1000 is just a SAS enclosure without any controller at all. Are you asking about the MD3000 or the Perc6 raid card that actually drives an MD1000? -Anders On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone have one (or more) of the Dell MD1000s? Any comments

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