We use inexpensive webcams paired with old laptops and LiveMeeting to do our
video conferencing in our conference rooms. All the video is 1:1 though. You
can't monitor all the site's cameras at the same time, you can always see
yourself in a small window, and choose which other site you want to
We like the Globalscape one as well here. Also have been testing the
Ipswitch web module for WS_FTP server and it's worked well also.
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So HR is asking about implementing a Vacation / OOTO / PTO Tracker,
something more robust and useable than sending a spreadsheet around each
week.
Some of the things that were mentioned:
. A system that works based on accruals of PTO (and sick days) by
pay period.
. And that
Take a look at some of the Marathon Technologies products
(http://www.marathontechnologies.com/).
Jeff
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I have been asked to look into a
+1 Riverbed.
Love the Steelhead products. We have two 2020s, a 3520 and a 1050. Setup /
deployment is brain-dead easy, management and reporting is great, and they
are an amazing company to work with. We have been a customer for two
years, and are alpha testing the newest release. Can't go
Two things to try / check:
1) In the Watchguard Policy Manager turn the logging level up for the VPN
connection, and then watch the logs when the RDP drops.
2) In your Mobile User VPN settings (assuming you're used the WG MUVPN
Client and not PPTP or SSLVPN check the timeout length (set
No, they would use the Watchguard software. Was a little flaky in version
7, but 10.0.2 (current) is pretty nice.
Our site in FL uses PPTP into a pair of X1000s. In RI we have our users
using IPSEC (MUVPN) into a pair of X5500e's. Users who have used both say
ours is more stable / reliable.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend.
I am looking for some advice from the list regarding posts on a wiki.
Apparently someone is not very happy with me (not sure why, don't even
know who) and has engaged in some character-assassination of me on a
public wiki. I don't really want to post the link
We monitor our Firebox interfaces using MRTG -- SNMP is included in
Fireware -- however those units are a bit larger (not the Edge X55e
devices you mention, but rather the Core and Peak models). That being
said, if the X55e doesn't support SNMP (it might -- I'd have to check) out
of the box
I would not recommend them.
All our talks with them were positive, they bill the site as
highly-available and it does look nice. However we have two (or three)
cabinets there now -- one with HP blades and the other(s) are an HP EVA
8000 -- and have had three outages in the last six months (I
I purposefully didn't want to make public our plans is it could jeopardize
our ongoing contract talks with them. :)
I am not to point of contact on the account so I don't know the current
rep, only one ones we talked to when the original contract was negotiated
two years ago. The folks I
I highly recommend adding Xiotech to the list. Their new ISE based SAN
(specifically look at the Emprise 7000) is impressive. Played with it at
Storage World in Orlando last month, and was highly impressed.
Jeffrey Showen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What if you try copying notepad.exe from a good machine to a bad
machine. Does the problem go away? If not, then the problem could be a
video driver or something like that, which you could test on one machine
with a rollback.
Jeff
David Florea, SysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What if you adjust the length DTMF tones that the system generates?
Sometimes a longer tone will give the destination system just the tiny bit
longer it needs...
Jeff
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What about implementing the 2X application server, where the launching of
a specific application is launched on a remote terminal server and
presented as a local application? If you have one box dedicated to be the
TS User Outlook Box and the launching of Outlook always occurs against
that one
I tested that download last night in a virtual machine. The install went
smoothly and the properties read Service Pack 3 after installation.
Jeff
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What else do you do with Windows? ;)
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Of course, all
What about this...
Turn on the Virtual Machine with the Windows XP CD in the drive or
mounted.
Boot from your Windows XP CD.
Let it go thru the Setup is Inspecting... stage, the Welcome to Setup
(choose Enter to Setup Windows Now), then F8 to accept the licensing
agreement.
Choose the Repair
Fans behind the equipment to move the hot air out. Trip to Home Depot /
Lowes to get a portable AC, blowing across the fronts of the equipment.
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72 on the three ambient ACs for the server room, 68 on the two ACs blowing
into the cold aisles. A backup unit is set to go on if the room exceeds
75.
Jeff
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Not sure what you mean. We have a portable MovinCool. In a pinch we can
provide spot cooling. Setting it up on one end of a room with a few
cabinets in it and blowing the cold air towards the front of the cabinet.
Have never seen them spit though...
Jeff
Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A GoToMyPC account with the software installed on every laptop will let
you login to their website and see which PCs are available for connection.
As long as a machine has an HTTP/HTTPS outbound connection to the GoToMyPC
server you can use this with no user intervention.
Oliver Marshall
I am guessing you don't have a development staff, but if you did have a
development staff you could probably pretty easily replicate what GoToMyPC
is doing. Have one of them create a Windows Service that runs at startup.
The service would run a VNC listener as well as a persistent connection to
I have 6.
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On a side note, does
I think the best bet is either an access point at the top and bottom of
the shafts with the antennas pointing towards the elevator, or an access
point on the elevator itself. Only problem is that the wiring bundle that
goes to the elevator would have to modified (you may need an engineer from
Can you questions can often be answered with easy yes answers and a
few keywords. Sometimes better to refer to specifics on the resume of the
person and ask how did you, or pose hypothetical situations that home
users get themselves into, and see how he would troubleshoot / fix.
Gavin
No problems in the central RI, southern CT, central western Florida, the
Denver area, or the Las Vegas area that I have heard from our users
about...
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We have gone the similar less-expensive route, at least in our RI office
where I am. Panasonic VoIP system with Dell PowerConnect 3424P and 3448P
switches for the phones (PoE) and everything else is GigE (PowerConnect
6424, 6448, 5324, etc...).
Jeff
WJH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yeah, I'd second that... if the server has a PERC4 in it as opposed to the
newer RAID cards it's got to be a 7th or 8th generation Dell, and has
either 0 or 1 USB2 port available. If I remember correctly the Perc4/DC
has two external SCSI 320 ports, so you could plug in an external device
and
Does anyone out there have / seen any good Information Security Policy
documents or templates?
Basically I am looking for a comprehensive, internal document (or set of
documents) that would be used to describe things such as:
- Security Organization and Structure
- Internal
you can provide.
Thanks,
Jeff Wilhelm
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Hello,
We are inviting you to participate in a survey on email usage. This study
is being conducted by Gema Viñuales, International Scholar from Spain,
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Sweet, I am there next week for a storage conference... :-/
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Anyone have any pointers on this, or a recommendation on a better place to
post?
Jeff Wilhelm/MarketModels
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We are looking for a contract
We are looking for a contract firm that can provide state-of-the art Linux
sysadmin services to us. These would include
a) weekly RedHat patch management/updates.
b) project execution for new firewalls, disk replacement, and other
one-time software or hardware changes.
c) emergency support,
Network Solutions sucks.
We have transferred some of our domains to GoDaddy and have been pretty
happy with them. The ones we do still have registered with Network
Solutions we have put their DNS on UltraDNS and are planning a migration
of them to GoDaddy as well.
Ajay Kulsh [EMAIL
I am a happy Sprint subscriber... happy to talk about it more off-list if
needed of course. I've been with them since 2000. I have a Treo 700p
currently (650 before that, 600 before that, and various Sanyo, Samsung,
Kyocera and Motorola phones before those) and also have a data card
(Novatel
Anyone who travels overseas should just get an unlocked GSM phone and get
a SIM wherever they land...
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Security measure? SIMs are for GSM technology. CDMA (Sprint and Verizon)
is different and doesn't use SIM cards -- the phone's ESN is what
identifies it with the network. And actually some of our users have phones
with CDMA and GSM radios in them, and they use them on CDMA in the states
and
The few times we've had to do it we whitelisted the IPs on the firewall
that we wanted to allow connections from. If the connecting IP was on a
whitelist we'd NAT to the internal IP on port 3389 and the user would be
in. We had three users that needed access this way, so we whitelisted
their
Never said no firewall in front of it -- we were only NATing a single port
(3389) to that box, and RDP is 128-bit encrypted. Not saying it's a good
idea, but for a short stint and some IP whitelisting it wasn't the end of
the world either...
Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Our firewall (and many others) can detect port scans and IP range scans
and blacklist that IP for a set amount of time, so I wasn't overly
concerned about that, but it's a good tip.
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Wait a second, obviouslly this isn't ideal, but can't you just create an
IP on the local network that port forwards traffic sent to it to the
remote box? Just as if you were doing it to port forwards traffic from the
WAN to a remotely unreachable box on the LAN?
Tom Strader [EMAIL
I have been running Vista SP1 since it was released on MSDN last month and
am using SEP11. The current version of SEP is 11.0.1000.1375 (or at least
that's what I have installed) which is newer than the version mentioned in
the MS article.
So it would seem it's already fixed.
Jeff
Jon D
Was using my Sprint EVDO card in South Kingstown, RI last Saturday
(sitting in the parking lot in the car while fiance had to run into work
to drop some paperwork off) and I ran one of the Flash Speed Tests
(www.speedtest.net) and got ~1.5Mb/s down and ~800Kb/s up to one of the
sites, and
I'm moving in a few months to North Kingstown, RI. One of the best school
districts in the state -- planning ahead. Currently in a condo in West
Warwick, RI and trying to sell it.
The 3/4 acre I just bought was $215k. Building a four bedroom house (3377
sq ft) on that now, for another $500k.
I should mention I work way too many hours, and grew into that position
(and salary). I started at the company about five years ago at $45k. No
complaints though, I feel very lucky to work for a company that recognizes
and rewards hard work and dedication, and lucky to have a boss (the
to getting together and talking at some point. I am in
town at least two weeks a month (and all weekends) so we'll have to figure
something out. Hope all is going well with you personally and
professionally!
Jeff
Jeff Wilhelm | Vice President, Information Technology
Accudata Integrated
Hey David, where in CT are you? I grew up in CT and had a teacher with the
same last name as you!
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Start REGEDIT, then select the Connect Network Registry option under the
File menu.
Either browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or type its
name in the textbox.
Click OK and a node will be displayed in Registry Editor for the remote
machine. Now browse HKLM on SRV to find the
No problems. Watchguard Fireware 10.0.1 on X5500e.
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Keith says he beat you last week... the call was 90 minutes and only five
of those minutes were talking to a tech support person. :)
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Dell 2950, but go RAID10 if you can... under heavy I/O I think you'll be
happier.
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No problems on our end. would have prefered to switch to something new,
but it looks like we might do that in 2009 after some more research.
The server component (as was already said) is absolutely hefty. We ended
up installing it on our WSUS box (PowerEdge 860) and scrapping our old SAV
Dell gold/enterprise support. Not a better tech group except Sunbelt
maybe. Silver are good, but they are Gold in training basically.
Anything else you are dealing with India and I just always deal with
dell chat. Easy..Parts next day or same day with Enterprise..SonicAir
baby..
Amen. Had
1. With only doing web browsing do you think one access point should be
enough? Without testing the load I know this is not really a good
question... but is there a general rule of thumb?
No, I would say 15 - 20 users per access point max.
2. If I need to add more access points how do
No problems so far. I didn't do a clean install, but upgraded from the
existing Vista release. Machine is a Dell Precision 370. Download was very
fast, installation took about an hour from start to being back on a
useable desktop. Everything seems to be working correctly so far.
Jeff
We do it with one most of the time, with a second (who is actually
management) trained to step in if an emergency comes up.
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We use two printers.
A HP Photosmart (can't remember the model) and a Dell 1815.
The Dell 1815 is the network printer (b/w laser), network scanner, fax
machine and copier. The HP Photosmart is for printing in color when
needed.
It seemed cheaper to do it this way (both up front for equipment
We are getting ready to roll out RPC over HTTPS for email. For quite
awhile we have had most of our users internal to the company and have just
used the Outlook client to access Exchange natively. As we have brought
remote offices online the VPN tunnels enabled similar access. Then we had
a
However, what other access do remote clients have - is there a VPN in
place for remote/mobile individuals? If so, the same hole effectively
exists anyway. They can install (or configure natively) the VPN
client, and then use Outlook remotely anyway.
Most of the users that have VPN really only
We like UltraDNS (www.ultradns.net). Very reliable, and great interface.
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We are using Watchguard Edge devices with no problems to create VPN
tunnels between those units and also back to a main office and datacenter
(both with higher-end devices: 2 Watchguard X1000 in failover and 2
Watchguard X5500e in failover).
No problems at all, and performance is good.
All the
Comodo - InstantSSL
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SSL certificates
Someone recently mentioned an SSL issuing
AdventNet ServiceDesk Plus is for internal use. I think you want AdventNet
SupportCenter.
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Is the NIC a Broadcom? Is RSS enabled?
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I used
Did you print on inkjet glossy paper, or laser glossy paper?
We had someone use inkjet glossy paper once in a color laser printer, and
the heat of the laser printer melted the coating off the paper and really
messed up the printer.
Laser glossy paper is made to withstand the head.
Jeff
We have a Dell 5100 (or 5110?) Color Laser that was roughly $1000 and is
supporting 25 people wonderfully.
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You could always make one...
http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=pincabser_cisco_9
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Right. The correct course of action here would be to download the newest
software from the website (and if you can't get to the Software /
Downloads section I am sure you could con someone here into grabbing it
for you), and install that on any box you are using to manage the
firewalls. Once
I will send you a URL off-list for the newer version of the management
application.
No web interface except on the SOHO and EDGE models.
Jeff
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I've always been impressed (visually, never used them) but the JackPC /
ChipPC line:
http://www.chippc.com/
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