I've seen those clauses before, too. I believe part of the reasoning is they
don't want people buying support just to get an update and then not renewing it.
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: OT: Rediculous Support Clause
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 201
All DCs sync to
the PDCe. SO…everyone should still be in sync, to within milliseconds. Are all
of your DCs group catalog servers? Are all on the same subnet? From: paul
chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: just
Here are the results from showrepl:
repadmin /showrepl w2k3-dc
Default-First-Site-Name\W2K3-DC
DC Options: IS_GC
Site Options: (none)
DC object GUID: 4c35da00-ce37-4623-9d4a-c2bc95e60f96
DC invocationID: bafcea0c-da79-439a-9315-9a235f56ed7e
INBOUND NEIGHBORS
When we upgraded Exchange to 2007, we had to install W2k3 dc's. Right now we
are in mixed mode as we have to keep a couple of the W2k DC's running. W2K3-DC
(server) is the ops master and pdc emulator.
However, I have run into two situations where it seems the old W2K DC (DC1) ops
master seems
Running into the same situation where you never know if all the reg entries are
removed, I ran across a little program called REVO Uninstaller. Of the few
times I ran it, it worked great for cleaning up the registry.
From: david@nwea.org
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Fri,
Reminds me of a Winston Churchill quote, "The Americans can be counted on to do
the right thing. After having tried everything else."
From: david@nwea.org
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:24:12 -0800
Subject: RE: This just in...
Quite true.
IIRC, that was the very first list I joined when I got moved to the day shift
and off of nightshift computer operator.
Ahh, there were some good flame-wars back then.
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 07:21:07 -0800
Subject: A blast from the past...
From: don@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-sof
+1
The only exception is our security auditors for our computers and network.
> From: jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:04:24 -0800
> Subject: RE: Consultant PC on your network
>
> I have set up a completely independent network for o
I know how you feel, Daniel. A few years back Verizon seemed to think I lived
in Yonkers, NY and that I owed them a few hundred bucks. I found out all this
because the collection agency called me. Must happen a lot because when I
mentioned I never lived there, the agency guy gave me Verizon'
Might end up being a mute point for me. Scott, the Linux guy and I brought it
up at this morning's staff meeting. To paraphrase an old saying: "The I/S
Supervisor and Clinical Analyst were not amused."
I can see their point, to a degree, as neither of them have ever touched a
Linux box. We
Thanks, Phil (and Rich, John, Kurt). I forgot to mention that I have
planned on TS CAL's. It was just the desktop o/s I wasn't sure about.
That's an interesting thought about the lack of Kerberos support and storage of
the licensing token.
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:32:54 -0600
> From: p...
We've got some Win2K Pro pc's still on our network. Since MS is dropping W2K
completely next July. I'm working up a budget number to replace them.
Upgrading to Win7 isn't really feasible as most are old Gateways that couldn't
handle Win7.
However, when speaking with our Linux guy he said he
e users to load the page using that
add-on.)"
You can
preconfig it so that certain sites always load in it...
From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:26 AM
To: NT System
Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Firefox for corporate
use?
It's been m
It's been my experience that FF will just update itself when it's necessary. I
wish I could roll it out to my users but some software just won't work with FF.
(Yes, I know, I could use the IETab add-on but then you have to train the users
to load the page using that add-on.)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov
We have two software packages from two different vendors that won't work with
IE8. I just wish we could push everybody to FF instead.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:42 +
Subject: Re: IE9
From: and...@levicki.me.uk
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Darn, only just installed IE8!
2009/
Wow. Not to pick, but you could almost label this a Friday OT Humor story or
Friday OT Cry in my beer story.
Closest I could come to that, in recent memory that is, is when I pushed out
patches to the hospital machines. We use Shavlik and I set scan and then
install patches at 3:30 AM (std ti
If you have a Smartnet contract you needn't worry about replacing the 515E
until 2013.
Like you, however, I'm also thinking about what to replace the E with.
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:22:01 -0400
> Subject: New firewall recommendations
> From: rich...@gmail.com
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt
I must be really tired today (or the hangover is affecting my reading
comprehension) but when I saw the subject line I thought he meant as in
software to get rid of the manager.
From: cra...@idfllc.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:15:59 -0700
Subject: Thou
I don't think any manual intervention is necessary, Kurt, unless you want to
control the bandwidth usage. That's the way I understood the notice.
Didn't they do this a while back? I remember turning off auto updates so I
could control when the definition update went out. I'll do the same th
Yes, newest version winpcap.
Subject: RE: wireshark not seeing NIC
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:42:58 -0400
From: scaes...@caesare.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Install the packet driver?
-sc
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent
I've been using Wireshark for quite sometime (back when it was known as
Ethereal). I've had to re-format my hard-drive so, of course, had to
re-install everything including Wireshark.
However, now when I run the program it doesn't even see my NIC. It sees the
VPN I have setup but not the N
That's super news, Sherry! I've been thinking about it myself but cost has
always been the limiting factor for me.
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:51:10 -0500
Subject: OT: Follow-Up to OT Discussion
From: saber...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Several weeks an OT discussion occ
Does anybody here have any experience or knowledge of Symantec's Endpoint
Virtualization Suite?
Our sys admin and clinical analyst met with a vendor who is pushing this
product.
We're a small hospital (<90 bed) but with the new HITECH initiatives, we need
to, eventually, implement electronic
This was an issue I ran into last week on one user's pc. Tried everything I
could including comparing the registry of a "good" XP box. Never did find a
solution to it. I set the user up on a spare machine and reformatted the
infected one.
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: R
I had one pc infected with it. I could clean most of it but could never get
back Task Mgr. Since she had a spare machine to use, I took it back to my
office to work on it. I tried a lot of different tricks I've learned through
the years but never got that functionality back.
I finally reforma
No, but I will nominate this as the most OT post I've seen on this list. Not
that I'm complaining. It's just so, so "out of the blue."
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:58:23 -0400
Subject: OT: Word Definition & Origination
From: rhw...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
I've been a
+1
Subject: RE: OT: SharePoint design
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:20:27 -0400
From: scaes...@caesare.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
I’d like to see the discussion here, rather than by
offline phone call… we are wading in to SharePoint as well and would like
to hear an
Of course, it's also true that if we don't do it right (the stuff nobody ever
notices), then somebody will notice. (Wish I could find the link to that old
Dilbert cartoon where the punch line is, "Oh yeah, big time.")
From: david@nwea.org
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Date: Thu,
A very good friend of mine just got back from triple-bypass last week. It
tooks his wife close to 2 years to finally convince him to see a doctor. He
had been complaining about being tired. The doc tried a catheter but he had
100% blockage in one vessel and two had 50%. They also found he ha
thanks a million for all your suggestions.
Bill
Lambert
Concuity
847-941-9206
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:14
AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: sort of
OT
Using my PIX PDM, I
need to run v1.4206. Any newer version and a
Using my PIX PDM, I need to run v1.4206. Any newer version and a I get Java
Exception Error.
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:27:41 -0400
> Subject: Re: sort of OT
> From: can...@gmail.com
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
>
> IIRC, I had to roll JAVA back to version 6.7.
> Good luck!
>
I think the writer is wrong about the incandescent bulbs, though. There going
to be around for a long time. I've replaced some of mine, but I still like to
use the incandescent for reading.
> Subject: RE: Obsolete Tech
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:20:48 -0500
> From: pmaglin...@scvl.com
> To:
Does he have the money to do it to disk; perhaps a small NAS? Our EMR server
has over 6.5 million, tiny files (a file is generated for each patient visit).
We're using Sym BE v11 and backing up to a CX500 SAN. That takes about 12
hours.
Which reminds me of the time when our EMR server was us
+1
Subject: RE: LinkedIn
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:58:59 -0400
From: scaes...@caesare.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
I’m on it and respond to all link requests.. but don’t
actively USE it.
-sc
From: James Rankin
[mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Fr
I had to visit a doctor's office (office would dial in remotely to the
hospital) because she said the link (url) to our RAS wasn't working. Got there
and she's running AOL (and she has broadband, too). Every freakin' time I
tried to put a shortcut on her desktop to the RAS, AOL would change i
rs is geriatric nowadays for computer storage,
*especially* supporting spinning spindles at the version of technology they
were
issued with
Erik
Goldoff
IT
Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security
From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2
I found out today that our EMC CX500 is end of life for production with support
EOL around 2011. We got the CX500 around 2004 so it sure doesn't seem like it's
been in production.
Does anybody know what IBM or HP has for EOL interval on their SAN's? (director
is curious)
thx
__
Yup, you are. Or a wus or is wimp the feminization of wus?
I thought about Lasik but at my age, and the fact that since I live in a rural
area the cost is higher, I'd never see a payback (other than no hassle). Also,
no way I'd pay the money and still have to wear any kind of glasses.
I'll jus
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kurt Buff"
> To: "NT System Admin Issues"
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day
>
>
> BGInfo is on every machine I RDP into, servers and workstations.
>
> It'
A useful tool I found was BGInfo. Change desktop wallpaper to it and shows all
kinds of data of the pc as a wallpaper picture.
> From: dav...@imcu.org
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> Subject: Re: Happy SysAdmin Day
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:32:37 -0400
>
> I don't have an oemi
I remember on TNG, the Captain was dead set against killing the Crystal entity.
Why, it had a right to live even though it was destroying worlds.
But, when he finds out in a later that Crusher is getting the best sex she's
ever had (albeit with a spirit) it's a case of , "Monster! We've got to
I'd read that it was pretty much a given that her and Roddenberry were having
an affair.
Subject: RE: Star Trek Science Fiction?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:24:56 -0500
From: pmaglin...@scvl.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
There was an instance where
someone saw Uhura co
Or pulled the old Dallas routine. What's his name gets killed because he
doesn't want to do the show anymore but the network comes back with an
unbelievable offer. So, he comes back to the show and the view finds out
everything that happened was just a dream.
From: john.c...@pfsf.org
To: nts
e.com
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6793/full/406243a0.html
-sc
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?
Well, there is entanglemen
Well, there is entanglement. I don't remember reading about others, though.
What were they?
Subject: RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:37:40 -0400
From: scaes...@caesare.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
There is indeed experimental proof
can choose
the additional vlans made available to it by the tagged references in the
switch.
With HP, a trunk is an aggregate link, such as 802.3ad LACP etc…
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Procurv
Jimmy Durante.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:52:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Extremely quiet list this morning or I am FUBAR.
From: lee.doug...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Good night Mrs. Calabash wherever you are!
Anyone old enough to remember this one? (no Google-ing!)
On Mon,
I am more used to working with Cisco switches than HP so I'm not very
knowledgeable with configuring vlan's on a Procurve
With the HP, am I correct that when I wish to place a port into vlan60, I "tag"
it?
And if I want to that port to communicate with other vlans, I select those
vlans and "u
Weren't you a subscriber to the old Exchange list? The one with Ed Crowley and
Ed Woodrick? Now, that list had some flame wars.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:23:34 -0700
Subject: Re: List Statistics -
From: don@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
1998-2002 were the real flame
It's already being used. I was working with a vendor and his tech support guy
would say, "ping me when you're ready to move forward."
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:46:23 -0700
> From: drkuhl...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Ping?
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
>
>
> How about as a bus
#x27;t know though.
>
> --
> ME2
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Steven M. Caesare
> wrote:
> > I did not.
> >
> >
> >
> > Great stuff from that bunch of seamen.
> >
> >
> >
> > -sc
> >
> >
> >
&g
Meh. I knew that one.
Did you know that Clancy finally found a publisher for it since everybody else
turned it down? It turned out to be the best selling book the Naval Institute
Press ever had.
> From: scaes...@caesare.com
> Subject: RE: Ping?
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:40 -0400
> To: n
iirc, I believe it was Boris Badenoff.
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:14:00 -0400
Subject: Re: What does it take to get off this mailing list?
From: lee.doug...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Well, if you did it twice, you'd have 2 wrongs and 2 wrongs make a right -
right?
Hey
+1 for the Ricoh's.
However, address book mgmt is kinda strange. I mean, once you get the
addresses in, you actually hit the Cancel button to save. Bit
counter-intuitive.
Subject: RE: Scan to Email
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:19 -0400
From: don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.su
Since I don't work with doctors in my capacity of IT geek, I don't
> know for sure. However, I was married to a critical care nurse for 7
> years, and I'll put my money on the doctors.
>
> Heh.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 05:04, paul chinnery wrote:
> > A third of
you decide to call
them.
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009
11:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: fiber for PACS
Thanks. Distance is less 200 feet
and it'll be plugged into a Cisco 2960. That switch will then run fiber
fiber specs for more info as well.
From: paul chinnery
[mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:48
AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: fiber for PACS
Installing a new imaging center
and the MI Supervisor is asking about fiber run. We've been runnin
Installing a new imaging center and the MI Supervisor is asking about fiber
run. We've been running mm, 62.5 throughout the organization.
For those of you with 'fiber' experience, is 62.5 good enough for digital
images or would it be better to go with 50?
I've read that 62.5 is too small for
> Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:56:01 -0400
> From: don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
>
> We're going through something similar right now. Although, not "everyone" is
> a local admin, there are enough of them to
A third of my users are doctors. I wonder which group is harder to work with:
engineers or doctors?
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:51:09 -0700
> Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
> From: kurt.b...@gmail.com
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
>
> Truth. However, there are al
I found the Cisco Press books to be quite good, especially the Catalyst Switch
Config field manual. What kind of switches do you have (Cisco, 3com, HP?)
From: vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:15:11 -0500
Subject: OT: Advice... need a network book
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-s
just about everything IE in FF.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, paul chinnery wrote:
Same here. (I so wish we could use FF but a couple of our apps won't run if we
do so I have to be content with using it myself.)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:29:13 -0400
Subject: Re: New IE zer
Same here. (I so wish we could use FF but a couple of our apps won't run if we
do so I have to be content with using it myself.)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:29:13 -0400
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
From: lee.doug...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Yes, on s
We''ve got about 275 desktops to work on for Win7. Mixture of W2K and XP.
Obviously, we need to get rid of the W2k first but there's no way we can budget
to upgrade all 275 machines at once. The dollars just aren't there.
Since many of them are clinical pc's and only running the HCIS, we are
That takes me back. Prolly one of my all-time favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons.
IIRC, a while back, TBS refused to show it claiming it was way too violent.
Subject: RE: OT: The Television Generation
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:05:11 -0400
From: scaes...@caesare.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-softwar
Nina Blackwood? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
All this media frenzy reminds of the day Elvis died. (Yes, I am old enough to
remember that.)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:59:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Michael Jackson dead?
From: saber...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software
Oh, gosh, here we go with the "back in my day" trip. Didn't we just do this
last week with everybody mentioning their first pc? Must be a lot of
"old-timers" on this list (and probably one of the oldest).
> From: john.c...@pfsf.org
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> Date: Thu, 18 J
Vipre for me stands out for two reasons:
1. As written before, CPU/mem load is small except for deep scans;.
2. The console is very easy to use. Clean, self-explanatory tabs. I also like
the ability to create custom policies. It's great to be able to tweak a couple
of settings, call it a new
Jeff, my sentiments exactly. We doing almost the exact same thing as you. We
do, however, sometimes send PHI as an attachment encrypted by PKzip or Winzip
(the p/w is given over the phone and not emailed).
The feds may get a lot more restrictive with the new HITECH initiative. And
just last y
And remember the old text based adventure games? Simple commands like "go
right" or "look right."
Many were written in BASIC so it was pretty easy to "hack" the program to win.
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:56 -0500
Subject: Re: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009
From: stevey...@gmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@ly
Yes, I remember Computer Shopper. I can also remember when CDW was Computer
Discount Warehouse.
Actually, I kinda wish I had kept my old Color Computer (CoCo) magazines.
That's back when TRS came out with their Color Computer with it's Motorola 6509
chip. Came with a whole 8k of memory. I re
that I find most admins miss in the specs mentioned is the
>> humidity. When you are running the A/C in a room almost constantly the
>> humidity tends to drop fairly quickly. ... I have seen plenty of
> servers over the years taken out by a static charge.
On Thu, Jun 4, 200
Yes
Subject: RE: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:38:14 -0400
From: david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
I assume max temp = max room temp, not actual server
temp?
From: paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1
+1
We have ours around 65 and 50 for humidity. We have installed a temp/humidity
alarm that will alert the hospital operator (we don't man i/s 24x7) who will
page I/S and Plant Ops if it goes off.
On that same note, we called HP (we use DL 380's) and they said max temp is 95F.
From: tvanderk.
I've been tasked to look into acquiring a software package that monitors
servers. I only need to run it on 6 servers, at this time.
It should be able to monitor various services and running apps. (The issue was
prompted because the print spooler on one of our application servers stopped.
This
Never mind, Brian. (I gotta start reading the entire thread before replying to
any particular post. And thanks for the explanation.
From: pdw1...@hotmail.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Amusing
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:18:59 -0400
So what is MS' reason for ge
So what is MS' reason for getting rid of SIS? Perhaps another attempt to
convince people to use Sharepoint?
From: br...@briandesmond.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Amusing
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:50:57 +
Almost.
SIS is per database. So if
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