RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread John Aldrich
Well, it's a moot point as we don't have Win7. We only have Vista Business. L John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) I would run try it f

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2010-07-02 Thread Jon Harris
access the CDROM and hard drive from >> within XP mode, if such exists in Vista. >> >> >> >> [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] >> >> >> >> *From:* Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] >> *Sent:* Friday, July 02, 2010 10:29 AM >

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, andy wrote: > Try to remember how to load a cd driver in dos so you > can install Win95. You put the CD interface driver in CONFIG.SYS (such as "DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS" for IDE), and then you run MSCDEX.EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT. I've got a floppy disk image of a MS-D

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You can run it. Just don't expect a whole lot of support. :) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, James Kerr wrote: > > I haven't played much with Vista but I'm pretty sure I saw compatibility > > mode in there

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, James Kerr wrote: > I haven't played much with Vista but I'm pretty sure I saw compatibility > mode in there. There's a different between "Compatibility Mode" and "XP Mode". Compatibility Mode runs the program under the native OS, but does some magic to make

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread James Kerr
I haven't played much with Vista but I'm pretty sure I saw compatibility mode in there. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:36 AM Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) I don't believe you

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2010-07-02 Thread Jonathan Link
> [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* andy [mailto:afo...@psu.edu] > *Sent:* Friday, July 02, 2010 10:08 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) > > > > Did you use the sysinternal tools to check to see wha

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-07-02 Thread John Aldrich
drichTile-Tools From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) If you have Win7 you can run the app in either XP Mode or select and older OS to run it (by setting this in the program prop

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2010-07-02 Thread James Kerr
You just need a Win95 boot floppy and it has CD Drivers. You can get a disk image here. Easy! http://www.bootdisk.com/ - Original Message - From: andy To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:07 AM Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Did you use

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2010-07-02 Thread Cameron Cooper
, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Hehe... yeah... turns out that the program wil

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2010-07-02 Thread John Aldrich
Hehe. yeah. turns out that the program will NOT run in Vista. It ONLY runs in XP or older versions of Windows. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: andy [mailto:afo...@psu.edu] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Did you

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2010-07-02 Thread andy
u try to view >a check, it says "invalid username/password." L > >John-Aldrich >Tile-Tools > > >From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] >Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:15 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) > &

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2010-06-18 Thread Don Guyer
roach.com <mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) IT wont' run properly. You can install it, but when you try to view a check, it sa

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-18 Thread John Aldrich
IT wont' run properly. You can install it, but when you try to view a check, it says "invalid username/password." L John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID

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2010-06-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:34 PM, James Kerr wrote: >> We have a large, precision, 5-axis CNC router with a Windows >> 2000-based controller. > > Don't you also require a custom version of XP to go with it also? I was told > by a buddy who has a CNC mill in his garage that its a stripped down vers

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
ames Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Don't you also require a custom version of XP to go with it also? I was told by a buddy who has a CNC mill in his garage that its a stripped down v

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2010-06-17 Thread James Kerr
cott" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:10 PM Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, John Aldrich wrote: Well, I finally got in touch with someone who had half a brain. It seems there is no work-around to make i

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2010-06-17 Thread Ken Hoegeman
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, John Aldrich > wrote: > > Well, I finally got in touch with someone who had half a brain. It seems > > there is no work-around to make it run under Vista. On the other hand, > they > > are planning on releasing

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2010-06-17 Thread Joe Tinney
M To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) PNC Bank and their Image Viewer software to view our check images. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Well, I finally got in touch with someone who had half a brain. It seems > there is no work-around to make it run under Vista. On the other hand, they > are planning on releasing the replacement for "Image Viewer" by the end of > the year. App

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2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
wait on someone else to release it... :-( On the plus side, it'll be Windows 7 compatible. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 4:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) On Thu, Jun

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2010-06-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > It’s scary to think that your life savings may depend on > some 16-bit app running on a 486 workstation. Even better: It's likely to depend on some 36-bit app running on an IBM mainframe running an OS evolved from something created in t

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
PNC Bank and their Image Viewer software to view our check images. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) What product is that just so I know

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2010-06-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 17 Jun 2010 at 12:51, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: > I was facetiously talking about writing your own drivers, but hey, good > memory. That was the first virus I was paid to clean up. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ F

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2010-06-17 Thread Jon Harris
What product is that just so I know. Jon On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Devin Meade wrote: > Same story here. We have a check scanning setup which must be on XP. No > Vista or Win 7. > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John Aldrich < > jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: > >> I just g

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) On 17 Jun 2010 at 11:14, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: > Aww come on now ... you can always write your own ... Don't need to. I'm sure you can find copies of Michaelan

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 17 Jun 2010 at 11:14, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: > Aww come on now ... you can always write your own ... Don't need to. I'm sure you can find copies of Michaelangelo "in the wild" if you look hard enough. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog

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2010-06-17 Thread Don Guyer
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) " When the documentation continued to refer to itself as "POS software", we hurt ourselves laughing! " Truth in ad

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2010-06-17 Thread Erik Goldoff
" When the documentation continued to refer to itself as "POS software", we hurt ourselves laughing! " Truth in advertising ! Like back when Computer Associates took over ArcServe in the middle of a major problem resolution we had ongoing with Cheyenne. At a high level meeting ( regional VPs fro

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
a.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) We once ran credit cards with an "Industry leading" PITA software which connected to the processor via modem. (Note - this was not

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2010-06-17 Thread RichardMcClary
We once ran credit cards with an "Industry leading" PITA software which connected to the processor via modem. (Note - this was not recently!) In frustration, I and the accountant (a very prim and proper lady) decided we had to RTFM... When the documentation continued to refer to itself as "PO

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2010-06-17 Thread Alan Davies
a From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 June 2010 15:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) actually, Win2000 SP4 is supported until July 12th But I'd think that the bank has regulatory compliance requirements to provide

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2010-06-17 Thread Devin Meade
Same story here. We have a check scanning setup which must be on XP. No Vista or Win 7. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > I just got off the phone with the help desk at our bank. We have a new > Vista computer and the software we use to view our check images no longer > wo

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
m: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) ROFL! :) That's good! Very good point. Of course, no one is writing device drivers for those O/Ses any longer either... :( [cid:i

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2010-06-17 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Ha! Good 1 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) At least it's secure. Who's writing malware for DOS 6.22 and Window

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2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
Help Desk! (OT) At least it's secure. Who's writing malware for DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 now? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) And

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2010-06-17 Thread Maglinger, Paul
At least it's secure. Who's writing malware for DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 now? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) And the health care industry

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2010-06-17 Thread David Mazzaccaro
And the health care industry isn't far behind... From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Bank and financial software is notorious for

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Don Guyer
.com <mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) actually, Win2000 SP4 is supported until July 12th But I'd think that the bank

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2010-06-17 Thread Erik Goldoff
actually, Win2000 SP4 is supported until July 12th But I'd think that the bank has regulatory compliance requirements to provide access via *secure* methods only, and depending on end-of-life operating systems and browsers is likely in violation. Ask them when their next compliance audit is On

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2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
to:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) Bank and financial software is notorious for this. It's because they don't want to pay developers to upgrade their software. It's scary to think that your l

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2010-06-17 Thread Maglinger, Paul
mail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT) I went to install one of our PITA pieces of client software yesterday and it told me it couldn't install on Windows 98. I was using Server 2008 R2. I think it's time they releas

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2010-06-17 Thread James Rankin
I went to install one of our PITA pieces of client software yesterday and it told me it couldn't install on Windows 98. I was using Server 2008 R2. I think it's time they released an update. On 17 June 2010 15:33, John Aldrich wrote: > I just got off the phone with the help desk at our bank. We

RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread John Aldrich
I just got off the phone with the help desk at our bank. We have a new Vista computer and the software we use to view our check images no longer works because we're using Vista and Vista is not a supported O/S. Apparently it only works on XP, 2000 or 98. L Not to mention, they couldn't tell me