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determing pc power needs?
by David Mehler 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hello, This one is for PC builders. I've been gathering parts mostly in the last month for a new PC. Currently I have a Gigabyte 970 USB 3 motherboard, 32 GB of ddr3 1866 ram, and an 8 core processor that part alone I know takes 125W of power. Ok, the power supply will need to be an ATX12V supply I've found two on newegg I like one for 500W the other for 530W both around the same price. My problem is determining my current power usage needs, currently I'm guessing, and future needs. This box will eventually have all six SATA3 ports used, one CD/DVD burner, one SSD drive, and four 7200 RPM SATA3 drives 1 TB or greater. Opinions on power? Also, SLI and Crossfire ready do I need to worry about those? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp
by Barry Toner 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi folks, I've now had a word with my Net Admin. It seems what our end users are using is a thing called Zenapp to access their work pc's. So they connect to our 2K3 Server, then to Citrix and use the Zenapp, which is a Citrix app. He thinks I should be able to log in as them and use the Citrix console. However, he doubts that I will be able to shadow the end-users with JAWS, because it's 2 hops. This isn't essential as he's explained providing I can access the Citrix Console, to unlock user accounts and log in as them with them logged out we should be all good. Have any of you got experience of this environment, both good and bad in-terms of using either JAWS or Window Eyes. Regards, Barry. From: Barry Toner Sent: 30 November 2012 15:15 To: Blind sysadmins list (blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org) Subject: Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp Hi folks, My Net Admin after I let him see the JFW Citrix requirements has doubts I'll be able to, well I'm not sure what he's saying. I've sent him a further email asking him to detail our Citrix infrastructure. Here's what he's told me so far. Does this mean I wont' be able to RDP Live intot he end-users sessions, but can acces the servers through RDP? "I can't see you running this through Citrix the ICA session (i.e. using the Citrix published desktop that users get), though we do meet the Citrix Requirements anyway as we use Citrix XenApp. It will be for using RDP to access servers (including the Citrix Servers) which are all 2003. Cheers, Barry. " Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp
by Barry Toner 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi folks, I've now had a word with my Net Admin. It seems what our end users are using is a thing called Zenapp to access their work pc's. So they connect to our 2K3 Server, then to Citrix and use the Zenapp, which is a Citrix app. He thinks I should be able to log in as them and use the Citrix console. However, he doubts that I will be able to shadow the end-users with JAWS, because it's 2 hops. This isn't essential as he's explained providing I can access the Citrix Console, to unlock user accounts and log in as them with them logged out we should be all good. Have any of you got experience of this environment, both good and bad in-terms of using either JAWS or Window Eyes. Regards, Barry. From: Barry Toner Sent: 30 November 2012 15:15 To: Blind sysadmins list (blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org) Subject: Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp Hi folks, My Net Admin after I let him see the JFW Citrix requirements has doubts I'll be able to, well I'm not sure what he's saying. I've sent him a further email asking him to detail our Citrix infrastructure. Here's what he's told me so far. Does this mean I wont' be able to RDP Live intot he end-users sessions, but can acces the servers through RDP? "I can't see you running this through Citrix the ICA session (i.e. using the Citrix published desktop that users get), though we do meet the Citrix Requirements anyway as we use Citrix XenApp. It will be for using RDP to access servers (including the Citrix Servers) which are all 2003. Cheers, Barry. " Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp
by Barry Toner 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi folks, My Net Admin after I let him see the JFW Citrix requirements has doubts I'll be able to, well I'm not sure what he's saying. I've sent him a further email asking him to detail our Citrix infrastructure. Here's what he's told me so far. Does this mean I wont' be able to RDP Live intot he end-users sessions, but can acces the servers through RDP? "I can't see you running this through Citrix the ICA session (i.e. using the Citrix published desktop that users get), though we do meet the Citrix Requirements anyway as we use Citrix XenApp. It will be for using RDP to access servers (including the Citrix Servers) which are all 2003. Cheers, Barry. " Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Citrix, Thin Clients, Zenapp
by Barry Toner 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi folks, My Net Admin after I let him see the JFW Citrix requirements has doubts I'll be able to, well I'm not sure what he's saying. I've sent him a further email asking him to detail our Citrix infrastructure. Here's what he's told me so far. Does this mean I wont' be able to RDP Live intot he end-users sessions, but can acces the servers through RDP? "I can't see you running this through Citrix the ICA session (i.e. using the Citrix published desktop that users get), though we do meet the Citrix Requirements anyway as we use Citrix XenApp. It will be for using RDP to access servers (including the Citrix Servers) which are all 2003. Cheers, Barry. " Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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gw connect, virtual audio cable, and recording skype?
by David Mehler 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello, This is not really an admin question, but it does deal with audio devices on a system so I thought someone on the list might have some suggestions. My goal is to record a skype conversation. My current setup is a laptop with either an earbud in the earphone jack and an external microphone in the mic jack or a headset with both earphone and mic. This machine is running XP and I'm wondering if I can set up the GW Micro GW Connect 2.1 skype client with virtual audio cable to pull this off? If this won't work I'd appreciate any other suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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Laptops, Docking Stations 7 JAWS
by Barry Toner 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hi, I'm looking up laptops & docking stations. A guy I was talking to some weeks back in the RNIB mentioned something about being careful on the docking stations, in-terms of compatibility with JAWS. Is this true, and what would the criteria to determine this be? Cheers, Barry. Regards, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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gw connect, virtual audio cable, and recording skype?
by David Mehler 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello, This is not really an admin question, but it does deal with audio devices on a system so I thought someone on the list might have some suggestions. My goal is to record a skype conversation. My current setup is a laptop with either an earbud in the earphone jack and an external microphone in the mic jack or a headset with both earphone and mic. This machine is running XP and I'm wondering if I can set up the GW Micro GW Connect 2.1 skype client with virtual audio cable to pull this off? If this won't work I'd appreciate any other suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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Laptops, Docking Stations 7 JAWS
by Barry Toner 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi, I'm looking up laptops & docking stations. A guy I was talking to some weeks back in the RNIB mentioned something about being careful on the docking stations, in-terms of compatibility with JAWS. Is this true, and what would the criteria to determine this be? Cheers, Barry. Regards, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] SQL Server
by Barry Toner 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, Thanks for this info. All of you have been very helpful so far. I'm a complete Newbee in-terms of managing SQL DB's. The most I did at University was query the Databases and Create them using the command line, but I've never worked on the Server stuff. I can't connect to .\sqlexpress. It keeps timing out. When I bring up the SQL Config Man I see in there two Databases that I'm using for an asset management project. However, I don't' want this to use these Databases. I've found a youtube tutorial on SQL which will help me get started. Any ideas why I'm getting the following error though when I'm trying to connect to .\sqlexpress? "Cannot connect to .\sqlexpress. A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server)" Regards, Barry. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Spaulding Sent: 05 November 2012 12:39 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] SQL Server Hi, When you launch SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you are prompted for a server to connect to. In this box, you wound type: Servername\sqlexpress Where servername is the computer you install SQL to. (since you mentioned it was SQL Express you installed) If you are on the same server, you could have easily typed in: .\sqlexpress (that is a period backslash then sqlexpress) To set the authentication mode to mixed mode (supporting both SQL Authentication and Windows Authentication), right click on the server name and select properties. On the left side of this property sheet there is a few choices. Chose Security and tab to a radio button for Mix mode authentication. Then, ok out of the dialog box. To set the SA password, back to the object view where you saw the computer name; this is a tree view. Expand the computer name, arrow down to security and expand it, then arrow down to login and expand it; then arrow down to SA and get properties on this account. You can set the password in this dialog. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 6:57 AM To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] SQL Server Hi folks, I've been tasked to setup a Helpdesk for our company. I'm going with nService, http://www.avensoft.com/ The DB uses SQL. Thing is I've no idea about SQL Servers. I've installed SQL Express by reading the nService RTM. OK, fine, it's installed, and according to the Management and Config it's running. The next few things I'm asked to do I'm confused about and can't find the options for this. Switch to SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode Enable the "sa" account and set a password Also I've no idea the name of the SQL Server to connect to it. Would this just be local or locahost? If it's any good I've IIS installed and running as well. Can someone please tell me how I do this so I can continue with the installation? Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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