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backing up an xp home box
by David Mehler 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hello, Long shot question, but does anyone have an xp home machine? If so, i need to back one up to external hard drive. If it were a pro machine i'd use windows backup, but that option isn't in home or if it is it's not installed and don't have the media to do so. I'd appreciate any suggestions. The reason i need to backup is i'm having to possibly restore photos, the camera is a fugi camera that comes with a program called FinePixViewer, which the user wants to use. Unfortunately, i don't know where it stores it's photos and the box has had other image programs installed over the years, it's obviously not a new box, dell image solutions, adobe print shop, and i think one other. Some pics have been saved by these other programs, not sure where either, and am wanting to unify them under FinePix Viewer. I figure i'm eventually going to have to backup, if for no other reason than this machine has never been backed up. Thanks. Dave.

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vmware for Windows & ubuntu
by John G. Heim 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

I'm trying to create a ubuntu virtual machine with vmware 6.5 for Windows. I have to use 6.5 because that's what my license is for. My problem is that when I boot the virtual machine with a ubuntu live CD, I don't get sound. The google tells me that the problem is that ubuntu uses alsa and vmware expects oss. Is there a solution to this problem or will I have to get sighted assistance to install ubuntu?

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Anyone have any workarounds for the Juniper NSM?
by Scott Granados 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hi, I'm installing this Juniper NSM device which is a master controler for IDP devices as well as configuration and authentication device. The unix side is fine but when you go to configure the tool itself you are required to use this Java based graphical client thingy. It seems really hostile to JFW. Anyone have one of these working and have a way to make the client accessable or another work around? Thanks Scott

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] installing applications
by Ben Mustill-Rose 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Whilst we're on the subject of installing applications on new or unprotected machines, a few weeks ago, I started using a service that speeds this process up to the point that you'll be wondering how you coped withinstalling all of the standard apps the old way once you've used this service for a bit. The site in question is www.ninite.com Basicly, all the homepage has on it is checkboxes for popula apps. Go ahead and tick the ones you want and on the next page, ninite will give you a custom installer (Its actually a stub) which will unattendedly download and then install all the applications that you selected. I've got my custom installer on a thumbdrive, so all I have to do is plug the drive in, run the installer and come back in about 10 minutes and its done. I've also used this for friends who to put it nicely might not be able to manage the install of severall applications with out messing it up. I just send them the installer and its done. Hope this helped someone.

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two misc questions on programs and accessibility
by David Mehler 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello, I've got to protect a new dell that has come out of the dark days of dialup in to the light of high speed cable. I'm not the primary user of it, but i am the primary supporter. I'm using jfw10 currently, but will be moving possibly to something else which is not certain, assume jfw 10 or 11 for now. I'm wondering this is an xpsp3 box btw, wondering the advantages/disadvantages in terms of accessibility, system performance or sluggishness, features, and for the users' ease of use and false positive detection, Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials. I want to protect against viruses, malware, trojans, rootkits, everything. I'd like to know which is better and less of a system resource holder. Unrelated, is there a way in xp to get the signal strength of a wireless connection or what channel it's on? I've heard suggestions of enabling balloon tips, but that didn't do it. Thanks. Dave.

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avast5 and screen readers?
by David Mehler 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello, Is anyone using avast 5 with a screen reader? I've used 4, and like it, i know 5 is out, but have heard both that it is less accessible and that it is great. If anyone has first hand information i'd appreciate it. Thanks. Dave.

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Solved my own problem
by Steve Matzura 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

What you have to do in order to successfully change the router address on a DLink DIR655 router is to first revoke all the reserved IP addresses. Then and only then will it let you change and permanently save the change of the router's base IP address! Once that was done, I was back on my old network with my printer and Synology box showing up once again. Yaha!

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Need a Net Nut to Nib a Nasty
by Steve Matzura 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Up until yesterday shortly after lunch, my home network was managed (routed, firewalled) by a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I never enabled the wireless portion of the device because I don't need it in my little crackerbox palace of an apartment, plus there's far too much metal in the wall studs and other support structures, including the door and window onto the terrace, so I just disabled it to keep things utterly shut tight and secure. Why'd I buy a wireless router in the first place? Suffice it to say, I didn't know the place was that metallic when we first moved into it. Be that as it may, about eight or so years and three firmware revisions later, the thing finally gave up the ghost, as they say, and is now sitting in a truck on the way to a landfill somewhere--I no longer have the device. This is key to understanding my problem and why it cannot be suggested to reconnect the device in order to solve it. Yiskar has been saide. I have buried my dead. OK, the 54G was replaced with a nice new (vintage 2008) DLink DIR655n router, all ports operating at a gigabit, as opposed to 100mb for the Linksys box. The Linksys router's home address was 192.168.1.1, while the DLink's is 192.168.0.1. Two devices on my network have static IP addresses--a printer and a NAS box. Everything else is DHCP and has reserved an address on the new 192.192.0.1 network. This means now that I cannot communicate at all with either the printer or the NAS box until I either change their address or change the rest of thenetwork devices' addresses back to the old address base (192.168.1.*) I thought I would simply change the address of the router itself from 192.168.0.1 to ..1.1. Every time I try to do this, the router does its thing, reboots, and returns with the ..0.1 address. Anyone with experience with the DIR655 router who knows how to get past this, greatly appreaciated to hear from you asap, publicly or privately. TIA

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Unattended installation of Windows Server 2008 r2
by Frank Ventura 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi does anyone have a sample unattended installation XML file that works with Windows Server 2008R2 and/or one that works with Windows Server 2008 Std, both 64 bit? Thanks Frank

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importing public self signed certificates via GPO
by Dave 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Hello, This might be a simple question, but googling hasn't revealed the answer. I've got a web server that uses ssl to protect areas. This ssl is enabled by a self signed certificate that i issued from my own CA. I can manually import the CA's public certificate in to each machine then each system will trust the site and not pop up a warning dialog box about an untrusted cert. What i was wondering is if it would be possible for a GPO to be able to distribute the public cert to all domain computers. Thanks. Dave.

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