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testing memory and hard disks
by David Mehler 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hello, I'm wondering if vinux can pull this off and if so if anyone has a procedure? I've got several boxes, one for sure is parts only. I'd like to put various memory modules in it and various hard drives in it and test them. This machine will be hooked up to speakers so software speech is an option. If anyone has done this i'd appreciate knowing about it. Thanks. Dave.

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jaws tandem behind two nat routers
by David Mehler 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hello, I'm using jfw 10, a friend is using jfw 11. We are both behind high speed connections, I think both dsl, and behind nat routers. Under those circumstances I am wondering if it's possible to make tandem work? If so I'd like to know how as it would make remotely helping this friend much easier. Thanks. Dave.

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VMWare View administrator
by Darragh OHeiligh 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Good afternoon, I was horrified and very annoyed to find that after updating to the latest version of VMWare View, the administrative site is flash based and I am unable to read everything that I need to access. What the hell are these companies playing at! Is it seriously too much to ask that they create interfaces that are accessible? Or at the very least not inaccessible? I don't mind having to work at things but I'm getting very tired of companies unknowingly putting obsticles in the way. Especially when I have a job to do. Have any of you come across this in the latest version of the ESX related tools? Before I do any more upgrading of our environment do you know if there is anything else I need to look out for? I'm becoming a very intollerent person when it comes to these updates. Why and howe they made what was a reasonably nice interface to navigate around a completely inaccessible flash based tragity I just cant understand. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh System administration Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh(a)oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie

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bluetooth under xp
by David Mehler 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello, Is anyone using bluetooth devices under xp? I would ask windows in general, but I don't know if vista/7 are doing this. I'm trying to get a bluetooth headset to work with my pc. I've got it paired, and the pc sees it. Whenever I activate the headset it tries to connect to the hsp service, but can't do it, I need to authorize it on the pc. My problem is that dialog box flashes in the systray and lasts about 5 seconds, not long enough for me to get to it, when I can the connection atempt times out. If anyone has a fix for this i'd like to hear it. Thanks. Dave.

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Norton Ghost
by Billy L. Irwin 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi Everyone, I was recently tasked with trying to make some images of both Windows XP and Windows 7 machines. Currently they are using Norton Ghost 11.5. It is horribly not visually accessible. I am able to do something if it more of a command line thing than the Windows PE that it uses for you to do everything. What do you guys recommend for this situation? Best Regards, Billy L. Irwin Irwin Solutions 207 Strange Ct. Spartanburg, SC 29301 P: 864-551-2501 Spartanburg/GSP Area C: 864-809-9620 Spartanburg, SC WB4BLI Emergency Coordinator - Spartanburg County Area 1 -2 SKYWARN / ADEC Area 2

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Router shopping
by Barry Toner 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Afternoon all, I've pretty much decided that it's most likely the routers the problem here. Looking at the DrayTek range is making my mouth water. Two I'm looking at are here http://www.seg.co.uk/ and here http://www.seg.co.uk/ Both look very nice. I especially like that the Router can double up as a NAS. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support NTFS, just FAT16/32. According to what I'm reading here though you can use drives larger than 32GB with FAT32? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_maximum_partition_you_can_partition_FAT32 Do any of you folks know what the maximum capacity is? EG Any point hoping a 2TB drive can be used as formatted with FAT32? Cheers, Barry Soon to be broke!

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Network troubleshooting
by Barry Toner 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Hi all, I've been pulling my hair out for the past week and a half. Suddenly our bandwidth dropped off. I'm on a 20MB connection and normally get 1.5 to 2.4MB/s download from fast servers like the BBC and Sendspace.com where I have a premium membership. I began to notice speeds of 93K, 21K, and on one freaky moment 4Bytes! After 6 phone calls to the lovely outsourced call centre. During which, I explained the drastic reduction in speed. Coupled with the fact that i had noticed I was losing packets. One 1st line Agent was able to see when he pinged my cable modem this was indeed happening. That it wasn't my hardware or the 6 computers I had at home. That I did know a tiny bit about computers and had confirmed that not only there was no hijackers on my WIFI, but that it didnt' make a difference whither I had my Netgear Router in the mix or was directly connected to the modem. Then after my ISP botched and ordered me two replacement modems the speeds flew back up to normal and life went on. Today i noticed during mudding lag had started again. I also noticed using Ventrilo I was getting insane ping rates. In the thousands. I started some ping tests again. pinging on wifi, 36 pings, 28 recieved. min - 22ms, max 480ms, avg 46ms Is this normal and should I expect a loss of packets on WIFI when i'm getting full signal, (as I was sitting beside the router, have all my WIFI gear bar the IPhone as N Adaptors). I did lose approx 1 packet out of the standard 4 packet Windows ping test when connected to the Router wired, and the modem wired, this afternoon. I'm trying to figure out how to establish what is the problem and minimise my own expense in the process. I can take a hit on time but I dont' want to go out and buy a new router just to test. Should I buy all new Ethernet cables? Demand my ISP send an Engineer out to check the cable box, and pay the £30 fee if all's fine? Is there any decent networking troubleshooting tools you all recommend? At first I thought was because I was messing around with creating my own 2K8R2 server networking at home, then i realised it wasn't just the Server and the one laptop who was using it as it's Domain and DNS that were having problems. Web Pages were/are loading slowly. I've ruled out viral and malware infaltrations. I know no WIFI encryption is full proof but I'm using WPA2, TKIP, ASE, MAC Address Filtering, hiding the SID, checked the client tables on the router to see if any non-recognised addresses are popping up. I'm at a loss as what more to do and don't want to go back to the ISP without as much concrete evidence as possible. BTW. I know they do throttle but this is for peer to peer s'fers between set hours. They say streaming, and browsing will not be effected. It's Virgin Media in the UK. Cheers as this is driving me mental! Barry

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JFW 12.x and event viewer
by Andrew Hodgson 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi, Not sure if this is related to JFW 12, but is anyone else seeing that when viewing the event logs on a Windows system that JFW is no longer reading the actual contents of the event text? I am having to copy and paste this into a temporary Notepad session at the moment. This always used to work and on the same system as well. Thanks. Andrew.

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Microsoft Management Summet 2011
by Ryan Shugart 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Greetings: To the other Windows admins out there, I was wondering if anyone else was going to MMS this year or had ever gone? Looking at the web site (http://www.mms-2011.com) it looks like there will be quite a few presentations I'll benefit from on the systems management track, but before making my case to the boss I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle such a thing as a blind person. I've heard its very fast paced, and it'll be in a rather large venue. Chances are that I'd be the only one there from my company. So, was just curious if anyone's tried this before and how it worked out? Thanks. Ryan

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Microsoft Management Summet 2011
by Ryan Shugart 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Greetings: To the other Windows admins out there, I was wondering if anyone else was going to MMS this year or had ever gone? Looking at the web site (http://www.mms-2011.com) it looks like there will be quite a few presentations I'll benefit from on the systems management track, but before making my case to the boss I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle such a thing as a blind person. I've heard its very fast paced, and it'll be in a rather large venue. Chances are that I'd be the only one there from my company. So, was just curious if anyone's tried this before and how it worked out? Thanks. Ryan

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