What makes you say that Blue Iris is free, is their website incorrect in stating that the LE version costs $30 and the full version costs $50? Or do you mean it is free for the 15 day trial period, which might be all the poster needs?
Can anyone share their opinion on using robocalls for things like Appointment Reminders, or for a public library letting you know that the book you requested is in or that a book is overdue. Are those valid uses?
jonadab,
Thanks for taking the time to compose all this, I think you point out some interesting situations. I would like to suggest a few things that may help out, although they all have their drawbacks so you might have already dismissed them.
Win xp comes with the shutdown.exe program which can be used both locally by the user (A shortcut on the desktop to shut down the machine) or via the task scheduler to shut down at a certain time, or remotely to shutdown other machines that can be reached and authenticated to on the network.
For your users that have trouble with the steps to shut down a computer, you could setup a shortcut that they would just need to double click to start the shutdown process. It sounds like they still might have trouble with double clicking, so maybe you could teach them to click once and then hit enter.
It sounds like you already script shutdowns for linux machines, so you could also try setting up scheduled tasks to shut down on a regular schedule. I don't really like this method because if a user leaves something open that they didn't save, and the force shutdown method is used, they may loose work. You could use the not forced shutdown method, but users might get confused the next day when they need to deal with all sorts of "Close this program?" dialogs, along with needing to restart the machine when they get in, although I think the restart can be canceled at that point.
Both of the options I mentioned so far require that changes be made to each machine. If you use the remote shutdown features you could potentially setup the scheduled shutdown on one of your servers. It depends on how your user accounts/authentication is setup though. By default windows only allows administrators to remotely shut down a machine, but that can be changed via gpedit.msc. ( Computer Config - Windows Settings - Security Settings - Local Policies - User Rights - Force shutdown from a remote system)
I would take out the step of turning off the power bar, unless there is really a good reason for it. If you did that then you could use WOL to start machines in the morning. Just start them all 30 minutes before someone normally comes in. Also, many newer bios versions have the ability to just setup a regularly scheduled start time, but that takes setting it up on each machine again, unless you use dell openmanage or something equivalent that lets you manage bios settings for all your machines.
The thing that I like about WOL is that anyone can run it. If you have one staff member that gets in early, just add a little WOL script to his computers startup folder, every time he starts his machine, he can start up all the machines in his department. When there is a holiday, he won't be in, so the machines won't get started. Of course, if he is sick, the machines won't get started, but this is just an example.
You should look into use WSUS to manage your windows updates. It sounds like you just have each machine set to download updates from MS and install them. If you used WSUS you could choose when to install updates for the entire organization, or for departments in the org.
Consider this scenario - Patch Tuesday comes around. You approve the updates to a few machines just to test them out. If nothing bad happens to those machines in the next week you approve the updates for all your machines at 9am on Thursday morning. During the day all the machines check in, see that there are updates and download them. You have all the machines set to install updates at 7am on Friday. At 6:45am on fri, you do a system wide WOL, which wakes up all the machines, they install windows updates and reboot and are ready to go for staff that come in at 8am. (The 6:45 time is also a good spot to schedule virus def updates. Adjust the time to fit your bandwidth and machine speed. Maybe it needs to be 4am)
In a not AD environment, setting the windows updates settings takes running gpedit.msc and setting some values on each machine, so again it wil
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Please take a look at www.scalix.com. It can fully replace exchange, it comes with a outlook connector, an evolution connector, and a pretty decent ajax web interface. The community edition supports unlimited email only users, and 25 full groupware users. The small business edition is under $1000. I have been playing with it for a week or two and it seems pretty nice. The small business edition can integrate with AD, so it seems like it is an answer to keeping Exchange out of the work place. Anyone else have any opinions about scalix?
I always though it had something to do with the exposure time, didn't it used to be in the 15-30 second range or something. Or was that way way back when photography was just starting.
Has anyone else seen those exhibits?, my dates are probably way off.
I was at the Field Museum this past week and got a real kick out of the meteor exhibits. They had several large metalic meteors that were out in the open free to touch. Putting my hand on it and thinking about it flying though space, to be rudely blocked by the planet earth. It wasn't it's fault that there was some stupid planet in the way... Anyway, they also had several examples of meteorites hitting houses. In once case it went through the guys garage, through his car and bounced off the cars muffler, ending up sitting on the car seat. Another one took out a guys gutter. The pictures are pretty funny, all the guys looked pretty pissed off, but it was in the 20s or 30s, maybe people didn't smile back then.
Field Museum Meteor collection
Google has let me down on finding info on the problem you mentioned? I just recently used linksys gear in a public library and they have been having major problems with it, so I have been trying to find info on what problems their routers have. Do you have any links?
When I saw temple of doom, I had no problem understanding that the monkey brains, snakes, whatever were just an anamoly of a whacked out cult, the thugs, er thugies,(you know what I mean) Indy even says at one point, "What the hell, hindus don't eat meat". The monkey brains, just showed how far out of the norm these people had gone. I'm not totally immune though, I think that the view I have of rural india in my head was influenced by how the village was shown. But that was back in the 30's, if I went to india I wouldn't be expecting india to look like that. ramble ramble ramble.
Sorry about that, I didn't refresh before I responded, I didn't see that it had already been answered.
No, it isn't a big deal, I just wanted to correct your mistake. They Cobb guys know their car, they wouldn't have hit a water truck in the middle of a parking lot.
Point 2, a sport compact car driver ran the Cobb WRX into the water truck, well he skidded off course because he underestimated the car. Here is a link to the story from the car owners. wrxforum
And Quote
"The SCC staff drove the cars for the entirety of the shootout. I do not know exactly which SCC staff member was driving at that point. The car was taken out due to a collision with a big water truck. It happens and ConeBasher is better than ever now."
OT, but the gas station in Climax, MN sells t-shirts that say "Climax, more than just a feeling". Climax MN is about 15 miles south of Crookston which is 60 miles north of Fargo/Moorhead.
Hmm, that is strange. I noticed something when I did my transfer, the transfer was not done between domainmonger and verisign, it was done between tucows and verisign. I think that tucows handles stuff like that for many smaller domain registrars. It could be that tucows is large enough to have a trusting relationship with verisign, where as some of the other small domain registrars try to go it alone and have a harder time.
Hopefully someone who knows more about how it all works will chime in, but I doubt it, I think this story is dead now. You might want to give domainmonger a try, or did you, I can't remember, to lazy to check your other post now too:)
Do you still have access to the admin email account. If not then that might be your problem, you might have to jump through the hoops to get them to change the registration info.
The transfer went pretty smoothly for me. I filled out the domainmonger forms, then I recieved a message from verisign/network solutions asking me to confirm(sent to the old admin email), I replied to that and got a confirmation, and that was it. It is funny how verisign begs you not to leave in the transfer messages. They even mention how great their support is, that was very entertaining.
What really pissed me off is that I did have access to the admin email for the domain, but they also have a extra security question that you have to know. I had no way of finding out what the origional guy had set for his mothers maiden name or his date of birth.
I have just finished a month long battle with VeriSign to get access to a domain. I would fax them an authorization letter, they would email me back saying I missed the coma on the 21st page after the statment of intent blah blah. I finally got everything to their liking but they didn't respond for a couple more weeks. So I headed over to domainmonger and did a transfer, and was up and running in a day and a half. I can kind of understand why a larger company would like to know that someone has to jump through major hoops before someone can hijack their domain, but for me all there security was a major pain in the ass. Plus, the last time I checked, they were using some ibm ssl software that doesn't let you use mozilla to manage your account. I am going to plug domainmonger here, I have no affiliation with them, I am just a happy customer. domainmonger.com I have had such good luck with domainmonger, they are not a large operation, but I have never had trouble getting ahold of someone if I have had a problem.
As I think others have noted, Redhat is suppling a db product that is named redhatdb, but is basically PostgreSQL. They describe it as
Utilizing the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system, Red Hat Database is the cost-effective, fully supported, scalable, data management solution for mid-sized businesses and enterprise workgroups and departments. Powered by the robust and proven relational database management system, PostgreSQL, Red Hat Database is the intelligent alternative to overly complex and costly enterprise systems.
So there are options for support. And RedHat does have a team working on Postgresql, Last I heard is that they are working on adding db replication.(but my info is probably out of date)
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What makes you say that Blue Iris is free, is their website incorrect in stating that the LE version costs $30 and the full version costs $50? Or do you mean it is free for the 15 day trial period, which might be all the poster needs?
Firebug works fine on FF 5-12.
http://getfirebug.com/
Can anyone share their opinion on using robocalls for things like Appointment Reminders, or for a public library letting you know that the book you requested is in or that a book is overdue. Are those valid uses?
jonadab,
Thanks for taking the time to compose all this, I think you point out some interesting situations. I would like to suggest a few things that may help out, although they all have their drawbacks so you might have already dismissed them.
Win xp comes with the shutdown.exe program which can be used both locally by the user (A shortcut on the desktop to shut down the machine) or via the task scheduler to shut down at a certain time, or remotely to shutdown other machines that can be reached and authenticated to on the network.
For your users that have trouble with the steps to shut down a computer, you could setup a shortcut that they would just need to double click to start the shutdown process. It sounds like they still might have trouble with double clicking, so maybe you could teach them to click once and then hit enter.
It sounds like you already script shutdowns for linux machines, so you could also try setting up scheduled tasks to shut down on a regular schedule. I don't really like this method because if a user leaves something open that they didn't save, and the force shutdown method is used, they may loose work. You could use the not forced shutdown method, but users might get confused the next day when they need to deal with all sorts of "Close this program?" dialogs, along with needing to restart the machine when they get in, although I think the restart can be canceled at that point.
Both of the options I mentioned so far require that changes be made to each machine. If you use the remote shutdown features you could potentially setup the scheduled shutdown on one of your servers. It depends on how your user accounts/authentication is setup though. By default windows only allows administrators to remotely shut down a machine, but that can be changed via gpedit.msc. ( Computer Config - Windows Settings - Security Settings - Local Policies - User Rights - Force shutdown from a remote system)
I would take out the step of turning off the power bar, unless there is really a good reason for it. If you did that then you could use WOL to start machines in the morning. Just start them all 30 minutes before someone normally comes in. Also, many newer bios versions have the ability to just setup a regularly scheduled start time, but that takes setting it up on each machine again, unless you use dell openmanage or something equivalent that lets you manage bios settings for all your machines.
The thing that I like about WOL is that anyone can run it. If you have one staff member that gets in early, just add a little WOL script to his computers startup folder, every time he starts his machine, he can start up all the machines in his department. When there is a holiday, he won't be in, so the machines won't get started. Of course, if he is sick, the machines won't get started, but this is just an example.
You should look into use WSUS to manage your windows updates. It sounds like you just have each machine set to download updates from MS and install them. If you used WSUS you could choose when to install updates for the entire organization, or for departments in the org.
Consider this scenario - Patch Tuesday comes around. You approve the updates to a few machines just to test them out. If nothing bad happens to those machines in the next week you approve the updates for all your machines at 9am on Thursday morning. During the day all the machines check in, see that there are updates and download them. You have all the machines set to install updates at 7am on Friday. At 6:45am on fri, you do a system wide WOL, which wakes up all the machines, they install windows updates and reboot and are ready to go for staff that come in at 8am. (The 6:45 time is also a good spot to schedule virus def updates. Adjust the time to fit your bandwidth and machine speed. Maybe it needs to be 4am)
In a not AD environment, setting the windows updates settings takes running gpedit.msc and setting some values on each machine, so again it wil
Thank you for the tip, I will check it out.
Please take a look at www.scalix.com. It can fully replace exchange, it comes with a outlook connector, an evolution connector, and a pretty decent ajax web interface. The community edition supports unlimited email only users, and 25 full groupware users. The small business edition is under $1000. I have been playing with it for a week or two and it seems pretty nice. The small business edition can integrate with AD, so it seems like it is an answer to keeping Exchange out of the work place. Anyone else have any opinions about scalix?
It is a good thing you didn't post this back then, you would be found guilty of inciting people to smile without a license.
I always though it had something to do with the exposure time, didn't it used to be in the 15-30 second range or something. Or was that way way back when photography was just starting.
Has anyone else seen those exhibits?, my dates are probably way off.
I was at the Field Museum this past week and got a real kick out of the meteor exhibits. They had several large metalic meteors that were out in the open free to touch. Putting my hand on it and thinking about it flying though space, to be rudely blocked by the planet earth. It wasn't it's fault that there was some stupid planet in the way... Anyway, they also had several examples of meteorites hitting houses. In once case it went through the guys garage, through his car and bounced off the cars muffler, ending up sitting on the car seat. Another one took out a guys gutter. The pictures are pretty funny, all the guys looked pretty pissed off, but it was in the 20s or 30s, maybe people didn't smile back then.
Field Museum Meteor collection
Thanks for the information.
Josh
Google has let me down on finding info on the problem you mentioned? I just recently used linksys gear in a public library and they have been having major problems with it, so I have been trying to find info on what problems their routers have. Do you have any links?
Thanks
When I saw temple of doom, I had no problem understanding that the monkey brains, snakes, whatever were just an anamoly of a whacked out cult, the thugs, er thugies,(you know what I mean) Indy even says at one point, "What the hell, hindus don't eat meat". The monkey brains, just showed how far out of the norm these people had gone. I'm not totally immune though, I think that the view I have of rural india in my head was influenced by how the village was shown. But that was back in the 30's, if I went to india I wouldn't be expecting india to look like that. ramble ramble ramble.
Sorry about that, I didn't refresh before I responded, I didn't see that it had already been answered.
No, it isn't a big deal, I just wanted to correct your mistake. They Cobb guys know their car, they wouldn't have hit a water truck in the middle of a parking lot.
Point 2, a sport compact car driver ran the Cobb WRX into the water truck, well he skidded off course because he underestimated the car. Here is a link to the story from the car owners. wrxforum
And Quote
"The SCC staff drove the cars for the entirety of the shootout. I do not know exactly which SCC staff member was driving at that point.
The car was taken out due to a collision with a big water truck. It happens and ConeBasher is better than ever now."
Where did you get your info Cloud 9?
So, are the nvidia drivers our for it yet... I'll give them a few more minutes.
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OT, but the gas station in Climax, MN sells t-shirts that say "Climax, more than just a feeling". Climax MN is about 15 miles south of Crookston which is 60 miles north of Fargo/Moorhead.
Sorry, had to share.
Not to low I hope, the planes might blow over the cups!!!! You wouldn't look so smart then.
Just a note that K-Meleon is alive and well, they just released version 0.7. It is based on Mozilla 1.2b. More info at the K-Meleon page.
Hmm, that is strange.
:)
I noticed something when I did my transfer, the transfer was not done between domainmonger and verisign, it was done between tucows and verisign. I think that tucows handles stuff like that for many smaller domain registrars. It could be that tucows is large enough to have a trusting relationship with verisign, where as some of the other small domain registrars try to go it alone and have a harder time.
Hopefully someone who knows more about how it all works will chime in, but I doubt it, I think this story is dead now. You might want to give domainmonger a try, or did you, I can't remember, to lazy to check your other post now too
Do you still have access to the admin email account. If not then that might be your problem, you might have to jump through the hoops to get them to change the registration info.
The transfer went pretty smoothly for me. I filled out the domainmonger forms, then I recieved a message from verisign/network solutions asking me to confirm(sent to the old admin email), I replied to that and got a confirmation, and that was it. It is funny how verisign begs you not to leave in the transfer messages. They even mention how great their support is, that was very entertaining.
What really pissed me off is that I did have access to the admin email for the domain, but they also have a extra security question that you have to know. I had no way of finding out what the origional guy had set for his mothers maiden name or his date of birth.
I have just finished a month long battle with VeriSign to get access to a domain. I would fax them an authorization letter, they would email me back saying I missed the coma on the 21st page after the statment of intent blah blah. I finally got everything to their liking but they didn't respond for a couple more weeks. So I headed over to domainmonger and did a transfer, and was up and running in a day and a half.
I can kind of understand why a larger company would like to know that someone has to jump through major hoops before someone can hijack their domain, but for me all there security was a major pain in the ass. Plus, the last time I checked, they were using some ibm ssl software that doesn't let you use mozilla to manage your account. I am going to plug domainmonger here, I have no affiliation with them, I am just a happy customer.
domainmonger.com
I have had such good luck with domainmonger, they are not a large operation, but I have never had trouble getting ahold of someone if I have had a problem.
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posting makes you feel goooooodd.
As I think others have noted, Redhat is suppling a db product that is named redhatdb, but is basically PostgreSQL. They describe it as
Utilizing the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system, Red Hat Database is the cost-effective, fully supported, scalable, data management solution for mid-sized businesses and enterprise workgroups and departments. Powered by the robust and proven relational database management system, PostgreSQL, Red Hat Database is the intelligent alternative to overly complex and costly enterprise systems.
So there are options for support. And RedHat does have a team working on Postgresql, Last I heard is that they are working on adding db replication.(but my info is probably out of date)
Josh
Ohh lord, I'm defending Redhat...
As Duffy would say, Har har har.
:)
No, it isn't ONI I am thinking of..... grrr what was it. Oh yah, Shogo mobile armour division. Where did I put that cd...
I would love one if it could track and fry mosquitos.
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