Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 18th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,397 I think it's a term looking for an effect - something Wired suffers from a lot. Remember their "Long boom"? wedging your business into this way of looking at the world is just another way of... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 18th, 2006 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 5,949 Dell servers are easy to configure and spares are reasonably generic and hence cheap... BUT (well, ok, 2 BUT's):
a) I find them slower than the equivalently-rated Hp or IBMs. Dell seem happy to... |
Forum: OS X Jun 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,932 everything has to be mounted, is the short answer. CCC has very complete instructions - if you want a backup of your boot partition then the best way is to write an image file on a mounted partition. |
Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Jun 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,959 you do the rest by:
- getting an ISP that allows you to do it. Their help-desk should tell you if this is the case, or not.
- having routers which include VPN capability and come with the... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jun 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 7,643 do you use roaming profiles? How long does it take to log in a new account with no history? Why did you change the DNS? |
Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Jun 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,959 no, he can't just connect. Several things are in the way.
1) Comcast. Do they allow clients to route to one another? Quite a few ISPs don't, because this is how viruses spread.
2) ideally the... |
Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,959 You need to tell us a lot about both your network, and his, before anyone can answer the question(s). What conenciton, what router or modem, what platform, what security... etc etc |
Forum: Novell Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,930 You got it in one. CSNW is very very basic; if at all possible use the real thing. |
Forum: Novell Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 5,221 This sounds like a profile problem. Is there an Active Directory server or Novell spoof of Profile services at the main site, and is it reachable at the other site? Could the user be logging in... |
Forum: Windows Software Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,711 Retrospect is a backup program that started in the Mac world and moved on to PCs. It was for many years developed by Dantz software, a smallish operation and very highly focussed; however, lately it... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,921 uh... forgive me, but the last time I checked, a T22 is a laptop. De-Gaussing is something you do to a tube monitor, because it uses magnets to wave the stream of electrons about on the screen.
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Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,239 this is because your original setup pretends to be an old fashioned modem. To do this, Windows redirects everything that should go down the Ethernet, to the dumb "modem" device that's really an ADSL... |
Forum: OS X Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,932 a) some external drive chipsets won't play
b) it can matter whether it's on firewire or not
c) investigate Carbon Copy Cloner, which will image your boot drive
d) get used to the idea of... |
Forum: Community Introductions Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 975 And there I was thinking you were going to refer to the weird goth party where eventually everyone on the dancefloor realised that it was, in fact, a go-kart track during the daytime... but let's not... |
Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Jun 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,546 uh... this isn't a code question but then it's not a code answer either; you shouldn't need to specify a host OS for your Domino server unless it is doing something radically weird, so there's... |
Forum: Community Introductions Jun 26th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 975 The English are coming...
he's opinionated, he's "dangerously smooth" and it's all happygeek's fault he's here at all. No, the nick does not have anything to do with small chewy american sweets... |