From max.wanadoo at gmail.com  Thu Apr  1 14:45:58 2010
From: max.wanadoo at gmail.com (Max Wanadoo)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:58 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] Symantec Backup Exec
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Thanks Jim,
I will work my way through that. I have a warning regarding Acronis which I
will post when I have more time.
Max

On 31 March 2010 14:07, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Max:
>
> When it comes to doing an image backup I personally use DriveImageXML
> imbedded in a version of BartsPE distro. Because it is so important to get
> the image right and to be able to confidentially know that the image will
> create a perfect booting drive, I stick with slightly dated system.
>
> The one type of drive that can not be imaged correctly is some drive that
> has used data compression...but not even Acronis can do that, counter to
> their claims.
>
> In most cases when it comes to backing up a clients systems beyond that I
> use what ever they have locally which in most cases turns out to be their
> MS
> backup. That is because I have great concerns when it comes to proprietary
> systems. In many cases, a custom package ends up costing continuous
> updates,
> which do not get maintained or/and do not end up being used properly by the
> local staff and the original media has a habit of getting lost...etc.
>
> Most sites are really very stable, especially when it comes to servers.
> Major updates are done in blocks and then a new image. After that the data
> is most important and to that I have been working with a friend to
> implement
> a remote backup service... $79.00 a month up to 500GB and this uses the new
> LogMeIn backup service... uses a distributive synchronization method. (Only
> backing up data changes so it is very fast.)
>
> I tend to wear suspender and a belt when it comes to backups and very
> conservative on what software I use... I only use software that I have
> watched complete a successful restoration.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>  [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:45 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Symantec Backup Exec
>
> Jim,
>
> What do you use for the image?
> What do you use for the incremental backups following the image?
>
> Ta
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:50 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Symantec Backup Exec
>
> Hi Janet:
>
> A system does not need a full image backup continuously. I traditionally
> use
> an image backup to set a 'Tomb Stone' and then just have the backups app
> doing a regular backup. In the event of a major set of updates of system
> configuration then an image can be redone. If a full restore is ever
> required then the image backup is first used to rebuild a fully bootable
> drive and the regular backs are use to restore the current status.
>
> There is something that seems to not be common knowledge:
>
> First; a fully bootable image of a drive can not be created while a system
> is running. The system must be stopped then booted from a DVD/Memory stick
> with your favourite Image backup application on it and then the full image
> can be created.
>
> Second; products that claim they can do a full image while the system is
> running are not telling the whole truth. There is only one way they can
> even
> start a backup and that is by either having exclusive use of the drives,
> not
> practical on an operation server or do a Shadow backup. Neither of those
> methods are complete on an operational drive.
>
> Third; a Shadow backup is a backup created from the system's duplication
> method. Those duplicated file tend to be sporadic especially on a very
> active server and image does not end up with any of the primary drive info
> or boot track information as it can not be duplicated while the system is
> running...also having Shadow Copy feature running on an OS drive sucks up
> recourses like crazy. For those and other reasons Shadow Copies should
> never
> be used on the boot drive...only on data drives.
>
> HTH
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:28 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Symantec Backup Exec
>
> Jim -
>
> Like you, we've been backing up to a portable device and taking the disks
> off-site using Casper.  But I was told last week that Casper does not
> provide a truly bootable image for SBS 2008.
>
> I guess I balk at the standard Windows backup from an ease of
> recoverability
> standpoint in a total server crash.  I like the idea of backups that
> provide
> a bootable image that can be restored onto another machine without having
> to
> re-install every bit of software.  I've never been in that kind of
> dead-in-the-water situation (thankfully!) so I'm just going by what I
> imagine the recovery process to be like.  Which, of course, is very likely
> way off the mark.  Am I putting too much emphasis on the importance of a
> bootable image?
>
> Thanks for the info on logmein - I will look into that more.
>
> On your client's SBS 2008 machine...do you happen to know what the base
> line
> day-to-day memory usage is?  Ours is running at around 12gb out of 16
> total...and I'm starting to think that 2008 is such a resource pig that it
> really does require that much.  I would be curious to know if your client's
> machine runs like that as well.
>
> Janet
>
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From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr  2 11:50:12 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:50:12 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <8BB9821ADC394D71935859FE0B1B3A30@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <6ef6ac2c1003300646l5e6fbebbg1380cdf437464809@mail.gmail.com>
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	<6ef6ac2c1003300928t47cbc89dja5bbcd85f4a7e804@mail.gmail.com>
	<02545B850BFE490389016410ED43B933@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<1ED9622EF4D84FDEBE592D96774A7599@Server>
	<5CEF3CE338D4433694BDB4816269DCD7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<y2t6ef6ac2c1003310726lb9438d51gbad9ee2732571cf@mail.gmail.com>
	<8BB9821ADC394D71935859FE0B1B3A30@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <045BBC52C7994784A0C08C8FA76C469C@creativesystemdesigns.com>

I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim



From Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com  Fri Apr  2 12:28:23 2010
From: Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com (Heenan, Lambert)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:28:23 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <045BBC52C7994784A0C08C8FA76C469C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <6ef6ac2c1003300646l5e6fbebbg1380cdf437464809@mail.gmail.com>
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	<6ef6ac2c1003300928t47cbc89dja5bbcd85f4a7e804@mail.gmail.com>
	<02545B850BFE490389016410ED43B933@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<1ED9622EF4D84FDEBE592D96774A7599@Server>
	<5CEF3CE338D4433694BDB4816269DCD7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<y2t6ef6ac2c1003310726lb9438d51gbad9ee2732571cf@mail.gmail.com>
	<8BB9821ADC394D71935859FE0B1B3A30@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<045BBC52C7994784A0C08C8FA76C469C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <B4F1446167F0BD4FAD640A79824EE0B00E87E0709A@LIVP3MMBX11.mail.aig.net>

What's not to believe about it? M$ issues a disingenuous video making alarmist claims against Google, even though IE does similar stuff to Chrome. This is SOP at M$. No?

Lambert :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:50 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?

I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim

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From hkotsch at arcor.de  Fri Apr  2 12:38:33 2010
From: hkotsch at arcor.de (Helmut Kotsch)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:38:33 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <045BBC52C7994784A0C08C8FA76C469C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBKEIJGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>

And Gustav stopped feeding the "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen.

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/b/41/19/87/28/id_41198728/tid_da/index.jpg

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 18:50
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim

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From Gustav at cactus.dk  Fri Apr  2 13:03:55 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:03:55 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
Message-ID: <sbb64dc9.003@cactus.dk>

Hi Helmut

Yes, it could be a April 1st joke. But it isn't. She has been "exported" for half a year to the upcoming World Fair in China.
Many Danes are angry about this on behalf of the disappointed tourists of Copenhagen.

/gustav

>>> hkotsch at arcor.de 02-04-2010 19:38 >>>
And Gustav stopped feeding the "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen.

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/b/41/19/87/28/id_41198728/tid_da/index.jpg 

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 18:50
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn- 
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim




From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr  2 13:41:06 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:41:06 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBKEIJGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
References: <045BBC52C7994784A0C08C8FA76C469C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBKEIJGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>

That's terrible... I guess I will have to scrub Copenhagen of the travel
plans?

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:39 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?

And Gustav stopped feeding the "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen.

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/b/41/19/87/28/id_41198728/tid_da/index.jpg

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 18:50
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim

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From hkotsch at arcor.de  Fri Apr  2 15:24:15 2010
From: hkotsch at arcor.de (Helmut Kotsch)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:24:15 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>

You probably could steal a bone as a special souvenir.

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 20:41
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


That's terrible... I guess I will have to scrub Copenhagen of the travel
plans?

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:39 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?

And Gustav stopped feeding the "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen.

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/b/41/19/87/28/id_41198728/tid_da/index.jpg

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 18:50
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr  2 18:43:04 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:43:04 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?
In-Reply-To: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
References: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <12DFB6D15D3D435E9EB721B4887EB724@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Ha ha ha Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:24 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?

You probably could steal a bone as a special souvenir.

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 20:41
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


That's terrible... I guess I will have to scrub Copenhagen of the travel
plans?

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:39 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?

And Gustav stopped feeding the "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen.

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/b/41/19/87/28/id_41198728/tid_da/index.jpg

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
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Lawrence
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. April 2010 18:50
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] April 1st joke?


I am not sure whether this is for real or is it an April the first joke but
follow the link and see:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/microsoft-google-chrome-doesn-
your-privacy-microsoft-google-chrome-doesnt-respect-your-privacy.ars

Jim

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Sat Apr  3 04:31:47 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 02:31:47 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] A No SQL database
In-Reply-To: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
References: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <EE390183E8B0436EADF7509755DB362E@creativesystemdesigns.com>

As database data becomes larger and more fragmented in it basic structure
(if you want to call it a structure) here is a link to one of the new super
NOSQL DBs used by many companies to manage this massive data. 

http://cassandra.apache.org

This type of database does not use indexes but rather nodes which can be
described as object node (groups of related data). There are three things
about it may scare many away from investigating further. It is Linux
(Debian) based, Java coded band will require some manual labour, at command
prompt and a paradigm shift in concept from the traditional RDBMS but for
those brave adventures and those with huge complex sets of data and want to
be able to retrieve data at incredible speeds, this is Royal Jelly. (This is
the data engine behind such data giants as FaceBook.) 

Once you get by the above reality, it does have a nice graphic interface,
much like MS SQL  

There is no difficulty in getting started with the product as it is
OpenSourced and very stable... field tested extensively. The data model is
almost unlimited in its potential size, complexity and scalability. 

So why would anyone switch when they are comfortable or at least resigned to
their relation database? Here is a link on why people with huge data sets
are switching (The article is not on Cassandra but a contemporary and very
similar product called APDB but it will give you a very good overview of the
new genre of data storage products):

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.
aspx

Jim



From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Sat Apr  3 05:43:11 2010
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:43:11 +1000
Subject: [dba-Tech] A No SQL database
In-Reply-To: <EE390183E8B0436EADF7509755DB362E@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>,
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>,
	<EE390183E8B0436EADF7509755DB362E@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <4BB71BBF.16012.35C8969E@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

I started to read this and was about to post  the link to APDB. Then I read the rest and saw 
that you had done so :-)

-- 
Stuart

On 3 Apr 2010 at 2:31, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> As database data becomes larger and more fragmented in it basic structure
> (if you want to call it a structure) here is a link to one of the new super
> NOSQL DBs used by many companies to manage this massive data. 
> 
> http://cassandra.apache.org
> 
> This type of database does not use indexes but rather nodes which can be
> described as object node (groups of related data). There are three things
> about it may scare many away from investigating further. It is Linux
> (Debian) based, Java coded band will require some manual labour, at command
> prompt and a paradigm shift in concept from the traditional RDBMS but for
> those brave adventures and those with huge complex sets of data and want to
> be able to retrieve data at incredible speeds, this is Royal Jelly. (This is
> the data engine behind such data giants as FaceBook.) 
> 
> Once you get by the above reality, it does have a nice graphic interface,
> much like MS SQL  
> 
> There is no difficulty in getting started with the product as it is
> OpenSourced and very stable... field tested extensively. The data model is
> almost unlimited in its potential size, complexity and scalability. 
> 
> So why would anyone switch when they are comfortable or at least resigned to
> their relation database? Here is a link on why people with huge data sets
> are switching (The article is not on Cassandra but a contemporary and very
> similar product called APDB but it will give you a very good overview of the
> new genre of data storage products):
> 
> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.
> aspx
> 
> Jim
> 
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From Gustav at cactus.dk  Sat Apr  3 06:29:54 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:29:54 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] A No SQL database
Message-ID: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>

Hi Jim (and Stuart)

Great fun! Thanks for posting this.

/gustav

>>> accessd at shaw.ca 03-04-2010 11:31 >>>
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.aspx

Jim




From accessd at shaw.ca  Sat Apr  3 17:58:56 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:58:56 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Why Microsoft replaced IE6
In-Reply-To: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Some people may be asking why IE6 was replaced and some people may be asking
why it was replaced with IE8 and everyone wonders why IE9 only runs on
Windows7... 

The only question that can be answered in certainty is why IE6 was replaced:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/crash

If you add this function to your website, assuming jquery JavaScript link
has been inserted in your pages header, a simple call to the above function
will guarantee a surfer using IE6 may arrive at your site but they will not
remain long.

Jim 



From accessd at shaw.ca  Mon Apr  5 09:03:00 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:03:00 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] An interesting read
In-Reply-To: <1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <F94F0EF362624F528519924E8CC8D1B4@creativesystemdesigns.com>

There is a book out the computer visionary Jason Lanier on his view of how
the standardization of the web has caused a 'Hive think' mentality. I do
believe that it is quite the contrary but some of his opinions have merit or
are well thought out.

The book is called "You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto" by Jaron Lanier.
Below is one person's review of the book:

<review>
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the
first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to
commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades
after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary
look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse.

The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it
is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades
ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices (such as making one's
presence anonymous) that have had enormous-and often
unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked
in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. 

Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of
poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and
sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of
mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of
individuals. 

Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world
and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological "rapture" motivates some of the most
influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.

Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense
of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way
technology interacts with our culture. 
</review>

This is a good read.

Jim



From john at winhaven.net  Mon Apr  5 18:29:08 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:29:08 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>

My neighbor has an HP LCD monitor on which the adjustment menus stay on all
the time. It randomly switches between a couple of them. The menu buttons
themselves don't function at all. He says he never used the buttons.

Anyone have any ideas?



From Gustav at cactus.dk  Tue Apr  6 05:15:49 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:15:49 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage?
Message-ID: <sbbb2616.023@cactus.dk>

Hi Jim

(cross posted to dba-tech)

Yes, that was "old news" but still an interesting project!

Last week I studied the offerings of large drives and noticed that 2 TB drives now are priced per GB equal to or lower than 1 TB drives. This may not be so important for normal small businesses not operating in the PB storage segment - what is important, however, is that such a drive uses no more power than a 0.5 or 1 TB drive. At least in Europe power cost is a major part of the total cost for flying such drives, thus consolidating storage may lead to important power and cost savings.

It's an interesting project of yours. Are you building one unit to share via a WAN among the participants, or are you building a unit for each?

Also, how do you plan to approach this shared storage? By FTP, iSCSI, or something else? I noticed that the unit ("pod") in the article uses HTTPs which may be nice for many purposes but useless for, say, a shared Access database. And by which media if the unit is local? Are 1 GB NICs fine? The 10 GB gear I can locate seems quite expensive.

Wouldn't it be easier (=no custom software) just to build a simple server offering iSCSI like Openfiler SAN as I mentioned a week ago:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 06-04-2010 11:48 >>>
Hi John:

I posted that link on the DBA Tech list about a year ago (I know it is about
a year ago as Outlooks archive system had lost the post ;-))

Right now we are working on building just such a drive. There is a team of
us small entrepreneurs, all have small businesses and have seen this as
inexpensive way offset much of our overhead. My workshop is filled with
various parts and pieces and my boss is saying "Get to it."

The controllers will be Linux based which will and can show the entire drive
as a single unit which can allow certain operations to expand and shrink as
necessary. (My son-in-law is putting the software components together and
has been working on the design for close to a year.) Virtual drives will
handle various OS requirements. It will of course need the proper
controllers, LAN connections, fat pipes, fail-over systems (maybe a number
of these units in various locations) and power supplys but I am sure we will
be able to work out the details.

Probably as difficult as building the box will be setting up how each
participant will be appropriately compensated. It will have to be some rate
built on space used, hits level, compensation for hosting it and the amount
of data being transferred.

As far as I can see the design is brilliant.

My long range plans are to work with such super databases as 'Cassandra'
where a billion records can be processed at the same rate as a RDBMS can
process a million. 

If you haven't checked out my post(s) on the DBA tech list at least check
the following links: http://cassandra.apache.org and
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.aspx (This might be something you should be looking at; maybe in the future.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:27 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA
Subject: [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage?


http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/30922-how-to-build-a-cheap-petabyte-server-lessons-learned

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 




From Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com  Tue Apr  6 08:03:56 2010
From: Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com (Heenan, Lambert)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:03:56 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
Message-ID: <B4F1446167F0BD4FAD640A79824EE0B00E87E07248@LIVP3MMBX11.mail.aig.net>

Sometimes my Gateway screen does something similar. The source indicator (analog/digital) sometimes stays visible *until* I hit one of the screen's buttons. The cure is to remove the power cord from the screen for a minute or so to "reset" it.

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 7:29 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'; 'Off Topic'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus

My neighbor has an HP LCD monitor on which the adjustment menus stay on all the time. It randomly switches between a couple of them. The menu buttons themselves don't function at all. He says he never used the buttons.

Anyone have any ideas?

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From john at winhaven.net  Tue Apr  6 14:01:54 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:01:54 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
Message-ID: <007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>

Thanks for all the comments & suggestions.

We solved the problem for the time being. A couple of months ago when I
worked on his computer, my neighbor was amazed at how much dust/hair/yuck
was inside of it. He has two dogs and I usually clean the insides first
thing when people have pets. He got to thinking about it and thought maybe
his monitor was full of stuff too so he had his son low it out with
compressed air and push the buttons while doing it. Low and behold, a big
clunk of stuff came out and it works correctly again.

I guess sometimes I over think things ;o)



From garykjos at gmail.com  Tue Apr  6 14:33:27 2010
From: garykjos at gmail.com (Gary Kjos)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:33:27 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT]  Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
	<007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>
Message-ID: <i2saea6c4951004061233yced0ccefvd1cc516bb4b6ce01@mail.gmail.com>

So many times it's a simpler thing than we believe it can be.

GK

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:01 PM, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments & suggestions.
>
> We solved the problem for the time being. A couple of months ago when I
> worked on his computer, my neighbor was amazed at how much dust/hair/yuck
> was inside of it. He has two dogs and I usually clean the insides first
> thing when people have pets. He got to thinking about it and thought maybe
> his monitor was full of stuff too so he had his son low it out with
> compressed air and push the buttons while doing it. Low and behold, a big
> clunk of stuff came out and it works correctly again.
>
> I guess sometimes I over think things ;o)
>
> _______________________________________________
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From accessd at shaw.ca  Tue Apr  6 17:26:04 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:26:04 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage?
In-Reply-To: <sbbb2616.023@cactus.dk>
References: <sbbb2616.023@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <FB57AA34E2B446469AC30E7FC10C5A63@creativesystemdesigns.com>

I was discussing the costs of electricity with locals here and it does seem
to be a major factor... In that regards people are terribly spoiled on the
North West coast of North America where there are many huge hydro-electric
dams and the power costs, in comparison, are very cheap. 

That one consideration is why Google, Amazon and Microsoft and a host of
other software companies are located close by. (Even Disney studios, Pixar
Arts, Electronic Arts, Sony Play Station...etc. are all moving their
animation studios here.)...cheap electricity. It may be even a good idea to
host your own clients here where the on going costs will not make scalable
space and computing power prohibitive. Most everything can be run remotely
and you would be as close as the nearest fat-pipe.

On the subject of software development there are some further
considerations. It would be easier to just use one piece of software to do
it all but there is definitely an advantage to be using Open Sources as you
can even have the source code as backup.

There are a lot of excellent OS products out there and when you settle on a
product then you can make your financial contribution. That takes all the
risk out of purchasing a piece of software, just to find out that it just
does not live up to its billing or you find out there is some feature that
you absolutely need to have to complete a project.

Jim
 


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:16 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage?

Hi Jim

(cross posted to dba-tech)

Yes, that was "old news" but still an interesting project!

Last week I studied the offerings of large drives and noticed that 2 TB
drives now are priced per GB equal to or lower than 1 TB drives. This may
not be so important for normal small businesses not operating in the PB
storage segment - what is important, however, is that such a drive uses no
more power than a 0.5 or 1 TB drive. At least in Europe power cost is a
major part of the total cost for flying such drives, thus consolidating
storage may lead to important power and cost savings.

It's an interesting project of yours. Are you building one unit to share via
a WAN among the participants, or are you building a unit for each?

Also, how do you plan to approach this shared storage? By FTP, iSCSI, or
something else? I noticed that the unit ("pod") in the article uses HTTPs
which may be nice for many purposes but useless for, say, a shared Access
database. And by which media if the unit is local? Are 1 GB NICs fine? The
10 GB gear I can locate seems quite expensive.

Wouldn't it be easier (=no custom software) just to build a simple server
offering iSCSI like Openfiler SAN as I mentioned a week ago:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 06-04-2010 11:48 >>>
Hi John:

I posted that link on the DBA Tech list about a year ago (I know it is about
a year ago as Outlooks archive system had lost the post ;-))

Right now we are working on building just such a drive. There is a team of
us small entrepreneurs, all have small businesses and have seen this as
inexpensive way offset much of our overhead. My workshop is filled with
various parts and pieces and my boss is saying "Get to it."

The controllers will be Linux based which will and can show the entire drive
as a single unit which can allow certain operations to expand and shrink as
necessary. (My son-in-law is putting the software components together and
has been working on the design for close to a year.) Virtual drives will
handle various OS requirements. It will of course need the proper
controllers, LAN connections, fat pipes, fail-over systems (maybe a number
of these units in various locations) and power supplys but I am sure we will
be able to work out the details.

Probably as difficult as building the box will be setting up how each
participant will be appropriately compensated. It will have to be some rate
built on space used, hits level, compensation for hosting it and the amount
of data being transferred.

As far as I can see the design is brilliant.

My long range plans are to work with such super databases as 'Cassandra'
where a billion records can be processed at the same rate as a RDBMS can
process a million. 

If you haven't checked out my post(s) on the DBA tech list at least check
the following links: http://cassandra.apache.org and
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.
aspx (This might be something you should be looking at; maybe in the future.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:27 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA
Subject: [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage?


http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/30922-how-to-build-a-cheap-p
etabyte-server-lessons-learned

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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From accessd at shaw.ca  Tue Apr  6 17:27:41 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:27:41 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>
	<007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>
Message-ID: <2865EA677B7F4966A51E8E2609E473F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Your brilliant John... well done.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:02 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'; 'Off Topic'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus

Thanks for all the comments & suggestions.

We solved the problem for the time being. A couple of months ago when I
worked on his computer, my neighbor was amazed at how much dust/hair/yuck
was inside of it. He has two dogs and I usually clean the insides first
thing when people have pets. He got to thinking about it and thought maybe
his monitor was full of stuff too so he had his son low it out with
compressed air and push the buttons while doing it. Low and behold, a big
clunk of stuff came out and it works correctly again.

I guess sometimes I over think things ;o)

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From john at winhaven.net  Tue Apr  6 18:27:25 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:27:25 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus
In-Reply-To: <2865EA677B7F4966A51E8E2609E473F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>	<01a101cad517$ca772350$5f6569f0$@net>	<007901cad5bb$a01f0ab0$e05d2010$@net>
	<2865EA677B7F4966A51E8E2609E473F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <000601cad5e0$b759d9b0$260d8d10$@net>

No credit to me, it was all their idea! Just thought I'd pass it along in
case someone has at the same problem in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:28 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus

Your brilliant John... well done.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:02 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'; 'Off Topic'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Monitor adjustment menus

Thanks for all the comments & suggestions.

We solved the problem for the time being. A couple of months ago when I
worked on his computer, my neighbor was amazed at how much dust/hair/yuck
was inside of it. He has two dogs and I usually clean the insides first
thing when people have pets. He got to thinking about it and thought maybe
his monitor was full of stuff too so he had his son low it out with
compressed air and push the buttons while doing it. Low and behold, a big
clunk of stuff came out and it works correctly again.

I guess sometimes I over think things ;o)

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dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
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Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Wed Apr  7 09:31:33 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:31:33 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] The latest version of Ubuntu Linux
In-Reply-To: <1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbb742e7.005@cactus.dk>
	<1671FF13D11C4E15A0459D7E3CB2F98B@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <BAAE070FA6FA4CA6B53F65E6B3AFD1C2@creativesystemdesigns.com>

The latest version of the Linux Distro, Ubuntu is arriving shortly, version
10. Whether any version of Linux can reach a competitive position in
relationship to that of Mac Snow Leopard or Microsoft Windows 7 is debatable
but as an OS system huge sales budgets or any budget for that matter is not
a reality. It is a totally a viral sale imitative. (Microsoft is now selling
their Windows 7 version on new computers for $50 or less which may in a
small part due to Linux competition which is becoming better with every
release.)

With that said Ubuntu has now produced another excellent product that any
person can install. I watched a friend convince his UK mom to install Ubuntu
9.10, on her old computer, which she did and she only needed help with
getting Picassa installed. Below is a statement from an Ubuntu
representative:

"This is a time of change, and we're not afraid to surprise people with a
bold move if the opportunity for dramatic improvement presents itself. We
want to put Ubuntu and free software on every single consumer PC that ships
from a major manufacturer, the ultimate maverick move," Shuttleworth wrote
in the announcement. "Meerkats are, of course, light, fast and
social-everything we want in a Perfect 10."  

For more information here are link: 

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ubuntu-1010-to-be-codenamed-
maverick-meerkat.ars

...and a pre-release beta http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04

Jim



From john at winhaven.net  Wed Apr  7 10:25:11 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:25:11 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] utility to expose password from stars
In-Reply-To: <p2haea6c4951004070731laa18093ak905bc914752b145b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8CCA3F92CCB198C-1078-3FD0@webmail-d084.sysops.aol.com>	<B202F6FD4B97460BBF40CA344D86D600@creativesystemdesigns.com>	<8CCA44E0EEA51D3-2264-170@webmail-d007.sysops.aol.com>	<j2n74eae781004070707h84690c1h3f9f1395a5f6aee8@mail.gmail.com>
	<p2haea6c4951004070731laa18093ak905bc914752b145b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <005a01cad666$84030880$8c091980$@net>

Can anyone point me to the little utility that exposes the password by
hovering over the stars in the password field?



From hkotsch at arcor.de  Wed Apr  7 11:16:58 2010
From: hkotsch at arcor.de (Helmut Kotsch)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:16:58 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] utility to expose password from stars
In-Reply-To: <005a01cad666$84030880$8c091980$@net>
Message-ID: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBGELKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>

PantsOff

http://pantsoff.software.informer.com/

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 17:25
An: 'Off Topic'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] utility to expose password from stars


Can anyone point me to the little utility that exposes the password by
hovering over the stars in the password field?

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From peter.brawley at earthlink.net  Wed Apr  7 16:03:40 2010
From: peter.brawley at earthlink.net (Peter Brawley)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:03:40 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] print-on-demand
Message-ID: <4BBCF32C.2040104@earthlink.net>

Bizarre though it seems, after four years our POD printer (lulu.com) has 
"upgraded" its POD software such that it can no longer print our book 
from a PDF that has both portrait pages (for text) & landscape pages 
(for some big lookup tables). For every print run, I'd have to manually 
make 50-odd images of such landscape pages and hand-assemble such 
chapters. Not in this lifetime.

Does anyone know if that's a common POD hangup, and/or the name of a POD 
printer company that doesn't impose such a limit?

PB


From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Wed Apr  7 17:00:04 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (rockysmolin at bchacc.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:00:04 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Need to break into a laptop
Message-ID: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>

My cousin died and left a mess.  Can't find a will - don't know the lawyer.
One thing that might help is getting into laptop.  But it's password
protected.  Any way to break in?

MTIA

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From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Wed Apr  7 17:35:20 2010
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:35:20 +1000
Subject: [dba-Tech] Need to break into a laptop
In-Reply-To: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>
References: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <4BBD08A8.6268.EF16C76@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

Use a boot disk with on offline password editor to reset the administrator account - then log in 
as administrator with no password.

These come either as large disk images with lots of tools (like UBDC 
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com ) or as small single purpose ones like  the one at  
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/  

 
-- 
Stuart


On 7 Apr 2010 at 18:00, rockysmolin at bchacc.com wrote:

> My cousin died and left a mess.  Can't find a will - don't know the lawyer.
> One thing that might help is getting into laptop.  But it's password
> protected.  Any way to break in?
> 
> MTIA
> 
> Rocky
> 
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From garykjos at gmail.com  Wed Apr  7 18:33:40 2010
From: garykjos at gmail.com (Gary Kjos)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:33:40 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Need to break into a laptop
In-Reply-To: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>
References: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>
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I wouldn't get my hopes up there man. One of the utilities others have
mentioned should get you in there unless the thing is actually
encrypted or something. I'd spend time digging through the paperwork
first. Should be income tax papers around someplace. Start there. If
someone were to look at ANY of my computers - or ALL of them for that
matter they would get very little information. I actually do have some
passwords listed within Outlook - which I haven't actually used for 3
or 4 YEARS on my home systems..... I now use only the web browser
interface to my e-mail accounts. So that password info is sorely out
of date. I do have a list of all of them but I'm not saying where it
is ;-) It's not on any of MY OWN computers. I do have my tax return
info on my main system and some prior year stuff on my previous main
system. But there are hard copies of all that in a drawer someplace
too that would be far easier to dig out I think.

Can you try to contact the credit monitoring companies to get a list
of bank accounts etc?  Perhaps the police can assist with this?  Or a
lawyer?

GK

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> My cousin died and left a mess. ?Can't find a will - don't know the lawyer.
> One thing that might help is getting into laptop. ?But it's password
> protected. ?Any way to break in?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
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From accessd at shaw.ca  Wed Apr  7 19:14:19 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:14:19 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Need to break into a laptop
In-Reply-To: <t2jaea6c4951004071633wef36d4d0rc9f7aad09520fb70@mail.gmail.com>
References: <380-22010437220479@M2W117.mail2web.com>
	<t2jaea6c4951004071633wef36d4d0rc9f7aad09520fb70@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <D7FAE1A764ED465B97C9AC3A398EFE40@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Hi Rocky:

Here is a link to arguably the best windows password cracking program:

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net

Jim



On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> My cousin died and left a mess. ?Can't find a will - don't know the
lawyer.
> One thing that might help is getting into laptop. ?But it's password
> protected. ?Any way to break in?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
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From Gustav at cactus.dk  Fri Apr  9 05:42:34 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:42:34 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN, Jumbo Frames
Message-ID: <sbbf20d2.095@cactus.dk>

Hi Jim et al

As Jumbo Frames may speed up transfer of large files, which indeed is
the case when using iSCSI, I tried to locate some decent info on this
and the do and don'ts.
This seems quite good:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-features/30201-need-to-know-jumbo-frames-in-small-networks


<quote>
Here are the key points for using jumbo frames on small networks:

1. Jumbo frames require gigabit Ethernet. 
2. The highest frame size for a connection is the lowest end-to-end
maximum frame size. 
3. Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switches forward or drop jumbo frames; they
don't fragment.
4. Fragmentation is a Layer 3 (routing) function.
5. TCP can adjust frame size between different devices. UDP can't.
6. Using jumbo frames for low latency applications (gaming, VoIP) can
be counterproductive
7. Bigger isn't necessarily better. Jumbo frame sizes need to be
matched to device computing power.
</quote>

If your equipment supports Jumbo Frames a speed increase of about 25%
can be expected at no cost other than the time to carry out the
adjustment:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/30195-8-port-gigabit-switch-roundup?start=1

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 29-03-2010 01:01 >>>
Even though I have not heard anything about iSCSI target, it does sound
like a very descent product at a decent price. I have been slowly
replacing my home office network with GByte LAN cards, switches and
router. The internal performance is really stellar but Internet is only
marginally improved but that is probably because my ISP throttles back
performance...

On a Linux box the performance should be better as there is less
overhead than on Windows products.

Keep me posted on what you learn and any performance and setup issues.

 
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav
Brock
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:21 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN

Hi all

Are any of you using iSCSI to attach network storage?

I happened to locate this free server (iSCSI Target) which offers both
SMB/CIFS (Windows share), iSCSI Target server, NFS, FTP, UPS,
HTTP/WebDAV, LDAP, and rsync services, all controlled from a nice web
interface:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

It seems to be well beyond the "normal" NAS appliances but is free to
download and use from a single ISO install file or as ready-made
machines for VMware  - both in 32- and 64-bit. It runs on a rPath locked
down Linux.

Documentation is sparse (manual is ?40 to buy) but I found this
beginner's guide:

http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm 
http://www.petri.co.il/use-openfiler-as-free-vmware-esx-san-server.htm

http://www.petri.co.il/connect-vmware-esx-server-iscsi-san-openfiler.htm


and this guide, How to connect your Windows 2008 Server & Vista PC to
your iSCSI SAN:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Connect-Windows-Server-2008-Windows-Vista-iSCSI-Server.html


All very nice, but big question is of course performance? It could be
fine to set up a box with an array of 2 TB drives and off we go. But?
Would I need 10 Gbit NICs and switches? These are still quite
expensive.



From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Fri Apr  9 07:35:42 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (rockysmolin at bchacc.com)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:35:42 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
Message-ID: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want
to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk,
it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

Rocky


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From jon.tydda at lonza.com  Fri Apr  9 07:40:23 2010
From: jon.tydda at lonza.com (Tydda Jon - Slough)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:40:23 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
References: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E2042BE39@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>

Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

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Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk, it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

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From max.wanadoo at gmail.com  Fri Apr  9 07:43:40 2010
From: max.wanadoo at gmail.com (Max Wanadoo)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:43:40 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E2042BE39@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
References: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
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Have you tried  putting the card straight into the printer? Most modern
printers have card ports.
Or going to the  local shop and asking them to print it out?
Or going to the local wal-mart photo booth and printing from there.

If you get a print you can always scan it back in.

Max


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
Slough
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 1:40 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

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rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want to
scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk, it'll
recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

Rocky


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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Fri Apr  9 08:01:12 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (rockysmolin at bchacc.com)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:01:12 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
Message-ID: <380-2201045913112655@M2W131.mail2web.com>

No SD slot on my printers.  But I could take it to the kiosk at the drug
store.  If it will read, I can burn a CD there.

R
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From: Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:43:40 +0100
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card



Have you tried  putting the card straight into the printer? Most modern
printers have card ports.
Or going to the  local shop and asking them to print it out?
Or going to the local wal-mart photo booth and printing from there.

If you get a print you can always scan it back in.

Max


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
Slough
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 1:40 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

-----Original Message-----
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rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want to
scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk, it'll
recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

Rocky


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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Fri Apr  9 08:02:27 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (rockysmolin at bchacc.com)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:02:27 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
Message-ID: <380-2201045913227646@M2W139.mail2web.com>

you mean like Norton Ghost?

R

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From: Tydda Jon - Slough jon.tydda at lonza.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:40:23 +0200
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card


Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

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rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want
to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk,
it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

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From jon.tydda at lonza.com  Fri Apr  9 08:04:48 2010
From: jon.tydda at lonza.com (Tydda Jon - Slough)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:04:48 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <380-2201045913227646@M2W139.mail2web.com>
References: <380-2201045913227646@M2W139.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E2042BE77@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>

Yeah - It should see it as another hard drive, so I don't see why it wouldn't be able to take an image of the "drive"...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 09 April 2010 14:02
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

you mean like Norton Ghost?

R

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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:40:23 +0200
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card


Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk, it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

Rocky


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From garykjos at gmail.com  Fri Apr  9 08:26:49 2010
From: garykjos at gmail.com (Gary Kjos)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:26:49 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
References: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <v2zaea6c4951004090626nd2ef8e5i194064c84d52c251@mail.gmail.com>

Can you see them on the camera if you put the SD card back in there?
You might be able to use the camera transfer cable to transfer them to
a PC then. Good luck!

GK

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
> from the SD card. ?When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want
> to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk,
> it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.
>
> I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
> them will have a better time, but I doubt it.
>
> Any advice on recovering these files?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>


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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Fri Apr  9 08:45:31 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (rockysmolin at bchacc.com)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:45:31 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
Message-ID: <380-22010459134531388@M2W133.mail2web.com>

Yeah, the camera displays them.  I'll try the cable when I get home.

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:26:49 -0500
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card


Can you see them on the camera if you put the SD card back in there?
You might be able to use the camera transfer cable to transfer them to
a PC then. Good luck!

GK

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
> from the SD card. ?When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want
> to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk,
> it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.
>
> I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
> them will have a better time, but I doubt it.
>
> Any advice on recovering these files?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>


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From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr  9 13:35:46 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:35:46 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN, Jumbo Frames
In-Reply-To: <sbbf20d2.095@cactus.dk>
References: <sbbf20d2.095@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <74C59C671AD94A15ADE3FBBC24CFCD83@creativesystemdesigns.com>

This sounds very interesting... I do have a Gigabit Ethernet Network and router but still do not have a high enough speed connection (upload) to make it reality...It seems our ISP want to charge double for a 50% increase on upload speeds which I think is ridiculous. Still debating whether to go with another provider.   

Have you tested any of this yourself? I will look into it when I get back.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:43 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN, Jumbo Frames

Hi Jim et al

As Jumbo Frames may speed up transfer of large files, which indeed is
the case when using iSCSI, I tried to locate some decent info on this
and the do and don'ts.
This seems quite good:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-features/30201-need-to-know-jumbo-frames-in-small-networks


<quote>
Here are the key points for using jumbo frames on small networks:

1. Jumbo frames require gigabit Ethernet. 
2. The highest frame size for a connection is the lowest end-to-end
maximum frame size. 
3. Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switches forward or drop jumbo frames; they
don't fragment.
4. Fragmentation is a Layer 3 (routing) function.
5. TCP can adjust frame size between different devices. UDP can't.
6. Using jumbo frames for low latency applications (gaming, VoIP) can
be counterproductive
7. Bigger isn't necessarily better. Jumbo frame sizes need to be
matched to device computing power.
</quote>

If your equipment supports Jumbo Frames a speed increase of about 25%
can be expected at no cost other than the time to carry out the
adjustment:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/30195-8-port-gigabit-switch-roundup?start=1

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 29-03-2010 01:01 >>>
Even though I have not heard anything about iSCSI target, it does sound
like a very descent product at a decent price. I have been slowly
replacing my home office network with GByte LAN cards, switches and
router. The internal performance is really stellar but Internet is only
marginally improved but that is probably because my ISP throttles back
performance...

On a Linux box the performance should be better as there is less
overhead than on Windows products.

Keep me posted on what you learn and any performance and setup issues.

 
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav
Brock
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:21 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN

Hi all

Are any of you using iSCSI to attach network storage?

I happened to locate this free server (iSCSI Target) which offers both
SMB/CIFS (Windows share), iSCSI Target server, NFS, FTP, UPS,
HTTP/WebDAV, LDAP, and rsync services, all controlled from a nice web
interface:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

It seems to be well beyond the "normal" NAS appliances but is free to
download and use from a single ISO install file or as ready-made
machines for VMware  - both in 32- and 64-bit. It runs on a rPath locked
down Linux.

Documentation is sparse (manual is ?40 to buy) but I found this
beginner's guide:

http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm 
http://www.petri.co.il/use-openfiler-as-free-vmware-esx-san-server.htm

http://www.petri.co.il/connect-vmware-esx-server-iscsi-san-openfiler.htm


and this guide, How to connect your Windows 2008 Server & Vista PC to
your iSCSI SAN:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Connect-Windows-Server-2008-Windows-Vista-iSCSI-Server.html


All very nice, but big question is of course performance? It could be
fine to set up a box with an array of 2 TB drives and off we go. But?
Would I need 10 Gbit NICs and switches? These are still quite
expensive.

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From max.wanadoo at gmail.com  Fri Apr  9 14:05:31 2010
From: max.wanadoo at gmail.com (Max Wanadoo)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 20:05:31 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] A No SQL database
In-Reply-To: <4BB71BBF.16012.35C8969E@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
References: <8426EA40115E46509B578FD2F6D8C54D@creativesystemdesigns.com>,
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBMEIKGMAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>,
	<EE390183E8B0436EADF7509755DB362E@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4BB71BBF.16012.35C8969E@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
Message-ID: <E1EA824162DC4BF3ADCCC9EDA0D05041@Server>




Yawcam

Let me know if you want to link up.

Max
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:43 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] A No SQL database

I started to read this and was about to post  the link to APDB. Then I read
the rest and saw that you had done so :-)

--
Stuart

On 3 Apr 2010 at 2:31, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> As database data becomes larger and more fragmented in it basic 
> structure (if you want to call it a structure) here is a link to one 
> of the new super NOSQL DBs used by many companies to manage this massive
data.
> 
> http://cassandra.apache.org
> 
> This type of database does not use indexes but rather nodes which can 
> be described as object node (groups of related data). There are three 
> things about it may scare many away from investigating further. It is 
> Linux
> (Debian) based, Java coded band will require some manual labour, at 
> command prompt and a paradigm shift in concept from the traditional 
> RDBMS but for those brave adventures and those with huge complex sets 
> of data and want to be able to retrieve data at incredible speeds, 
> this is Royal Jelly. (This is the data engine behind such data giants 
> as FaceBook.)
> 
> Once you get by the above reality, it does have a nice graphic 
> interface, much like MS SQL
> 
> There is no difficulty in getting started with the product as it is 
> OpenSourced and very stable... field tested extensively. The data 
> model is almost unlimited in its potential size, complexity and
scalability.
> 
> So why would anyone switch when they are comfortable or at least 
> resigned to their relation database? Here is a link on why people with 
> huge data sets are switching (The article is not on Cassandra but a 
> contemporary and very similar product called APDB but it will give you 
> a very good overview of the new genre of data storage products):
> 
>
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.
> aspx
> 
> Jim
> 
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From Gustav at cactus.dk  Fri Apr  9 16:49:12 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:49:12 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN, Jumbo Frames
Message-ID: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>

Hi Jim

No, unless you have a 1 Gbit connection (which are out of the hands for
anything else than ISPs, universities and large corporations) it is only
of practical use locally, say between servers and SANs where iSCSI could
be of use. Also, as the article mentions, dedicated equipment should be
used, which means separate switches and/or VLAN.

I will check what capabilities our current equipment has but most
modern gear - even modest models for SMB use - should have the ability.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 09-04-2010 20:35 >>>
This sounds very interesting... I do have a Gigabit Ethernet Network
and router but still do not have a high enough speed connection (upload)
to make it reality...It seems our ISP want to charge double for a 50%
increase on upload speeds which I think is ridiculous. Still debating
whether to go with another provider.   

Have you tested any of this yourself? I will look into it when I get
back.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav
Brock
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:43 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN, Jumbo Frames

Hi Jim et al

As Jumbo Frames may speed up transfer of large files, which indeed is
the case when using iSCSI, I tried to locate some decent info on this
and the do and don'ts.
This seems quite good:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-features/30201-need-to-know-jumbo-frames-in-small-networks



<quote>
Here are the key points for using jumbo frames on small networks:

1. Jumbo frames require gigabit Ethernet. 
2. The highest frame size for a connection is the lowest end-to-end
maximum frame size. 
3. Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switches forward or drop jumbo frames;
they
don't fragment.
4. Fragmentation is a Layer 3 (routing) function.
5. TCP can adjust frame size between different devices. UDP can't.
6. Using jumbo frames for low latency applications (gaming, VoIP) can
be counterproductive
7. Bigger isn't necessarily better. Jumbo frame sizes need to be
matched to device computing power.
</quote>

If your equipment supports Jumbo Frames a speed increase of about 25%
can be expected at no cost other than the time to carry out the
adjustment:

 
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/30195-8-port-gigabit-switch-roundup?start=1


/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 29-03-2010 01:01 >>>
Even though I have not heard anything about iSCSI target, it does
sound
like a very descent product at a decent price. I have been slowly
replacing my home office network with GByte LAN cards, switches and
router. The internal performance is really stellar but Internet is
only
marginally improved but that is probably because my ISP throttles back
performance...

On a Linux box the performance should be better as there is less
overhead than on Windows products.

Keep me posted on what you learn and any performance and setup issues.

 
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav
Brock
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:21 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN

Hi all

Are any of you using iSCSI to attach network storage?

I happened to locate this free server (iSCSI Target) which offers both
SMB/CIFS (Windows share), iSCSI Target server, NFS, FTP, UPS,
HTTP/WebDAV, LDAP, and rsync services, all controlled from a nice web
interface:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

It seems to be well beyond the "normal" NAS appliances but is free to
download and use from a single ISO install file or as ready-made
machines for VMware  - both in 32- and 64-bit. It runs on a rPath
locked
down Linux.

Documentation is sparse (manual is ?40 to buy) but I found this
beginner's guide:

http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm 
http://www.petri.co.il/use-openfiler-as-free-vmware-esx-san-server.htm


http://www.petri.co.il/connect-vmware-esx-server-iscsi-san-openfiler.htm



and this guide, How to connect your Windows 2008 Server & Vista PC to
your iSCSI SAN:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Connect-Windows-Server-2008-Windows-Vista-iSCSI-Server.html



All very nice, but big question is of course performance? It could be
fine to set up a box with an array of 2 TB drives and off we go. But?
Would I need 10 Gbit NICs and switches? These are still quite
expensive.



From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Sat Apr 10 10:18:18 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (Rocky Smolin)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:18:18 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E2042BE77@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
References: <380-2201045913227646@M2W139.mail2web.com>
	<A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E2042BE77@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
Message-ID: <3BFBA15D4AB74E23B8BD087BF63C2E5A@HAL9005>

My Ghost says I must use local drives only.  And the card reader is G:\ -
through a USB cable. Any way to get around that? 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
Slough
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 6:05 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

Yeah - It should see it as another hard drive, so I don't see why it
wouldn't be able to take an image of the "drive"...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 14:02
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

you mean like Norton Ghost?

R

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Tydda Jon - Slough jon.tydda at lonza.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:40:23 +0200
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card


Can you ghost the sd card?


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sent: 09 April 2010 13:36
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't copy
from the SD card.  When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks if I want to
scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's like chkdsk, it'll
recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.

I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe one of
them will have a better time, but I doubt it.

Any advice on recovering these files?

MTIA

Rocky


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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Sat Apr 10 10:21:58 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (Rocky Smolin)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:21:58 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <v2zaea6c4951004090626nd2ef8e5i194064c84d52c251@mail.gmail.com>
References: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
	<v2zaea6c4951004090626nd2ef8e5i194064c84d52c251@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DF18EC8027AC493CA35B29E85D409D1D@HAL9005>

Poop - can't find the cable.  Not sure I ever had it as the camera was given
to me by my FIL.  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 6:27 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card

Can you see them on the camera if you put the SD card back in there?
You might be able to use the camera transfer cable to transfer them to a PC
then. Good luck!

GK

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't 
> copy from the SD card. ?When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks 
> if I want to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's 
> like chkdsk, it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.
>
> I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe 
> one of them will have a better time, but I doubt it.
>
> Any advice on recovering these files?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>


--
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garykjos at gmail.com

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From garykjos at gmail.com  Sun Apr 11 06:38:47 2010
From: garykjos at gmail.com (Gary Kjos)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:38:47 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
In-Reply-To: <DF18EC8027AC493CA35B29E85D409D1D@HAL9005>
References: <380-22010459123542200@M2W128.mail2web.com>
	<v2zaea6c4951004090626nd2ef8e5i194064c84d52c251@mail.gmail.com>
	<DF18EC8027AC493CA35B29E85D409D1D@HAL9005>
Message-ID: <w2raea6c4951004110438n560d9185xd8a82dc5e22f05c4@mail.gmail.com>

That's too bad. How about trying the card in a different computer/card reader?

GK

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Poop - can't find the cable. ?Not sure I ever had it as the camera was given
> to me by my FIL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 6:27 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pictures Hosed on SD Card
>
> Can you see them on the camera if you put the SD card back in there?
> You might be able to use the camera transfer cable to transfer them to a PC
> then. Good luck!
>
> GK
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
>> I took a million pictures on the D.C. trip but about 40 of them won't
>> copy from the SD card. ?When I plug the card into the laptop W7 asks
>> if I want to scan and repair - but I'm a little wary because if it's
>> like chkdsk, it'll recover the space but I'll lose the pictures.
>>
>> I've got WXP and Vista and Vista at home (going home today) - maybe
>> one of them will have a better time, but I doubt it.
>>
>> Any advice on recovering these files?
>>
>> MTIA
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>
>
> --
> Gary Kjos
> garykjos at gmail.com
>
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From accessd at shaw.ca  Mon Apr 12 03:35:25 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:35:25 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator
In-Reply-To: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
References: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>

There is a Windows 7 iPhone emulator out for those interested in playing
with it and viewing the inner workings and features of the application. To
me it looks like a great start.

http://gizmodo.com/5513871/how-to-try-windows-phone-7-right-now

Jim



From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Mon Apr 12 04:18:06 2010
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:18:06 +1000
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator
In-Reply-To: <396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>,
	<396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <4BC2E54E.32668.C404D93@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

"Windows 7 iPhone"?     

Steve Jobs will have a heart attack.

I think you need to drop the "i"

:-)

-- 
Stuart

On 12 Apr 2010 at 1:35, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> There is a Windows 7 iPhone emulator out for those interested in playing
> with it and viewing the inner workings and features of the application. To
> me it looks like a great start.
> 
> http://gizmodo.com/5513871/how-to-try-windows-phone-7-right-now
> 
> Jim
> 
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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Mon Apr 12 07:31:23 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (Rocky Smolin)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:31:23 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator
In-Reply-To: <396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
	<396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <360186655AD14D06BB388153AF6E4B45@HAL9005>

Do you know what language are those apps written in? 

R


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:35 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator

There is a Windows 7 iPhone emulator out for those interested in playing
with it and viewing the inner workings and features of the application. To
me it looks like a great start.

http://gizmodo.com/5513871/how-to-try-windows-phone-7-right-now

Jim

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Mon Apr 12 11:26:06 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:26:06 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator
In-Reply-To: <360186655AD14D06BB388153AF6E4B45@HAL9005>
References: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
	<396A544C2A254176A2FD086E0C8FF9F7@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<360186655AD14D06BB388153AF6E4B45@HAL9005>
Message-ID: <2922506FF3364A56A0679839262994B1@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Well it is Microsoft after all; so I suspect the app in programmed in C#.

Jim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 5:31 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator

Do you know what language are those apps written in? 

R


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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:35 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 7 iPhone emulator

There is a Windows 7 iPhone emulator out for those interested in playing
with it and viewing the inner workings and features of the application. To
me it looks like a great start.

http://gizmodo.com/5513871/how-to-try-windows-phone-7-right-now

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Thu Apr 15 07:41:07 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:41:07 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Is there a place for Linux Distros in your home and
	business
In-Reply-To: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
References: <sbbfbd0b.020@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <CDF3D678A61B42E98B821423C9C8DEC2@creativesystemdesigns.com>

To start with I am a user of Windows, extensively, but I also use Linux
daily. I have been in the computer business, one way of the other for over
40 years and know a time before Microsoft and even before PCs.

We all use Linux every day whether we know it or not as most major ISPs and
web sites are Linux based. Many of our electronics systems are Linux based
from our TVs to Dish washers... it is just there and works as reliably as
the base electronics. Any of us MAC users are really using an OS with a
Linux/Unix core with a fancy GUI.

Microsoft has entrenched its self on to the desktop and will be the master
of this region for many years to come but once off the desktop it is a Linux
world out there filled with an ever growing host of services...mostly Linux
based.

The only weak spot in the Linux pervasiveness is in the medium-high-end
graphics world but that area is firmly controlled by Adobe and not MS. As
soon as you move into the high end animation and graphics systems you are
back into the Linux world.

Below is a link to an interesting article on a take of how the Linux world
is slowly surrounding the desktop island of Microsoft. The comments after
the post are equally as interesting.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20002478-62.html

Jim  



From jon.tydda at lonza.com  Fri Apr 16 06:09:07 2010
From: jon.tydda at lonza.com (Tydda Jon - Slough)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:09:07 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?
Message-ID: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E24ADA927@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8624560.stm

Am I reading this correctly, and the update won't install if you have a rootkit, but it won't tell you that you have a rootkit, only that the installation failed?


Jon



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228 Bath Road
Slough
Berkshire
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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Fri Apr 16 07:29:26 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:29:26 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder
Message-ID: <7DCDB83146CE4D0383C5C7F4A102D94A@SusanOne>

When you have more than one Contacts folder, you can usurp the default 
folder, Contacts, by moving a custom folder up the tree. When you launch the 
Contacts window, Outlook defaults to the folder at the top of the tree.

However, when creating an email, Outlook still defaults to the Contacts 
folder. Anyway to control which Contacts folder email defaults to?

Susan H. 



From fuller.artful at gmail.com  Fri Apr 16 09:11:46 2010
From: fuller.artful at gmail.com (Arthur Fuller)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:11:46 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
Message-ID: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>

Does anyone know how to remove oneself from Facebook? I'm tired of receiving
invitations etc. from people I've never met, or at least can't remember
meeting.

TIA,
Arthur


From jason at purplecone.com  Fri Apr 16 09:40:19 2010
From: jason at purplecone.com (Jason Strickland)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:40:19 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
In-Reply-To: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
References: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <t2u509be5d71004160740vd4a3e52fj5a71f942717b7cea@mail.gmail.com>

Account->Account Settings - At bottom, deactivate account

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does anyone know how to remove oneself from Facebook? I'm tired of
> receiving
> invitations etc. from people I've never met, or at least can't remember
> meeting.
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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-- 
"One reason a dog has so many friends: he wags his tail instead of his
tongue."


From fuller.artful at gmail.com  Fri Apr 16 09:45:59 2010
From: fuller.artful at gmail.com (Arthur Fuller)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:45:59 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
In-Reply-To: <t2u509be5d71004160740vd4a3e52fj5a71f942717b7cea@mail.gmail.com>
References: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
	<t2u509be5d71004160740vd4a3e52fj5a71f942717b7cea@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <l2n29f585dd1004160745pe101584qbcc281e8bffcba4c@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks a bunch! I can almost hear the silence now.

Arthur


From john at winhaven.net  Fri Apr 16 10:59:43 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:59:43 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder
In-Reply-To: <7DCDB83146CE4D0383C5C7F4A102D94A@SusanOne>
References: <7DCDB83146CE4D0383C5C7F4A102D94A@SusanOne>
Message-ID: <008001cadd7d$d49dead0$7dd9c070$@net>

Yea, but bizarre to say the least:

Tools | Address Book | Tools | Options

Reorder things there.

HTH
John B.

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:29 AM
To: DBA Tech List
Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder

When you have more than one Contacts folder, you can usurp the default 
folder, Contacts, by moving a custom folder up the tree. When you launch the

Contacts window, Outlook defaults to the folder at the top of the tree.

However, when creating an email, Outlook still defaults to the Contacts 
folder. Anyway to control which Contacts folder email defaults to?

Susan H. 

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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Fri Apr 16 11:03:47 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:03:47 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder
References: <7DCDB83146CE4D0383C5C7F4A102D94A@SusanOne>
	<008001cadd7d$d49dead0$7dd9c070$@net>
Message-ID: <2D8BF8808B98423EA60106E155A13996@SusanOne>

Thanks -- I was totally missing that second Tools menu. 

Susan H. 


> Yea, but bizarre to say the least:
> 
> Tools | Address Book | Tools | Options
> 
> Reorder things there.
> 



From john at winhaven.net  Fri Apr 16 11:05:41 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:05:41 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder
In-Reply-To: <2D8BF8808B98423EA60106E155A13996@SusanOne>
References: <7DCDB83146CE4D0383C5C7F4A102D94A@SusanOne>	<008001cadd7d$d49dead0$7dd9c070$@net>
	<2D8BF8808B98423EA60106E155A13996@SusanOne>
Message-ID: <008801cadd7e$aa3e5530$febaff90$@net>

Can't blame you missing that - one of the more obtuse MS option settings
areas!

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:04 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Changing Outlook's default Contacts folder

Thanks -- I was totally missing that second Tools menu. 

Susan H. 


> Yea, but bizarre to say the least:
> 
> Tools | Address Book | Tools | Options
> 
> Reorder things there.
> 

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From andy at minstersystems.co.uk  Fri Apr 16 11:14:28 2010
From: andy at minstersystems.co.uk (Andy Lacey)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:14:28 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
In-Reply-To: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ABC6B56E6E6745F188296D1262CCA5AD@MINSTER>

Good luck Arthur. I've never had an account but I still get invitations via
email.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 16 April 2010 15:12
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook


Does anyone know how to remove oneself from Facebook? I'm tired of receiving
invitations etc. from people I've never met, or at least can't remember
meeting.

TIA,
Arthur
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From peter.brawley at earthlink.net  Fri Apr 16 11:27:00 2010
From: peter.brawley at earthlink.net (Peter Brawley)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:27:00 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
In-Reply-To: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
References: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4BC88FD4.1060704@earthlink.net>

How about creating a filter on email where subject or sender contains 
'facebook'?

PB

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Does anyone know how to remove oneself from Facebook? I'm tired of receiving
> invitations etc. from people I've never met, or at least can't remember
> meeting.
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
> _______________________________________________
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
> Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2812 - Release Date: 04/15/10 06:31:00
>
>   


From john at winhaven.net  Fri Apr 16 12:05:38 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:05:38 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Facebook
In-Reply-To: <4BC88FD4.1060704@earthlink.net>
References: <o2l29f585dd1004160711ubf178849if1af1aa3f32f0c47@mail.gmail.com>
	<4BC88FD4.1060704@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <00a201cadd87$09b10500$1d130f00$@net>

That's what I've done.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:27 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Facebook

How about creating a filter on email where subject or sender contains 
'facebook'?

PB

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Does anyone know how to remove oneself from Facebook? I'm tired of
receiving
> invitations etc. from people I've never met, or at least can't remember
> meeting.
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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>
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From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr 16 14:14:37 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:14:37 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?
In-Reply-To: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E24ADA927@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
References: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E24ADA927@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
Message-ID: <64234841D40D47728E7FC7E03115F493@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Hi Jon:

I would recommend downloading and using Microsoft's Malicious Software
Removal Tool if concerned. Of course you could always wait until MS solves
the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-
9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
Slough
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:09 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8624560.stm

Am I reading this correctly, and the update won't install if you have a
rootkit, but it won't tell you that you have a rootkit, only that the
installation failed?


Jon



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IT Support Analyst

Lonza Biologics PLC
228 Bath Road
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 4DX
UK
Tel:  +44 (0) 1753 777077
Fax: +44 (0) 1753 777001

Registered Number: 2742471


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From jon at tydda.plus.com  Fri Apr 16 17:08:45 2010
From: jon at tydda.plus.com (Jon Tydda)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:08:45 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?
In-Reply-To: <64234841D40D47728E7FC7E03115F493@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <A750CC0AAE63CB489C58478FF67DE6320E24ADA927@chvex03.lonzagroup.net>
	<64234841D40D47728E7FC7E03115F493@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <C6A74B0AB7AD47D99BFFCC21B6538915@jt2c>

It's not a problem for me, I know my machine is ok... But what about all the
millions of people who are going to be left with unsecured computers, and
don't know about it, or why it's happening?


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 16 April 2010 20:15
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?

Hi Jon:

I would recommend downloading and using Microsoft's Malicious Software
Removal Tool if concerned. Of course you could always wait until MS solves
the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-
9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
Slough
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:09 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Patch problem?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8624560.stm

Am I reading this correctly, and the update won't install if you have a
rootkit, but it won't tell you that you have a rootkit, only that the
installation failed?


Jon



Jon Tydda MCP
IT Support Analyst

Lonza Biologics PLC
228 Bath Road
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 4DX
UK
Tel:  +44 (0) 1753 777077
Fax: +44 (0) 1753 777001

Registered Number: 2742471


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From rockysmolin at bchacc.com  Fri Apr 16 19:48:00 2010
From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com (Rocky Smolin)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:48:00 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] FW: pix
Message-ID: <D11A591138A44B6DB37A95FD49BD148C@HAL9005>

Pundit would like to save the pics in these two links to a jpg on her
machine.  But I can't figure out how to do it. She thinks I walk on water.
Little help here please...
 
MTIA
 
Rocky
 

  _____  

From: Marsha Sutton - Sutton Communications [mailto:suttcomm at san.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 5:40 PM
To: Rocky Smolin; Marsha Sutton
Subject: pix


how can I snag these pictures for my SDNN file?
 
 
 
http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=50
 
 <http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=69>
http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=69
 
 
Marsha Sutton
Sutton Communications
SuttComm at san.rr.com
858-259-2592


From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Fri Apr 16 20:06:10 2010
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:06:10 +1000
Subject: [dba-Tech] FW: pix
In-Reply-To: <D11A591138A44B6DB37A95FD49BD148C@HAL9005>
References: <D11A591138A44B6DB37A95FD49BD148C@HAL9005>
Message-ID: <4BC90982.2534.6080240@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

A couple of ways.

1. Use a screen capture program such as Irfanview to grab the image.
or
2. locate  the image files in your browsers cache and rename them.

I did the second option, and have sent the files to you offlist.

-- 
Stuart


On 16 Apr 2010 at 17:48, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Pundit would like to save the pics in these two links to a jpg on her
> machine.  But I can't figure out how to do it. She thinks I walk on water.
> Little help here please...
>  
> MTIA
>  
> Rocky
>  
>   _____  
> 
> From: Marsha Sutton - Sutton Communications [mailto:suttcomm at san.rr.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 5:40 PM
> To: Rocky Smolin; Marsha Sutton
> Subject: pix
> 
> 
> how can I snag these pictures for my SDNN file?
>  
>  
>  
> http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=50
>  
>  <http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=69>
> http://www.sdcoe.net/news/news_story.asp?NID=69
>  
>  
> Marsha Sutton
> Sutton Communications
> SuttComm at san.rr.com
> 858-259-2592
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From erbachs at gmail.com  Fri Apr 16 20:30:22 2010
From: erbachs at gmail.com (Steve Erbach)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:30:22 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] AVI to FLV converor
In-Reply-To: <4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>
	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>
	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
Message-ID: <u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>

Stuart,

I was hoping I could find information about how to build ffmpeg in Windows.
 YouTube recommends it so I thought I'd give it a whirl, but I haven't ever
built an application from C++ code.  Your winff.org link led me to a site
that has "automated ffmpeg windows builds":
http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/

Thanks.

<http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/>Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> The leading open source converter library is  ffmpeg:
> http://ffmpeg.org/
>
> A lot of the converter applications out there use it.
>
> You can get a free  Windows GUI for it - Winff
> http://winff.org
>
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 12 Dec 2009 at 14:04, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Would anyone recommend a good AVI to FLV convertor?
> >
> > There are a lot of products out there let along YouTube but a client
> wants
> > to have their own... one that does not drop the quality or the quality
> can
> > be selected.
> >
> > Any personal recommendation?
> >
> > MTIA
> > Jim
>


From accessd at shaw.ca  Sun Apr 18 09:56:17 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:56:17 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5
In-Reply-To: <u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>
	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>
	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
	<u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>

For all you web application programmers here is an excellent sample and
demonstration of new HTML5's features. You can now say goodbye to Flash. If
you want to see these features functioning fully pick a modern browser. I am
not sure whether that includes IE.

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

Note: The left and right arrows allow you to move from on page to another.

Jim



From peter.brawley at earthlink.net  Sun Apr 18 10:52:28 2010
From: peter.brawley at earthlink.net (Peter Brawley)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:52:28 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5
In-Reply-To: <EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>	<u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
	<EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <4BCB2ABC.4060302@earthlink.net>

Excellent!

Heh, "Try to load this presentation in IE!"

P.

----

Jim Lawrence wrote:
> For all you web application programmers here is an excellent sample and
> demonstration of new HTML5's features. You can now say goodbye to Flash. If
> you want to see these features functioning fully pick a modern browser. I am
> not sure whether that includes IE.
>
> http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
>
> Note: The left and right arrows allow you to move from on page to another.
>
> Jim
>
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>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
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>
>   


From jerbach at gmail.com  Mon Apr 19 09:26:59 2010
From: jerbach at gmail.com (Janet Erbach)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:26:59 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5
In-Reply-To: <4BCB2ABC.4060302@earthlink.net>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>
	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>
	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
	<u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
	<EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4BCB2ABC.4060302@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <l2w6ef6ac2c1004190726l1518e5d4mc07d63bbf14fa57d@mail.gmail.com>

I did and it won't!

Janet Erbach




On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> Excellent!
>
> Heh, "Try to load this presentation in IE!"
>
> P.
>
> ----
>
> Jim Lawrence wrote:
> > For all you web application programmers here is an excellent sample and
> > demonstration of new HTML5's features. You can now say goodbye to Flash.
> If
> > you want to see these features functioning fully pick a modern browser. I
> am
> > not sure whether that includes IE.
> >
> > http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
> >
> > Note: The left and right arrows allow you to move from on page to
> another.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > dba-Tech mailing list
> > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2818 - Release Date: 04/18/10
> 06:31:00
>  >
> >
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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Mon Apr 19 12:35:22 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:35:22 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] PowerPoint freeform question
Message-ID: <96986FDF191A4E11B5043D65BB9666A1@SusanOne>

In PowerPoint 2007, you can apply Freeform to an AutoShape object to create 
a custom shape. I don't believe you can do this in 2003 -- does anyone know 
if you can? If you can, I haven't been able to figure out how.

In 2007, you select the AutoShape, and then choose Freeform from the Edit 
Shapes option in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. After enabling 
Freeform, you right-click the object and choose Edit Points. Then, you just 
start moving points around. It's kind of cool, but I don't recall anything 
like this is 2003 and I haven't been able to find it either -- but just 
because I can't figure it out doesn't mean you can't do it.

Susan H. 



From john at winhaven.net  Mon Apr 19 13:08:15 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:08:15 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] PowerPoint freeform question
In-Reply-To: <96986FDF191A4E11B5043D65BB9666A1@SusanOne>
References: <96986FDF191A4E11B5043D65BB9666A1@SusanOne>
Message-ID: <010e01cadfeb$49782680$dc687380$@net>

Just checked with my PP2003 and didn't see any way to do that.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 12:35 PM
To: DBA Tech List
Subject: [dba-Tech] PowerPoint freeform question

In PowerPoint 2007, you can apply Freeform to an AutoShape object to create 
a custom shape. I don't believe you can do this in 2003 -- does anyone know 
if you can? If you can, I haven't been able to figure out how.

In 2007, you select the AutoShape, and then choose Freeform from the Edit 
Shapes option in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. After enabling 
Freeform, you right-click the object and choose Edit Points. Then, you just 
start moving points around. It's kind of cool, but I don't recall anything 
like this is 2003 and I haven't been able to find it either -- but just 
because I can't figure it out doesn't mean you can't do it.

Susan H. 

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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Mon Apr 19 13:12:49 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:12:49 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] PowerPoint freeform question
References: <96986FDF191A4E11B5043D65BB9666A1@SusanOne>
	<010e01cadfeb$49782680$dc687380$@net>
Message-ID: <96EA846E2585453DB6322CA0052BC3CE@SusanOne>

I couldn't figure out a way either and it doesn't discuss it in Help --  
least not with any of the topics I looked at.

Susan H.


> Just checked with my PP2003 and didn't see any way to do that.
>
>> In PowerPoint 2007, you can apply Freeform to an AutoShape object to 
>> create
> a custom shape. I don't believe you can do this in 2003 -- does anyone 
> know
> if you can? If you can, I haven't been able to figure out how.
>
> In 2007, you select the AutoShape, and then choose Freeform from the Edit
> Shapes option in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. After enabling
> Freeform, you right-click the object and choose Edit Points. Then, you 
> just
> start moving points around. It's kind of cool, but I don't recall anything
> like this is 2003 and I haven't been able to find it either -- but just
> because I can't figure it out doesn't mean you can't do it.



From accessd at shaw.ca  Tue Apr 20 05:41:51 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:41:51 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs
In-Reply-To: <l2w6ef6ac2c1004190726l1518e5d4mc07d63bbf14fa57d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>
	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>
	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
	<u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
	<EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4BCB2ABC.4060302@earthlink.net>
	<l2w6ef6ac2c1004190726l1518e5d4mc07d63bbf14fa57d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3767ED761C1C487EA268F872E01CFF46@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Here is a link to what it takes to change a light bulb.

http://www.sjbaker.org/humor/lightbulb_man_page.html

Jim



From hkotsch at arcor.de  Tue Apr 20 06:05:48 2010
From: hkotsch at arcor.de (Helmut Kotsch)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:05:48 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs
In-Reply-To: <3767ED761C1C487EA268F872E01CFF46@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBAEFLGNAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>

It takes 7 programmers to change a light bulb.
One to step on the table and press the bulb against the lamp holder.
Six programmers to turn the table around until bulb light goes on.

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. April 2010 12:42
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs


Here is a link to what it takes to change a light bulb.

http://www.sjbaker.org/humor/lightbulb_man_page.html

Jim

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Tue Apr 20 09:49:08 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:49:08 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs
In-Reply-To: <JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBAEFLGNAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
References: <3767ED761C1C487EA268F872E01CFF46@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBAEFLGNAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <1851F3DAF3484904BABAF555D763C732@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Ha ha ha... Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:06 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs

It takes 7 programmers to change a light bulb.
One to step on the table and press the bulb against the lamp holder.
Six programmers to turn the table around until bulb light goes on.

Helmut

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
Lawrence
Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. April 2010 12:42
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Betreff: [dba-Tech] IT Systems people and light bulbs


Here is a link to what it takes to change a light bulb.

http://www.sjbaker.org/humor/lightbulb_man_page.html

Jim

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From accessd at shaw.ca  Tue Apr 20 10:10:59 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:10:59 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] THe latest language in the .Net series
In-Reply-To: <1851F3DAF3484904BABAF555D763C732@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <3767ED761C1C487EA268F872E01CFF46@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<JIECLJNJOMBJFEDLONCBAEFLGNAA.hkotsch@arcor.de>
	<1851F3DAF3484904BABAF555D763C732@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <9F19ECAE9F464BA2B8C1BF21774F4C72@creativesystemdesigns.com>

The latest language distributed on the .Net framework is F#. This language
is a very tight but is designed with multi-tasking and parallel processing
in mind. 

I have not seen any comprehensive (or otherwise) papers on the language but
if it can handle the complexity of spawned parallel processes, their
inter-dependency, parent and child relationships and has features that will
allow orphaned child or zombie events to be managed this will be a language
for the new era.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/microsoft_f_sharp

Jim 



From djkr at msn.com  Tue Apr 20 12:21:27 2010
From: djkr at msn.com (DJK (John) Robinson)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:21:27 +0100
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5
In-Reply-To: <l2w6ef6ac2c1004190726l1518e5d4mc07d63bbf14fa57d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP18838E7D947A3E9A97D116D20A0@phx.gbl>

Very impressive in Chrome!

John


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach
Sent: 19 April 2010 15:27
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] HTML5


I did and it won't!

Janet Erbach




On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> Excellent!
>
> Heh, "Try to load this presentation in IE!"
>
> P.
>
> ----
>
> Jim Lawrence wrote:
> > For all you web application programmers here is an excellent sample 
> > and demonstration of new HTML5's features. You can now say goodbye 
> > to Flash.
> If
> > you want to see these features functioning fully pick a modern 
> > browser. I
> am
> > not sure whether that includes IE.
> >
> > http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
> >
> > Note: The left and right arrows allow you to move from on page to
> another.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > dba-Tech mailing list
> > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com 
> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
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> >
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2818 - Release Date: 
> > 04/18/10
> 06:31:00
>  >
> >
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From Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com  Wed Apr 21 08:07:21 2010
From: Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com (Heenan, Lambert)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:07:21 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5
In-Reply-To: <EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <99D4FE1EB275494F8649345C26CB754A@SusanOne>
	<4B23F872.2020500@torchlake.com>
	<D6AD483B150D4570A5132B3FD759D01F@creativesystemdesigns.com>
	<4B241D3E.2718.E1A2C85@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>
	<u2n39cb22f31004161830y11346c88oa93bf34172b69d28@mail.gmail.com>
	<EBFB389552FE4E998732500992DAF67C@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <B4F1446167F0BD4FAD640A79824EE0B00E88437B6A@LIVP3MMBX11.mail.aig.net>

IE8 - forget about it.

Firefox 3.6.3, looks fine. 'Transition' from page to page is fast.

Chrome 4.1.249, did not display the arrow on the first page, as in "press->" to advance. 'Transitions' are a smooth horizontal scroll.


Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:56 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] HTML5

For all you web application programmers here is an excellent sample and demonstration of new HTML5's features. You can now say goodbye to Flash. If you want to see these features functioning fully pick a modern browser. I am not sure whether that includes IE.

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

Note: The left and right arrows allow you to move from on page to another.

Jim

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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Wed Apr 21 14:25:00 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:25:00 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Word 2007 question -- more on freeform
Message-ID: <43399242C3CC472DBFAD8140CF226A08@SusanOne>

PowerPoint and Excel 2007 offer a freeform option, which lets you alter the 
shape of an AutoShape by moving edit points.

Word 2007 has the option in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. 
Freeform is an option in the Edit Shape dropddown list, but you can't select 
it -- can't display the dropdown list at all.

I've tried inserting the AutoShape in the Drawing Canvas and that doesn't 
make any difference. Also noticed that the Edit Shape option doesn't seem to 
be enabled at all -- at any time.

Any ideas?

Susan H. 



From ssharkins at gmail.com  Wed Apr 21 15:52:13 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:52:13 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Word return address question
Message-ID: <22193A85487744258E5591CB21DB76BF@SusanOne>

You can set a default return address for envelopes and merges. It seems like 
this should be a block of AutoText -- just select it and Word will enter it 
automatically, but I haven't found it available. Is it and I'm just not 
finding it?

What I mean is -- I should be able to insert that return address at the 
insertion point with just a few clicks -- but I can't figure it out.

I've looked through Help -- I'm not using the right keywords I guess.

Susan H. 



From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Wed Apr 21 17:08:09 2010
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:08:09 +1000
Subject: [dba-Tech] Word return address question
In-Reply-To: <22193A85487744258E5591CB21DB76BF@SusanOne>
References: <22193A85487744258E5591CB21DB76BF@SusanOne>
Message-ID: <4BCF7749.3761.351A822@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

It's available as a "Field".

If you want to use a few clicks, try Insert - Field - 
Click on Insert
Click on Field
Scroll down to Username
Double Click on Username

or juat type "Alt+I   F U  Enter"  

 "Alt + I F U U U Enter" for Username

-- 
Stuart

On 21 Apr 2010 at 16:52, Susan Harkins wrote:

> You can set a default return address for envelopes and merges. It seems like 
> this should be a block of AutoText -- just select it and Word will enter it 
> automatically, but I haven't found it available. Is it and I'm just not 
> finding it?
> 
> What I mean is -- I should be able to insert that return address at the 
> insertion point with just a few clicks -- but I can't figure it out.
> 
> I've looked through Help -- I'm not using the right keywords I guess.
> 
> Susan H. 
> 
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From Gustav at cactus.dk  Fri Apr 23 10:39:50 2010
From: Gustav at cactus.dk (Gustav Brock)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:39:50 +0200
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN
Message-ID: <sbd1db77.098@cactus.dk>

Hi Jim et al

The install of this is really easy if you know something about networking, though the configuration of CIFS/SMB is a bit strange - the user forum has to be consulted to find out how to configure the Windows workgroup:

  https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?id=2092

Everything is managed remotely via a neat web interface.

The iSCSI initiator (client) is native of Vista+ and is a free Microsoft download for Windows XP.

To run a test, I installed Openfiler on an old 1.6 GHz box with 512 MB ram, onboard 100 Gb NIC, and a ATA interface. Nothing fancy.
Then a shared SMB (Samba) drive and an iSCSI volume was created - the latter was attached and formatted with NTFS.

I have an Access database routine which takes about 80 s to run off a shared drive of our main server and 20 s off a local drive. Database size is about 100 MB.
When I ran this from the Openfiler box, the time was about 75 s off the attached SMB drive and 20 s off the attached iSCSI volume.

If you watch the network traffic, it runs nearly continuously when a shared drive is used but, off the local or iSCSI volume, only with an initial burst and some small blurbs now and then. 
I guess the picture is that when using a shared drive, data are read and written in portions, while for the fixed volumes the complete file is read and cached, thus the workstation processor speed is the only bottleneck.

Notice that this was without any setup of Jumbo Frames, trunked switch ports, RAID system, or top-rated machine power, not even a Gigabit network.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 29-03-2010 01:01 >>>
Even though I have not heard anything about iSCSI target, it does sound like a very descent product at a decent price. I have been slowly replacing my home office network with GByte LAN cards, switches and router. The internal performance is really stellar but Internet is only marginally improved but that is probably because my ISP throttles back performance...

On a Linux box the performance should be better as there is less overhead than on Windows products.

Keep me posted on what you learn and any performance and setup issues. 
 
Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:21 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [dba-Tech] iSCSI Openfiler SAN

Hi all

Are any of you using iSCSI to attach network storage?

I happened to locate this free server (iSCSI Target) which offers both SMB/CIFS (Windows share), iSCSI Target server, NFS, FTP, UPS, HTTP/WebDAV, LDAP, and rsync services, all controlled from a nice web interface:

  http://www.openfiler.com/ 

It seems to be well beyond the "normal" NAS appliances but is free to download and use from a single ISO install file or as ready-made machines for VMware  - both in 32- and 64-bit. It runs on a rPath locked down Linux.

Documentation is sparse (manual is ?40 to buy) but I found this beginner's guide:

http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm 
http://www.petri.co.il/use-openfiler-as-free-vmware-esx-san-server.htm 
http://www.petri.co.il/connect-vmware-esx-server-iscsi-san-openfiler.htm 

and this guide, How to connect your Windows 2008 Server & Vista PC to your iSCSI SAN:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Connect-Windows-Server-2008-Windows-Vista-iSCSI-Server.html 

All very nice, but big question is of course performance? It could be fine to set up a box with an array of 2 TB drives and off we go. But?
Would I need 10 Gbit NICs and switches? These are still quite expensive.




From ssharkins at gmail.com  Mon Apr 26 11:07:12 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:07:12 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook export question
Message-ID: <D9BDC2EF2598491C9628D3E997452CCB@SusanOne>

Is it possible to export tracking responses to appointments?

This question came from a reader and Outlook doesn't work for me anymore. I 
can't even check for her.

Susan H. 



From john at winhaven.net  Mon Apr 26 11:34:24 2010
From: john at winhaven.net (John Bartow)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:34:24 -0500
Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook export question
In-Reply-To: <D9BDC2EF2598491C9628D3E997452CCB@SusanOne>
References: <D9BDC2EF2598491C9628D3E997452CCB@SusanOne>
Message-ID: <00b601cae55e$55f2ea30$01d8be90$@net>

It looks to me like no can do with Outlook 2007's export options. I would
imagine its possible via VBA and the object model though.

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Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook export question

Is it possible to export tracking responses to appointments?

This question came from a reader and Outlook doesn't work for me anymore. I 
can't even check for her.

Susan H. 

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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Mon Apr 26 11:40:22 2010
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:40:22 -0400
Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook export question
References: <D9BDC2EF2598491C9628D3E997452CCB@SusanOne>
	<00b601cae55e$55f2ea30$01d8be90$@net>
Message-ID: <B362C8AFEA5142729445C4F4A24BE962@SusanOne>

That's what I told her -- she'd need VBA I thought and I sent her a link to 
the object model, which honestly, wasn't much help to me in answering the 
question. :( I think it's one of those deals where she'll just have to loop 
through the Items to determine what it is and tag the appropriate ones.

Honestly... I've lost more short projects because Outlook is hosed...

Susan H.


> It looks to me like no can do with Outlook 2007's export options. I would
> imagine its possible via VBA and the object model though.
>

>
> Is it possible to export tracking responses to appointments?



From accessd at shaw.ca  Wed Apr 28 09:09:44 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:09:44 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Nano Storage and the first picture of a atom spinning
In-Reply-To: <sbd1db77.098@cactus.dk>
References: <sbd1db77.098@cactus.dk>
Message-ID: <CB2AC95727D143B1B83B2C9E439568AF@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Here is the latest break through... a break through that allows the
visualization of an atom spinning and a path towards controlling that spin.
If it can be controlled and a room tempatures then nano storage devices will
be possible.

In the future a desktop computer could have as much storage as now exists on
a single storage device with the speeds far exceeding that of SSD today.

http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/spin.cfm

Jim  



From accessd at shaw.ca  Fri Apr 30 01:18:31 2010
From: accessd at shaw.ca (Jim Lawrence)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:18:31 -0700
Subject: [dba-Tech] Finally the new Ubuntu 10.4 or Lucid Linix
In-Reply-To: <CB2AC95727D143B1B83B2C9E439568AF@creativesystemdesigns.com>
References: <sbd1db77.098@cactus.dk>
	<CB2AC95727D143B1B83B2C9E439568AF@creativesystemdesigns.com>
Message-ID: <859DF60D72824AE0930E35D9D5B5C070@creativesystemdesigns.com>

Ubuntu has posted for download it 10.4 release or as named "Lucid Lynx"
distro. This is a big jump but the emphasis has been on general tightening
and cleaning up of the OS.

There are a number of new features and it appearance has moved away from the
Brown standard default background. There are now apps for movie editing and
social networking as well as mobile synchronization.

Though the release is very stable I would suggest waiting a couple of months
until any minor bugs are found and fixed. 

Here is an article describing the latest release:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-arrives-with-ext
ended-support-and-less-brown.ars

To download the latest version (32 and 64 bit versions):
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

To view the official release note:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004

Linux and its various distros have moved a significant distance from the
days when the product was a hacker's domain. Now anyone can install and run
it. When even your mother or aunt can install the latest version of Ubuntu
you know the product has finally come of age. ;-)

Jim