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Just thought I would pass this bit along... http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-9454...p;subj=cnetnews

Actually, the wizards have no effect on the users as I setup everything for them anyway. As a matter of fact, the less contact they have with system config options the better. Now, to answer your question, how do I let 'noobz' install WinZip? Well, I don't. Using SMS, I push this batch file: Code: md "%systemdrive%\Program Files\WinZip"cd "%systemdrive%\Program Files\WinZip"copy "\\server6\smspkgd$\AT100016\*.*" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\WinZip""%systemdrive%\Program Files\WinZip\winzip32.exe" /autoinstallmd "%userprofile%\..\all users\start menu\programs\WinZip"cd "%userprofile%\..\all users\start menu\programs\WinZip"copy "\\server6\smspkgd$\AT100016\Shortcuts\*.*" "%userprofile%\..\all users\start menu\programs\WinZip"copy "\\server6\smspkgd$\AT100016\Shortcuts\WinZip 8.0.lnk" "%userprofile%\..\all users\desktop"del "%systemdrive%\Program Files\WinZip\winzipsetup.bat" And presto, WinZip is installed.

The Terminal Services application came from Citrix actually, so it is probably just as efficient as the older ones that you are mentioning, but probably nowhere near as scalable and functional as the current offerings from Citrix. MS states that if you want expanded functionality to contact Citrix for one of their products. The main target of my post was that Windows XP Pro does indeed have several benefits over Windows 2000 in the workplace. I remember many people whining and complaining about how Win2K had "too many" wizards to go through and that it was too bloated. Now it just carries on to WinXP, and this will more than likely continue indefinately not just for operating systems, but in pretty much any software package from any manufacturer.

Welp, last week I got: Plextor CD-RW 40x12x40 (ivory): $150 Plextor CD-RW 40x12x40 (black): $150 Dell Precision 530 PC for myself at work: $4,682.00 (plus shipping and tax) The system consists of: 2 x 2.0GHz Xeon CPUs 1GB RDRAM 19" Trinitron Display Quadro4 700XGL Display Adapter Dual 36GB u320 SCSI drives in RAID 0 16x DVD-ROM (will have the black Plextor burner to keep it company) Harmon Kardon 395 speakers Windows XP Pro

I do see that you are referencing Citrix a lot, and that's fine except I don't see many people loading that onto a client strictly for remote control purposes.

I couldn't quite follow your post with your markup tags, so I will just reinforce what I stated: Quote: I can tell you why it's better: 1. Even tighter integration with (current and future iterations of) Active Directory as it has more keys to work with The next version of active directory that comes with .NET server will be further upgraded with tighter integration with the clients. This link (as posted a long while ago) can help clarify a bit, but if you were in the beta program you might have known this (and I should have mentioned it earlier for those who didn't): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q304718& Quote: 2. It will support administration of .NET server and newer server releases directly rather than having to use Terminal Server all the time See above Quote: 3. Remote Desktop I have used PCAnywhere and VNC, and I have used SMS Remote Control for quite a while I can most assuredly state that remote desktop is clearly better. It is much faster, and doesn't force the user to start a client manually, plus has built-in auditing that can be centrally mananged via AD or all the way down to the individual client using a single group policy either locally on the computer or connecting from another XP Pro box (these keys don't show up as options from a Win2K box unless you already have them configured on the client). Quote: 4. Can be trimmed to look like Win2K, or keep Luna which does make life easier for some users The adaptive menu system has been helpful for some, and intrusive for others, but in either case it wasn't a big deal to simply disable it. And now here's another reason: 5. It runs CAD/CAM renderings faster assuming that the app takes advantage of hardware acceleration in video cards. I first noticed this in Q3, but thought it was just limited to gaming. Then, I noticed a dramatic improvement in model loading time and model handling on my machine, not to mention the handling of multiple models simultaneously. So yes, I would have to say these are *very* good reasons for running Windows XP Pro in a work environment. You might have other reasons for not using it, and I can understand, but the ones I am listing are still sound.

I can tell you why it's better: 1. Even tighter integration with (current and future iterations of) Active Directory as it has more keys to work with 2. It will support administration of .NET server and newer server releases directly rather than having to use Terminal Server all the time 3. Remote Desktop 4. Can be trimmed to look like Win2K, or keep Luna which does make life easier for some users There's some reasons why to keep XP Pro (yep, PRO as in PROFESSIONAL) in the work arena.

Since my timing is so close to midnight, I don't know which day your b-day is, so this could be on time or late. Not to mention I would have stained your birthday with this post, but what can you do?

Quote: Again: This is assuming engineers & designers of harddisk logic in the controller firmware designed it so that HDD's work from outermost/faster/larger circumference disks is where partition 0 (first one) starts at... I have faith in them, especially today where HDD performance is a PRIME concern, they in fact did design thus. This is not rocket-science level use of physics. I believe they'd spot that, & especially in today's performance minded world & in an industry they have specialty in: HARD DRIVE DESIGN. * APK P.S.=> Bit long winded & repetitive, but I want the point to strike home... apk Bingo. That is what I am talking about; whether or not the partition truly starts on the outside across all the platters AND if any software package can actually *MOVE* a file to the outer edge (this was mentioned earlier). As for being pros, we are all pros in differing respects in the computer industry, but I yield more to mr hayes because his job is centered around disk defragmenters in particular (my original meaning).

Quote: I should point out that at the moment MySQL does not fully support ANSI SQL (including subqueries which can be quite useful) whereas MS SQL does. Next version of MySQL will have this though (so they say). Just thought I'd let you know in case you need such functionality (though it probably won't be a problem). PostgreSQL is supposed to support full ANSI and subqueries when I looked at it a while ago, and it's supposed to perform fairly well. Plus, it's free too. http://www.postgresql.org

Umm, cool. There are 2 reasons why I follow ghayes' line of thought: 1. He works in the field (or it would definately appear so with his responses in the past, and 2. It just makes more sense to me. I know what you are talking about with the outer edge rotating faster (that isn't a new concept to me), however it would seem to me that the data is simply being given to the drive (physical layout now) by the OS (logical layout) to work with. If the OS was actually instructing where to start partitions and such at a physical level, I could work with the what you are stating. But right now, I'm not quite there.

Quote: Pi was a frickin' freaky movie man. Weeeiiirrdd but good in a small film kinda way. Yep, but I'm a David Lynch fan so weird comes with the territory. I bought it soon after I saw it on DVD.

Yeah, it was me. The manufacturning techniques and quality of Aluminum have now made it to Copper in this department. I am just too lazy to find something for my 1.6GHz Northwood (running at 2.4GHz), since it has been working at close to stock temps anyway (30*C-45*C) with the stock Intel HSF. BTW, I thought you were dead...

This looks pretty cool, and you can get it here: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=46 There is a manual for it, and they have support forums at www.asp.net already that can help out. It looks just like Visual Studio.NET, just stripped down for ASP/ASP.NET use.

No idea, but it looks like the same IDE but with less options I would imagine. It's a helluva lot smaller install as well, so that's pretty cool. I plan on installing it on a couple of systems at work to see how they go.

I ran it on my workstation on work, and it had 90 entries that it didn't care for, and took more than 30 minutes to complete this (p3 733, 512MB RAM, WinXP Pro).

So you want pictures? Fine, here's want you have ALL been wanting to see... So, here I am helping out Klark with more of his damn AD/DNS issues because he can never seem to leave his settings alone: Be careful of what you wish for...

Hey APK, I think what the g-man is saying is that "short-stroking" shouldn't (and most likely doesn't) work, nor pay off. There's a major difference between logical and physical drive layouts. I have been learning this more and more lately because of the move MS is making toward unifying their Exchange, SQL, and AD database systems to one single store type that will be based on the next release of SQL (code named "Yukon" right now). They will probably move even file management to that storage layout as well, and I would imagine that data access and manipulation will be much faster and reliable (less translation overhead, and fewer things to get patched/updated between the application and the actual file). It would seem that defragmenters just move and shift how the OS "sees" the files and gets to them rather than physically moving them across a platter or multiple platters (not to mention if you have extended stripe sets or unusual mounting point configs using Dynamic Disks in Win2K or XP). So, defraggers work and work well, but I am not entirely sold on the short stroking concept either. But I guess if you limit how much can be stored on a harddrive to 50% of capacity, then it might actually run pretty fast since there's not much data to go through. Again, if I'm wrong on your illustration ghayes, then let me know. I think I am starting to pick it up though...

The helper service used to crash on some system configurations, and once disabled they would work perfectly fine again. I had that happen once with an older set of dets a long while ago, but I haven't had a need to in at least a year or so.

Hell, at least it was a "DX"...

I was going to say that I think regmon is what he's looking for, but you just pointed that out. Also, JD has a point with regards to essentially "advertising" a product here. We do have the other forum for selling stuff, but as people are actually trying it and submitting results I guess it isn't a big deal (just as long as it isn't repeated). The reason why JD's posting went over like a lead balloon wasn't just because of him advertising, he was promoting a product that wasn't available for testing, and he was a total a$$ to boot. Hence, no real double standard for the same situation in my eyes as the situations are in actuality a bit different.

Quote: You're 4 lines of text? With a white background too...

I usually have work buy subscriptions for me, but this one was from a long time ago that I was maintaining. MaxPC just lost their luster a long time ago, and it was time to lay them to rest.

This month was my last issue from them, and I have issues [censored] back to Dec '97 (when it was known as "boot"). Well, all good things...

OK, where did the saying "I'm 5 by 5" come from? What does that mean? I know Faith said that all the time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I had heard it long before then, but I would like to know how it came to mean "I'm fine".