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Very similar to the Cosmos S I was looking at. Different side panel color, couple drive bay's size, a couple different fans, but it's nearly identical (only $5 difference at ncix as well). I'm also leaning towards that right now. In fact, I most likely will pick the 1000 over the S now. Thanks! No problem. Pair it with a nice modular PSU like the Enermax MODU series (using an 82+ myself) and you won't be sorry. The drive bays with fans over them directly has been quite nice too.

I voted CoolerMaster. After debating between the Antec 300 and P18x models, I found the CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000 KSN and it was exactly what I needed. Good airflow, nice drive bay design, lots of room, and just barely fit under the desk .

Any cheap POS that'll run OpenFiler? Other gets my vote, as OpenFiler is far better than any appliance I've tested (and I've run a few). I've used both, and although OpenFiler is "less active" the devs are FAR quicker at fixing things. And the interface is more sane (FreeNAS gave me a friggin' headache after a few days). To wit, the OpenFiler devs expect to support all iSCSI modes to make OpenFiler work as an iSCSI target for Server 2008 Clustering - they'd be the *first* noncommercial NAS/SAN solution to do this. The fix is expected in version 3.0 (replacing the current iSCSI implementation with one that does). It's in test, although it's still not stable, but just to give you an idea. They don't update frequently, but they are big updates usually (and the versions available are very stable).

How are you trying to slipstream the drivers?

Might be easier to force them to use a proxy - you could get the logs of everything in and out without having to do anything on the client.

Agreed - the 50/50 rule to start, then start narrowing down from there.

Yes - although it's not as easy as you'd probably like. If you have an RTM Vista disc, you'd have to install each version you wanted to have on the new media separately (probably do this in a VM easily), boot to audit mode, install SP1, and sysprep. Then, imagex each install to it's own WIM file, then use imagex /export on each sysprep'ed WIM to a new, single WIM. It's how these get made. You can read a bit about it here.

Note that you can use netsh to take network captures in Win7, so you may only need Wireshark to look at the .cap files if netmon isn't your choice of viewer: http://blogs.technet.com/netmon/archive/20...rk-monitor.aspx netsh trace start capture=yes

Probably likes the way the Mac looks but the way Windows runs. To each his/her own, I guess. I personally prefer a clean interface and the OS dock until Win7, now with the taskbar changes I actually prefer that. I still add the dock and compiz to my linux boxes to get an odd OSX/Win7 look too (I must be crazy - don't answer that, rhetorical ).

http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/E...US/Default.aspx or http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766320.aspx or use MDT to create your images, and WDS to bootstrap the Windows PE WIM.

Also note this will only affect users running as admin anyway, although by default OOBE puts you in this group. I'll be very glad when the default behavior for new users (all new users, not just the second one on) are regular users, and the admin account *isn't* disabled so that this *does* work properly.

You're probably out of luck:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968279

This is what people whined about most on Vista, and why UAC on Vista got disabled most often. People want the system to be secure, but they don't want to be bothered by it - hence autoelevation for tasks you are expected to run on your own (although regedit.exe wasn't signed, which is odd).

Well, that is true, although there's not much you can do if you run code that has autoelevate at the default level. This is the security vs usability meme all over again. You get the folks complaining about UAC, but the vendor needing to use the tool in their products, so you get "autoelevation" by signed binaries to bypass things the user would do manually, except that creates potential for abuse. I suppose they could fix it, but by it's very design Windows allows injection into other .dlls and processes this way (they're using the Win32 API!), so I'm not sure what you could do short of use TPM to check binaries on execution to make sure they don't change once in memory. It would be a pain, and not everyone (in fact, I'd wager most people who will end up running Win7) don't have a TPM chip in their motherboards to enable it. I don't like it, but I guess you shouldn't use UAC as a security boundary by itself anyway. I'd guess antivirus could catch this with heuristics, although again I'm not sure how feasible it is on older machines.

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pest/...px?id=453100212 - trojan downloader. That's 1 IEAK - you ever installed IE via an IEAK package on this box? If not, this is *suspicious* - that's 1.5 http://www.spywareterminator.com/es/item/4...onde298048.html - looks like you may have a malware infection with this one - that's 2.5 http://threatinfo.trendmicro.com/vinfo/gra...KE%5FRENOS%2EDS - Spyware. That's 3.5 I voted cookies, but now I realize I should've voted most infected machine Trip probably owns .

I'm going to move this to the software forums, as this is both a GPO issue and a packaging issue.

I believe you need to enable the Allow non-admin users to receive update notifications policy, because those also include the "reboot now?" prompts in addition to the "updates available" prompts. If it's disabled or not configured, they won't see it and the box will reboot.

Could be the addition of SMB2, but it's hard to say. Would be interesting if you got a network trace and saw what protocol was being used to transfer the files, and if there were any window size issues or retransmit issues causing problems.

It appears that all versions of Win7 shipped to the EU countries - whether they be OEM on a new machine or in retail channels - will have IE8 removed. Hopefully we'll get some further (official) clarification on this from Microsoft, but that's what the press releases and news stories have been stating. It appears IE8 in the EU will not be standard on any versions of Win7 E, regardless of how you get it.

Rundll32 will not be whitelisted in Win7 RTM. Making use of rundll32 to launch an app that would normally bypass UAC prompts behaving as if a user manually ran the app will not work on Win7 RTM, making the default more secure.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.07.uac.aspx

Video driver issue. However: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Value: PromptOnSecureDesktop Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0 Or you can do it in secpol.msc under Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation (set it to disabled).

Having UAC on does give you access to other features too, like process integrity level and registry/file system virtualization. Some people don't need or want these, but I find them quite useful.

All reasons I've mostly moved to Hyper-v .

I dunno - that looks OK to me. I can easily tell what you're highlighting, vs what is and isn't highlighted. Again, I dunno what the OP is specifically getting at, but for what it's worth it looks easy enough to understand to me. Maybe I'm wierd? (don't answer that - rhetorical ).

If you don't mind paying for it, VMWare workstation has been the best for awhile. If you want something free, you'll have to decide what you want and what host OS you're running. I use Virtual PC on my Windows boxes, and VMWare workstation on my linux machines, but I do most of my work in Hyper-V at this point on a 2008 server so I can't comment really on the others anymore.