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    quotes for your signatures

    in Signatures

    Posted

    I once had a lot of quotes when the BBS rage was on... oh good times!

    I still remember some (the 1st was an actual quote of a MS representative during a presentation):

    ah... That's not a bug. It's a feature in-progress.

    Don't look into laser with remaining eye.

    Dreadlocks? No, it's just the antfarm on my head.

    A devil fell in a hole. Another devil got him out. The 2nd asked, how in the devil did he fall?

    My other vehicle is a Galaxy Class Starship.

    AI: a blonde with tinted hair.

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    Stolen Computer Program?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The crooks have the laptop, so they have physical access to it. No security is possible with this situation. And if the crooks are really smart, they already disabled any security it had. No need for reformatting or clearing CMOS to do it. There are *lots* of resources to do just that. :whistle:

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    We have any real guru's here?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    What would happen if Ford decided they were going to build a car that was twice as wide as other cars, so you could only drive it down 2 lane roads... or if their car didn't work on normal roads?

    That would be strange. BTW the average road measurement dates back to the Roman empire! It seems to be one of those "customary traditions" that we all end up doing. Like going to a camp and going paranoid if you forgot your toothpaste. Big deal, a damp cloth and patience will get the job done. Same could be done with roads, but rather difficult to convince human civilation to use a "new" size, since it has grown a familiarity with the "standard" road size. Saying that would be like re-establishing a new second (time) measurement. That thing alone would change all known technology. It would be a global block-buster.

    Knowing how modern people act at such drastic changes, Ford would better go bankrupt than pull a stunt like that! <grin>

    BTW: That Neurotically Yours character you use in your avatar is really, really funny!

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    Your Native Tongue

    in The Poll Center

    Posted

    Sorry for drifting out of the topic for a moment...

    Right now Puerto Ricans are trying to decide whether to become a state in the US, a totally independent country or keep it at status quo, correct?
    Thats correct. For me, it would be better as a state of the US. Status quo is a mutually dependant situation.
    I see the Caribbean islands closer to NA, even though they aren't and PR is further north than Cuba but isn't
    Sorry, but PR is SE from Cuba, just east of the "Hispaniola" (Haiti/Dominican Republic) See map here
    Any benefits with being the way you are now? Would the benefits weaken if you went completely independent?
    That statement alone would generate a "holy" war between politicians here! :D

    Current benefits (that I can think of right now):

    • US citizenship (we have US passport)
    • Same currency as US (US dollar). Before 1898 we HAD our own currency, but was eliminated since the US invasion in 1898, when the dollar was forced as the "official" currency.
    • Federal funding for science, education, health, infrastructure development, environment protection, etc. Depends mostly on ammendments made to federal laws made applicable to PR. Not ALL federal laws assist us.

    Drawbacks:

    • No real autonomy in local issues. We elect our own governor, senate and representatives. We do not have the option to vote for US president, or have Congress representatives. Only a Resident Commisioner that has voice but can't vote. Many times when local issues affect the "image" of the US, then US Government takes over, no matter what the local opinion is.
    • Agressive urban development has lead to overpopulation in some areas. For example: being an 100 x 35 mile island we have about 4,800,000 people living here. Not counting nearly 3 million living in the US and other countries.
    • We do not have armed forces or our own. However we host US military bases and PRicans compose almost 70% of military personnel in the island alone.
    • I know there are more, but I would prefer to discuss them in other forum/or by PM. I do not feel like "contaminating" the thread with off-topic discussions. In short, our political situation is somewhat complicated, being one of the oldest colonies in the world.

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    How to test for SSE2 capable CPU and Intel Chipset

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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    Check here for info on using FINDSTR.EXE.

    It does NOT work if I check for errorlevel 0 instead of 1. Any idea why ??
    I believe the last findstr sets errorlevel to 1 if the string is found. I'm not really sure if it returns errorlevel 0, after reading this: FIND.EXE Does Not Return the Proper Errorlevel in Windows NT
    Of course I am in big trouble if findstr.exe suddenly outputs other errorlevels except 0 and 1 ! This won´t happen though, right ???

    AFAIK, it only returns either 0 or 1.

    Glad to be of help! :thumbup

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    Your Native Tongue

    in The Poll Center

    Posted

    Or, your poll turns out to be: "Which continent do you live in?" 

    - North America / Australia

    - Europe

    - Asia

    - South/Central America

    - Africa

    Exactly! I speak Spanish and English. Problem is that PR is in the Caribbean, so most of the time US considers us as part of South America (we are NOT) and we are not part of Europe either. Our spanish is similar to that of Spain, although there are some differences. Even so, our spanish has some "uniqueness" in that the "official" spanish dictionary (RAE - spanish acronym for Spanish Real Academy) even included words from PR in it, for their uniqueness among spanish speaking countries. So I choosed SA since its the nearest, even though I consider we belong to North America since we are an industrialized island and US territory since 1898.

    Confusing? You bet. We are still trying to resolve our political status. It's not something we are particulary proud of.

    The solution will only come thru: [tada!] Politics.

    That's a whole different ball game from a politician's point of view.

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    Windows SUS

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Hmmm, if U looked on process threads, which one was responsible for this?

    BTW have anyone here been trying WUS? I think it is really great!

    Can't right now. On Vacation :whistle:

    I'll be back @ work on the 11th. Will check your recommendations then. Thanks anyway.

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    Windows SUS

    in Windows XP

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    2Shotgun: Spyder is right... BITS is on clients (now it is v2) - it is acting like download manager, so clients wont lie down your server and your customers/users wont even notice that there is something downloaded on their computer.

    The strange thing is that the SERVER had the CPU @ 100% almost all the time SUS was on it, like I said a Pentium IV @ 900MHZ with 512MB RAM. Moved it to a stand-alone webserver just for SUS and there it works perfectly without eating out the CPU. (???) Strange. The 1st server only had IIS and no unneeded services. Anyhow, moving it to a server just for SUS solved the problem. It stays at 8-15% all the time, except when it synchronizes with MS servers. Then, it sporadically climbs between 80-100%. Nothing to be scared about.

    @soulin: thanks for the clarification.

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    Windows SUS

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Because of BITS SUS is extremly low cpu and bandwidth intensive
    How do I install BITS on the SUS server? I haven't found it anywhere. When I installed SUS on a current webserver (SUS being a virtual one) the CPU was at 100% over 80% of the time, the webserver almost couldn't handle normal web requests so I had to move SUS to an individual server. The previous one was a Pentium IV at 900MHz. After removing SUS from that server, CPU utilization returned to an average 10-20%.
    USD, URC and UAM
    I am somewhat acronym impaired at the moment... What do those mean? I have an idea but I wanna make sure.
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    Windows SUS

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    SUS works with Windows 2000 and up computers. If your PCs already have the Automatic Updates client, you're ready to go. One of the "key" parts of the SUS setup is configuring the Automatic Updates GPO in the AD. That way, clients will point to the SUS server you have set up for them, not MS servers.

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    How to test for SSE2 capable CPU and Intel Chipset

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    eah well, in the meantime I found out that the problem is that CHCKCPU will not run from CDROM, at least that "findstring" code part won´t work there. I guess thats because it needs to write to a file to check for that string ??
    You need to copy FINDSTR.EXE to the CD too. It can be copied from the Winnt\system32 directory. Sorry I did not mention that before :whistle:

    No file is written, the findstr reads the Output of the chkcpu command, by piping the output with the '|' character. Same thing for the second findstr. In others words, all string handling is done in the display buffer. The last > NUL makes sure the buffer is emptied (redirected to NULL device) so nothing is displayed to the screen. Try executing each part to see what I mean. ex: 

    CHKCPU /V

    then... CHKCPU /V | FINDSTR "SSE2" ... etc.

    Also, you mentioned not being able to set the %CDROM% variable, how then you were able to run CHKCPU from the CD if the variable was NOT set to point to the CD?

    Please detail your answer since I'm confused by your comment. I'm assuming you are running everything from the CD and the system is completely 'blanked out' (no OS installed before you put the CD. BTW, what are you using for testing the CD install part? Virtual PC, VMWare, a 'test system'?

    I was asking if it is possible to add the whole code from the cmd to the runonceex, not just call the external cmd from the runonceex.

    Yes and No. You need to call the external cmd, and any other external cmd since it has GOTO statements and you can't use conditional branching in RunOnceEx (the registry key where all these commands are being written). It's easier to maintain in case you want to change the order apps are being installed, or if you substitute an app for another in the future. It would be a headache to edit a large runonceex.cmd file than a small file that only set the specific entries, and the "load" of the work gets done by individual cmd files for each app installed. Many files, but in the end easier to maintain. Please keep in mind that the file is called runonceex.cmd just to remind that this cmd file writes the RunOnceEx registry entries, the moment Windows Executes that registry key it is just executing the statements written by the cmd file, NOT the cmd file itself. If you execute the runonceex.cmd file from an MSDOS window, open Registry Editor (start->run->regedit) then check the 

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

    to see what the cmd just wrote. This key is executed upon first logon, so what gets written there will be executed on the first logon, then dissapear. Windows executes the entries on this key, one by one. It's possible to include more than one line, but that would make the runonceex.cmd file more complex than it needs to be.

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    How to test for SSE2 capable CPU and Intel Chipset

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    except for placing text files into the DVD root directory as explained in the FAQ ? I don´t like that too much, it´s kind of cheap
    You could also check for a file that ONLY exists in the root dir of the CD drive you are installing from. The method mentioned in the FAQ works if you have more than one CD drive.

    I use the GetCD program to set my %CDROM% variable. Check for info about it here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32957

    BTW, your solution is perfectly acceptable! Your branching (goto's) are perfect! (at least 4 me)

    If you want to run it from runonceex.cmd, you would:

    Rename the batch/cmd you posted as inst_ffd.cmd

    Then use something like this on your runonceex.cmd:

    cmdow @ /HID
    @echo off

    IF EXIST D:\CD.txt set CDROM=D:
    IF EXIST E:\CD.txt set CDROM=E:
    IF EXIST F:\CD.txt set CDROM=F:
    IF EXIST G:\CD.txt set CDROM=G:
    IF EXIST H:\CD.txt set CDROM=H:
    IF EXIST I:\CD.txt set CDROM=I:
    IF EXIST J:\CD.txt set CDROM=J:

    SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

    REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f

    REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Installing ffdshow..." /f
    REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\inst_ffdshow.cmd" /f

    EXIT

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    Windows SUS

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Be warned that SUS is very CPU and bandwidth intensive!

    In my case, SUS required a webserver for itself alone. Also, be prepared to approve/disapprove over 20GB of updates the first time SUS synchronizes with MS servers. I configured mine to do so between 2am and 5am, so that it does not affect any users. After SUS is configured and updates have been approved, your clients will update from the SUS server (provided you configure the Automatic Update AD policy correctlly).

    It's a lot better to have a single server consuming a lot of bandwidth in off-peak hours, than ALL your clients trying to contact MS Windows Update various times a day. You might want to relocate the SUS server to a network segment near your corp. gateway so it has enough bandwidth for synchronizing with MS servers, or control its bandwidth usage with an intelligent router so that when it updates it does not "kill" your others servers.

    My 2 cents

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