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Hi and thanks for looking. We have a main site in the South East of the UK and a satellite branch in Birmingham (we moved offices 4 months ago to a new site). We have a Multisite WAN with our ISP, we run a 30mb Fiber at our main site …

Hi All, Currently looking at upgrading our 10mb leased line to 30mb. We currently have a a Cisco 1800 series which Cisco's technical manual says supports up to 40mb throughput, however our ISP are saying we should upgrade to a Cisco 1921 to support the additional bandwidth.. Has anyone run …

Hi All, I'm looking for some assitance in binding (or joining) Active Directory to an Open Directory Master.. We are a Mac based company with mostly all Mac OS servers, however our accounts server runs Windows. We are in the process of upgrading our accounting software onto a new WIndows …

Morning Folks, my work pc is networked up and all access is controlled by a main active directory users account. This morning so far my account has been locked out 5 times with no reason as far as i can see. Is there a way i can check to see …

Hi Folks, hope this is in the right section. I need to Telnet to a machine from OSX, the machine is a linux box, when i do this from the terminal (or iterm) it connects but prompts me immediately with "password", it seems to be skipping the "logon" bit, but …

Hi.. You might want to try TestDisk & PhotoRec, I have always had success with both applications. Google it and good luck..

Hey folks, I have a fujitsu/siemens laptop with an SVideo out socket on the back of it, i plugged an svideo cable into it then the other end into my TV (the white, red and yellow end). i then started browsing my AV channels but no picture. I went into …

I guys, I added a new acl into the squid.conf file and now the service will not start. I have taken out what I put in and re-saved then rebooted the server. Still no joy. The error tells me it is in line 54 which is as follows http_access allow …

A bit of a weird one here envolving Windows Server 2003. The server in question holds loads of data which is accessed by both PC's and Macs. The problem we are having is that some files are invisible to our Mac users. For example there may be a folder Called …

Hi Folks, Do any of you guys know of a good site which gives reviews of Data Recovery software for Macs? Or if any of you guys have used data recovery software for mac and would share your experiences that would be great. Thanks for looking, gn0m3

Night Watch is a fantastic book (and film) Written by Sergei Lukyanenko. Its the first book in a trilogy. I am reading the second one now - Day Watch!

Hi Folks, I have around 30 macs running a combination of 10.3 and 10.4 each running entourage. Everyone works except one. I put in all the server details, username and password like the others but for some reason i get a "invalid username or password" error message. I have resorted …

Hi Folks, I have a Quicksilver mac which a department needs OS9 and X on, X is working fine with its manual IP settings and from the "connect to server" menu i can access the server they need. The OS9 (9.2.2) partition will not go onto the network, i tried …

Sounds good, i would like to meet the guys who contribute so much and have assisted me when ive been having problems! Jan 07 sounds good, anywhere in london is good (except maybe Brixton!!)

Morning Guys and Gals, I have this script below for changing proxy settings, I have about 70 machines to run this on so this is why im doing it this way (any other ideas welcome). The script bombs out basically half way down, i have marked the part with brackets. …

Morning Guys and Gals, I am not too hot in this area so would like some advice. I have a machine with loads of stuff on it and need to get it all onto another machine. Ideally i want to just make an image of the current drive and then …

Afternoon folks, A strange one here but here goes. I have 48 POP3 accounts set up in outlook express, each account has a folder and then a rule pointing to backup in this folder. problem is outlook only allows synchronization for 33 accounts, so i have to manually do the …

Afternoon people, I have a laptop at home which connects to my wireless network via a usb dongle. I am sorting out a friends machine which is a tower and I want to run automatic updates, virus definitions etc. i have connected a network cable from my laptop to the …

I do pretty much the same thing outside of my day job. i usually advertise in my Local Library's, news agents even a free paper called the friday ad (available in the UK). think about where people go to shop and see if you can leave an ad or something. …

Afternoon folks, I have got to put together a liability waiver for contractors to sign who are coming to our site to do work. my boss basically wants them to sign something saying if they screw something up its their fault etc.... can anyone give me some pointers on this …

done the pin one too guys. mine is a little more stupid, mainly down to me not understanding how stuff works!! about 10 years ago I bought a computer from a car boot sale, took it home plugged it in and nothing happened when i hit the power button. i …

or you could use NeoOffice which is a port of OpenOffice, its pretty stable and you dont have to use X11.....

Morning Folks, I need to change permissions on a whole bunch of machines using Apple remote desktop and the "unix" function. Ive got so far but got stuck, here is what i need. The below code compiles but i need the script to use a default username and password and …

Morning Guys, I am looking for some advice for a piece of mac audit software. At my last company we used Numara's Audit Tool, this however is fairly expensive because of support!! Have any of you folks had any experience with this kind of stuff, all i need to find …

try booting up off a live cd and saving the data to an external source. I use Knoppix and it works great!

Morning Folks, think this is my first post of the new year, so Happy New Year.... i have got a small applescript i have written (see below), it is connecting to a telnet session, but opens two terminal windows - one is just a terminal window and the other is …

Intel Imac at work and at home as well as a G4 QuickSilver at Home as a music and video machine. Fujitsu laptop at home running Xp and SuSe and a P4 running Server 2003 for testing purposes!

I am getting a couple of copies for our IT department to have a play with early next year, i played around with the RC1 (i think) beta and it was ok, buggy but nice to see something thats been a while in the making!!

1) Give up smoking (so far so good) 2) Get my Photography site up and running! These are the two im most likely to triumph in, others can wait!!

Giving up date is Jan 1st 2007, new years resolution and all that! Cigarettes in the UK are expesive compared to other EU countries and by the sounds of it the states too! 20 Marlboro Lights are £5.47 which is just over $10, quite expensive im sure you will aggree!!

I live in Surrey, which is about 40mins by train from London. where I live USED to be a sleepy town but over the last 10 years its got more commercial which has been great for house prices! born and raised here, i have some Irish background!

Hi Folks, I have Panther (10.3.9) running on a G4 on 1 partition, is there an easy way of creating a new partition so i can install tiger as well but without losing the Panther install and all the apps? Also will this work running Panther and Tiger on one …

Morning Guys, I am just configuring a few useful widgets on my test mac and I am having trouble getting some that need internet access to work. For example the conversion utility using currency needs internet access to get the latest figures, also the weather one wont work either. I …

Afternoon Folks (i guess that depends where you are!), Can someone point me in the right direction on the legality of keylogging employees computers at work. A good friend of mine called me last night asking some strange questions about his privacy at work, as an IT administrator he thought …

Morning Folks, When RAM is removed / Added to/from a system, does it create a log in the event viewer? And if so what ID is it given? Thanks, gn0m3

Hi Folks, We have 3 citrix servers which our internal users use and our external (home) users can log into citrix via our web site. We have a user at home which has a HP Laserjet 1200 which she needs to print to whilst in a remote citrix session, my …

Hi folks, Have just finished setting up a linux box running SuSe v10. I managed to configure SQL, PHP and Apache with no problems but cant get the printing to work the way i want/need to. I want to print to a printer which is installed on a Windows box, …

hi folks, I moved house recently and as a result cant find a lot at the moment. what i am after is a copy of a Photoshop Plugin called "3D Transform", its found on the photoshop CD under plugins, i just cant for the life of me find my CD …

A two part question. 1) I have 2 folders on my G4, one under the hard drive the other on the desktop. If i perform an Archive and Install will these folders be backed up?? 2)Can i use a live CD like knoppix to boot off so i can copy …

Afternoon folks, One of our Macs needs a hard drive upgrade from a 10gb to an 80gb hdd. I have never done this on a mac before and would like to know the best way to go about this. I have made an image of the HDD using Carbon Copy …

I have been using knoppix for data recovery and forensics work for about 6 months (on and off ). I want to install it onto a P3 machine i have. What i want to know is how easy it is to install stuff like my Broadband modem and get the …

Afternoon people, Our mac users have been experiencing a real slowdown of browsing accross our Mac Server since we did the leap from OS9 to OSX. When navigating through folders and files within apps and through the finder it takes its times to get there, most of the time the …

We have a PowerPC G5 1.8ghz with 768mb RAM. It has suddenly started taking well over 5 minutes to boot up, it gets past the grey apple screen then loads the dock and clock in the top right hand corner then sits there for 5 minutes with the SBBOD. it …

if you dont know what make your audio card is, run a program called Aida32 (its free), this will tell you the make and model number. Download the up to date drivers and reinstall! gn0m3

I suggest you use a program called Aida32 to find out the make of the card. It is a diagnostics program which will give you a run down of everything on your system from RAM to Motherboard! Hope this helps, gn0m3

From what I remember, XP needs at least a 500mhz or 600mhz processor to run well! 256 RAM is fine!. gn0m3

Hi, Have got 1 user who from this morning is experiencing problems with mail. The machine is running 10.3.9 and Mail was working friday. The body of the email regardless of sender is garbled. wierd font is displayed along with random digits and letters. Any help would be most apreciated.

Suggest you update your USB modem driver as well. I remember AOL used to send outdated driver CD's, every one i came accross needed the driver updated!

Hey guys, The company I work for currently use Citrix to let Mac users access Word and Excel. However we have just updated all the Macs we have to Panther (10.3.9). Before the change they were using Outlook 2001 under classic, however we want to abolish classic and stay in …

Hi, if you have the "Developer Tools" CD which came with Panther you can install classic from that. Alternatively you can drag and drop a OS 9 System Folder onto your HD and it should pick it up. You will have to turn classic on in the System Settings tho! …