jinnantonnixx

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Better yet would be to examine what (snigger) simsperm does, then set those file permissions using group policy for SIMS machines.

It could be that they have a clash of credentials. Try this: From a command box, type net use See if they have any mapping at all to the target. It doesn't have to be a mapped drive, just a connection. If they have, delete it with: net use /d Then try re-mapping.

He does, as do many others. They don't get paid by them, though!

A colleague does just what you describe with his Pi. I can get some details from him if you like. If you want something that's a bit more 'packaged', You could look at the emerging number of Android gizmos offering similar features. A quick Google for 'android tv box' will give a flavour of what's available.

@Eric_Bisto I'm not clued up on Intouch, but I noticed that SIMS makes frequent use of the tempdb (with lots of INSERT INTO #temptables). Crack open your Acitivity monitor and check the Recent Expensive Queries. If the expensive queries do something like INSERT INTO #sometable you might see a benefit in moving your tempdb tables across to a dedicated disk, if you can, and increasing the number of files used by tempdb. http://sqlzen.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/tempdb-optimization/ Then again, it may be a red herring. From :

How to adjust memory usage by using configuration options in SQL Server The principle behind this is that it's better to make use of memory rather than have nothing in memory, so SQL will use what it finds available. SQL server will release memory on demand, down to its low limit. If you look at these values, you'll normally find them set to crazy values, which means it will use everything it can. Don't adjust these values unless you have a good reason.

... which was funny up until the first few million times it was posted on forums. I hereby invoke Jinnantonnixx's law which proclaims that “As a group/forum discussion grows longer, the probability of the invocation of Godwin's law approaches one.”

That's the Epicurus effect. It's a well known problem on mobile sites. I shall now wrap it up. The end.

My error. I should have said that we understand the natural phenomena that perplexed early mankind (floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, storms, etc) which they attributed to gods. As for taking comfort in religion/spirituality, well, if someone honestly believes it then it is a comfort. It doesn't make it true, though. It might be true, but it doesn't make it true. We shouldn't trip up on the 'genetic fallacy' which states that just because a proposition is not supported by strong argument or evidence, it doesn't mean that the proposition is necessarily untrue. There might be an afterlife. We might be corporally reassembled in heaven after we die. I don't think that there's any evidence for this, and I think that the arguments for an afterlife are only convincing if you want to believe in the conclusion. I must conclude that there is (probably) no afterlife. I'm with Epicurus on this.

Carol, of course.

This topic was often debated by Christopher Hitchens. The argument went something along these lines: Agreed, religious people can be involved in altruistic work. But is this done in the name of religion or would they do it anyway because it's a good thing to do? Hitchens debates are all on Youtube, and there are many in which this topic is debated. He went into further philosophical depth, asking if an atheist's good deed was of more worth because there could be no prospect of a heavenly reward, and so on, but that is far beyond the scope of a technical forum. Anyway, I recommend you check out his videos. He often put down the challenge: 1. Name one good deed that could only be done by a person of faith (it was never answered), 2. Name one atrocity committed in the name of religion (spoilt for choice). Hitch wasn't very keen on Mother Teresa - well worth a watch is you have time. http://youtu.be/zQ7G79WvTPE Bertrand Russell wasn't as scathing as Hitchens, conceding that there may be some good done by religious groups, but 'They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.'

Good question. I think it's down to where and when the question is framed. In a modern, scientifically advanced civilisation, or in remote land in stone-age times? We can see the current state of religious 'evolution'. Each tribe, culture or civilisation develops their own religion, either from common roots or independently. They may be separated by geography, ideology or culturally. These are some of the known religions; of which there are thousands: List of religions and spiritual traditions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I will leave the question of 'is religion man-made' open, but I think the answer is clear from the evidence. Most religions were created to provide answers to the (as then) unknown. Man is a pattern-seeking mammal, and when a good explanation is not available, a bad explanation will do. Here is a religion we could watch evolving from scratch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Some find it amusing, but I think it's quite sad. Some, more sinister religions, were created to exploit the credulity of others but that was the topic of another thread! So, would the child have any good reason to invent a god or religion to explain things? I don't think so. Religion and the invention of gods was the product of a need to understand natural events, but now these events are thoroughly understood*. On the other hand, the invocation of gods would require an insurmountable amount of explanation. *unless you're Bill O'Reilly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8M

Don't put the PAC file on the local drive, place it on a server share. This way it would work when on-network, but when they were home it would not find the PAC file and so auto-detect the network settings.

It could be that you have SSL inspection turned on and a certificate problem. Proxies can't peek into encrypted (SSL) traffic, so they create two sessions - one from the client to the proxy (with an internal certificate), the other from the proxy to the target website (with the 'real' certificate). It impersonates the end-point web sites by generating a certificate used within your organisation. You'll have to install this on the Macs. It's effectively a man-in-the-middle attack, but done by your proxy to check your https traffic, albeit with a certificate issued by your organisation. If you don't have this certificate on the machines, you'll get problems. This might help. Mac OS Clients fail to access SSL Websites after you enable HTTPS Inspection in Forefront TMG 2010 - Forefront TMG Product Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Oh, Bill O'Reilly - this guy gives idiots a bad name. He has his own meme - tides go in, tides go out. He was interviewing* Dave Silverman when he said "Tides go in, tides go out - you can't explain that", as if that was proof of God. Dave Silverman was stunned - you can see his face when the magnitude of O'Reilly's ignorance dawned on him. *O'Reilly doesn't interview people. He asks them a question, interrupts the start of their answer then spouts his own opinion. He interrupted Barak Obama - yes, the president - 48 times during an interview. He's a rude and obnoxious man.

What's more, the mountains grow and shrink as you look at them. It's curiously hypnotic.

If you've updated your iPad to the new Apple maps, take a look at Tahiti. Zoom right out until you see the whole county, tilt to 3d view, then take a look at the mountains. It's hilarious.

Certainly. When an app talks to the proxy, it provides a user agent, which is normally related to the application. The Mac update service uses the user-agent called 'ocspd'. We know that this doesn't provide credentials to the proxy server (on my Squid servers I get unauthenticated users when the Macs update) so I allow this service out without authentication. I'm not a Mac expert, this is from analysing my Squid logs on my Linux servers. If anybody knows of a better way to get Macs to update through proxies I'm all ears, but this works for me.

You'll need to add the user agent 'ocspd' direct access. I have a feeling that you'll need to allow the agent 'iTunes' as well, as neither of these provide user credentials when they bang on the door of the proxy. FPITA.

I see France is gearing up for trouble as a French magazine published some more of "those" cartoons.

I violently agree.

A similar thread popped up here recently http://www.edugeek.net/forums/av-multimedia-related/101329-music-software.html

Sibelius Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net I have used Rosegarden which is excellent, but Linux-only.

Make sure that 'Authenticated Users' have 'Read' permissions. If you're using security groups to filter GPOs, these groups should have 'Read' and 'Apply Group Policy'. Also check your 'DFS Replication' logs under event viewer>Applications and services logs. Try running this command on the client: dfsutil /spcflush