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  1. Hopefully not but if you remake them you have the chance to do it one by one and narrow the fault down. Still a fresh spooler with fresh printers and drivers is much more likely to stay running. I'd flush everything non standard and try getting the spooler running then recreate, as long as you back up the reg keys as you kill them you can always put them back.
  2. I think smoothwall had a feature where it could take user details off the wireless system if using ldap username and password logon for guests. I could be hallucinating that though. Anyhow congrats on your upgrade, netgear to ruckus must be like time traveling into the future (having had dealings with both).
  3. Found, this should help Print Spooler Crash Troubleshooting Steps - PERFGURU - Site Home - TechNet Blogs Registry entries for printing
  4. It all depends on the model you get, anything with Compaq in the name means trouble, like all brands they have some stinkers. The huge thing I like about HP is their support, for instance drivers, we have had machines 7 years old I could still easily get drivers for with later versions of Windows unlike Toshiba, Fujitsu or Lenovo where even finding the drivers for the version of windows it came with is an epic journey rivalling the journey to mordor. Tech level is also something nice, HP has real efi, a new Toshiba I had to deal with a month ago still had an actual bios and a stack of other out-dated hardware in it. HP stuff is generally engineered rather than thrown together from rebranded parts like some other vendors. In conclusion, as with anything, pick a solid looking one from the line and you should be good. I only suggested the envy line as they are reasonably well put together and pretty. If you want something robust the elitebooks are solid and the probooks are ok if you need to bring the cost down.
  5. Check for custom print providers and ports in that same area of the reg, had a mimaki cutter that used to shred the spooler on start thanks to dodgyness in one of those, back up the key first of course.
  6. Printer drivers are the devil, make sure you have the latest as bad drivers will kill the spooler all the time, use generics if you have to and can get away with it, this is where I actually liked the HP universal ones as they were stable - Minolta are the opposite btw. Old drivers also can try installing as type one non-isolatable ones too where as the newer ones are usually at least type three. Schedule a task if you have to cycle the spooler every hour or so - you'll need to kill then restart papercut services first in the task otherwise it won't work. We had to do this for six months thanks to leaking memory from Brother drivers. Also look at removing old or uneeded drivers from the server because despite the fact they are supposed to be separate they can interfere with each other - Ricoh drivers had this habit.
  7. If you were entrusting a password to Adobe would you bother making it strong given their obviously top notch security in all their software.
  8. The hp envy gear is quite nice and may be worth a look.
  9. Maybe this Chapter7.Advanced Printer Management
  10. Here is another one that is not cool for school http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/4893081834694045895 Would copy the link but the iframe is stopping it on this browser
  11. If its Dlna it is an open standard, ironicly made by Sony so yes it should work. @Arthur - lets hope it is supported, probably not from the push side as wmp still can't manage but at least mp4 is likely.
  12. Never mind, looks like the info is out now Xbox One Is DLNA Compatible, Can Be Used As Media Server - News - www.GameInformer.com Xbox One can play Audio CDs, DLNA compatible, No local MP3 (Only thru Play To, X - Xbox One Message Board for Xbox One - GameFAQs No local MP3 support but you can push them or whatever else to it over the network from a pc or phone or any one of the thousands of things that support the standard. Ps4 does not do local audio files either but also does not support Dona.
  13. It's called Dlna, the ps4 does not have it and the Xbox one specs information so far has not said either way. I would imagine the Xbox one should have it as it does help link all their devices like their pcs and phones, they have more to gain by keeping it in, Windows 8 has a windows certification for dlna sharing so while it is still possible that it may not have it, it is likely that it does but as far as I know there is no definitive answer yet.
  14. Another router running openwrt or tomato would work well, even better if you can string a single cable between the two routers - depending on your need for bandwidth.
  15. Used to have to do a sign, basically no Halloween but the new place is at the end of a long road up a long driveway with lots of trees, so it is actually scary all by itself so no trick or treaters this year even without a sign on the gate
  16. Or more lazily you could just buy a What Data drive and wait for three years, from my experience they erase themselves without any help, without exception. No fancy software needed
  17. Can you not run the batch file as a scheduled task that is triggered at each logon on the laptop, that way you could have it run as an administrator or system and not need to sacrifice security.
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    QNAP Nas

    Haven't used the synology stuff but the qnap stuff has done alright for me, got a six bay one and it supports apps like video surveillance, ties into ad for authentication and supports speedy iscsi so has not irritated me which says a lot for it given my short fuse with backup devices. Does not handle extended ntfs stuff on the nas side so you can't run windows backup to it directly bit chick it on iscsi and make it a real ntfs volume, all those issues go away.
  19. SYNACK

    QNAP Nas

    Qnap is decent, put the ftp volume on a raid set and you'll be fine.
  20. That's the one, the have the 300 and 400 which do usb3 and pin code locking to, ordered mine from the UK and was great till the drive decided to take the shaken and not stirred Seagate drives smart register seriously and locked it to read only. That is the other cool thing though, there is a switch that sets it to hardware read only so you can use it safely on a viruses infected machine. Surprisingly cheap for how good it is to. Just watch for the epic, usb1.1 ports on cheap motherboards that make booting off a USB DVD take half an hour blazingly quick without junk motherboards though, just feed it Isis Edit, also got mine from quietpc for less than $60 shipped to the far end of the planet.
  21. i don't understand, dell products smell like waste... this is news how???
  22. Done this a stack load, there is even a caddy that will emulate a blueray or DVD or fed as well as a drive which works great with these, they are a bit touchy with Seagate drives but are really useful.
  23. Relatedly, do you buy systems then pull the drives for externally sourced ssds often, we may have to look into that thanks to the 200+ dollar extra for ssds from reasonable brand hardware suppliers.
  24. SYNACK

    ISCSI for osx server

    Have you considered using a Windows or Linux server that has this built in to map the space then sharing it off that via nfs or cifs.
  25. I'm planning on building a Grim Reaper costume for Saturday, there are no decent free patterns online that I can find so I'm gonna try and wing it with screen dumps of Dead Like Me s introduction scene, those robes look epic and I know the only way I'm gonna get something decent is to do it myself.
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