SYNACK

Who needs credit, reductus absurdium (or something like that) taking it back to its basic form and showing the abserdity of it. All filtering is best effort unless it is a whitelist, even then it is not full proof. The internet is vast and asking for perfection is deluded. As stated above though, managed providers are a sure path to mediocraty at best.

Yes, perhaps selfssl as below, they don't like you running Cert services on a DC as it makes it impossible to migrate (or at least it used to).

I had missed it so thanks for the second chance anyway

Or tell the managed provider that you are paying for service that you are not happy with to stick it and do it properly yourself. The only reason these managed monsters still exist is that schools are unwilling to simply tell them they are not up to it and they can die in a ditch somewhere. All of them stick with it and the mediocrity continues.

If you are trying to use it to route between two segments on the same IP range it will fail as that is just not how it works. What you could do is use it in NAT mode so that all traffic from its segment 'appears' to come from an ip on your main network. This way the upstream box does not need to know about it and you can use a seporate ip range on the router side. Depending on the router you may be able to put something like dd-wrt or open-wrt or tomato on it turning it into a full fledged linux router with a bearable interface and use that plus VLANs to setup internal multi VLAN routing but I would only do that with a little bit of traffic, you'll want a full pc with a couple of network cards and something like untangle on it for decent levels of throughput and I'd still go layer3 Switch if I had any option to instead.

Is this the silver lining to the 'cloud' that everyone is saying that we should trust... it will all blow away one day and we will get to start from scratch again.

Interesting but hardly the same, a slow buggy discontinued weird device full of all sorts of other hardware that you can't boot from as opposed to a standard, cheap, quick and usually surplus bit of equipment that can do it all with built in software and burn in whatever standard you need it to.

When I did with a 501 I just hooked up an external DVD burner to USB and installed off that, of course I had used the tablets previous Windows 7 OS to download the ISO and burn it to the DVD in question, try doing that with an iPad

Feking rechid Flash, I want to sue them for BS incurred from just Flash updates. Seriously half my damn job is chasing their rubbish software from one end of the network to the other. Can we class action them, seriously I usually hate the US legal system way of doing things but this is probably the only way they are actually going to be forced to get their excrement together. Either that or we all chip in and hire a hit squad to kill off their management and developers.

It's fine, even with the older slower chips like that in the Acer 501.

Even N 300Mbit has a hard time keeping up with 100Mbit Ethernet as the Ethernet has comparatively no overhead and is dedicated. Wireless comparatively spends most of its time avoiding other stations and resending corrupted frames. Gigabit beats the pants off both even if it never gets to the theoretical max with your system it still blows the doors off the other two. 802.11ac may finally close the gap with the several decades old 100Mbit/s in real use but that will require a rebuy of most hardware. i3 can be alright if you have the right motherboard (again - Intel is rubbish). SSDs will make a huge difference as will a decent amount of RAM (at least 4GB) with a more modern OS (Vista or higher). i5 will have a longer lifespan thanks to the turbo boost and the four real cores is you get those ones.

Just use Foxit, it has been a better solution than Acrobat for years now, MSI deployable to with no hoop jumping like Adobe.

What kind of aweful laptop is only specing a 100mbit Ethernet card, is this 1997?

Looks like there is no path from 2003 to 2013 either, just 2007 or 2010 and 2010 ot 2013 is still not supported.

I have had simmilar experiences, Intel motherboards are rubbish.

If you are only keeping them for a couple of years go i3, if you plan on them being not horrible three years in go i5. Look at SSDs as they come down in price.

Exchange 2010 at one and 2003 at one (pending a domain rename when we get more RAM).

Eep, I remember most of these, someone, get me my cane...

Use the webserver to create a CSR: IIS SSL Certificate CSR Creation - Microsoft IIS 7 go to the certservices website of your cert services machine /certsrv I think and then submit the request text, this will give you a file to download which you then apply to the requesting server which has the other half. Once it is made you can export it and its public key from the certificates snapin in MMC to use on other servers/firewalls etc.

Its only secureboot that needs that component and it is an easier solution for everyone than each of the 76.9 billion different distributions to work with every one of the hundreds of vendors to get their stuff working. Having a single boot component that works accross all of them is the only feasable solution and you can turn it off if you have a likeing for rootkits.

Or just click the door

Or IE10 or even 9.

Ohhh. a TRON disc, is it as lethal as the original if you chuck it at whoever interrupted you??

+1 they must actively be trying to sabotage it given the talent and resources at their disposal.

I know that one, the rushed multihour session both learning the network and tracking down the fault as you learn. Stress++ but you learn in a hurry, you also usually encounter the thought WTF more often than is healthy. Anyhow, welcome to the participation side.