PiqueABoo

Absolutely, I've got a friend who had an interesting modified receiver, the flash remote-controlled movable big dish and the 27,000 channels thing years and years ago. Trouble is you seemed to spend more time choosing what you want to watch, than actually watching anything. Depends on the viewer I guess. No where near as significant as it is for CRT (for me) because obviously LCDs are not scanning, but I can definitely tell, and thus do appreciate, the difference between 50 & 100 Hz LCD with fast moving images.

Read lots of avforums and elsewhere. Went round and round in circles. None the wiser. :curses:: Half the problem in comparing is the newness of the Sony model.. and I'm trying hard to convince myself that's ok coz a) it's cheaper, b) get a BR player (don't have one), c) it does DNLA so although I likely won't, the knowing I could play with that tech thing is tugging at me. Was it the KDL-32V5810? If so then that's a 50Hz not a 100Hz model, a feature which for me makes a *lot* of difference (the old telly is a 100Hz CRT). [i'm one of those people that sees flicker where others often can't - used to do a lot of increasing people's too low PC CRT monitor refresh rates.]

Need a new *good* telly and 37" is probably about right. Was looking at these two today: * Panasonic TX-L37G10B * Sony KDL-37W5810 (which currently comes with free BluRay player). Same kind of features[1] and in a shop I couldn't really tell the difference - any one got any opinions on either of them or a more sensible alternative. Also there was a much cheaper 42" LG 42LF7000 and the picture on that looked just as good to me. Too much choice, too little clue. Help! [1] Unless anyone knows better I think I want built-in FreeSat.

::looks:: The junk links are in a div called 'dtrv' and right after that is some lightly obsfucated jscript which is this: document.getElementById('dtrv').innerHTML = ''; That is what makes all the junk invisible i.e. replaces all the junk in the div with '' (single quotes around nothing = nothing). [Turn off javascript and you see it all]

Thanks, but it's not what I need then (I'm making a batch file that has to cope with lots of OSs). Plan B: What do these two reg values contain? HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CSDVersion

What, as in the full output, does the ver command say when run on R2 (I can't get to one to look until monday?

And it seriously undermines the motivation to do much to save any of that public money yourself.. I mean why bother if arguably it's only going to subsidise the increases for a bunch of overpaid obnoxiously self-important [expletives] none of whom are so uniquely brilliant that they couldn't be replaced at a drop of hat? Whatever happened to basic ethics/morality in public service (any kind) and people at the top of the s... heap leading by example? Did it ever exist?

I did (j)script for this kind of thing a while back. I've got one hooked into the ADUC user object context menu, but the "bulk reset all" script enumerates AD to get user folders and then points SetACL at them like this: 'SetACL.exe -on "' + root + '" -ot file -actn setprot -op "dacl:np;sacl:nc" -rec cont_obj -actn setowner -ownr "n:' + SID +';s:y"' "root" is the root of a given user's folder. "SID" is their SID. SetACL does my head in a bit. This is slightly different to yours, maybe that's why I couldn't get it to work with an account name as opposed to a SID. Edit: Having just re-learnt why I made my line: sacl:nc => No Change. I'm skipped changing SACLs (auditing etc.) SID + ";s:y" => I'm using a SID (was changed to 'y' *after* the account name wasn't working). So it's just the SACL bit that's different. ::shrug:

Agreed. Ye olde volume quotas work fine, but I hit this issue with XP -> 2008 and *folder* quotas a year ago.

In that scenario, yes. Forget the law, it's safer for you: A small proportion of numptys actually look in their rear view every hour or two and miraculously decide to move to lane 1 when they see you coming. [but usually it's just afterwards so you get to spend ages out in lane 3 trying to figure out where they went in your rear view before the moving back to 2.. then 1]

What motorways are you folk with undertaking issues driving on when, then? I often do significant stretches of M1-M6 and large chunks of that route are often congested: Lanes 2 & 3 are bumper-to-bumper doing 40-50 slamming brakes on every 10 seconds coz they're too close, whereas lane 1 is relatively empty and doing 60-70. What are you supposed to do in lane 1 then? Keep watching the idiots in the outside lanes and brake (sometimes stop) every time they do? The trucks certainly don't. [in light traffic with some half-wit toddling along in lane 2 not overtaking something a mile ahead I do the irritated 1->3->1 thing]

On a serious (not a Primary!) failover hyper-v system mine was to make an independent domain for the "virtualisation layer", which has a physical DC+FSMOs, plus another DC in a VM to help cover any outage of the physical DC. With that I'm happy to put the DCs for another domain that does real stuff for the org. entirely in VMs. Unlike the Dilemma quote I don't see any problem with this at all i.e. I'm a **lot** more concerned about stability, security etc. than perfect utilization of every box in the system.

As said above backup is interesting with VMs, and for me that's interesting enough in terms of ££££ to wonder why not just add the SIMS SQL directly to the server, instead of making a VM (which adds £££/overheads/complexity/more things to go wrong)?

For quite a while now the Flash Player ActiveX installer **has been running the uninstaller for you** and apparently doing other bits to clean up after previous versions. Take a look at the contents of: %windir%\system32\Macromed\Flash\install.log

There's a theory out there that suggests this is a bug mixed up with OLE32 and a function called CoInstall()[1]. Whether that is the case or not, they claim the problem goes away when *all* your DCs are 2008. As above, the workaround was running GPMC from an earlier OS - they used XP. Do you all have one or more 2003 DCs then? [1] Based on this MSDN search for CS_E_PACKAGE_NOTFOUND (which is the error code behind that message).

Not sure about support but I would always want the host/parent to be completely independent of any VMs it is running i.e. just dedicated to running, and occasionally managing those VMs. And part of the point is to be able to easily pick up VMs up and have them working on another server when the first one fries in that stationary cupboad on hot summer day or something, which you couldn't if they relied on that DC on the original server. What function did you have in mind? As in what would you run in a VM on that DC?

Couple of years ago I hacked the Putty code so a dotNet app could call it to make a SSH connection to a particular brand of firewall appliance, then automagically spit some commands at it to turn policies on and off, import AD OUs full of computer into groups of FQDN address objects for use as firewall policy targets etc. Ultimately it all worked fine but I thought the Putty (command line) code was **evil**. I actually like the GUI client though. Telnet itself? There's a VB Telnet library on CodePlex - I suppose you could read that code to find out how to do it and then write it all again from scratch...

Yup nothing anyone with a clue didn't already know, but it's always useful to have some official acronym or other back you up .. I've bumped into one or two seriously OTT (in strictness terms) ideas hatched in the name of e-safety. [CEOP are definitely growing on me, just a pity their take had to be followed by that vacuous comment from BECTA]

But how many RM CC3 station components rely on anything MS are patching these days (and would we notice if they were broken)? It would. RM tend to be behind the curve when it comes to some updates. The RM packaged CP SP1 was released after MS had released CP2 SP2. CC4 has WSUS, but SP2 (claims to be largely about stability fixing) hasn't been blessed yet...

Strange. I folder redirect app data and version 9.0 was broken like this (downgrade to 8.x fixed it), but I do *not* get this problem with 9.3.

Just to get it out of the way: Is the time (sufficiently) correct on those stations? If it's too far out then GPOs won't be applying. Otherwise catroot2 damage can break some MS patches *but* CC3 "system" packages get installed before "application" packages. You normally throw d-i-y capture MSIs (that certainly have been known to capture bits of and trash catroot2) in with the application packages i.e. they wouldn't get a chance to get in before and break the installation of something like KB956744. Do you have any d-i-y "system" packages? EXEFile package statuses have never been that reliable, that part isn't just you. I've seen some crap CC3 criticisms in my time, but for once, this one is *spot on*. RM really should have sorted out WSUS for CC3 ages ago (won't happen now of course). It can break in several ways, but their allocation stuff really falls apart when you've got a long sequence of dependencies e.g. Office 2003 SP2, SP3 for Office 2003, 2007 Compatibility, SP2 for 2007 Compatibility, Hotfixes for SP2 for 2007 Compatibility. WSUS of course just takes care of all this dependency stuff and you simply can't beat having workstations them tell you what patches they need as opposed to RM guessing what patches you might need for your system, and usually being 50-100 or patches short. Although RM have used WSUS in CC4, it's fundamentally just a different method to deliver the same RM master list of patches i.e. they still don't appear to have embraced the "what workstations need" concept (or the improved security that delivers).

It's not me who personally acquired any licenses, I'm trying to establish the general case.

A burning question recently is how much longer you will be able to downgrade to XP. The MS line that seems clear is that an **OEM** Win7 can be downgraded to XP for 18 months from release or until the first service pack. So with rumours of the first Win7 SP turning up in the **autumn** time is apparently running out for that. However there is a less clear exception for Volume Licence customers (not sure what kind that has to be) who can apparently downgrade a Win7 to anything they want forever. Now you may or may not have some fancy schools licensing in a Secondary, but I'm currently wondering about some Primaries i.e. places where having to: a) Get a system that supports Win7, b) potentially upgrade a lot of OK-for-XP-and-working-happily kit to more-powerful-OK-for-Win7-and-who-knows, will be a very big deal/expense and the economic mood isn't exactly in tune with that. Obviously their existing XPs will be fine and MS supported until April 2014, it's adding new workstations that's the problem. And if they've got CC3 then unavoidably get a few new Win7 stations, that will need CC4 to integrate them which is more expense etc. Can anyone correct or add any clarity to this at all e.g. if some little Primary needs to add a couple of XPs to an existing happy system next year, then how would they do it??

GPMC: You can save the page with all the configured settings in a GPO to an html file (and cut paste from there to word or whatever).

That works across the network, if you need it can you install it somewhere else?