I like to use the guy in front of me as a speedometer. It's a lot easier than actually driving.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 2:19 PM on July 23, 2008

Also, do a search for a file that ends in .nk2. Copy that out and save it, and put it back in the same location after the reinstall. It's all the addresses you're typing in the address bar that aren't in your contacts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:19 AM on July 23, 2008

This works pretty good, I've heard.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 2:29 PM on July 22, 2008

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 8:57 AM on July 18, 2008

I smoked a lot of pot in high school, and I failed miserably. Because I was stoned most of the time, I never paid attention in class, never did my homework, and never participated in anything else either. It was a lot more fun to be wasted and fuck the rest. My grade point hovered between 1.0 and 1.5 consistently. The only thing that saved my diploma was sucking it up and attending a vocational school that fulfilled most of the credits I was missing.

I'm one of the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 5:03 AM on July 9, 2008

I'm right there with CrayDrygu. That's all good advice.

I just put together essentially the same system you've specified, the same gigabyte mainboard, etc. - I have different memory, a stronger video board, and two hard drives, but the process and the basics are the same. I'm using it right now, fresh built yesterday. Crysis is fun. :)

I will say:
- Unless you intend to really rock out the gaming/overclocking, you don't need a third... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 1:21 PM on July 6, 2008

On your SBS2k3 server:
Open Administrative Tools. Click on Terminal Services Configuration. Now click on the RDP connection entry in the right pane, and right-click. Select Properties. Select the Client Settings tab. Make sure the check mark for "Limit Maximum Color Depth" is checked and select 16 Bit.

Now close the terminal server session, and restart RDP without connecting to the server. Click the Options button, then click Display. Set it for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:32 PM on June 23, 2008

Then I think you're fighting a losing battle and I suggest you remote into a workstation machine on the network rather than the server itself (which is a much, much safer practice anyway). FF3 relies very heavily on the csrss.exe process which renders the GUI. That process is very different between the XP/2003 codebase than in a Win2k codebase.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:25 AM on June 24, 2008

Thanks everyone, if I used your tip in my article, you got a best answer.

The "run scans/get antivirus protection/antispyware/run backups" answers are all very good ideas and will probably make it into a future article...

Thanks everyone!
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:32 PM on June 17, 2008

A shot in the dark: Is the share a subfolder of another share, or on the root of the drive? I have seen issues where Windows shares that are a subfolder of another share fail.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 5:27 PM on June 15, 2008

I like Lighthouse of Oakland County. Ten years or so ago I donated some old coats to Lighthouse on a cold day. The next day, I was driving downtown and saw someone wearing a very distinctive old coat. It looked better on him than it ever did on me. :)
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:33 PM on May 31, 2008

Please don't try to remove the domain. You'll create more problems and end up calling the IT guys back in. There is no magic button, but there are things you can do to reduce complication.

First, and I stress this strongly: If there is one area where IT companies fail utterly it's teaching users how to get the most out of SBS. It really can be a great resource for even very small organizations. I train customers mercilessly, to the point of annoying... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:25 PM on May 25, 2008 marked best answer

Having said all that, you might want to go look at ">Techsoup, see if you can get a copy of Windows 2003 standard for cheap (depends on your church tax status but I think the admin fee for a 5 user version is about 50 bucks), and blow away SBS and reinstall Windows 2003 Standard.

Otherwise, go right ahead and use Windows XP, but you HAVE to use Professional in order to get file sharing to work right.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:31 PM on May 25, 2008

I just did it. I'm on Verizon. It took 8.2 seconds. Only some carriers support MMS,for example Sprint doesn't support it, it's a "server issue".


I opened messaging, selected MMS, switched to the Inbox folder, clicked New, put my own phone number in it, put a subject in, took a crappy picture of my desk, and clicked "Send".

You may find this forum post helpful. It appears that if you use a separate email address,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 2:48 PM on May 24, 2008

Wow, the timing is good on this.
Look at this search page from the Lotus Sandbox.

I needed a tool to export Notes contacts, and this is the page that was the most helpful (I ended up not having to do this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 8:35 AM on May 21, 2008

I'd try a different cable. "Media disconnected" means there is no voltage on the cable, meaning it's probably the culprit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 5:21 AM on April 20, 2008

Re: getting a light from the network card: If there is no light at the computer network jack, try looking for a light at the router end - if your connected to port 1 on the router, if the computer network card is working, the light for port 1 should be lit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 9:39 AM on April 20, 2008 marked best answer

... and to follow on - if a network card is shorting out or causing a lot of traffic issues, it could very well disrupt network operation - especially if it's not well made.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 9:40 AM on April 20, 2008 marked best answer

One of the hardest things to get used to, upon sobering up, is realizing that not having a drink in hand is a normal condition for people, and not the other way around. When you begin to realize that not every occasion deserves a drink or a drug, the possibilities start to surface.

We have an Alano club near my house - it's a sober club. They act as sort of a coffeehouse/substitute bar for people - pool tables, cards, meetings, sports on TV - so a general hangout. That's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 6:59 PM on April 13, 2008

I'm with AV that's its pragmatist, however I don't shop at Costco because they treat you like a thief and anywhere I can, I just keep walking. When I handed them the money, the stuff became mine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 5:55 AM on April 13, 2008

Why can't you plug the NAS ethernet into the wifi router? Unless there are no ports for it, that would be the proper method to use. In other words, the NAS should be publishing its shares on its own, there's no need to publish them through the mini. Since the wifi router should be using the same ethernet segment on both the wired and wifi ports, the NAS should be discoverable from both Macs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:55 AM on April 10, 2008

Why not set up an internal FTP site?
Get this, install it on your server, and share away. It has a web interface so users can manage their own files, is very Mac and PC friendly, has a neat uploader function, notifies you when clients have uploaded or downloaded and a ton of other things.

You can also set up your own users and groups and set file permissions, or assign them home folders (so they can't see anyone else's stuff).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 2:13 PM on March 31, 2008

Actually, qvtqht's method is still appropriate for versions of Outlook below 2007.

Outlook 2007 no longer stores the categories in the registry and there is no master category list - it's all "color categories" and whatnot now The categories are part of the mailbox store. You can have a public contact folder on the Exchange server, set up your categories there, and when people use those contacts the categories follow along.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:36 PM on March 27, 2008

Go spend more dough and get an external hard drive. Set it to be Photoshop's scratch disk. Separating the OS virtual memory and Photoshop's virtual memory is always a good idea.

Vista SP1 will be out very soon and resolves many performance issues. It's very likely it will play better with photoshop - wait two weeks.

And, follow the many paths to resolving CS3's memory problems.

(my experience: I got a copy of CS3 as a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 8:07 PM on March 26, 2008

Here's the VH1 DVD...


It's a very good look at the band and the dynamics within it as the album was being made.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 11:58 AM on March 25, 2008

I would look into organizational units and group policies. Without some more specific information about how your TS users are configured with group policy, though, I can't really define how the OU's should be set up because group policy and terminal servers acting as domain controllers are odd bedfellows.
But, in very general terms, I'd put a domain controller at each site with a terminal server running alongside it (the DC could be a virtual machine, doesn't have to be separate... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 11:53 AM on March 25, 2008

My suggestion is to recommend your ideas firmly and rely on your past experience with them.

If that doesn't fly, and I'm not sure how viable or cost-effective it would be, but an alternative is to create an SEO-optimized version to run alongside the primary site. This also allows the SEO site to have specific tracking URLs that may help target their market, etc.

A client of mine is doing this successfully - not for the same reasons you cite,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 8:31 AM on March 23, 2008

Really? REALLY? That simple. Worked the first time, kindall, thank you.

I am at a client site where it is perfectly acceptable to sit at a keyboard and type questions into Metafilter, but the boss here believes that googling is a waste of time.

Ah, customers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 9:28 AM on March 20, 2008

The version of Xplorer2 Lite that I just downloaded (1.7.0.5 LITE) has two panes by default. I don't see tabs, I see a standard + list on the left side, and the right pane is an uber-pane divided in two distinct panes. I can copy between panes as I would expect.

I maxed it to 8 panes by using the Tools menu, then selecting Clone, to spawn 4 separate copies of the program.

Couple that with the Windows trick of CTRL-clicking the taskbar buttons... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:59 PM on March 19, 2008

A shot in the dark: If you are running a Windows small business server, it's quite simple to add a modem to it and set up shared faxing to it using a shared fax printer on the server.

Alternately, have you installed the D880 software as downloaded from Canon? The software may have a print driver for the fax capability (HP's do - I installed the software and it created two new printers, a printer and a fax printer) that may not be installed using a "network install".
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 12:44 PM on March 12, 2008 marked best answer

Disregard my last paragraph, although if you've got the server the shared faxing works quite well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 12:45 PM on March 12, 2008

A standard fax modem will work just fine. We use the standard US Robotics 56 K USB modem on newer servers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 6:34 PM on March 17, 2008

I've been running Activesync for my Q for over a year and it's been just fine, no issues whatsoever.I've set up Activesync very successfully at about 25 sites, including environments where other IT providers have completely and utterly failed to configure it properly before I got there. It's not the nightmare experience it was when I first approached it, I'll say that.

I've set up iphones with IMAP, no issues whatsoever.

Just adding some more data to the stack.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:53 PM on March 7, 2008

Also look at Windows Desktop Search, Google Desktop, or any other "automatic search" tools.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 8:32 AM on March 6, 2008

I'd contact the ISP and see if they will set up a smarthost for you. They may offer this (AT&T does for DSL customers). Alternately, see if the ISP will let your client (Outlook) send directly using SMTP credentials (which is the same thing as a smarthost, just not on the mail server).
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 3:29 PM on March 2, 2008

Yep, it's the Encabulator. That thing is sweet! I want one!

And my training seminars just got a LOT more confusing!

"To schedule a resource in Outlook, it's really simple. Just open your calendar, select scheduling, then on every seventh conductor use a non-reversible termic pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammete and click the OK button."
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:09 PM on February 25, 2008

(although I am sending along the Insta-Trailer to a guy that owns a post house. Ha!)

Thanks everyone!
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:10 PM on February 25, 2008

1. Uninstall Apple Quicktime.
2. Uninstall Adobe Flash Player.
3. Uninstall Real Player.
4. If you are using Internet Explorer 7, uninstall it (Internet Explorer 6 is still there, underneath IE7)
5. Insert your Windows XP disk and use the start menu/run command to run this command:

sfc /scannow

6. Run Windows Update. When prompted to download and install Internet Explorer 7, do so.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 10:56 PM on February 23, 2008

Do the intranet thing.

The standard contact form that ships with Outlook 2003 has a picture embedded in it. The problem is that the specific form that's used in the "protected" contacts folder - the one you see in your mailbox - can't be edited. When you try to edit it, it defaults to the organization form, which is an Outlook 2002 version that has no picture. There's no way to edit the default form in Outlook 2003.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 2:54 PM on February 15, 2008

Set the bios to NOT power on after a restart. If the system powers off because of a power problem, it will stay off. This will isolate your problem to a power issue. If the system restarts, it's a power supply problem or possibly a bad switch or the system has bluescreened. Therefore, please also verify that the "automatically restart" option in system failure is ACTUALLY unchecked by checking the option, applying the change, unchecking it again, and restarting.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 9:30 AM on February 14, 2008

Of course it's not sane.

Do it anyway.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 6:58 PM on February 9, 2008

Here is a tool for editing an NK2 file.
It can import from a text file.

I would export the sent items folder to a text file, scrub it to fit the import format requested by the software, and then import the email addresses to the new NK2 file. Specifically an NK2 file only holds 1000 names, so you may hit that limit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 10:43 AM on February 6, 2008 marked best answer

...as an aside, YOU HAVE USERS WITH 3GB MAILBOXES? I'd strongly recommend paring that down, the file size limit on a PST file (which is the fallback format for Exchange mailboxes) can only handle 2 GB in size. You may run into real trouble if you have to restore that mailbox to a PST file for any reason.

Just sayin'.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 10:47 AM on February 6, 2008

Definitely the Action Pack.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:39 AM on February 6, 2008 marked best answer

I use standard (kitchen) plastic bags as a can liner. Then I insert a standard brown paper bag (from the grocery store where they are an option) inside the liner. Really wet garbage isn't put in there unless it's "safe" - meaning somehow won't weaken the paper bag. I have several tactics that I use to do this. One of them is to use a plastic (grocery) bag, but mostly I just freeze it and wait for trash day.

I have found that I only need to change the liners... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 5:45 PM on January 24, 2008

The ASR tool has to have a floppy disk for restore purposes. The best option, if you really want to use ASR, is an external USB floppy as chrisamiller suggests.

You can also follow this procedure to create the ASR files without the floppy, and then copy them to another location to create a floppy or, if you are lucky, your PC can boot from a USB key (I have never tried to boot ASR to a key, not sure if it will work or not but it might be worth a shot)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 12:08 PM on January 20, 2008 marked best answer

I think this is the defining presentation done in Keynote (I'm pretty sure Dick Hardt is using Keynote right? Somebody back me up here) and in my opinion it's one of the best presentations I've ever seen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 10:27 AM on January 13, 2008

Can you see any red x's in your event log? Anything that might indicate

- applications unexpectedly quitting
- disk errors
- application hangs

- any other odd behavior that might indicate what's causing it. My first guess is hardware.
I mean, it could be that the freezeups are a virus or a CPU-hogging process. But I think its more likely its a bad stick of RAM or a dying power supply, or overheating, or a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:57 PM on January 12, 2008

The 1890 US Census - which recorded the largest influx of population into the country and was a technical triumph in data processing at the time - was destroyed partially by fire and mostly by incompetence in 1933. Of the 62 million people recorded in the census, information for only 6,000 individuals survive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 4:07 PM on January 8, 2008

Commit, truly commit, to the idea that you are DONE with this forum. Wash your hands of it. You are FINISHED with this. Let it GO. Turn your thoughts of this forum to the past tense, because it's history.

I have done this. You can do this. But you have to let go and leave it behind you. Leaving a backdoor - which is what you're trying to do by turning your credentials over to someone else - won't work. You have to just walk away. Clear the site from your history, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer at 7:52 AM on December 31, 2007