[lopsa-tech] Breaking a combination laptop lock (without breaking the laptop)?

2010-11-02 Thread Gilbert Wilson
A client of mine has "forgotten" the combination to their laptop cable lock. This particular lock does not have a key option as a failsafe so no bik pen option, either. Does anyone have pointers on how to break a combination lock? Water boarding is not an option here. If all else fails I'll hac

Re: [lopsa-tech] Breaking a combination laptop lock (without breaking the laptop)?

2010-11-09 Thread Gilbert Wilson
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'll be keeping this thread around for reference! In the end, some additional research revealed that this particular lock has a known flaw -- it resets to a known combination. Sure enough, that's what happened. The lock is now in some landfill where it be

[lopsa-tech] When silent installs fail silently

2011-04-15 Thread Gilbert Wilson
I'm having some problems with some silent install Windows 7 Powershell scripts and need some help finding resources to help me troubleshoot. Essentially, I'm kicking off silent installs as boot scripts with a simple try{}catch{}. Since many installers on Windows wrap additional installers (example

[lopsa-tech] How does DFS replication work?

2011-05-12 Thread Gilbert Wilson
Can anyone point me to some technical documentation that describes, in detail, how DFS replication works in Windows Server 2008r2 and how it works differently from previous versions of Windows server? I'm trying to understand what user actions (or server-side misconfigurations) will trigger full f

[lopsa-tech] Import/export of computer systems?

2011-06-16 Thread Gilbert Wilson
;’m running with Scissors.(tm)" Gilbert Wilson, gilb...@watchhouse.org or boyonwheels on most services ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Profession

Re: [lopsa-tech] Import/export of computer systems?

2011-06-16 Thread Gilbert Wilson
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Adam Levin wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Gilbert Wilson wrote: >> I have a nonprofit client with small offices throughout the world. >> Their current challenge is how best to get computers that meet their >> requirements in the hands

Re: [lopsa-tech] Import/export of computer systems?

2011-06-16 Thread Gilbert Wilson
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Ted Cabeen wrote: > The major corporate laptop vendors (lenovo, hp, dell) have worldwide support > organizations. The warranties on higher-end models usually include worldwide > support. Do you have any experience with any company's worldwide support? If so, whic

Re: [lopsa-tech] The "Enterprise Apple Laptop"

2012-04-06 Thread Gilbert Wilson
Before going down the path of purchasing third party solutions to manage your systems and/or firewalling your Macintosh population off from the rest of your network like they're some redheaded stepchild (no offense to Matt and our other redheaded colleagues!), take a look through Apple's documentat

Re: [lopsa-tech] The "Enterprise Apple Laptop"

2012-04-06 Thread Gilbert Wilson
ber seeing a paper at either LISA or annual tech within > the last year or so on centrally managing Mac systems. > > David Lang > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > >> >> Before going down the path of purchasing third party solutions to >> m

[lopsa-tech] Neat patch and/or your favorite cable management solution

2012-07-10 Thread Gilbert Wilson
I'm building out a new data room and wanted to know if anyone has used neatpatch. http://www.neatpatch.com/ It looks like a nice straight-forward solution to an all too common problem I've encountered over the years in just about every data room I've worked in or visited: nicely braided cables

Re: [lopsa-tech] Apple Airport Extreme?

2012-10-03 Thread Gilbert Wilson
On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > For my own part, I'm still looking for a good dual-WAN VPN-capable > firewall/router. What I have found so far has been very non-satisfactory. I like the various whitebox options that run pfsense. I've used both Hacom and Soekris. General d

[lopsa-tech] Apache capacity testing

2013-01-15 Thread Gilbert Wilson
, are there other tools that folks would throw out there as alternatives? Gil -- Gilbert Wilson @boyonwheels ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Gilbert Wilson
robably get more information over there. MacTech Magazine has had a few articles on esxi on Macs, with the mini being a target for their tinkering. I believe they link to the article that Stephen posted. Hope that helps! Gilbert Wilson ___ Tech mailing

Re: [lopsa-tech] Mac hard drive question

2015-01-30 Thread Gilbert Wilson
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Adam Levin wrote: > > My old drive is case-sensitive, so that's what I set the new drive to, but I > wonder if maybe it's more prone to problems? I’ve run into issues with case sensitive HFS system drives on OS X within the last ~2-3 years. The issue, of course,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Directory Server for Apple and Unix Environment

2015-03-23 Thread Gilbert Wilson
> On Mar 23, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 07:39:12AM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: >> I’m looking to tap the collective wisdom for product selection >> advice and also recommendations for professional services for our >> environment. We’re looking to replac

[lopsa-tech] Reviews of Borge backup?

2016-03-06 Thread Gilbert Wilson
I saw via Slashdot that Borg Backup has hit 1.0. http://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/stable/ It's dedupe/chunking design has me intrigued. I currently rsync data from various nodes to a backup server that then writes to tape. It looks like Borge would be a nice replacement for the rsync part

[lopsa-tech] Tracking down unicast storm (with garbage hardware address)

2016-07-11 Thread Gilbert Wilson
Last week our network was intermittently brought to it’s knees for short periods of time because of what appeared to be unicast packet storms. What we experienced looked almost exactly like this: https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12395006/packet-storm-c3750x Another person who saw the