--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00000 Date: 03/16/97 From: BOB DAVIS Time: 06:39am \/To: VINCENT ROBINSON (Read 5 times) Subj: ISDN VR> connection? Or do you need upgraded software? The $50-$75 VR> would include just the line rental right, or would it also VR> include an Internet connection? That's the kicker. The internet connection is a separate cost and can be significantly higher than the ISDN connection itself. Bob --- timEd/2-B11 * Origin: The Fireside BBS Houston TX (281)496-6319 (1:106/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00001 Date: 03/15/97 From: CHRIS HOLTEN Time: 08:10am \/To: DON BOSMAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Any ideas? TU>A strange problem has cropped up on my Windows 95 system of late. For TU>some reason, my C: drive seems to shrink to almost TU>nothing (I get out of TU>space errors.) even though there should be plenty of room. Now, I am DB> Do you in fact have space left or is it used up by partially filled DB> clusters? DB> 50 meg of small files can easily take 250 meg of hard drive space. This is sort of an "I can top that one" computer war story. I have a friend with a construction company that uses an estimating program called "Xactimate". Like many expensive lessor distributed "speciality" programs, it is not done with good intelligent programmers/programming. He had a 1.3 gig Hard drive that became completely full with 367 meg of files. The problem? He had 93k of Xactimate data files in over 53,000 separate files. The best I could cypher was that that 53,000 files in 93k was using over 900meg of Disk space (Most of the data files were from 500-2000bytes in size). We converted the drive to drive space 3 with 0% compression and picked up almost 1 gig of hard drive space. Also his speed using that program, both from his machine and through the network picked up considerably after converting to drive space 3 with no compression. --- Maximus/NT 3.01b1 * Origin: Win 9-Fiving it in COWBOY Country USA! (1:303/1.100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00002 Date: 03/10/97 From: ERIC VANEBERCK Time: 08:50pm \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 5 times) Subj: Virus protection Hello Steve, Sunday March 09 1997, Steve Quarrella writes to All: SQ> (plus or minus) of others. What are "the good, the bad, and the ugly?" SQ> Anybody work with F-PROT for NT? F-Prot is very good but too mutch expensive for a private usage in Windows NT 4 Eric --- Terminate 4.0+ * Origin: ARJ : The best archiver (2:293/2009) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00003 Date: 03/15/97 From: JEFF GUERDAT Time: 07:07am \/To: GRAHAM PRINT (Read 5 times) Subj: NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP On 03-12-97, GRAHAM PRINT said to VINCENT ROBINSON: GP>I had the same problems here with 4 EIDE HD's but could not get NT to see GP>the IDE CD on the AWE32. The only solution I found was that as I already GP>had 4 SCSIdevices on an Adaptec card in the same machine was to fit a 8 GP>speed PanasonicSCSI CD. This is documented in SB's tech support documents on the web page... --- *Durango b197 #NR* DurangoMail for Windows NT/95 * KMail 3.10o Knight Moves --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0406 * Origin: Knight Moves - Rochester,NY 716-865-2106 (1:2613/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00004 Date: 03/16/97 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 05:33pm \/To: ERIC VANEBERCK (Read 5 times) Subj: Virus protection Salue, Eric! Lunae dies March 10 1997, Dixit Eric Vaneberck ad Steve Quarrella: EV> F-Prot is very good but too mutch expensive for a private usage in Windows EV> NT 4 For example? --- GoldED 3.00.Alpha4+ - Spank Our Wombats! * Origin: Valencia: "Smarter than the average bear." (1:124/9005) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00005 Date: 03/10/97 From: KEVIN KUPHAL Time: 06:50pm \/To: FRANK RAMSEY (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Where to install applications -=> Quoting Frank Ramsey to All <=- FR> In the process of rolling out 800+ workstations running NT. NT FR> domain for user validation. FR> Question becomes where to install the apps. We seem to be divided FR> into two camps. One camp say put the apps on a file server and let FR> folks run it from there. Camp two says place the apps on the FR> workstations and use some token system to controll access. FR> Camp two says camp one's solution will bring the network down. Camp FR> one says camp two's solution will require backups of the workstations FR> to insure any customization is preserved. FR> Question for youse. How are you handling this situtation? Your first problem isn't going to be location but licensing. Check your software license before installing to the network to even be certain the license allows it. If you are allowed, then a choice must be made. We typically install Windows application (Office, Schedule+, etc) on each individual workstation. This has the added benefit of allowing the user to continue to work in case of some catastrophic event causing the network to disappear. We also recommend (strongly encourage) users to save their data files to the network to minimize the damage of a downed workstation. If the application installs itself nicely into one directory (as most Windows application do not) and it needs to be accessed by more than one user and per user settings are not necessary or are supported by the software we put it on the network. If the application supports a network install nicely (as Office does) then it depends on the application. I always keep in mind that the more you put on the server the more the network is stressed. Most networks can handle a few server application but in your case of 800+ you may want to reconsider. Are you connecting all these workstations to one server or multiple? If multiple, I'd consider a more workstation base system as it avoids the need to replicate changes across servers. A good software distribution system can make workstation installs a piece of cake, especially if your users are somewhat literate. Kevin ... When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Altair/95 1.21 Beta #1 * Origin: Pyramid Software - Home of ALTAIR (1:115/859.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00006 Date: 03/11/97 From: KEVIN KUPHAL Time: 05:52pm \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Virus protection -=> Quoting Steve Quarrella to All <=- SQ> I'm looking for a quality anti-virus product for NT, typically NT with SQ> '95 machines as workstations. I'm familiar primarily with McAfee and SQ> Cheyenne's Inoculan, but was interested in hearing of the experiences SQ> (plus or minus) of others. What are "the good, the bad, and the SQ> ugly?" Anybody work with F-PROT for NT? I personally like Norton Anti-Virus for Windows NT. The LiveUpdate feature to update definitions is nice and it works just like the 95 version. Kevin ... A feature is a bug with seniority. ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Altair/95 1.21 Beta #1 * Origin: Pyramid Software - Home of ALTAIR (1:115/859.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00007 Date: 03/15/97 From: TONY DUNLAP Time: 03:06pm \/To: CHRISTER_S JOHANNESSEN (Read 5 times) Subj: Dos Programs Under Nt??? ...and thus spake Christer_S Johannessen unto Dale Ross: DR> Windows NT will install to a "raw" drive. You will also have the DR> choice of NTFS or FAT. CSJ> Will NT run from a raw drive, or does _have_ to be CSJ> formatted? No, it formats it during the installation. CSJ> (formatting takes time...) If you're lucky though, you only have to do it once. Later Tony Dunlap, (tdunlap@odot.dot.ohio.gov) --- * Origin: Discover! (1:2220/30.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00008 Date: 03/13/97 From: GREG HUGHES Time: 11:10pm \/To: CHRISTER_S JOHANNESSEN (Read 5 times) Subj: Dos Programs Under Nt??? Re: Dos Programs Under Nt??? > DR> CJ>that at all possible, or do I have to create a FAT partition > DR> CJ>first, and then convert it? > DR> Windows NT will install to a "raw" drive. You will also have the > DR> choice of NTFS or FAT. > Will NT run from a raw drive, or does _have_ to be formatted? (formatting tak > time...) Umm... usually you have to format a drive to put anything on it. That's the purpose of formatting the drive. In any case, it only takes a few minutes. --- VFIDO 7.13 * Origin: PC Online (1:2424/2406) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3L00009 Date: 03/15/97 From: ASSAF SHOOL Time: 07:28pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: newbie I just installed WinNT 4.0 server on my computer and it's great. At first I thought that at 16megs ram, and a p75 cpu it was going to be slow, and it ure was ESPICIALLY trying to donwload a file in the background and do something n the foreground. But now I did something, dunno what, and it's running nappier than windows 95. Oh yeah I've also seen the blue screen of death a couple times. If you boot p the computer, then login and before the taskbar comes up you hit ctl+alt+del and sometimes it gives you the blue screen sometimes it doesn't care. Just ne of those things I guess. OS/2 is still the better multitaske IMHO. --- FRee iNTeRNeT! * Origin: The Desert Sands BBS Cambridge ON Canada (1:221/203)