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    Why must diesel pickup truck owners leave their truck running while getting fuel?

    Thank God you updated this thread. I have not slept a wink since 10-22-2013 because I was so worried about this. I can finally rest, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    Another admin I know who runs a AD with a .local domain has setup Exchange with UPNs and I remember him saying he just bought a widlcard cert from GoDaddy and its been working fine for him.
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    Never having asked other people before I assumed split brain was the way to go from what I understood. But you guys all seem to agree about using a sub domain and when googling around (trying to find one of the books I was talking about) I kept seeing recommendation after recommendation to do...
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    I was scouring my laptop for a PDF copy of one of the books I used to study for the MCSE and do not have it on my laptop. I do still have all those books stored away at home. I had almost forgotten that they called it split brain DNS and the more I thought about it the more I remembered it...
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    Oh no, definitely not a bad thing and worrying about the security of public DNS servers is one less thing I have to worry about. I always have the option of setting up some public facing DNS servers in our DMZ and pointing our internal AD DNS servers to that but definitely not worth it.
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    I believe certificate issues were one of the main reasons mentioned in the later materials I've read about switching from .local to matching with the public domain or a subdomain of the public domain.
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    Well besides lazy people not typing in the "www" before our website, there's been any issues about it so it's not been a problem. However, since we are using a 3rd party hosted DNS service and have no public DNS servers, anyone outside the LAN cannot access any machine inside the LAN except...
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    See, I've seen that even less often than company.com or company.local. When I was doing my MCSE (for 2003) all of the materials I went over was pushing .local. When I started studying some newer material (more like Server 2008) it all mentioned Microsoft recommending a good firewall and...
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    Well I couldn't think of a way it'd work and not cause AD problems but wanted to verify. However, although I know the rule used to be to use a .local (or other non-public) domain I thought that after I learned to do that Microsoft changed their mind and started recommending MATCHING the name to...
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    Microsoft and OEMs, conspiring to keep the user down

    Maybe I was thinking of going from no SP to Sp3... You wouldn't think that'd come up much as Whistler wasn't around very long before SP1 came out but I work on so many old crappy machines for people that I've ran into a few Whistler machines even as recently as a few months ago.
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    Microsoft and OEMs, conspiring to keep the user down

    Yup, I have SP1 (for those very rare times I run across a machine that doesn't have SP1 and has Windows "Whistler"), SP2, SP3, and all that other stuff on my flash drive. I'm about 75% sure you have to do SP1, SP2, then SP3 and can't skip.
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    Microsoft and OEMs, conspiring to keep the user down

    I was thinking you had to go SP1->SP2->SP3 and couldn't install SP3 on a system with SP1 (thus skipping SP2). Not totally sure on that though.
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    DNS Question, also pertains to Active Directory

    I manage a small domain here at work with a single forest/single domain setup. Our domain name is the same as our public name (example.org) and we used to host our own web server here. We recently outsourced that to another place and are having a minor problem; when a user opens a browser and...
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    Odd problem with email across 3 mac devices..

    Yup, this guy has been using his hotmail for a long time and doesn't want to switch but at least he's not completely closed minded and is ready to do it. I know another guy, in his 70's, who has been using Yahoo mail forever and just will not switch but keeps calling me up all the time...
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    Odd problem with email across 3 mac devices..

    Thank you for responding. I was starting to think I was going crazy. I couldn't find anything magical to do with Apple with this but thought I better ask some Apple guys first. I too was blaming it on the server's end and he said he thinks he first noticed very soon after receiving an email...
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    Odd problem with email across 3 mac devices..

    I have a friend who has a 2 year old iMac, an iPhone 4G, and an iPad 2G. He has a Hotmail (yuck) email account that he doesn't want to get rid of. He had it successfully setup in the default Mail program on all 3 devices for quite a while and it always worked fine. Then suddenly, without him...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Well now the laptop doesn't turn on at ALL. But I did suspect it was the cable there at the end, while it was still coming on, and I tried closing the screen and it didn't change anything. I have seen that before too and closing the hinges moves the flex cable enough so it may work but in my...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Will do. I'm not looking forward to swapping the board but I'm more concerned that there's still a chance it may not be the motherboard. Although I doubt it coincidentally went out at the same time there was the white/flickering screen issue.
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    I didn't know about the planner board name -- you learn something new every day. Anyways, I have replaced at least 100 motherboards in laptops before and never had any problems. This one will be a pain just because everything is crammed so tightly but it won't be a problem. This is an...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Are you talking about the motherboard? Normally, for a cheap laptop I'd say junk it. But he paid $1700 for it 2 years ago and I think he's wanting to hang on to it and wants to trying getting a motherboard. Hopefully that will resolve the problem and it won't just be back to being a white...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Well I was double checking the video cable from the motherboard to the LCD, trying to see if there was a short in it and the laptop cut off. I didn't have the charger plugged in so I figured the battery went dead (although I thought it was charged up). I plugged the AC adapter in, which lights...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Just double checked and the inverter is built onto the LCD. So I guess that leaves the cable since the screen I tried is doing the same exact thing. The screen I plugged up is the same size but instead of being 1600x900 it's 1366x768. I was afraid that would be a problem but when I turned...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    I DID plug in an external LCD to the VGA port on this laptop. It always shows a perfect picture. And when I have it set to duplicate whats on the laptop screen I can see the external screen will be showing a perfect picture while the laptop's LCD will be white and/or flickering on and off...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Ok, before I start sounding like even more of an ass let me apologize as I didn't mean to seem unappreciative of your help. Looks like video card more than anything but because so many places either are shipping from China (literally every single card like this on eBay), or have restocking/other...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    It's always a legitimate answer to a part possibly being bad. But that's not the way I do things. I want to be pretty sure about a problem before I just start ordering parts that I may have to return. I'm not the smartest guy in the world but I'm smart enough to know that I can order another...
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    Your troubleshooting powers amaze me.
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    I was 90% sure I had a bad LCD but now it looks like the video card, any ideas?

    I am helping a friend with an Alienware M15x which has an AMD HD5850 video card. He said that out of nowhere the screen would flicker and turn completely white and as time went on it did it more any more. Now, before you can usually even log into Windows it flickers like crazy and goes white...
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    Ah, I got ya. Thanks for clarifying. And thanks again, spidey07 for the help/advice.
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    How do you mean? You're using forwarders for everything or just using conditional forwarding for specific sites like google?
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    Good point, makes sense and I never considered that part of it because I've never had it happen. Will be switching back to root hints.
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    Thank you for mentioning the forwarders thing! I was always confused by that and was going to ask in my previous message and decided not to bother you with it. I used to think that you should only use forwarders within the organization and then root hints out to the Internet but another admin...
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    I haven't heard of FlexConnect and just googled it.. is it a Cisco only thing?
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    Yes, security is top priority. I have a spare server to do DHCP for that subnet so it wouldn't be a problem to have its own dedicated DHCP server. And have our ISP's DNS we can use. All of my MCSE studying was focused on using onsite DNS to limit bandwidth usage but we're only going to have a...
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    Thank you for the response! You definitely helped clear it up for me. I've read up about 802.1q trunking and understand how that will work as well. I also thought using a PSK on the guest network, even if its something simple just to keep every weirdo within 1/10mi from bumming out wifi...
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    Question about VLANs over different switches/APs

    I have been researching the use of VLANs so that I can separate wireless network traffic into the original employee LAN and a guest wifi here at work. Each network will have its own 23bit subnet so it's not a ton of traffic but I'd still like to have the two networks separate to provide some...
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    Planetary and atomic movement: Old and busted = Gravity; New hotness = solar wind

    So are they saying that Einstein is wrong too?
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    Thinking of ditching the optical drive in my laptop and adding an SSD

    Here's a pic of the enclosure: I'm happy with it but if you were expecting a lipstick red plastic shell you'd be surprised like I am. I'm not upset about it because I just wanted something different, not necessarily that color red. The picture shows how the color looks when the light hits...
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    Thinking of ditching the optical drive in my laptop and adding an SSD

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CS48EA/..._M3T1_ST1_dp_1 There ya go. Less than $9 shipped. I'm hoping the built quality is decent. I don't expect much for $9 but I don't want it to fall apart on me. I read reviews of quite a few and lots of them said the enclosure just snapped or slid together...
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    Thinking of ditching the optical drive in my laptop and adding an SSD

    BTW here is the slim DVD enclosure I got off Amazon for $8.xx with shipping: I was going to go with a plain black one but saw this red one and thought well that's one way I might be less likely to leave it at a customer's site because I'm sure that red will catch my eye. My laptop is an Asus...
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    Thinking of ditching the optical drive in my laptop and adding an SSD

    Ok, it doesn't bother me as bad if SATA 2 is the limiting factor and not some switch in BIOS (it IS AHCI already though) or something else I can easily change or control. So far its awesome and I wish I had done this sooner. I keep a ton of ISO files on my large drive and carry a few blank...