google them... They aren't hard to find. Look at the forum activity and the number of replies and you can get a good idea of a good forum. This should get you started... http://www.microsoft.com/comm
This isn't valid. With today's pipes bandwidth isn't a concern as far as forums go. I realize this is a mailing list and not a forum but you can probably read the archives if it bothers you. One coul
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Joe Konecny <jkonecny AT rmtohio DOT com> wrote: I meant the mental bandwidth of the participants. Key word is quality. Which IMO means interesting discussions that f
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:47:12 -0400
Joe Konecny wrote at about 09:22:05 -0400 on Friday, March 18, 2011: As a long term participant and contributor to this mailing list, I DEFINITELY see and agree that repetitive, off-topic, complainin
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:44:08 -0500
I've seen memtest take 3 days to find bad RAM. Sometimes only certain patterns/timing will fail. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer g
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:00:03 -0500
I think the bandwidth in question is human. There is only so much time to read and reply. Actually, this is also a forum by virtue of backupcentral.com's gateway. And most of the beginner questions o
It is being sold in a metaphorical sense. Well if you count rtfm as an answer then I agree. -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organiza
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:49:33 -0500
So, do I get a metaphorical commission if I help metaphorically sell copies to people who won't bother to read the docs? If someone won't read the docs or google for existing solutions, how much else
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:05:18 +0000
I actually said that there did not seem to be a standard Microsoft backup program that did incremental backups. I notice that nobody has actually told me there is one. Well, I would not spend money o
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:55 +0000
The standard memtest86+ completes in about 90 minutes on all the computers I have. As far as I can see, it just starts again and runs the same tests if you leave it running. Also, when I have a bad m
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:21:25 +0000
Well, if I have a Windows problem (quite common on my wife's work laptop) I always start by googling for "site:microsoft.com <problem>", so I would have met the first two you mention. I can only say
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:24:42 +0000
Unfortunately, memtest+'s results are only reliable if they are negative. A positive results means "good ram, or bad ram that just hasn't erred yet". Which is why you have to run it for days to be re
It's not about selling backuppc in the sense that you get money. It's about promoting. I used the word "selling" to describe what I would do if I had a product to make money off of. If I was making m
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:31:16 -0500
I think it cycles a different pattern on each run. There are different failure modes. Some only show up when there is a certain pattern in adjacent bits. And you may have 1-bit ECC covering up some f
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:36:30 -0500
Errr, if you have a windows box, type 'ntbackup -?' and note that the help listing shows /M {backup type} with choices of nomal, copy, differential, incremental, or daily. But it's not going to do cr
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:46:56 -0500
No, it's about the reason to promote. With free software there are plenty of reasons to seek it out and use it, but pretty much by definition it isn't going to make much difference to anyone else whe
Sure and that is why the users and members of this list should help each other. ...and I'm not the CEO... just the lowly MIS Director. I tell everyone here that I am just a machine operator. My machi
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net> wrote: And what's your point? It's not appropriate for you to expect to get an answer to that question here. Please ask i
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:29:04 -0500
Agreed, but there's just not a good answer for questions like 'how does this work?' without any background on what has already been tried, which step was a problem, whether it was a sourceforge insta
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:47:05 -0400
Timothy Murphy wrote at about 16:08:55 +0000 on Friday, March 18, 2011: Because sometimes it takes several runs before the error occurs -- the memory may be 'flakey' not broken. In fact, if the memor