RE: Problems with Vista and Operations Console

["derhamj" <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but he was in politics and isn't that the current background of IT. It
use to be an art/science but now it's controlled by the "suits".

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Problems with Vista and Operations Console

AFAIK, Teddy Roosevelt wasn't in IT.

On 2/19/07, derhamj <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Off subject but related. Removed one more rock on the "Vista Trail of
> Tears". We got the networking working as advertised when we removed the
> Norten (Symantec) Anti-Virus software and replaced it with MS's 1-Care.
> Apparently it had a hidden fire wall in it that was blocking the Vista
> machine from seeing the two XP machines on the hardwired network. Running
> like a 4 minute miler now.
>
> I guess the lesson learned from that experience is if you are starting off
> on a new journey with a new vehicle - buy it bare bones and install all of
> the software so you know what's really in it. I guess our friends at HP
> (China) didn't want us to network.  There Customer Support Techies
certainly
> didn't know what they were talking about. Yeh, I know what you good old
> conservative are going to say - "Don't buy serial # 1 and let someone else
> do the debugging for the first year or so".  Well there are a few of us
left
> who remember reading TR's advice to the troops at San Juan - "CHARGE".
>
> Jack Derham
> Direct Systems, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfe, Julian
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:08 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: Problems with Vista and Operations Console
>
> So, I installed Vista on a separate partition on my console PC, and when I
> launch the program, I get the error "Operations Console requires Dial-Up
> networking".  I have installed the Operations Console modem driver.
>
> Anyone tried this yet?  Not a big deal problem, just seeing if anyone's
run
> across it yet.
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