| Monday
January 24, 2000
Short Shrift time again...
Dear Jerry,
Regarding your troubles adding a Win2000 Pro
workstation to your domain: The quickest way to join a domain, with both
NT4 and Win2000, -usually encountered when installing a new machine to
your network, requires 2 main steps.
1) At the domain server, you must give a user the
right to add members to the domain - in the User Manager For Domains
(looks like you may have already done that in your case), - this right is
not given to anyone by default.
2) When you are installing a new Win2000
workstation, during the Network installation section of the install, don't
select the "typical settings" button, always take the custom
option, wherein thereafter you will be given choices, and among them the
choice to join a domain. To join the domain, you need to enter the user
and password for the one you gave the rights to in the above step.
This all assumes you are installing
"manually" (no unattended scripts, etc.), and as a note, you
will have to make sure that you have the proper IP and DNS info for your
network entered BEFORE you try to join the domain, I seem to have had
several instances where NT would allow me to skip entering any network
info before trying to sign on to the domain, which would of course result
in a hang until it finally realized it couldn't talk to any domain server
(especially happens if you are using static IPs instead of DHCP).
This procedure can also be applied later, from the
settings options under the my computer properties as you described in your
notes, but you can save a step and an extra reboot if you use the above
method. Hope this helps for future installs.
-Jn-
Jeff G Newell, Network Services TimeFrame, Inc.
(907) 677-2321 jnewell@tframe.com <mailto:jnewell@tframe.com>
www.tframe.com <http://www.tframe.com>
Good Advice: but when installing a
Windows 2000 Professional (workstation) to a net, it can all be done from
the new machine. The Wizard offers you one and only one chance; if you
don't do it then, you must use PROPERTIES at the Network ID tap, and of
course you have to have administrator privileges and password on the
Domain you are adding to. It is all actually pretty simple, but you do
have to touch the bases in order.
Dr Pournelle,
You may already know of this, but in case you don't,
here goes:
The National Institute of Standards has a web site which
features a section devoted to mathematical constants. It has some very
interesting things, all collected in one place.
I found out about it in the latest issue ( March
2000 ) of Astronomy magazine, pg 34.
the address is http://physics.nist.gov/constants
Jim Snover
Thanks!
That Atlantic
article [see last week's MAIL and VIEW] on how Microsoft develops software
clarified an issue that is frequently argued on comp.lang.C++.moderated--why
MSVC++ is so deficient relative to the new standard. (See <http://animal.ihug.co.nz/c++/compilers.html>).
I can only conclude that MSVC++ as Microsoft's in-house C++ compiler is
only sold retail as an afterthought and is written to meet the
requirements of Microsoft's inhouse developers. Those developers do not
make extensive use of the advanced features of the new standard, and so
the standard is only implemented in a spotty fashion in their corporate
tool.
Motorola recently bought out Metrowerks, primarily
based on their compiler support for embedded systems. The continued
interest at Metrowerks in standards compliance suggests that Motorola and
its software vendors make a somewhat greater use of the advanced features
of the standard.
--- Harry Erwin, PhD, <mailto:herwin@gmu.edu>,
<http://mason.gmu.edu/~herwin>, Senior SW Analyst and Adjunct
Professor of Computer Science, George Mason University.
Interesting. Thanks.
Jerry - I hope
this is of use to you. After three years of work, I've just posted a web
site about the Internet, how it was invented, how it works, how to use it,
advanced usage, troubleshooting, and related information. It has a
separate section on the Internet, and one on each of the net's six main
technologies: Email, the Web, Usenet, IRC, MUD's, and mailing lists.
The site is designed to be useful for new users, and
interesting to experienced Internauts. The address is:
http://livinginternet.com/
I hope you enjoy it. All the best,
Bill Stewart <billstew@livinginternet.com
>
Have not had a chance to look but I
bet I get reader reports...
Howdy Jerry,
Was wondering which Tyan M-Brd you purchased?
I bought a Tyan S1590S Trinity 100 AT Socket 7 board
w/ 1MB Level 3 cache &; w/ a K6-3/450 last summer. Really like it.
Found that the K6-3 created timing problems w/ Win95. So AMD sent me 2,
count 'em, 2 free copies of Win98 Upgrade to fix the problem. Have
compared it directly w/ the Pentium III 450/500 &; find it is just as
fast, if not faster &; am extremely pleased. I am thinking of giving to
my kids in another case &; building myself a new system w/ an Athlon,
however, I can't use a Tyan board because they don't build a slot A board
now. Any suggestions?
I found Tyan's documentation to be very good on my
board, although there had been obvious corrections to the manual prior to
printing.
Have a good week. Later.
Greg Lenderink, aka, CyberRanger -- CyberRanger -
cybrrngr@frii.com - Rangers Lead the Way! "The CyberRanger's AO"
- http://www.frii.com/~cybrrngr/ao "Larimer County 4-Wheel Drive
Club, Inc. - The Mountaineers" http://www.mountaineers4x4.org - #17
-'71 Chevy K20,'70 Jeep CJ-5 NRA - http://www.nra.org
I have the TYAN S1857 Trinity 371
but I have not yet had a chance to bring it up. There is a misprint in the
Panel Connector instructions. Fortunately those are all signal voltages so
no damage will be done if I get them wrong. I think I have them right
except the HDD LED. I'll bring it up tonight after I write some fiction.
Hello Jerry,
I just ordered "The Burning City" and
Fletcher Pratt's "The Battles that Changed History" (on your
recommendation) from Barnes &; Noble. While ordering, I noticed that
Pratt will have a new book out soon titled "Lost Battalion". I
was wondering if you or any of your readers know anything about this book.
?? B&;N didn't have any information other than the planned publishing
date.
Clyde Wisham Noli Permittere Illegitimi Carborundum
Don't know the book, but Pratt never
wrote a dull one. Thanks for the
Burning City Order. Hope a LOT of people do that. Let's get it on a
best seller list before it is published!
From: Lawrence A. Husick [mailto:Lawrence@LawHusick.com]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 4:57 PM Subject: Joke: Copyright Law,
Explained
And to think... I went to law school and could not
have said it this well on the final exam...
When you write copy, you own copyright on the copy
you write, if the copy is right (and if if the copy is not right.) If
however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy. If you write
religious services you write rite, and you own a copyright for the rite
you write. Very conservative people write right copy, and own copyright
for the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite,
and owns copyright for the right rite he has the right to write. His
editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the
copyright can be truly right. Should Thom Wright decide to write right
rite, then Wright would write right rite, for which Wright owns copyright.
Duplicating that rite would copy Wright right rite, and infringe
copyright, which Wright would have the right to right. Right?
Lawrence A. Husick LIPTON, WEINBERGER &; HUSICK
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Lawrence@LawHusick.com
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