Posts by Daveytay 20 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2016
They tighten the security of the OS and things break, hmm, go figure. This happens in Mac OS too when a new version is released. In the Mac's most recent version many print drivers just display a long list of options instead of the useful menu for instance.
I live in Christchurch before and still. I think most everything you said is true. I challenge you to find a code in use anywhere where the house is mandated to be habitable after a quake. Luckily mine still is and it is probably because it was built in 1959. It sways and comes upright again. Every big shake I have been home for ( too many) have been like a boat ride. Some slow rolling sway, some power smacking, some lolling at the dock, but always a boat ride.
We have been using NUCs for a few years now as Papercut Print Servers. There is no existing server, domain, but they want report and follow-me. LPR shares, Windows 10, Papercut NUC in a rack, running headless. It just works and is in budget for a school with no budget. The hardware just works, so now have said this...
I had to flash the firmware to stop the duplicate MAC addresses. Bad 3c905 bug in production! Oh, and with Netware Client on Win95OSR2 at the time. Want to disable Netware "secure" login. Boot up, rename nwlogin.dll back to ntlogin.dll. Works on NT4 too. Good times... I sure learned tons at that job.
OFC that I got wholesale and then crawled under my house to pull for my speakers was the best money I ever spent on my stereo. My wife was happy she couldn't see the wires carefully running around the fireplace skirting any more. I went from 40 year old crap cables with joins to a single run to each speaker, and it was a noticeable improvement.
The certification probably doesn't let you modify the OS. This means you can't add software, like a decent exe whitelisting AV suite that are available now. Luckily for me, when I was doing some consulting for a Genomics Start-up, there were no such rules. I networked some ABI Sequencers that ran NT4, on something like SP5, about 16 years ago. I backed them up, put NT4 SP6a, the NetWare 5.1 client and pushed the corporate AV NAL which was Symantec's recent purchase from Intel, their pretty good managed AV at the time. I would back those suckers up fairly often because they were the guts of the entire genomics lab. That was a neat job; working with Scientists is cool. I even got to delegate the rebuild of the radio-isotope scintillator that blew a hard drive and the floppy was super clogged with dust to a junior. I told him to glove up. Good times...
Sounds like Canon have some lessons to learn from Konica Minolta; yeah I work there: http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/services/csrc/ in a place called New Zealand.
It connects via an optional proxy, change of passwords is no problem. The other issues you mention in your post are valid and solvable. Sounds like your Canon Techies didn't listen to the customer.
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