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General Software Discussion / Re: software to draw network map

« Last post by techidave on December 27, 2009, 03:33 PM »

thanks for the replies.  i will check them out.  I had looked at theDude earlier but wasn't aware that the order could be re-arranged.

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General Software Discussion / software to draw network map

« Last post by techidave on December 27, 2009, 11:48 AM »

I am looking for some free software that will allow me to draw a map of my internal network showing routers, access points, network printers, servers, etc.  It must have the pictures or drawings already in the software of all the above.  Also to have at box that could have name or IP address.

Does anyone know of anything that will do this?  Also must be easy to use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: fully-free software for biz - the lists !

« Last post by techidave on December 24, 2009, 05:20 PM »

Thanks Steven for a very thorough list.  I tried the SimpleSysInfo and found it was easy to use.  It also gives more info than Belarc Advisor and it's portable. 

This one definitely is a keeper!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 23, 2009, 09:27 AM »

I'm still researching the if/how to get the IP addressing method & info to see if it can be implemented (and reconfigured) reliably.

-techidave (December 20, 2009, 11:46 AM)

Have you had a chance to see if this is going to work or not?

-Stoic Joker (December 20, 2009, 03:25 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Possible to display & use 2 mouses simultaenously?

« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2009, 04:38 PM »

Sorry guys, I didn't read the original post close enough.  I thought it sounded too easy.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2009, 04:34 PM »

I agree, DHCP reservations is the way!  Unfortunately, this school hasn't had a tech person so they are way behind the 8 ball.  They probably have just plugged the cords in and turned them on and way they went.  Works ok until they decide to switch addresses.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2009, 11:46 AM »

Good job, SJ!  As I have said, it is a great little program.  In a couple of weeks, I will be adding another school to my list that I support.  This will work good up there... let me see what models and what IP's are be used without having to physically go to each one.  I do know that they are still on DHCP and they have had one grab another's IP address already.  So they print to Printer A but it prints on Printer B.   

Now I will just have to figure out which IP they are supposed to have so that I don't have to reinstall them on all the machines.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Possible to display & use 2 mouses simultaenously?

« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2009, 11:33 AM »

I use 2 USB or one USB and one PS/2 on one computer all the time without any problems.

no extra software necessary.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: finding my bookmarks for the forum

« Last post by techidave on December 19, 2009, 07:06 AM »

thanks App.  I guess I was looking for a "bookmark" button.

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Site/Forum Features / finding my bookmarks for the forum

« Last post by techidave on December 19, 2009, 05:57 AM »

what is the easiest and quickest way to find the page showing all my bookmarked topics?  I always seem to have trouble getting there.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 18, 2009, 09:36 PM »

Hey Joker, just had an idea.  I don't know if it is possible or not but here goes.

Is it possible to show whether or not DHCP is enabled or not?  I had this situation at school today and it would be nice to know when it scans for printers, just in case I missed setting a static ip or not.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 17, 2009, 08:02 PM »

Well SJ, I am glad you thought of updating the folks here.  Because I sure didn't think of it.  Oh well, I couldn't have explained it as well as you.

Joker created a wonderful program, small, fast and non bloated!     If you are needing a program to scan your network for IP based printers and then give you a report showing the IP address, host name, serial number, pages printed, amount of toner left (in percent) and then he goes and add columns for color lasers toner amounts and pages printed.

It truly is a wonderful program.  Oh, did I say how wonderful it was?  

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General Software Discussion / syncing an ipod shuffle with wmp on vista

« Last post by techidave on December 16, 2009, 09:47 PM »

ok, I know nothing about mp3 players.  My son was trying to download some music to a friend's Ipod shuffle.  but it wouldn't sync with it.  My kids have mp3 players but not ipods, so I don't want to install itunes just to put a few songs on.

is there some freeware out there that will allow this?  i found this link but it is a 30 day trial.  here

we have wmp version 11 on Vista Business.

any ideas?

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 16, 2009, 05:52 AM »

Sj, I have downloaded the 163 build.  it appears scan for network printers, if it finds more than one local area connection, will go with the last one.  I installed skype on my computer so now it show more than one LAN in the network connections.

I am attaching screenshots.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 15, 2009, 05:39 AM »

I have the latest firmware on already, so update there.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 15, 2009, 05:37 AM »

Ok, I will hang in there.  Also the xerox's only report )% or 100% toner level.  but the web access doesn't give you a percent either so probably nothing could be done there.  Hmmm... I wonder if a firmware update would take care of that?

We do have Skype installed on one of the computers in the lab.  I would have to find out what time it is free and let you know.  We are 1 hour behind you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 07:47 PM »

I will post a screenshot.  Sorry about the confusion.  I am not a coder by any means.  If I ask for something and it sounds like its too difficult, then I will say forget it.  The screenshot is what I would like to be able to print.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 04:35 PM »

It's interesting how my Xerox DocuPrint N2125's page counts shows up under the Color Page Count column.  It also doesn't report the serial number.

But I would bet this is just how that model is programmed.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 04:34 PM »

I wouldn't worry too much about the print screen functionality at this point in time.  It would be nice but probably not worth the effort.  Unless some others would like it too.  I can just use excel to print it.

Since my users don't normally print a huge amount so being able read the display is a big deal for me.  not yet anyway.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 02:54 PM »

first answer is yet for toner levels.

the last paragraph, I am not following what you mean.  Does this mean when an error is showing on the control panel display, I could then see it from within your program?

can you just add a "print screen" to your program?  maybe that would save some time. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 02:10 PM »

Ok, so I fibbed a bit about not wanting anymore features.  I just tried to print a report out but couldn't do it from the default screen.  The only option the program gives me is to save a report; or email the report.  If I save it then it goes to a csv which I could then open excel and print from there.  But since I am a wee bit lazy and that involves too many keystrokes or mouse clicks to do.  is it possible to add some kind of print functionality?

When I email it, Outlook 2007 scrambles the report and removes any of the delimeters. Anyway to format this a little better instead of this:

IP Address,MAC Address,HOST Name,Model Name,Serial Number,Current Page Count,Color Page Count,Scan Date & Time 10.3.1.1,00:00:AA:5C:82:6D, ,Xerox DocuPrint N2125 Network Laser Printer - 2.12-60 , , ,164063,2009-12-14 14:05:34 10.3.1.2,00:00:AA:64:63:96,GSCompLab,Xerox DocuPrint N2125 Network Laser Printer - 2.12-51 , , ,171165,2009-12-14 14:05:34 10.3.1.3,00:04:00:6D:42:FB,GS2ndGrade,Lexmark E240n 72BHZPZ BR.Q.P026 -- Part Number --,72BHZPZ-62-0,13016, ,2009-12-14 14:05:34 10.3.1.5,00:01:E6:69:9E:72,GS4THGRADE,hp LaserJet 1300n,CNCB102053,12323, ,2009-12-14 14:05:34 10.3.1.6,00:01:E6:69:3B:EC,gs5thprinter,hp LaserJet 1300n,CNBB063031,24488, ,2009-12-14 14:05:34 10.3.1.7,00:60:B0:D5:43:51,SUPTLASERPRINTER,HP LaserJet 4100 Series,JPLGD27606,2900, ,2009-12-14 14:05:34

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 14, 2009, 05:34 AM »

Congratulations to Joker and also to DC on another fine program!  I cannot wait to try build 155 at school today. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 13, 2009, 08:36 PM »

Ok, Ok, Ok... I guess we can live with a few more features.

I saw the email report and then when I tried it and said something about emailing to LAP Technologies so I canceled it.

I look forward to trying the "new" version tomorrow.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on December 13, 2009, 02:49 PM »

Hey this is awesome Joker!      It will even find the toner level and page count on a networkable copy machine!

Finding the page count on some of the lasers that have an external print server hooked up to them can be a challenge but this piece of software will get it.

I cannot think of anything that needs to be added.  All the info that one could ever hope to find in one spot!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: Monitor Off by button

« Last post by techidave on December 13, 2009, 07:19 AM »

It does what I kind of want it to do but it turns back on after a couple of seconds.  This was the same problem I was running into before and I'm not sure if it is the computer I'm programming it on if it is something else.
Thanks for all your help,
Alex

-awiltz (December 06, 2008, 10:39 PM)

I have this same problem on a computer with dual monitors.  Is this normal for it to turn itself back on?  I tried turning off one monitor but it did the same thing.

It is working just fine on another one with only one monitor.