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manickernel wrote:

In times like this, I will vote for a captain that knows his course, as much as I may disagree with it.

thechris wrote:

i'd like to see less deceptive adds from MS...  i saw another recent case study where:

* 25 year old unix (linux?) mainfram was slower then a cluster of 3ghz p4s on win2003 server.  not that i think win2003 server is bad, but there is a slight hardware difference...
* windows was found to be more friendly to developers because they don't have to program in assembly...  yes, that was the reason cited.  appently there are no C compilers for linux.  no gcc, no icc, no tcc, nothing at all.  you just gotta go for straight assembly, you are your own compiler...

5 years ago a colleague of mine had UTP cabling throughout his car (server in the trunk and a plug next to every seat). He'd love this.

Thank you both, as you both had part of the solution.
It turned out I had no administrative rights on comp1 as well. Also I should have used the comma. I was alternating between two scripts which were the expect for the comma and semicolon.
I did use cscript but forgot to type it.

Again thanks to both of you, I am back on track (and got a reminder from that typo and syntax error are a programmers' nightmare).

Sonic wrote:

Sure hope so there's gonna be a competition next year. I might even have a chance then

The following script is actually direct from the CD that came with the book (Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide)

Running it without arguments gives the correct message.

When I give one or more arguments, it gives an error:
pingmultiplecomputers.vbs(10,1) (null): 0x80041010

This is the command:
cscript pingmultiplecomputers.vbs computer1;computer2
where computer1 is the local machine and computer2 a machine on the network. I have no administrator rights on computer2

This is the script:
If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
WScript.Echo("You must enter a computer To ping")
Else
strMachines = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
aMachines = split(strMachines, ",")
For Each machine In aMachines
Set objPing = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}")._
ExecQuery("select * from Win32_PingStatus where address = '"_
& machine & "'")
For Each objStatus In objPing
    If IsNull(objStatus.StatusCode) or objStatus.StatusCode<>0 Then
    WScript.Echo("machine " & machine & " is not reachable")
    Else
    wscript.Echo("reply from " & machine)
    End If
Next
Next
End If

Line 10 in the error message is this:
For Each objStatus In objPing

I run it on a W2K pro station.

What obvious point am I overlooking?

Your son looks exactly like you. Mine does look a lot like me but he is too young to see if he'll also be into computers (so far so good ).

What did your wife think about your idea of a father&son day out? )

"I was just wondering why did my fellow c9ers join c9?"

Because this is something I have been looking for for some time, contact with customers beyond a weblog (nothing wrong with that though). More companies should do it. If anyone knows a company that does, please tell.

For starters, I don't hate. Period.
There is an issue I have with Microsoft that effectively overshadows anything else I might think or feel about it.

Many will probably find it silly because it is not even about software quality, monopolies, business practices or BSOD.

Well, out with it. Some years ago Steve Ballmer compared open source with cancer. Now it may be that using the word cancer outside the scope of discussing this particular illness is normal in the English language. Over here, however, it has only two uses, the other being swearing. Swearing itself hardly bothers me, I tend to ignore it. Cancer, to me, is a different matter. My father-in-law fought it for two years and lost. But even before that, callous use of it, bothered me. Nowadays it hurts.

An apology would do. 'Sorry I hurt your feelings, didn't mean to', and I'd be done with it. I never got around just asking that.

Last Tuesday, at Technet/MSDN in The Hague, I saw Steve Ballmer speak, first time for me. Call me silly, but I couldn't get myself listening to him. I fiddled with my mobile phone until he was done.

Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but that's how it is. Otherwise I have no issues with Microsoft, apart from 'maybe you could do this or that better' (like stop moving administrative tools around every time a new Windows hits the market: a minor pain if you're updating an NT network to 2000 or 2003).

jonathanh wrote:

so they took out some of the Pro features
[snip]
otherwise businesses would just start running Media Center on their desktops.