Looks like it was something behind the CloudFlare CDN?

@coliver said:

We have a great Konica press-quality printer, it has amazing quality but we have to have the maintenance guy come in every 2-3 weeks to do re-alignment/repairs. During our busy season he is in every 2-3 days...

From talking to other colleagues this happens across all vendors - I'd say we have Konica out every 4-6 weeks to work on something, though this rarely means downtime. It's much better than the near weekly visits from Toshiba (and the Toshiba was offline 1 day in ten while we had it).

Our general office MFPs are all Sharps through the same company. Two of them we own outright with a maintenance agreement, the third is still under lease. We see that maintenance guy once every six months or longer.

Our desktop MFPs, Laniers, have a normal volume around 10K/month. They see service about every 4-6 months.

You should subscribe to their sale email. Two books minimum daily.

One of the obscure things I like about Windows 8 is the ability to easily create an app that uses a Windows 8 mode on IE with pre-configured settings. I see this being the way of the future.

We have a call center that just helps our members with Online banking. The call center isn't technical so we run into browser issues all the time. It would be great to have everyone that owns a Windows PC with Windows 8 or higher to just download an app with our preconfigured settings. No more which version of IE, Chrome, Opera, or FF are you using and all the variables that go with it.

@g.jacobse said:

I will look at LastPass - but even at $12.oo a year,.. I'm not sure I want to pay for something... I like OpenSource and free if possible. But respect the authors and they do very much deserve support for the work they do.

It is free to use. You only have to pay for the Premium membership if you want to use the app on your mobile device. But at that point it is the same as KeyPass, just slightly better in that as a commercial application, things are generally more polished.

You can use something like netstat to get a list of adapters and then cycle through them. That would work easily enough.

for i in $(netstat -i | cut -d' ' -f1 | grep -v Iface | grep -v lo | grep -v Kernel); do ethtool -S $i; done

Yeah, you have to sync the WHOLE notebook. No picking and choosing like boogers in your nose. 😛

A sales person being wrong about something technical. I've never seen that before 😉

@scottalanmiller said:

Very few people do. Even in IT it is not well understood.

Yeah, I guess.

@Dashrender said:

Sounds like a new word is needed.

A few, I think. There are still different foci within the generalist ranks. There needs to be some amount of differentiation without getting crazy.

There's no benefit to my company to replace 100+ VGA monitors. As they die they can be replaced with whatever is usable at the time.

That said - the HP 800 G1 SFF comes with one on board VGA and a display port. So if you want to use DVI, you're stuck buying a Displayport to DVI convertor or installing a video card.

I would vote for Eaton as well.

I am yet to organise my stuff properly but I have a few things up on SW that I found useful and have stuff scattered on my work PC.

I set up a blog that I am hoping to transfer a lot of my stuff to so that I have an easily accessible platform that I can link to if necessary.

The How-To's and Script area of SW should probably be more useful but people expect you to answer them if they post a reply to your script/how-to. That looks like it can get out of hand quite quickly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Which blogs and forums don't paste as plain text? I'm sure all the ones I use do.

WordPress accepts full style.

WP since 3.0 has always had the paste as text option. You might have to click unhide kitchen sink, if I remember correctly.

So what we ended up deciding to do, thanks to all the fine suggestions here, is to enable the new policies for passwords for both admins and users in their respective OUs and we are just going to let user passwords expire naturally and over the next 12 months, everyone will be moved to the new password requirements. Obviously all new hires will have it from the start. Thanks to everyone for your help in this! I really appreciate it!

@nadnerB use a triple backslash to show a double \\

Bring out the ol' bocket-o-slap and apply liberal servings to the post-it bandits.

@Nic said:

You'd have to have levels. Like they do for electricians and other trade workers.

Absolutely, but unlike electricians or trade workers, it isn't a progression which makes it really hard.

@GregoryHall @Minion-Queen

Someone in the LinkedIn MAX RemoteManagement group had the answer I needed.

According to MS information on this website the correct way to call programs in the System32 folder is like this:

%windir%\Sysnative\name-of-file.exe, or for the Snipping Tool: %windir%\Sysnative\snippingtool.exe.

Once MAX RM pushed out the update to the client, it worked as expected.