• Surface Pro 4 - Login Issue

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    @aaronstuder said in Surface Pro 4 - Login Issue:

    @scottalanmiller The surface is 2 hours away 😞

    All the ones that I need in front of me, I just have them mail it to me. If it's an emergency, they can overnight it. Not explaining stuff over the phone to a non-technical person. If you try to describe to a sales person how to image a computer, forget it. lol

  • Weird ML Issues

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    Friday morning not paying attention. Themes were different since I was in my testing account and not my normal account.

    Not enough coffee... sigh

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  • Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10

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    @guyinpv said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:

    One week ago (8/25/16) I did an upgrade to Win10 and was able to get it free.

    Basically the customer had used the free upgrade tool (you know, the annoying system tray icon thingy) but instead of upgrading he had it create the install media and put it on USB stick.

    Well last week I took his USB stick and did a clean install, formatting the drive. Of course it was not activated, and I did not put in a key during install.

    Lo and behold, we went to the activation and stuck his Win7 key in there and it accepted it and activated digital entitlement! I was quite surprised.

    Two possible reasons:

    Microsoft has really not fully shut down the free program. Creating the install media DURING the free period somehow allows it to still activate when used later.

    If you happen to have install media created from the upgrade tool, it could be gold!

    I wouldn't call it not shutting down the program, it's just not actively blocking it.... Yet. They might, they might not. But any activations now are not officially supported or guaranteed. You are just lucky. But might be lucky forever. But it's at their mercy.

  • Cylance Questions

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    @Richard_Cylance said in Cylance Questions:

    FTFY - Sold = Lost. Exec = guru

    This reminded me of the following Simpsons clip:
    Youtube Video

  • Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?

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    SLAs vary a lot. But assume if you didn't write it and didn't spend a fortune on an attorney to review it.... That the SLA protects the vendor, not the client. A typical SLA only serves to block customers from dropping a vendor while limiting the vendor's liability. SLAs are what lock customers in to broken services.

  • Synology crashed disk this morning

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    @guyinpv i would agree. Nothing to worry about.

  • BackBlaze B2 competitors

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    @DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

    @BRRABill said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

    @DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

    The synology unit that we have apparently has this functionality built in.

    I'm like 99.999% sure of it.

    Still room for error.

    I've confirmed our Synology unit has the capability for this, just wanted to schedule a call with a tech and separate (living breathing) sales person to confirm details.

    @aaron do you guys do calls?

    What do you want BB to tell you? They can't confirm as much as you already have. Why not just test it? Or if you need a tech you need one from Synology, not BackBlaze.

  • Weird telnet Issue

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    Hmm. Something I just discovered is that even running "telnet --help" gives me the exact same delay.

  • Grandstream HT503 Gateway

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    @fuznutz04 said in Grandstream HT503 Gateway:

    @JaredBusch

    So thinking this through with using the PA-1...

    If I use the PA-1, configure it with an extension, and set it to auto answer, then use the RJ11 port to plug into the paging system RJ11 jack (master handset port that delivers dialtone) then the caller should hear dial tone and control their paging like they could previously. Does the PA-1 RJ11 jack function like this, or is it meant to be directly spliced into audio inputs on an amplifier?

    I would have to test. I have only used a handset plugged into that for testing at some clients.

  • Breaking Bitlocker

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    Anyone who thinks that disk encryption protects a machine that is decrypted is just wrong. Them being wrong is the issue. In no way does it imply that the service failed or is vulnerable.

    It's like saying your seatbelt failed when you decided not to wear it.

  • WAN connection design: big pipe VS ADSL or… embrace the cloud

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    @Francesco-Provino said in WAN connection design: big pipe VS ADSL or… embrace the cloud:

    @scottalanmiller I agree. I'm curious, why do you think that the connectivity in Italy is going backwards? And what about ADSL vs pricey FTTH?

    Because studies show it going backwards πŸ™‚ Broadband availability and adoption rates are heavily monitored by business and governments and Italy is. The biggest news in the world around that because it is the only European country moving away from Internet adoption - negative growth rates. It's real metrics from the ISPs, not an opinion.

  • Migranes from lab

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  • Hanging at Scale Today

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    Hanging?
    Youtube Video

  • Love/hate with linux

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  • ASA 5505 VPN Issue

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    Ha. One of those "well, I feel stupid" moments. Specifying the source interface in the tftp command resolved the problem!

    copy tftp://serverIP/filename.bin;int=inside flash:

    The new ASA software version is copying over. Though it's quite slow. I'll have to see what tweaks I can make there...definitely not an issue for this thread. πŸ˜„

  • Employee names-Emails CSV

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    @Dashrender said in Employee names-Emails CSV:

    did you call and ask if they really sent this request?

    Nope, I didn't even respond, the person who sent in the ticket, has a team of 10 people, if he doesn't know who is on his team, and they're emails then we have bigger issues.

  • Looking to Change ISP at Home

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    @scottalanmiller said in Looking to Change ISP at Home:

    @marcinozga said in Looking to Change ISP at Home:

    Check Frontier, I think they bought FiOS from Verizon in Florida. They should have FTTH 50/50 Mbit at least, Verizon goes up to 500/500, I don't know if Frontier has the same speed available.

    I have Frontier FiOS now in Dallas, what little I've used it, it's good.

    What is it servicing? One of your colos?

  • How much notice to give an employer?

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    scottalanmillerS

    Lots of employers try to refuse vacation totally... and it is completely illegal. You can't refuse vacation for the purpose of not paying it out. And you can never refuse it in a way that causes someone to lose it. That's fraud and very, very illegal.

  • X2Go and Mate on Fedora 24

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    Thanks!

  • DBAN a MacBook

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    @zuphzuph said in DBAN a MacBook:

    @BBigford It could just be a UEFI boot too potato.

    I did choose UEFI... I tried MBR, GPT (UEFI), etc... showed you the Rufus screen shot.