@DustinB3403 said in Latest from Lenovo - locked in to Windows:
So another reason to not purchase Lenovo equipment.
Did you need more reasons?
Maybe that's the catch. If you're dumb enough to buy Lenovo, they already know they can't trust you to tinker with it without breaking something, so they just lock out the ability.
@scottalanmiller said:
My dad had the best stories ever, though. He used to machine his own rockets and make his own fuel. A lot like in "October Sky." He once set the barn on fire when he was a kid trying to launch a new rocket in a rain storm from inside the barn.
He has told me that story. Hilarious.
Totally agreeing with @JaredBusch here. A major component of the concept of going with a MS-hosted solution is that the onus is on MS as the service provider to guarantee your mail. It kind of takes care of any need for backups of that data.
@mlnews said:
Major issues here in Greece...
Why is there a Mercedes symbol on the "Black Lives Matter" sign?
@dafyre said in How to handle this:
@art_of_shred said in How to handle this:
@Dashrender said in How to handle this:
I'm with Scott - stop having in person meetings with that person. Do it all through email. At the very least, write up a detailed email after the conversation, and have him agree to it through email before presenting it to the boss.
Then send the email chain to the boss on the way to the meeting.
Nothing beats a paper trail.
Except paper shredder...
Figurative expression... digital "paper".
@MattSpeller he said "real money", not Loonies...
So, we figured out what the conflict was that caused a Fibrant IP to come back when we knew that only TWC was active...
The old router (powered off) was still connected physically to the old (should have been discontinued) Fibrant service. Somehow, it got turned back on and since no one ever physically removed it, and it had a mirrored LAN config... sudden packet losses galore! It is now powered off, physically disconnected, and removed from the rack. IP searches return a proper TWC IP address now. 
Spent over an hour on the phone trying to explain to an "IT director" the difference between a router and a switch... and then about 15 minutes later he emailed, asking if it was ok for him to plug his incoming fiber connection into a switch on his network.
I've got a situation where a couple of switches were configured with an old gateway that is no longer in service. We've been seeing devices unable to reach the DHCP server, so I am curious how that works. Could the switch's bad configuration prevent all attached devices from reaching their correct gateway, or would the device configuration (correct) still find its way?
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good morning, everyone. I am SO sunburnt.
I hear apple cider helps with that. (Rub it on the sunburn, that is).
I was thinking more along the lines of Tequila (Don't rub it on the sunburn, that is).
Just out of curiosity, do you have the RX and TX lines running parallel instead of swapped at one end?
I don't personally get the small car thing. If I can turnaround and touch the rear window from the driver's seat, it's too freaking small. I want a roomy, comfortable ride... and horsepower. There's just no such thing as a "car guy" who sits in or opens the hood of a little cardboard cracker-box car with 13" wheels and goes "dang, this is a sweet car!" Although, there is something alluring about the Veloster, in a weird sort of way that I can't quite put my finger on.
@wirestyle22 said in SIP "Ringer" / external speaker:
Something like this might be able to do that: https://www.voipsupply.com/snom-pa-1-new ??
Just set it up as an extension that is part of a ring group for incoming calls. Yup, that'll do it. Then attach it to a speaker.
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller you have far more tolerance and patience than me :')
It's wearing thin. It is a good thing that so much of that information has been turned into articles or i'd have lost my mind long ago.
ahahaha yeah, I'd have definitely written a "Fine, since you know better, go do it your way, but when it fails, be sure to let me know" sort of post lol
But do you even want them to inform you when it fails? You know it will, so there's no gain there; just being reminded of the whole annoying thing again.
@Dashrender said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:
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@Dashrender said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:
@dafyre said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:
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@dafyre said
I have never had any issues not putting them in... But make sure you understand what they are at a bare minimum... Bonus points if you know how to calculate them.
Bah, that's why we have the interwebs
That's also why it's bonus points if you know how to calculate it.
I recall when I learned how to calculate it - for a while I just assumed anyone higher than me on the IT food chain must know this stuff - boy was I wrong.
I know, right? The only reason I remember is because my CCNA prof made sure we knew how to do subnet calculations on paper from day one.
I learned it when I was self learning Windows NT stuff. My company at the time was all Windows 3.1 and a bit Windows 95 with Netware on the servers. For some reason I really like NT 4.0 and bought some books and started learning.
Out of all the Microsoft Server versions I've used over the years, 2000 was my favorite with NT4.0 only falling out of the favorite slot because of the tiny boot partition, even at that time 2GB was kinda small.
I still prefer NT4 by far. 2000 was actually my least favourite.
Well, I used Server 2000 for a desktop back in the pre XP days, just to have a stable platform to game on
Linux/UNIX world was always so much more stable.
Yes, I did the same thing. I moved to Windows 2000 as fast as possible. Win9x was so unstable...
That wasn't the transition, though. The Windows 9x world was consumer, Windows NT was business. Windows 2000 was the continuation of the already most of a decade old NT family. So had you moved to the NT world "as soon as you could" you would have done so before Windows 95 even released. Windows ME was the continuation of the 9x family, Windows 2000 was NT 5. So you jumped mid-stream.
Yes I know all that - I don't know why my office never really used NT3.51... we went from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 2000 at that office.
I personally tossed NT 4.0 in there.
I have always had the sense that most businesses did just that. 3.11 > 95 > 2000.
@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:
Not so much weekend plans as Friday plans... but taking the kids to see Salina Turda today.
I'm not sure what Salina Turda is, but it sounds like salty poop.
@travisdh1 said in App Store users can bring antitrust lawsuit against Apple:
@art_of_shred said in App Store users can bring antitrust lawsuit against Apple:
9th circus is a joke. Always has been.
ftfy
thank you. I stand corrected.
@JaredBusch doing 82 in a construction zone, while taking a pic with your phone. Shame on you! LOL
We have a client who has multiple locations, all of whom employ Cisco routers currently. It's time for a new router at 1-3 locations, but the bulk of the overall network will remain Cisco with what's in place (let's say they are all 1812 routers, for simplicity). They have Dynamic Multipoint VPN running, and there is currently a Sonicwall router in place that explicity handles the VPN for data to/from an Avaya phone system. The questions are these:
Can a Ubiquiti ERPro-8 router take the place of the Cisco currently in production? Is the Cisco using a proprietary VPN that will not play with non-Cisco equipment, etc.?
If the answer to the above permits using Ubiquiti, can the ERPro-8 also handle the VPN traffic for the Avaya phones? Can you create more than one VPN tunnel from a single router?
How does the ERPro-8 compare to a Cisco 1900 series router in power, performance, and features?
Being entirely unfamiliar with most things Cisco, I'm hoping to get some traction with your collective experience...
Thanks!
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Second day of vacations and I start to feel a bit bored. Promised my wife that I won't do anything IT until Thursday (the day after her birthday)...
Anyway, good morning ML
Good morning. Maybe time for a new video game?
Good idea, but that would be the 6th in 2 weeks (Grim Dawn, Age of Mythology, Age of Empires 3, Torchlight II, Supreme Commander)
I miss the AoE2 matches we used to do, with the entire NTG team... 
