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    • RE: Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere

      @Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

      We have done contract buyouts before. Let me know if you want to talk to someone here.

      wow i completely missed this. Ill speak to the Director.

      Nic the funny thing is that I deployed your software to the company this week with a Trial offering to help with the Zepto infection. Took me about an hour or so.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • Anyone In Texas and Likes Willie Nelson?

      Tickets just went on sale at Billy Bob's in Ft Worth. Concert is Nov 12th!

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?

      @scottalanmiller said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @Brains said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @Brains said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @jt1001001 said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      Our Tampa office git stuck in the middle of the takeover and was down not for 4 hours, but 4 DAYS! Yep DAYS!. Now the billing issues have started as we had a special deal on our FiOS circuit that did not carry over.

      I've had T1 customers in Rochester down for over six months. Four days isn't even a blip.

      How was it offline that long? I know the fcc regulations have some wiggle room, I didnt know they had that much.

      FCC does very little with T1s, especially in areas that are not regulated.

      @scottalanmiller said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @Brains said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      @jt1001001 said in Former Verizon-Now Frontier Communication....why is the review so bad?:

      Our Tampa office git stuck in the middle of the takeover and was down not for 4 hours, but 4 DAYS! Yep DAYS!. Now the billing issues have started as we had a special deal on our FiOS circuit that did not carry over.

      I've had T1 customers in Rochester down for over six months. Four days isn't even a blip.

      How was it offline that long? I know the fcc regulations have some wiggle room, I didnt know they had that much.

      FCC does very little with T1s, especially in areas that are not regulated.

      I thought T1s had some guarantee where they had to begin working on the problem within 24-48 hours? I may be misremembering specifics

      T1 is just a WAN connection. The SLA with a T1 is contractual and has nothing to do with regulations. Also, an SLA is what protects the vendor and keeps them from unlimited liability. An SLA that says that they "have to start work" in 24 hours only means that they have to pay whatever stipulated penalty there is. If that penalty is, say, $5 but the line makes $500 profit and it would cost $200 to fix, the SLA makes it make sense to leave the line broken as the penalty isn't enough to justify fixing it, but forces the customer to be unable to turn it off.

      Wow I didnt know that (Never really had to deal with that side before). Thanks for the clarification Spiceworks Jesus!

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      Just got off the phone with an Army buddy of mine. 5 days on a mountain in Arkansas and Smoking a freshly slaughtered cow. Mmmm this is going to be a good weekend.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10

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

      @DustinB3403 We have an application that's going to cost us $80k to re-write.

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      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Brains said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      I got up at 7:30 am in Dallas, drove all day and arrived in Indianapolis at 3:00 am. Doing some catch up before turning in. I'm visiting @scale tomorrow here in town, trying to be there in about six hours, but seven is more likely.

      Dang Jesus. You should stop by and visit next time you are in town. At least grab a good German Beer with me!

      Better come over to my place to get some real German beer 😉

      Oh im up for that! There is a German Biergarten near my house that is ran by an Austrian. He has lots of on tap imports. Spaten, Wasteiner, Franziskaner, Stella Artois, etc. Fresh made strudel daily and pork schnitzel (im ok with it not being veal). But if you want to buy me a plane ticket to come visit, I would be glad to come and drink all your beer 🙂

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error)

      @momurda said in GPO - Unable To Deploy Java 10 64bit - Fails to install (1603 Error):

      Try this

      msiexec /i "jre10filename.msi" /q ENTERPRISE=YES

      Just a long shot, obviously change it to the msi file name for java10.

      I tried by modifying the MSI to enable ENTERPRISE, but I think that caused additional problems (should have used a transform). I just went ahead and deployed the newer version of 8 and kicked this down the road until January 2019 when 8 is discontinued.

      Thanks for the help momurda, I appreciate it.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: AMD, trying to mount a comeback.

      @wirestyle22 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:

      @Brains I just buy whatever the best product is and stay out of the drama typically

      For us that is AMD and im very happy about it. I agree, my personal preferences normally dont matter when its not my money. But we dont need high powered machines, only ones that can run Office and IE, so AMD is the cheapest and best solution for all machines except IT ones (needs moar powah!)

      posted in News
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    • RE: Access to CEOs of a company - should you a consumer have it?

      @Dashrender said in Access to CEOs of a company - should you a consumer have it?:

      @Jason said in Access to CEOs of a company - should you a consumer have it?:

      Our CEO response to customers and helps make sure their issues are resolved. He doesn't type the responses himself he has his assistants type them. But he does work on the issues and make sure they are fixed.

      I definitely understand that the CEO should be making sure these things are handled - but unless your company is small, that seems like something that should be mainly handled much lower on the tree than the CEO.

      I have had to call Executive Support (Office of the CEO) numerous times for various companies and it definitely should have been handled at a much lower level. The problem occurs when you have failures in your support structure that cannot properly resolve the issue for the customer. If they have went through the normal procedure and followed up the chain of command to no avail, the CEO's office is the last stop before no longer being a customer. If the CEO doesn't care to attempt to resolve the issue, you learn why the rest of their support staff didn't seem to care about resolving the issue as well (Looking at you RingCentral). I would never do it to just complain or submit feedback, but in my quest to make vendors keep their word and promises, its a very important tool that should only be used occasionally.

      Honestly I have no clue how busy a CEO at a company the size of EHR company would be - though I would expect them to be busy enough not to be fielding 100's of complaint calls weekly.

      Ahh you see that's the entire point! They are too busy to be dealing with 100s of calls weekly, so they need to get the problems fixed to stop the calls from coming in. If you make the boss deal with the problem, most of the time he doesn't want to deal with this small time BS and will force people to resolve it for you

      posted in Water Closet
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    • Why does this work? GPP - Registry Changes

      Maybe I am missing something simple, but I don't know why this configuration works.

      We have a GPO that uses GPP to modify some file associations in the registry. Currently the paths being changed are all in HKCU. This GPO is also NOT running under the user's context. AFAIK that means the registry changes should be applied under the HKCU of the SYSTEM account (Making it not apply for the logged in user). Reality is that the logged in user's HKCU is being modified. Can someone point me to a technical explanation why this is working?

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      posted in IT Discussion gpp system
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    • RE: US Completes First Offshore Windfarm

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      Generators begin to spin in November

      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html

      Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed. 😄

      Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      Generators begin to spin in November

      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html

      Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed. 😄

      Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?

      Crackheads with ocean going vessels and massive wreckage systems? This are out to sea

      You underestimate the resourcefulness of a broke crackhead. 😉

      So true. We had some in Memphis that were stealing copper off of live power lines. I still feel bad for the people who had their entire house destroyed by crack heads breaking the drywall and stealing the copper power lines. Thank goodness scrap prices have gone down, so its not nearly as bad anymore

      posted in News
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      What am I doing right now? Fighting with RingCentral for the last 7 days to attempt to get them to address a problem we have been experiencing with outgoing faxes when it goes through the Fax "Printer". Happens on multiple computers, multiple files, etc not constrained to 1 environment. They escalated it, deescalated it due to it being a problem with the file (even though i told them it happened on mutiple files), escalated it again, and desecalated it due to lack of troubleshooting. Then they want me to repeat the hour+ of testing we did on Friday. All the while promising me call backs every step of the way and never calling me back.

      sorry needed to vent, I cant wait for our PBX upgrade and for me to take all of this back in-house.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • EMI and Ferrite Cores

      Does anyone have any experience with EMI on sensitive devices? We have a Biofeedback device that measures in Hz. There is a 180Hz signal appearing on the readouts of 2 different devices. I do not have much experience with this, but I have already installed a Power Cleaner (Ha!) and shielded cables, but wanted to add some Ferrite Cores to some other related cables. I ran into a roadblock though: there are different types of ferrite cores for different frequencies you want to block and I don't know the differences. That is the extent of my knowledge about utilizing ferrite cores, so any help with recommendations and suppliers would be greatly appreciated

      posted in IT Discussion ferrite electromagnetic in emi ferrite core ferrite choke
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    • RE: US Completes First Offshore Windfarm

      @IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @Brains said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      Generators begin to spin in November

      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html

      Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed. 😄

      Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?

      @RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      @scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

      Generators begin to spin in November

      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html

      Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed. 😄

      Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?

      Crackheads with ocean going vessels and massive wreckage systems? This are out to sea

      You underestimate the resourcefulness of a broke crackhead. 😉

      So true. We had some in Memphis that were stealing copper off of live power lines. I still feel bad for the people who had their entire house destroyed by crack heads breaking the drywall and stealing the copper power lines. Thank goodness scrap prices have gone down, so its not nearly as bad anymore

      Accessing landbased power lines and going offshore are two completely different ball games.

      true, they would need some kind of multi crack head human bridge to cover that much water. CRACK HEADS UNITE! FORM OF.... BRIDGE!

      posted in News
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    • RE: Summer Steam Sale

      X-Com is one of my favorite games of all time. I first played it on PSOne. I even bought a 360 just to play the reboot of X-Com. Definitely going to get it

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: EMI and Ferrite Cores

      Thanks for the followup Matt.

      I went through some of the logs of tests performed. When there was a transformer close, it definitely cycled every 60/120/180, but with everything turned off, this is what we see

      upload-08302f62-e439-4105-9d53-4bb27c212692

      He has spoken with the manufacturers of both devices and they have been of no help unfortunately. When I get the model#'s tomorrow, I will try to give them a call and see if we can have a detailed conversation about our options. I do not expect this to be productive as the user using this equipment is pretty intelligent and understands some of this better than I do and was not able to glean any information. I am very good at cutting through red tape and double talk from tech support, so maybe I will be able to get something helpful.

      FYI he is usually using a desktop to perform these tests, and the problem is apparent on both the PC and laptop (Laptop is unplugged of course)

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Programming Printers

      @scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

      I found it!!

      https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/79629-do-not-have-access-to-hosted-email

      You can finally learn everything that there is about programming printers.

      alt text

      Also,
      W T F
      http://www.djfixxx.com/

      It feels like I stepped through some sort of Magic Way Back Machine.

      Actually, it seems he upgraded his site in 2008 and added that nifty top menu!

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @DustinB3403 well, that would mean wind or rain...

      I meant the clouds, and that you were in the eye of the storm.

      Yup, those sound like hurricane weather stats.

      Hurricane? In Germany? Guess not. There was some kind of a small vortex a few years ago 400km south of here. Only real problem here is a major flood fir example.

      Oh, come on... let us have some fun surmising the existence of inland hurricanes!

      Inland? 😉

      0_1466714712710_Screenshot_2016-06-23-22-44-22.jpg

      Now I know which part of the world to send my missiles too.....

      BAHHAA

      Ack! Dont Obama me Bro!

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: How Do You Teach Everything in IT?

      @brianlittlejohn Looks like Scott has a new nickname!

      Spiceworks Jesus!

      Ha! Reminds me of supply-side Jesus (Sorry if too political, just remove it if so)
      Supply Side Jesus by Al Franken

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: EMI and Ferrite Cores

      @MattSpeller

      The models are:

      Thought Technology: ProComp Infinity Model SA7500
      J&J: I-330 C2 Plus

      posted in IT Discussion
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