USA pretty awesome. Showing us Europeans how to do it!

Not sure about Klinsman's jumper last night though!

@Carnival-Boy said:

But I still end up watching!

Not of all of it though! I managed about seven minutes.

The problem with advertising led content, like Eli's site, is that you can't say "New Amazon phone may have slightly interesting marginal impact on certain markets, possibly", as that won't attract the hits. So you have to say "New Amazon phone is a game changer that will destroy bricks and mortar retailing and cause world peace". Which is just silly. But I still end up watching!

The two main problems with internet ordering are:

• an inability to touch and feel the product before buying
• delivery - both the cost and the logistics

Some new feature on some new phone isn't going to solve those two problems and I don't see them ever being solved. I think Eli the Computer Guy lives on a different planet.

Various people have been predicting the destruction of bricks and mortar retailing since, like, 1997. Hasn't happened. Won't happen.

I don't really understand how it works. He says if you like the noodles your mate has cooked for you, you can scan them and order them. How? The packaging would be in the bin and anyway, who buys noodles from Amazon?

I've used the barcode scanner in the Amazon app a bit, but with very limited success. A lot of products are unique to a particular stores so not available on Amazon. I order most of my food online direct from supermarkets. I don't understand people who like to spend their Saturday mornings pushing a trolley around an ugly warehouse and then loading it into the boot of your car when you can get someone else to do it for pretty much free. But more physical supermarkets appear to be opening, not less.

Ultimately, people like to go to window shopping.

I generally try and avoid vendors meeting with managers or users here at work. Occasionally it happens though. I'm always amazed at how gullible some of them are. They come out of the meeting thinking some bit of software will be the answer to all their prayers, and when I try and give them a reality check they accuse me of just being a cynical, old man (which I am!).

The most obvious line I get from some vendor salesman in a shiny suit in reply to some question about a feature we require is "I'll have to double-check with technical, but I'm pretty sure it does that". That usually means "No! It definitely doesn't do that"

@scottalanmiller said:

Trying to rack up some SW points too. I hate the point system but I am on the home stretch to what some of you might have guessed that I am on the home stretch too.

??????????

Hmmn, this makes me think of the current Uber battle in London. Black cabs in London have to pass "The Knowledge", one of the toughest tests in the world apparently, to prove they know London's streets inside and out. Now Uber have come along and anyone can be a taxi driver with Google Maps.

PCs were simpler when I started out <goes misty eyed with the memory>. I was supporting Displaywrite and Lotus 1-2-3 on IBM Model 55s running MS-DOS. There wasn't much that could go wrong. Config.sys was pretty simple. You could tinker about with Files and Buffers settings and that was about it as far as I can recall.....

On the other hand, I remember trying to figure out OS/2 something of a challenge.

@garak0410 said:

I for one actually liked the game once I figured it out. I play it on an emulator once and a while.

Really? I've never seen it before, but it looks terrible:
Youtube Video

Also, amazing to think that the game orginally retailed at $50. That's over $120 in today's prices. My lad just can't believe how rubbish games were when I was a kid. Or that I'd have to save up my pocket money for weeks and weeks and weeks to buy them.

It's not that I object to your face, I don't, but there's so many of them on my monitor it's making me dizzy. If I close my eyes now, instead of seeing spots on my eyelids like I always used to, I see lots of tiny images of Scott.

How did you cope with support before the internet? I remember phoning Microsoft a few times, but generally I can't really remember what I did. I'm sure that problems that take ten minutes to solve now could take a whole day back then.

I just followed this:
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/907-gpo-to-push-out-local-administrators-across-a-domain

Two minute job and I'm all sorted.

Thanks. I will do that.

Good stuff. I'm typical of a small shop IT manager in that I'm a Domain Admin but am totally unqualified to have such powers and tend to avoid doing anything for fear of breaking something.

I have one question. He recommends setting Domain Admin logon restrictions to Domain Controllers only. So the DA is unable to logon to any other servers or workstations. This makes sense, I guess. However, if not Domain Admin, what kind of other domain account has local admin rights across the domain? For example, if I want to do something on a local workstation that requires admin rights, I currently logon as a DA. If I'm prevented from doing that, what should I logon as?

The bloke on the front row has a bottle of beer. This is my kind of seminar.

I suspect that in most cases it's better that I don't know what my wife is thinking.

Anyone watching? ML is fairly well represented with USA, Australia and England all playing - although all three may go out in the first phase.

Everything But The Girl

I use one job for multiple servers. If one server fails to backup, the others will still be backed up fine. It's less hassle to manage it that way, and the less hassle you get with backups, the more confident you can feel about being able to restore them when the shit hits the fan. I did have a problem when I removed a server once, as it messed up retention processing, so sometimes if you retire servers it might be easier to create a new job and remove the old job.

The only real downside I've come across is that you end up with one massive backup file, which limits portability. Having lots of small backup files can sometimes be handy. For example, you might want to copy a backup of a VM onto a USB stick in order to restore it onto a standalone Lab server.

I don't currently do any reports, but have you looked into Veeam One? That might be just the tool you need and it comes free with a B&R subscription.