@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Just found this in the garden

Sweet. Looks like you're having entirely too much fun with the camera. Ha ha ha.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

one of my restaurants how the following quote as their wall paper:

Taco Fact #18 Tacos are healthier than crystal meth

I'd have to agree with that logic.
Happy Monday.

Whooo! I'm in good shape today then!

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just took a call from someone complaining about computer not getting them logged in. Smartctl reports 4.6 billion seek errors and 99 million raw_read_error_rate. I don't know how the computer got booted up in the first place! That HDD is the little engine that could for now.

On it's tombstone, you should write, "It thought it could... and did did, far longer than it ever thought possible."

Hi all!

Posting has been very sporadic for me the last couple of weeks. I've had a bunch of stuff dumped into my lap, lol. Not complaining too much yet, but it keeps me busy, for sure.

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

Meh, I feel the opposite. Kids love the stuff. The current stuff is great imo. Not as good as the classics, but in the same league. Nothing else comes as close.

The top recent favorites, not in any order, are:

• Toy Stories
• Frozens
• Moana
• Beauty and the Beast
• Coco
• Incredibles
• Pirates of the Carribbeans
• Alice in Wonderland

I know there are 4 or 5 more recent ones I can't think of atm off the top of my head. But that's not the point.

My wife and I saw Toy Story 4 this last weekend. It wasn't bad at all. We actually like it better than the other 3. The new Aladdin ain't bad, but I definitely don't recommend watching the cartoon before going to see the movie.

Trying to get work done, but have the attention span of a flea today... I think being involved in a meeting and 2 interviews sucked it all up.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kamidon said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And I apologize to everyone for venting and veering this overall question/topic off the rails.

Right now I'm working on a new project I've been tasked with: Creating several scripts, one for setting default credentials for all IIS Sites, another for setting up application pools, another for websites, another for application setup, another for shared configuration.

Since this project is so simple, I'm thinking about creating a Powershell GUI for the scripts. (and also asking if I can just combine them all...Though I think I'll make them all separate as requested and then just make the one with the GUI)

So finally, after two weeks of literally doing nothing, I have work.

No worries. This thread is a good place to come vent.

Also, they purposely made the decision to let threads take their own course. Lots of threads weave through topics like a quilt. Not ideal to find the thing you said 2 years ago I'll grant you, but also allows a better exchange of information.

Also, this is the "junk closet" thread... If you want to be able to find something in two more years, just make a new thread for it and tag it as "RANT" or something.

I just got the Samsung Note 9 a month or so ago. I was waiting for the Note 10, but my [previous] phone forced my hand.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Me: "Script! You've had no changes, yet you behave differently today than on Friday!"
Script: ". . ."

Soudnds like a Microsoft thing. Yesterday it worked; today, it does not.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading up and getting ready to migrate our on-prem Exchange to 365.

Then you can tell your on-prem Exchange to die in a fire?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You were keeping track of this for a while, lol. Whatever happened to that thread?

@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

@DustinB3403 said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

I've been told Apple is the best way to go for a cell phone - Can anyone agree or disagree?
I dont really like apple products..

It's a phone, it makes and receives calls first. Are there features you may want from an iPhone? If so you need to consider those features as something else may not have them.

everything Iphones can do , My Androids have been able to do..
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If you're interested in the "other side", I say give it a shot. But if you're not really interested, then stick with what you know / like.

Kind of?
I'm not sure yet.

Meh. I could go either way. My mom loves her iPhone XS. It takes good pictures and she tortures that thing to death (well other people torture it for her by calling her on it all the time).

I like the Android ecosystem, so I just stick with it. Another phone or two and I'll be ready to switch and give Apple a try again.

Who knows.

@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

/sigh

I've decided to give IPhones a try, he coming Weeks (probably next pay day) I'll be going to get that - I want to see what the hype is about with those devices. Everyone Rants and raves about them , so Guess it's time to see.

Nooooo, don't join the dark side!

But...but... they have cookies!

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Does anybody know if Zoom.us works on Linux?

Runs like a charm on Fedora.

Thanks. I saw @scottalanmiller and @dbeato testing out my meeting for me, lol.

@notverypunny said in The Patch Tuesday:

So should this be consumed before, after or during a round of patching ?

E) All of the above

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone ever seen
"windows out of virtual memory" errors?

Check the Page File settings and see if it's set to a hard limit. If this is an older OS, that may very well be the case.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone ever seen
"windows out of virtual memory" errors?

Check the Page File settings and see if it's set to a hard limit. If this is an older OS, that may very well be the case.

Found it, They are set to "no Page file "

Probably not a good idea. There is a reason that you normally have one.

This is the first I was hearing about it , But apparently We've been dealing with this for months and I got the call last night cause they had printers and terminals down , Rebooting got everything to work properly for a band aid Fix , but Looking at that At least one of them are set to not use it.
0 mb Allowed ;2 Minimum; Recommended was like 3205 mb

As a general rule of thumb, I always hard set the page file to 2 x the RAM in the system up to a page file of 4gb. Anything larger than that has always seemed wasteful and chokes the system if you're actually needing to use a lot of the swap.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco some of these new guys don't know what cold brew means in your case though. Don't you have some insane process for making the strongest coffee possible for yourself?

He'll let you know when he quits smelling the unicorn rainbows.

@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I don't see the two as mutually exclusive, lol.

But your list is not wrong.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting on 6pm so I can install the new firewall. All configured and ready to go, but still I wait.

That stinks... You're supposed to do it at the busiest time of day, I thought?