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@scottalanmiller a few years ago we had a bolt strike the neighbors tree. You could taste the ozone in my house.

In our DHCP settings (hosted by the same DC) I currently have 5 DNS servers defined. My two DC's, then the two public DNS from our ISP, then finally 8.8.8.8. But in my experience, if my DC is down, I've got larger issues than just DNS. But when this has happened, I just start up the DHCP server on the router and define 8.8.8.8 as the DNS for everyone while I fix this issue with the DC. I am not sure we have it configured correctly though, because it never seems to actually fail over to the other DC. It could be because its in another subnet at a different location, not sure.

I view length of experience like tenure. I shows very little about the qualities of the candidate. In some places, like where I work, it is simply a measure of being able to not get fired. I could simply claim my few years of experience because I am extremely unlikely to get fired, and so accrue experience from that fact. But that would say nothing about my actual skills or value as a candidate. I feel the same way about college degrees. I know too many people, both with degrees and with lots of time experience, that are poor choices for a lot of tasks, simply because who they are and the other skills they lack. Perhaps experience or a degree can be an ok initial standard for getting a resume past the basic screening, but any competent interviewer should be able to tell when that experience was good or just from time served.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I am probably the only one who listens to worship music 100% of the time? Maybe it helps that this is all I play too. I lead worship at my church in my spare time.

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no, check the download link. It just points to a blog post saying it's released and will be added to the eval center at a later time.

I dont use a print server, I just directly install the printers on everyone's workstations. The printers have static IP's. Its more cumbersome than I like, but it was more reliable than my attempts at a print server using GPO's.

I think we got our first computer in the house in the early 90's. I have no idea what they would have been, probably some sort of whitebox special. But I remember that we had two, one had one of those green on black monitors and DOS only, and then we got one with a color monitor and windows 3.1. I still remember having to press 7 to boot into windows or press 5 to play commander keen.

My first computer I built/owned personally had AMD K6-2 500mhz processor and like 128mb of RAM. This would have been late 90's. I remember thinking at the time that there was no way I would ever fill up the huge 20GB hard drive. Of course, we then tried to find everything we could on Napster anyways. It's funny how much has changed only in the last 20 years for me. I cant imagine some of you more 'seasoned' guys seeing it all from the beginning.

but he's a self proclaimed "expert" of cyber security. https://www.zdnet.com/article/nobody-seems-to-know-what-rudy-giulianis-cybersecurity-company-actually-does/

It's anecdotal, but I just had this happen a few weeks ago. In my case I had a host go down that had my AD VM on it. It took me while to get it all resolved, but that is because I had to physically remove my server from the rack to get access to the usb drive where ESXi was installed (we will be getting a new rack soon). DNS was probably the biggest hit because a lot of our internal services use the DNS name.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

My kids moved from Minecraft to Roblox.

My oldest son downloaded that on his tablet (he's 8 ) without asking, which charged it back to our amazon account. I Still havent let him play that because I always approve what they play. I sometimes wish my parents would have been more strict about what they let me play as a kid. Anyways, we mostly do it as a family activity together, I've got my desktop at home and my kids all have Fire tablets.

and just like that, netflix raises prices everywhere

@dustinb3403 said in User Training Who is responsible:

@scottalanmiller So let me ask you this than.

In the world of not outsourced IT, do you believe that the IT personal should know how to use and operate every piece of software or hardware that a business has?

I believe that I should know everything about everything that is in my environment. This has a lot to do with my lack of trust in people, and that I need to know and understand it for myself. But I also believe that this is just an example of me going above and beyond and taking pride in my work. That being said, I do not know everything about all my things yet, nor is that really physically possible.

@dafyre The kid versions of Fire tablets have an app called "freetime". its great and includes a TON of free content. But he knew the passcode to the parent user account and just downloaded the game from the app store. I've recently changed that code.

I feel like this is such a different world from when I was a kid, my kids have no trouble what so ever absorbing tech that is around them. But its funny trying to explain things like what the internet is, or what files on a computer mean. They have virtually no frame of reference, especially about the differences between different types of systems like android vs windows vs iOS.

@scottalanmiller said in Battery Backup with SSD raid:

SSD NV protection is to allow the SSD's cache to flush safely should power be lost. RAID NV / battery protection is to allow the RAID's cache to flush safely should power be lost. Each is important on its own, neither covers for the other one.

thanks, thats what I wanted to know.

@scottalanmiller said in 802.1x port-based authentication - when and why?:

...(like they knocked the cable off a desk and it plugged itself in as it fell.)

This feels like it should be a meme of some sort.

@dafyre Roblox is not free on Fire OS, but its only like $2 or $3

@black3dynamite said in Phone apps:

@Donahue said in Phone apps:

Is there something better than using a browser on mobile? Possibly something with push notifications?

For ML, you can go to your settings to configure notifications to be sent to your email.

I have that, but that is not what I want. I cannot get it to be the right mix of email notifications. It is either too much or too little.

Can we get ML to differentiate between a mention in a quoted reply, and a mention out of the blue?

how to get him on ML?

Anyone from the west coast, especially out of Portland going? I am considering it.

@scottalanmiller that's my thought. But you just cant come out an tell your mother that, especially since I am still relatively inexperienced. The same thing happens with my father in law. He just recently retired from working as some sort of systems admin for the EPA. I don't know what exactly he did, but I always get the feeling that he is going to tell me something that was relevant in server 2003.