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Can't download a Printer Driver from support.lexmark.com.

Why - because it's a .EXE file and the FW blocks it... Like really? oFFS!

guest network - then zip it and mail it to yourself? or something to that effect

heh - basically what our off site contractor did... Still.. I get security - esp with PHI involved. But you can't break the tools that your support people need.... jeez.

oh - I I don't see it as breaking tools IT needs - I need they need to provide a solution for IT - such as the one I suggested - or a separate network for IT to use that doesn't have those things blocked.

yes - there needs to be a path - an accepted and useable path - to get the tools and such needed. So that one doesn't 'break the system' and end up with a data breach... That... That would be a very bad thing (to happen again).

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching Blue Origin launch

Successful Launch and return.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Started an on-premise to Microsoft 365 migration this morning. Only 1 file share to deal with getting into Sharepoint this time.

Sadly, they'll still have on-premise Quickbooks

Make it die...

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

a bunch of dumbass questions, but hopefully not long.

Heh - Can't be worse then some of my dumb questions

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Oh
My
GOWD!

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco here's one of those dumba$$ questions...

What's the point in SSO if you have to enter a password for EVERY MS Product???
that's
Sign into PC, Passworded for Outlook; Passworded for Teams; Passworded for OneDrive...

FFS!

Especially when its' the same )@(#&$)@&#$ password for everything!

Admittedly, if you log in to your PC with a Microsoft account, some of that is eliminated.

yea - that doesn't seem to help.... sub 300 PCs,.. and we'll add about 30 people before end of year... so really PITFA

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco here's one of those dumba$$ questions...

What's the point in SSO if you have to enter a password for EVERY MS Product???
that's
Sign into PC, Passworded for Outlook; Passworded for Teams; Passworded for OneDrive...

FFS!

Especially when its' the same )@(#&$)@&#$ password for everything!

Admittedly, if you log in to your PC with a Microsoft account, some of that is eliminated.

yea - that doesn't seem to help.... sub 300 PCs,.. and we'll add about 30 people before end of year... so really PITFA

Eww.... Yeah. I do not envy you at the moment.

I swear - I'd almost go back to the State with the Hour Drive, and the stupid State policies... This is ,...... (redacted due to excessive language)

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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Listening to nightly incessant barking from the neighbors' dogs while editing some audio.

May as well record it. Never know when it will be useful as an audio background, lol.

Barking Mad. A collection of ambiance with music for Fall/Autumn

Written and composed by Sir Barqs aLot.

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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This - this right here annoys the absolute crap out of me

"Hey guys lets make sure when we are making user accounts that we are following the documentation. I've noticed small details falling through the cracks in new accounts. Every step is covered in document."

Ya know. If we used a SCRIPT this wouldn't be an issue. But since no one will listen... ..|..

Why not just write said script, and the next time there's a complain present it as a solution.

That's what I do. And then if they tell me not to share it, I just keep using it for myself.

It's not a stick up their ass,... it's a full red wood tree... But yea.. But I should not have to circumvent policies and security...

The clock - it has taken to long to get to this point in the day / week. As for tonight / weekend; I'll see what is available via a friends plex and go from there.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Based on time and shadows - you are heading for St. Louis? Maybe?

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Secure Data

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

One of the things I miss most is fresh seafood. There's no substitute for it.

Of that - there is no lie... I miss Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs -

We used to fish (crab) off the pier growing up,..

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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That ultimately sucks. @scottalanmiller , is there anyway to do that a head of time to save you time in the future?

OMG, the details of the timing on COVID tests for some countries are insane. So here are the basics....

The COVID test has to be taken NO MORE than 72 hours before you LAND and get to the customs agent in the country you are entering (not all countries, but many and definitely this one.) You have to allow for potential delays in the flight, especially with the US having lots of weather delays this week. An average flight this week has to be at least 20 minutes late or more and a few hours isn't crazy. So for safety add at least three hours to protect against normal delay possibilities.

So if our flight is supposed to land at 5:30PM we have to assume 8:30PM is realistic (and given that customs can easily take 45 minutes, you have to add that in there, too.)

So 72 hours before that is 8:30PM last night (for us.) You can't control test timing that closely. At best you typically have about eight hours of control. For us, the test is SCHEDULED to come back to us at 6:30PM... no way for us to fine grain the control closer than that. But this only gives us the flexibility of traveling for about 20 hours of delay, not enough time to make another flight (flights are ever OTHER day in this case.)

Now the second requirement is that you have to upload your test to both the country AND the airline no LESS THAN 36 HOURS before the flight takes off. Not lands, takes off. So this is a much smaller window of time than it sounds like. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 3PM on Sunday (already delayed once by two hours making this all so much harder.)

That means that while we are getting our test back at 6:30PM, it HAS to be uploaded by 3AM tonight. Essentially no test center will give you tests at night, only during the day. So more or less, we got the only plausible time slot. In theory we could have done the test yesterday, but if we did that ANY delay in our flight would mean we got invalidated during the flight!! We could have done earlier today, but the tests all come back about the same time in the evening. The system is insane.

This process makes me want to just drive . . . god the hours to drive,.. and the fueling,.. and ugh... just put a fork in me. Or - just by a boat and well ,.. you are still going to have to deal with fuel and (erp) things... sigh.

Only problem with that is, no road goes all the way from North America to South America. I think it's the mountains of Panama that has no roads. It's been driven, but there are way more cars abandoned along the trail than ever made it.

THat's correct, but Nicaragua is on this side of South America. So you can totally drive. Panama's Darien Gap is the jungle, not the mountains. The mountains are well paved.

I had to go back to Google Maps and look as my geography is ... well never mind.

You can drive all the way to Panama City - so driving to local Miller Beach wouldn't be to much of an issue.... Except for:

• Covid19 Travel restrictions as you cross several countries
• it's over 3,000km
• it's roughly a 45 hour drive, not including required stops and delays as you cross boundaries

For no reason other than to to say I've done it, I've installed Ubunut server on a poor laptop to install an SDR Receiver.

Just getting started..

Fed up and frustrated with 'security walls' in place... and having to 'remote' to a computer to re-start a (poorly built) service...

Anything that I can do to manage the service on a remote computer via script is a win in my book.. so off to the Google pot again to find how I can deal with this service without 'delay'.

Enter Elevated CMD prompt and the SC command.

sc \\Remote_Device query triposservice

SERVICE_NAME: triposservice
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                                (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

Great - Glad to see the crap-nugget still running. But this give me ammo on building MY solution to have to restart this damned service on a weekly basis.

sc \\Remote_Device start triposservice

Now - just have to wait for it to 'fail' to test it as I'm not about to stop it mid day. They'd panic and call me on the phone about it.

Taking shelter; Tornadr Watch.

Looking at all the crickets here.... My word.

Also calls backs after mid day reboot of the App Server.
Annnnd deal with Log4Shell

It is insane that it is the middle of December and this severe weather struck. i can't seem to get the imbedded video so I'll just leave this link to the local news.

Deadly Western Kentucky Severe Weather

Several states - nearly 200 miles gone.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Happy day. We're returning a Lenovo, because it's a Lenovo.

I literally feel your pain.