@smartkid808 said:

with no AUP I cant do nothing.. so dont care.,. please keep those comments to your self.

The point of the comment is that it IS considered spam and Malware by many and your Meraki is very likely blocking it.

Turn off the filtering on the Meraki to prove it.

Problem is more threads rambling to different topics.

We need the ability to tag posts in addition to topics.

@scottalanmiller said in Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal:

My wife is used to me seeing marketing and branding as negatives and knows that I react pretty negatively to paying for brands. I've trained her well. She'll go for generic every time.

/me rebrands himself as the Generic SAM.

Move on then. There is no future where you are. Free training is great and all but stagnating is horrible.

@technobabble said:

@scottalanmiller so you think shredding the hard drive is over kill?

@scottalanmiller said:

I generally think nearly everything that companies do like this is overkill. HIPAA does not require anything that drastic and common security practice does not either. IF the drive can do DBAN or Obliterase, I think that that is plenty and far better for the bottom line (resell drives) and the environment (not throwing away good technology when you don't have to.)

I shred drives because there is already a fee for paper shredding and there is no extra charge. It saves way more time than it takes to setup and manage a machine to run DBAN or Obliterase.

If there is nothing already in place, then I usually go the DBAN route.

With old servers, there is almost no resale value in the drives themselves. They are going to be too small for what most people want to do today. I can buy a 1-2TB SATA drive for less than $75 generally. Why would I want your old drives?

@tim_g said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

@scottalanmiller said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

Cool

I'm pretty close to being done with my first project to drive home chapters 1 and 2 of the book (plus what I learned on SoloLearn).

Here's the results so far:

First Screenshot:
This is the default page, and all of this is automatically generated and filled in with just a few lines of PHP, and allows you to adjust as needed before submitting how much one bar weighs.

Second Screenshot:
This shows the results of everything from the first screenshot.

I know I need to work on formatting and prettyness a bit, but my main goal was first functionality.

I also have error handling, and defaulting to ZERO:

As well as injection prevention, null setting before any handling, and strict checking:

A snippet of just the $grams variable (but applies to everything):

(that's an old comment to myself that I haven't removed yet)

I find more comments to be better. because I will code something and after testing and deployemnt, I won't touhc it for 4 years and without comments I have no fucking clue what I was thinking when I did something a certain way.

I mean I can read the code and see what I did and what it does, but that says nothing for why i did something.

Drag and dropped 8GB of files from local machine to the mounted Z drive.

@Dashrender the shorter way to say this is “I would rather fix a simple problem now than a disaster in a week”

@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:

@jaredbusch said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:

@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:

Do you REALLY think that this 12 person company is hiring TWO system admins for Windows NT? If we are using "SMBs don't do stuff" let's be reasonable. A 12 person company does not hire two IT people for a single role. Let alone any role.

Having recently watched a SMB try to hire someone and get it all wrong, yeah, I can totally see this getting posted.

Just because it is not meeting your definitions and expectations, does not make it fake.

Could it be certainly.

That it is fake makes it fake. There are two reasonable options here... that the posting is not intended to hire anyone (or only one of two) is one and that they aren't hiring what they say is the other. Both are fake, neither is "my opinion" and between the two they are by far the most likely choice.

Only in Jaredverse would there be a 12 person company legitimately trying to hire two Windows NT system admins for a web design business with HXTML experience.

Do insane, incompetent, but well meaning SMBs exist? Of course. Are they the norm? Heck no.

IT Guy: Boss, I quit. This is my two week notice.
Boss: Can you stay, blah blah.
IT Guy: No, this is too much work for not enough money.
Boss: Ok.
<ring>
CyberCoders Script Monkey: How can we help you?
Boss: I need someone to run our computers.
CyberCoders Script Monkey: Asks inane questions the boss has no idea about.
Boss: Answers inane questions randomly.
CyberCoders Script Monkey: Anything else?
Boss: Make two listings so we can see how cheap we can go with this.
CyberCoders Script Monkey: Done. Thanks.

Well it is July 29th, 2015. Do you know what your users/clients are doing?

To be proactive about the upgrade, I had already worked out a process for doing this myself.

First, I have been using the Windows 10 Technical Preview for months on my MacBook Pro in a Parallels VM.

Second, I looked at my local devices and decided to run the install my my childrens laptop first because this laptop was new 6 months ago and has only had Chrome installed on it. There is not a much cleaner upgrade path than this.

Third, after upgrading the clean laptop I will upgrade my work desktop which has a boatload of applications installed.

Fourth, I plan to wipe my work desktop and install from scratch because a lot of those applications I no longer need and I like clean setups for things anyway.

@scottalanmiller said in Organization of sample code:

GitLab or a Wiki

Or Wiki.js backed by a GitLab repo!

@wirestyle22 said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation:

@aidan_walsh afaik there is no reason to install it as a role. All it does is create unnecessary licensing dependencies.

The main reason some people do it is for auto activation of guest windows machines. That is no reason to ever do it IMO.

If every physical server is a Datacenter license then it is pretty transparent also.

But I still do not feel that Installing in this way makes sense.

@Pete-S said in If you were to start all over, knowing what you know now.:

why wouldn't they run their own business? Why would a smart person work for someone dumber than they are?

Smart people does not mean business smart. It is a different thing.

@NetworkNerd said in Weigh in on Holiday Career Topics:

1. What are you thankful for in your career / current job?

The flexibility to be home whenever I need to be or just to take off with the family for whatever. Election day is a no school day here because the elementary and junior high schools are polling places. I took the kids to downtown Chicago to the art museum and then Japanese BBQ for late lunch.

3. What has the effect of your job been on your holiday experiences (i.e. allowed you to unplug, forced you to work, etc.)?
4. How do you allow yourself / force yourself to unplug on holidays (assuming you get some time off)?

hahahahahahahahah
Seriously though, I work most holiday's. I generally use holidays to test restoring backups.

5. From a professional standpoint, what are your resolutions for 2019?

I don't do resolutions. I'll simply continue to grow myself professionally and personally and work towards my employment goals.

One new thing with Windows 10 is the fact that Microsoft is not letting home users disable Windows Updates. This is seriously a good thing.

One of the problems with the new Windows Update settings though is that by default all Windows 10 computers are members of a Windows update cluster. Basically a massive torrent distribution network for Windows Updates.

This is a simultaneously good and bad thing for people on metered internet connections around the world.

For me, it is simply something I do not want running on my network.

Click on the Start button then settings.

Click on Updates & security

Note: Home users can only choose to schedule the restart, not stop the download or installation of them:

Click on Advanced options

Click on Choose how your updates are delivered

For people that may want to minimized downloads to mulitple computers on the same network, I would recommend leaving the setting turned on, but to change it to be PCs on my local network.
For myself, I turn it completely off.

@dashrender said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation:

@jaredbusch said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation:

@wirestyle22 said in Configuring Windows Server 2016 Core. Part1: Installation:

@aidan_walsh afaik there is no reason to install it as a role. All it does is create unnecessary licensing dependencies.

The main reason some people do it is for auto activation of guest windows machines. That is no reason to ever do it IMO.

If every physical server is a Datacenter license then it is pretty transparent also.

But I still do not feel that Installing in this way makes sense.

Yep, KMS server to the rescue.

Correct. If you are big enough to have Datacenter licensing, spin up another VM and setup KMS.

@Carnival-Boy said in How do you guys handle counter offers?:

You've ended up in a position where you are massively important to your employer and they have been forced to recognise that and they've responded in a positive way.

This is certainly not positive in any way. They have simply been forced to pay you more until they can replace you on their terms (i.e. no unemployment). You are in not in a position of massive importance to the employer. That is only in your head.

Just had @TechnicalAngel send me this link.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows-10-wifi-sense,news-21409.html

WTF.. Come on Microsoft how f'n stupid can you be..

If you're taking up Microsoft on its offer of a free upgrade to Windows 10, you should know that the new operating system has a feature, called Wi-Fi Sense, that automatically shares your Wi-Fi passwords with others.

When Wi-Fi Sense is enabled, anyone you have in your Skype, Outlook or Hotmail contacts lists — and any of your Facebook friends — can be granted access to your Wi-Fi network as long as they're within range. Microsoft added this feature to save users' time and hassle, but as independent security blogger Brian Krebs put it, some security experts see it as "a disaster waiting to happen."

@minion-queen said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance:

@coliver said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance:

@tim_g said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance:

No public pricing means they try to squeeze out as much as possible on a per-customer basis. I'm guessing heavy commission based sales.

That's unfortunate.

GroveMarketPlace is reselling StarWind we can get you pricing. Just email me [email protected]

No MSRP without contacting someone means no business from me.

@fredtx said in Job offer:

Here's some other things I see as possible red flags.

1. The position has been open for more than 30 days according to Indeed. Maybe because of the travel requirement? IDK.
2. There wasn't much of an interview when I interviewed with the Director and Senior engineer. I actually did not expect an offer when HR gave me a call the following day. Interview was them telling me about the position and company, and me telling them about my experience.

I would take this offer in your position.

If it does turn out to be a lot of bench work, you will also have a lot of travel time to read/study on more azure/aws and improve your next jump to a new place.