Just got done driving my boss's 911 Turbo back to his house as he left it in the parking lot before he flew to Florida.
Still smiling.

Earlier this year I hooked up an external drive to my win10 workstation at work. Then had a robocopy job going every night to copy some server shares there(also have unitrends, just wanted previous versions of some of these shares for testing). Made a rule to make a previous version of a folder 2x a day. This was working for months, and in fact I am fairly certain I used this to restore a folder a user deleted on accident just a few weeks ago.
Today I go to the external drive and right click>restore previous versions. 'No Previous Versions Found" I go into Control panel>System>System Protection, where system protection is set to Off for both and external drive.
So ive lost my restore points. Not a big deal. I turn them back on. Now there is no way to set a schedule of these restore points like there used to be; that incredibly confusing task scheduler just for this, the one that made no sense at all(The duration must be greater than the repetition interval) but at least it worked.
Now the option is totally gone. You have to manually make 'Restore points' from the System Protection cpl, or use File History(which is infinitely worse than Previous Versions, btw)
I suppose I can add a scheduled task/powershell to make these restore points happen 2x a day.
Seriously MS how the hell do you do something like that and not mention it to ANYBODY.
My bet this was taken away with the anniversary update.

If I am wrong please let me know. Because File History is just so bad I wont use it.

That big red blob in Washington state is us.

Our VOIP service provider no dns response = no phones. Time for me to go home!

Links to SW are slow or not functioning. Other websites a bit slow. East Coast server bias.

@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

They offer it, but nobody is taking it except 1 or 2% of the kids who want to do more than work as a wageslave in a warehouse or work as minimum wage government employees.

Actually nationwide the percentage is 16% taking calculus. That's huge. That makes it very, very mainstream at the high school level. Considering what a tiny percentage of people planning for serious careers can even make use of calculus that's a staggering number. Scientists, engineerings, software engineers... who else uses calc? Not many people. So for 16% to take it in high school means that basically it is offered to everyone and more people take it than even have a potential use for it!

I took both in HS myself, but it was just basic differential and integral calculus and how it applied to physics. Didn't get to do z axis calculus or linear algebra until college. I'm just wondering how bad most universities are if you are right. Perhaps i am biased due to family experiences; grandpa went to West Point, his brother to Air Force Academy, my dad and uncles UVA/MIT/UD. My university (UD as well)had an excellent engineering program.

@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

Scott what reality are you in? Most people graduate high school cant even do addition and subtraction without a calculator. Learning engineering physics and calc in high school is not happening anywhere in this country.

And you think that THOSE kids are going on to engineering schools and graduating?

Physics and calc is normal in high school. Every high school kid I know is getting that stuff. Or at least have access to it and only don't get it if they opt out of it.

@art_of_shred and I took the first two years of engineering university calculus together in high school, in fact, as did something like 30% of our class.

My nieces definitely get this stuff in high school, even in Texas.

Find my any high school in the US that doesn't offer physics and calc.

They offer it, but nobody is taking it except 1 or 2% of the kids who want to do more than work as a wageslave in a warehouse or work as minimum wage government employees. It isn't happening like you say. FFS the high school drop out rate in this country is approaching 20% for all students and youre saying everybody cant get engineering classes in high school.

@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

How can you design circuits without knowing what imaginary numbers are, why theyre used in circuit design, why they are irrational, why they are imaginary, why theyre useful in engineering.

That's HIGH SCHOOL math. Not even senior year stuff. University wasn't what provided that amount of knowledge even when university was important.

Learning all of the math available in engineering is really easy to do with just books. In fact, having done both, it's often easier from books. And certainly faster.

Do you need math and science to be an engineer? Absolutely. Do you learn that at university? You could, but not as easily as learning it somewhere else. Is it university level math or science needed for engineering? No.

Scott what reality are you in? Most people graduate high school cant even do addition and subtraction without a calculator. Learning engineering physics and calc in high school is not happening anywhere in this country.

Im talking about engineering as a specific example refuting what you and scott are saying that college is worthless. English Lit is worthless, nobody is going to argue that. Most humanities degrees are totally worthless, and I would question the intelligence of anybody spending 100,000 dollars to learn how to read books, or learn Social Studies for 4+ years.

@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@wrx7m said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@DustinB3403 said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@wrx7m said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

Oh thank goodness. I thought this was going to be a sob story post about these people who should be able to earn something even though they made horrible decisions to take out insane student loans for something almost nobody cares about. It's not. It is about people wanting the rest of us to pay them to do something society doesn't really want or need.

These people need a dose of reality and a lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. Cut bait, head into the real world and learn a real skill.

Now at the same time, I do not think teachers are worthless, but teaching is not a societal need, but a societal expectation.

Higher education is expected to be available and had by everyone, but not everyone wants to go to college. They might just want to go and work for a stone mason, and learn how to work with stone.

Its informal but practical education that teaches real world skills.

I agree. Teachers are not worthless. My mother was a teacher her whole life.

Higher education should be just that- higher education. Don't coddle people in their pursuits of degrees or studies that serve no real purpose. There should never be loans given for those degrees. Imagine if people had to pay cash as they went for a degree in something that nobody needs or cares about. I would be very surprised if there weren't less than half the number of people in these self-created conditions.

No loans, period. No degree is for getting a job, university training is for "general learning", it's not a trade school. So no degree should have loans.

Generally that might be true, but you aren't going to be a very good electrical engineer or chemist if you don't have a foundation in calculus/physical sciences with someone to teach you why things are the way they are. You can go read Wikipedia entries or get a world book encyclopedia, or read Principia Mathematica, but good luck learning any context without any guidance. Sure you don't usually do that stuff in the workplace, but you need to know how it works.
How can you design circuits without knowing what imaginary numbers are, why theyre used in circuit design, why they are irrational, why they are imaginary, why theyre useful in engineering.

I would never buy one, just saying people still do. Because they don't care about that stuff, or they just cant be bothered to do the math. My 300 steam games have worked for a decade, will work for another decade at least.

xb1+ps4 sales are nearing 100M worldwide I think

For people who cant go to that site
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/10/nintendos-next-console-switch-is-a-consoletablet-hybrid/
Not for me, but I'm sure people will get excited.

@scottalanmiller I love eating email for dinner

It has probably been that way since the 70's

@scottalanmiller said in Migrate and/or replace old cert server?:

@Shuey said in Migrate and/or replace old cert server?:

@scottalanmiller said in Migrate and/or replace old cert server?:

@Shuey said in Migrate and/or replace old cert server?:

From what I understand (which is not much, lol), this server is what every workstation and user account on the domain gets its certificate from.

Which certificates would those be?

When I look at the Certification Authority console on the server, and I look at "issued certificates", I see line items like this:
"Request ID", "Requester Name", "Certificate Template", "Certificate Effective Date", "Certificate Expiration Date", etc, and I see a bunch of workstations listed.

I wonder if you just shut it off if anything bad happens.

We had a cert server running here when I started. Couldn't figure out what is was issuing certs for. I shut it down and... nothing happened.
OP might want to check event logs on cert server and workstations as they boot up and log in to the network. Could be radius authentication for the workstations.

That's all they ever say, get used to seeing that 4 or 5 days a week.

OpenNMS, Spiceworks Network Monitor, Nagios

I ordered an Oreilly Xenserver book the other day. Should be here today or tomorrow.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149193543X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@ChrisL
Yes, that show was like an extra long episode of the XFiles, I enjoyed it.
I just watched The Wire (all 5 seasons) in the last 2 weeks. Never ever had cable (still don't) so it was new to me. That was pretty good too.