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@MrWright4hire said in The Most Effective Meetings:

Isn't it funny how we may disagree about being there for someone until we're the someone that needs the help

Is calling a meeting to take the time of several people or more really the most effective use of resources if one needs help with something? I can't agree to that.

@CCWTech said in How to get Chrome to remember which monitors to open on:

I gotta go back to Ubuntu I suppose... I just wish there were better games for it...

I use Ubuntu as well, and never had an issue playing any and all Windows games on it. Some may not have behaved or performed as well as on Windows, but if you're that bad with Windows it's likely not going to be a show stopper for you.

@CCWTech said in How to get Chrome to remember which monitors to open on:

And just this evening I went to watch TV and I came back... Guess what? Windows decided to reboot for updates while I was gone...

Lol. That's your own fault for ignoring the updates for so long and/or not setting your active hours and other update preferences.

@CCWTech said in How to get Chrome to remember which monitors to open on:

Unless I am missing something, it looks like that won't work. It all opens in ONE Window. So I don't see that it will drag the tabs the way they were...

I use Edge, multiple tabs and windows, along with a platform that uses multiple windows. I use FancyZones to keep it where I want, and it always remembers it. I don't remember if there's a setting in PowerToys to "remember". There might be actually. It even remembers where everything is when I take off a monitor or put it back. (laptop with two monitor extensions from it in that case, another case dual monitors)

Never any issues with it remembering where all my browser and software windows are. I can't imagine it working with Edge but not Google Chrome.

@CCWTech download the MS power toys and use fancy zones.

Link: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

Cocoon Nebula (IC5146)
2024.10.24 @ 22:00
Alt: 73°

The Cocoon Nebula, also known as IC5146, is a fascinating emission and reflection nebula located about 3,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are forming, with a bright central star that illuminates the surrounding gas and dust, giving the nebula its soft, cocoon-like appearance. The Cocoon is linked to a dark nebula, a dense, starless region called Barnard 168, which stretches out like a trail behind it, obscuring the background stars.

The Cocoon Nebula sits in one of the Milky Way’s richest star fields, so it's dark trail and glowing cloud stand out even more against a sea of distant stars.

Setup:
C8-XLT + f/6.3 reducer @ 1208mm focal length
iOptron mount, tracking
Ares-C Pro camera
Optolong L-Pro filter
SharpCap Pro & Siril

Total exposure time: 8 hours
Processing: mediocre

Dumbbell Nebula (M27, Apple Core Nebula)
2024.10.19 @ 22:00
Alt: 70°

The Dumbbell Nebula is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky, located around 1,360 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. What you’re seeing is the glowing remnants of a dying star that has shed its outer layers, with the central star still visible at the core. The distinctive "Apple Core" or "Dumbbell" shape comes from the expanding gas.

Interestingly, M27 was the first planetary nebula to ever be discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764.

Setup:
C8-XLT + f/6.3 reducer
iOptron mount, tracking
Ares-C Pro camera
Optolong L-Pro filter
SharpCap Pro & Siril

Total exposure time: 6 hours and 15 minutes
Focal length: 1208mm
Processing: minimal, time & weather constraints

@scotth said in Remote Access software with good dual monitor support:

Mesh Central. I connected easily and could choose both or either screens.

Is it possible to have each screen in a separate window?

@DustinB3403 said in CrowdStrike blames kernel level access on last month Microsoft outage, claims to:

@Obsolesce said in CrowdStrike blames kernel level access on last month Microsoft outage, claims to:

@DustinB3403 said in CrowdStrike blames kernel level access on last month Microsoft outage, claims to:

want to find a non-kernel based solution and that the EU is at fault.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3483641/crowdstrike-backs-microsofts-demand-for-reducing-kernel-level-access.html

I still say it could have been avoided if CrowdStrike had tested the change on a single device prior to releasing it publicly. It could have been a simple automated test as part of their release pipeline.

Even a better rollout strategy could have prevented it from going too far.

What's funny is that CS is now saying that they have decided to start testing their releases with the use of "besides showing interest in working with Microsoft to work on the “kernel-level restrictions” development, is also taking a new approach to certify each new sensor release through the “Windows Hardware Quality Labs."

Whats also funny is that if you look at almost any open source software of similar caliber, they do all that stuff in their build and release pipelines or other work flows before public releases.

@DustinB3403 said in CrowdStrike blames kernel level access on last month Microsoft outage, claims to:

want to find a non-kernel based solution and that the EU is at fault.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3483641/crowdstrike-backs-microsofts-demand-for-reducing-kernel-level-access.html

I still say it could have been avoided if CrowdStrike had tested the change on a single device prior to releasing it publicly. It could have been a simple automated test as part of their release pipeline.

Even a better rollout strategy could have prevented it from going too far.

@gjacobse TeamViewer allows each screen in its own resizabke window with whatever resolution. Problem is that TV is so slow even over LAN. I don't experience that kind of slowness using g other solutions, but I do indeed need that specific feature.

I'm looking for a TeamViewer alternative (free) that features great dual-monitor support. Specifically, the ability to have each monitor in its own window with its own resolution.

Is there anything that fits?

I've tried NoMachine and although it has dual monitor support, it sucks with my setup and doesn't support what I'm looking for. Are there any others to look at which do not require a separate server to be set up?

Getting a lot of use out of the Boox Note Air3 B/W... I had it for a few months now and definitely recommend for anyone interested in a no-limitations book reader. There's a color version as well but after weighing the pros-cons, went with the b/w version and would still do it again.

Surgery went well. Now day after surgery. Localized numbing wore off early AM. Popliteal nerve block starting to wear off too. The pain is real.

@dbeato thanks. Have surgery on Friday.

Not fun times. Twisted my ankle around so far it broke my fibula. Felt like it just kept twisting further and further to 360

@scottalanmiller said in Outage 7/19:

@Obsolesce testing AV updates is uncommon. Compared to other kinds of things. Outside of Wall St. I've never known any shop anywhere to both use third party AV and do testing of it.

I meant CrowdStrike testing their own updates prior to releasing / pushing them to the public.

Simple automated testing, for example as part of a CI/CD pipeline, could have caught this, if no other testing. They really skipped some things on their end prior to pushing it out.

I don't know of many software companies that do not implement a basic functionality test prior to release. This is a 100% failure rate on Windows devices as far as I understand... something any test would have caught. If they had tested this on at leaat a single Windows device...

Meltdown is ‘largest IT outage in history’ says Microsoft

More than eight-million computers have been impacted in the “largest IT outage in history”, according to the software giant Microsoft.

Microsoft, in a report from Reuters, said: “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 per cent of all Windows machines.”

This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...

You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.