@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Last evening at my place...
I think that is the first video I have seen you post at what must be high tide. That is damn near up to your door.
It will be eventually. Equator area will see the most significant rise in sea level.
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:
@obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.
Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.
That was definitely not my experience. I've had cell service continuously since 1992 and did not get access to texting until more like 2002 and never sent or received a text until I would guess after 2006. But I had email on my phone before that and talked with loads of people because it was common in business then, because of Blackberry devices, to have email on the phones. ANd because texting was costly and rarely available, they had Blackberry messenger instead of texting on the devices. We didn't use it, but it was there.
Not my own experience. Texting was big for me and my circle back then, regardless of your experience. Besides the point though... Being a flip phone had nothing to do with SMS.
@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.
Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.
sure it does, but those that I know that have flip phones don't text, I know three.. none of them use SMS.
Not an option versus choosing not to use something are very different things...
@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.
Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.
@scottalanmiller said in New secret-spilling hole in Intel CPUs sends company patching (again):
If you build in a back door, people will use it.
So tired of Intel's messes.
I set up Squid Proxy in the past for a company and it worked really well.
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Ever have your boss need you to do a little project for him and it involves just typing two words into a file?
Like, how incompetent can you be?
Best part is...
I'm the boss in this story. lol
@valentina is very long suffering.
That's not necessarily incompetence, it's delegation.
@dashrender said in hot potato workers:
Azure Virtual Desktop
Started using this a few weeks ago as a solution for something and has been excellent. It works well with Intune as well, so no need for an on-prem AD.
@scottalanmiller said in HTML Editing:
@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:
@travisdh1 said in HTML Editing:
@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:
As I search threads on HTML and specifically HTML editing, why not add one to the mix.
It's been a good while since I've done much HTML editing - most of the time when I was doing HTML editing I at least was editing existing code, or searching code to change one or two things.
I'm trying to clean up some SharePoint HTML that has gotten a bit messing with change of font and formatting. What I would like to be able to do - is strip all of the HTML code, leaving the text and URL for the text (clickable link).
Is there any suggested applications that would do such a thing, or is it likely that I'll need to go link by link?
I've not found any better way than using the search and replace with whitespace like @dave247 already mentioned. Also, the last time I did any actual coding instead of scripting was ~8 years ago now, and I used Dreamweaver to do it shudders
Dreamweaver was better than FrontPage....
But none as good as Notepad.
For me using a good IDE can be much more efficient for most languages over Notepad. Some big examples that stick out is having IntelliSense, Linting, etc. At absolute worst, it speeds up your "coding".
That's not to say outliers don't exist. Opening a file in notepad really quick to make a basic/quick edit can be faster, but that's not the case I'm referring to.
@pete-s said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:
AMD unveils its first processors based on its new Zen 4 architecture.
The first, nicknamed Genoa, is built for general-purpose computing and packs up to 96 cores (thanks in part to a 5nm process) as well as support for DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 peripherals. It arrives sometime in 2022, and partners are sampling chips now.
https://www.engadget.com/amd-zen-4-genoa-bergamo-cpu-191633260.html
Youtube Video
What's the price going to be for one of these?
It works for me the regular way, installed via Windows Store, then Start > Terminal > Run as admin:
@scottalanmiller said in DuckDuckGo:
Most people I know don't pick for those technical reasons. Just speed or compatibility or randomly because they know the name.
That's why I use Edge, best of all worlds... speed, integrations, features/functionality, updates, security, compatibility with all the devices I have, etc.
That and Bing, which DuckDuckGo seems to favor more than any other search engine. The results DuckDuckGo show and what Bing show are usually almost identical. Extremely different than Google.
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Today's customer conversation...
Customer: "Hi, you guys have been great but now that you aren't local we don't feel comfortable [fyi, we have local people still just I am not local] so we want to use a local IT provider. We'd like to stop paying for your service."
Me: "We understand, and understood months ago when the new IT firm came in and seized control without talking to us. I talked to your COO and worked out the end of service for that day and you've not been billed since then... months ago."
Customer: "Oh, well I get a bill I'd like to cancel whatever that is."
Me: "That's your phone service that you always had separate from any IT support. You went through several phone services while with us as IT because you didn't want to use us but none could get your phones to work so you finally gave in and paid half as much with us and your phones have been with us for years now."
Customer: "I don't understand what phone service is. What does that mean. Just cancel service."
Me: "...."
How do you deal with a customer who has had RingCentral, SpectrumVOIP, Charter phones and after decades of owning multiple major medical practices and work for the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and now doesn't even know what a "phone company" does? She's the owner and CIO and doesn't know that phones need service... even though she and she alone has installed and purchased every phone vendor ever for the company!!
At that point, do as asked. Draw up a legal contract for cancelling the phone service and then disconnect it. At least you won't get any more calls from her after that, LOL!
@scottalanmiller said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:
@jaredbusch said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:
Why do you want this? I know it exists in other solutions. But the point of these tools is typically remote support. Who cares if the user can see the screen? I am truly interested in the answer.
For us, it comes up for a few reasons.
- Potentially showing private data on the screen and not knowing who can see it (or who can grab the mouse and use the logged in session.)
- Customers who won't stop interacting while you work (but we CAN disable their input, so that's covered.)
- Customers watching without understanding and complaining that they would do it better, differently, faster, blah blah blah, and interrupting instead of letting us work.
If I ask for remote help, and my input gets disabled and screen goes blank, I will unplug that shit immediately and never ask for help again. Wtf kind of private info are you displaying that the person reaching out for help shouldn't see?
Why WSUS and not Windows Update for Business? It's so much better.
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
Why would I throw away a machine just for the sake of Windows 11 which a lot of people will because they always want the latest and greatest so they say.
All this why we are meant to be saving the planet really, all this scrap computer parts that will be in your local tip.
Microsoft gives zero shits about what you do with your old hardware... whether you upgrade to W11, keep W10, or throw Linux on instead, they make next to nothing. They aren't forcing you to do anything with it, and do not care.
@pmoncho said in KVM or VMWare:
@obsolesce said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
So basically, correct me if I am wrong, one has to pay to use Hyper-V going forward in the future (After Hyper-V Server 2019 is EOL)?
Depends on the use case, but yes. I haven't looked much into it because I don't use "Hyper-V" anymore outside of my Windows Desktop and Laptop.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
Let's talk about why Microsoft are not releasing Hyper-V Server no more. I should imagine they were eventually going to kill it, but they have done it quite quickly then imagined.
Because they want you to use Azure Stack HCI instead.
