Instead of trying Hurricane Proof the antenna which I don't think you will especially like a Cat 5 storm. Why not make it where you can disassemble the antenna and parts and then put them somewhere safe. So you then can put them up after the storm again? I think that has a better chance.
@hobbit666 beat me to this idea. I think he hit it on the head though.
Woot! I got a new job today! Turned in my resignation! I will be an assistant systems administrator for the Federal Government. I will be working with the Federal Public Defenders office of the Eastern District of Missouri. This will position myself nicely so that when the kids are out of high school I have the availability to transfer if I want to. More money and less hours. I am on call right now 24/7 and that is not exaggerating and I am just tired of it.
@dustinb3403 said in Internal-only "mail" solution:
Nothing can require someone to read a message at all.
Unless you're testing the person at the end of each question.
I get the point, but management is wanting to nail people to a wall. Read receipts do this.
Yes, it feels as though management wants an IT solution for an HR problem.
@bigbear said in I can't even:
@penguinwrangler said in I can't even:
@quixoticjeremy said in I can't even:
Lived with my parents until I went off to college at 17, didn't live with them again after that.
I hope that is how it goes for you too. I had to move back in with my parents after my divorce, made $27,000 a year as a Sergeant for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Paid almost $10,000 a year in Child Support. $27,000 was gross too not net. That is what prompted me to get my 2-year degree and get into IT. Which I could not have done without my parents' help.
Crazy, everyone I know goes for 50/50 custody mostly because of this. Yet then the kids get to live with two broke parents, usually one or both parents returning home. My sister's kids have all grown up at my parents house.
I was curious, in paying child support, do both you and your wife not have to pay taxes on that amount?
I pay taxes on my income that I use to pay child support. Child support is not pre-tax. My ex-wife lives in a rural area so $10,000 is a lot of money there, most houses are under $80,000 in the town they live in. She had a good job but has never been able to hold down a job so she basically lived off of my child support. So even though I paid child support, I bought the kids clothes, shoes, etc. If they needed something extra at school they would just ask me. Also if they needed some money at school for something a lot of times, my friend the tech director at the school would pay it and then I would pay him back the next time I saw him.
@quixoticjeremy said in I can't even:
Lived with my parents until I went off to college at 17, didn't live with them again after that.
I hope that is how it goes for you too. I had to move back in with my parents after my divorce, made $27,000 a year as a Sergeant for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Paid almost $10,000 a year in Child Support. $27,000 was gross too not net. That is what prompted me to get my 2-year degree and get into IT. Which I could not have done without my parents' help.
@mike-davis Microsoft Wireless Display adapters are cheap enough that I would try that route.
What do you need to share exactly? Is it a web browser tab? Maybe a Chromecast? We have used these in the past but they are junk. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Z04K0E Would not recommend.
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's been really quiet all around lately.
Spiceworld.... I'm sure a good number of ML users are there.
I am planning on Mangocon and Spiceworld next year. I have a good reason to believe I can make it to both next year. Later today I will post why that should be able to happen.
@irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:
@romo said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:
@irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:
Small office printers!!!!
Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.
An old comic, but definitely a good one
Maybe I am just showing my age but I remember hooking up my 9 pin dot matrix printer to my Epson 8088 DOS-based computer and running a word processor called (I believe) First Choice. That was an adventure. That comic doesn't even begin to touch on that.
@marcinozga said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:
Floppy drives.
I work at a law firm. So depending on how far a case dates back to we still deal with old tech. We have a Sony 3.5" floppy drive that connects via USB. We have even thought about trying to find 5.25" floppy to USB.
@dafyre said in Microsoft Abandons Windows 10 Mobile:
@nadnerb said in Microsoft Abandons Windows 10 Mobile:
Microsoft doesn't have a "cool" factor about them. That, I believe, is their biggest problem. One that they must address going forward.
I think you could be onto something here. That kind of stigmata can be hard to overcome though.
That is where Microsoft always lagged behind Apple, the story behind Apple, imho, is the story of their marketing. Microsoft has had good products, their marketing has just sucked.
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
DAMNIT - have a damned head cold.
Might try these homeopathic remedies.
http://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hn-2213002Is one of them a bit of irish in your coffee?
I don't think you can go wrong with that.
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
DAMNIT - have a damned head cold.
Might try these homeopathic remedies.
http://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hn-2213002
@kyle said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm:
@penguinwrangler said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm:
@kyle do you mean you will publish the application to the desktop?
We currently have 4 2008 servers running XenApp 6. IE 11 doesn't support IE11 but 2008 R2 does.
I was looking at adding a 2008 R2 node to the 4 2008 servers and wondered if there is any issues or beat practices to mixing 2008 & 2008 R2 in a clustered XenApp farm to publish a newer app only supported on 1 server.
I can't testify to that as all of our servers in our farm are 2008 R2, we are looking at putting some 2016 in there soon to "play" with for ourselves to see how it is, and to do up some user documentation before we throw them on 2016.
I liked the Windows Mobile UI. I could navigate that phone with ease. I don't see why Microsoft doesn't develop an Andriod phone with their UI on top of it. I would buy it. If they would make their UI as an app I would buy that as well. That would still make them a player in the mobile arena at least.
@scottalanmiller said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm:
@penguinwrangler said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm:
@kyle do you mean you will publish the application to the desktop?
It'll still use RDP.
Yes, I just wanted to caution that some users will be confused because they will try to upload something to a website but can't find documents on their "Desktop" because IE isn't really running on their desktop. That is why we publish a whole desktop instead of just apps.
It is usually done when you install Xenapp on the server itself. You join it to the server farm then.
@kyle do you mean you will publish the application to the desktop?
@guyinpv said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:
I don't know that faxing is the worst.
I'd say email is to faxing what radio is to ham.
Some day when the world burns and our enemies have destroyed the web, there will be nerds faxing each other over POTS.
I don't know if faxing is the worse either, but it is still one of the worse. Honestly though shouldn't printers be on the list, at the least the crappy ones?