Nah, the best scam the scammer was the P-p-p-powerbook.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1016390

There are lots of vendors out there that will slice you a partition on a larger iSeries or even give you a blade and shared storage, even IBM will do it. It was one of my DR solutions for my last job, ship tapes to Rochester and load a slice up.

For xSeries, don't know. AIX is also a different beast and doesn't do the same thing that OS/400 does for partitioning.

If you absolutely need to keep things easy for them, AKA do everything including wiping, then you need an out of band solution.

Try a KVM over IP.

http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/spider.html
http://www.blackbox.com/Store/Detail.aspx/ServSwitch-Wizard-IP-DXS-Single-Access-IP-Gateway/ACR101A

Just plug it in, plug in the network cable, and you are good to go. Easy to manage via a single web interface.

@Mike-Ralston said:

Just for my area of the house, I've got:

• HP Server RX2600

Why the hell would you have some old ass Itanium box? Certainly NTG doesn't get that many requests for HP-UX.

Well that's just messed up.

Open it up, figure out what the hell it was capturing. Then nuke it.

The individual log or directory? I've seen some beefy directories, but never a single log that size.

The only way I can conceive of a file getting that large is maybe in a SQL instance dumping the entire memory contents, but knowing most of you guys, you probably don't have one of those 64 core/320GB SQL servers I work on all the time. What the hell did it capture?

I received a card the other day from a certain vendor. Instead of the old school ones I used to receive hand written and with schwarmy copy I got a sales pitch for a conference.

For a six year old? Overkill. That thing will be destroyed in a matter of hours. One drop and it's done. It's also probably weighs more than she does. I would go with el-cheapo tablets instead.

For me though, pretty good price. I need a machine to do stuff on while I am watching stupid shit on TV. Only problem with the machine is the 5400RPM drive. Luckily I have a cache of 7200RPM and SSDs I can use.

To Best Buy!

Crap internal call quality does usually point to something local. If someone is on site, can you take two phones and plug them into the switch directly while removing all the others? Maybe something is flooding the switch with shitty packets.

Another spot to check would be the Hyper-V interfaces. Are you sharing a single NIC with the rest of the environment? Is it setup properly to the switch with regards to speed and duplex? Are you having any throughput issues through SMB or other local protocols?

See @Minion-Queen, this is what happens when you try to get a hold of me in the morning.

Reminds me of this guy at Spicecorp one time. He thought he was cock of the walk, talking about PCI compliance. He made a statement that wifi can NEVER be used per PCI compliance.

Like HIPAA, PCI compliance is a guideline, there is nothing verboten. Yes, wifi could be "hacked" but also leaving interfaces unsecured is also a violation.

Of course, I love the "cloud" hosts who claim they are HIPAA compliant.

Just throw the shit into the default profile folder under the users directory. That's easy enough for things like desktop links and such.

Old school way would be to create a "default profile" with all the permissions set and such, rename the old one and put the new one in its place.

Assuming similar hardware and software configurations, it can be pushed via GPO or good old fashioned copy/paste to others via SMB.

Time to lose some weight, fatty.

@scottalanmiller said:

Languages that you should avoid as a new programmer: Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, COBOL, Perl, FoxPro

Because VB is depreciated in favor of C#. But considering the vast install base of the code out there, there is no reason NOT to know how to work it. Mostly porting code over from it to C#.

FoxPro isn't a language, it's a life. A programming language that also functions as a database? Count me in! I still get the occasional call for VFP work. And it's been dead since 2007. Again, depreciated, but incredibly useful if you are porting code to know how it works.

@scottalanmiller said:

The kids decided to descend on us in bed tonight. It's a snuggle night here.

IOW, you ain't getting some tonight.

@NetworkNerd said:

Regarding the additional connection, I remember looking into that not long ago, but the issue is we are on the hook for 3 years for the T1. I think we are about 1.5 years into it now.

Meh, that's OK. Like I said, something cheap on the side.

http://www.att.com/smallbusiness/internet/internet.jsp

Hell, even one of those cell devices that you pay by the month would work to prove it out. As long as it has ethernet.

@RAM. said:

@IRJ his name is Aragorn Jemima Stringham. He was born a Jemima's witness, and in his youth he would go door to do asking people if they had a moment to talk about their lord of flavor and encourage people to visit a meeting by handing out flyers called "the flap jack tower".

All of these facts are backed up by nothing.

Damn it dude, now I want pancakes.

Bastard.

@thanksaj said:

The issue is I don't know where that calendar is located in Exchange. If it's under a specific user, I have no idea which user. Powershell might work, but in my opinion, shouldn't I be able to find it in the GUI also?

It's under the individual. I believe that your user in the GAL is a mailbox, correct? Right click, go to contact card, that will be the individual ID for the mailbox.

Multiple ways to do it.

Quick and easy, OWA.

https://support.office.com/client/Sharing-your-calendar-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5

Quick and dirty, Outlook.

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Share-an-Outlook-calendar-with-other-people-cafb9303-1b1e-40d3-839d-b6abac03a5e8#__toc300732656

Console, more of a pain in the ass:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff522363.aspx

@NetworkNerd said:

@coliver said:

@NetworkNerd said:

I think we have some network issues to sort out over there. The users at this remote site have no web filter and are pulling files, a company intranet site, Epicor, e-mail, and most everything else from the main site. There is one Engineering server over at this site that synchronizes with a server at the main site occasionally, but I was thinking we had verified that this is only happening in the evenings.

This seems like quite a bit of traffic going over a T1, how many users do you have over there? Do some of them stream music/video? Do you use a client based email system where some users will be downloading the same attachment multiple times (more then one user downloading the same attachment?)

We have about 10 users total. I'm not 100% certain about the streaming aspect, but I would think if anyone knew they were streaming they would quickly be lynched as the people over there know they have limited bandwidth.

We use Exchange 2010 hosted at our main site (clients using cached Exchange mode). But users at this site normally tell us things pick up when Engineers are not over there working.

Yeup, someone is slurping bandwidth.

Can you get a second pipe into the place, cheap DSL or Cable? I have a Peplink 300 I can loan out to you, can handle 15Mbps total worth of traffic, more than enough for a single T1 and a 6Mpbs pipe. Don't even have to do anything on the T1/VPN side of things, just put it into drop in mode and set up some rules to shuffle HTTP/HTTPS traffic over the cheap pipe.

That way you can bug management to get a bigger pipe into the place. Or a bigger Peplink.

@thanksaj said:

and before you ask, neither is Kwanzaa.

So you are not going to join me at JWP's Kwanzaafest?

http://www.johnwileyprice.com/kwanzaa-main.html