@Nic said:

Probably a virus causing the inflammation.

Awww s*** [moderated], Grey's got da Ebolas!

@coliver said:

@PSX_Defector said:

That said, with that level of education, generic posting, and all other factors, my guess would be it is for Cisco.

I would say that's harsh but I've talked to one or two of their support reps..

It's not to say that they are dumb over there, just that Cisco might have hired a crappy recruiter.

It could be for a completely different company, no way to know without asking.

@scottalanmiller said:

Let's hope that @Minion-Queen doesn't require us to all have those now.

She's got a better way.

This is when it pays to know thyne market.

Without a company name, or a recruiter, I can't say for certain what the job will exactly entail. But knowing Richardson, we can eliminate Fossil, BCBS, Verizon, AT&T, Ericson, and a few more of the big guns. They don't write shitty job posts. From the listing and the barebones description, it's a L1 QA and/or tech support situation. And knowing Richardson, most of the jobs revolve around telcom somehow, be it Broadcom, the Samsung R&D lab, the chip foundry by ST Micro, XTE, or something like that.

That said, with that level of education, generic posting, and all other factors, my guess would be it is for Cisco.

Wait, we doing lines of pure Christmas Cheer?

Youtube Video

If you got the space, why not do it through the OS? Robocopy/clone over the drive to a thin provisioned VMDK, then delete the thick provisioned VMDK. Then modify the OS to make the "new" drive the same letter as the "old" drive.

Myself, I would just clone the thing using something like DriveXML. Quick and dirty, just how I likes it.

Damn it, tunein.tokyo is taken.

Now what will I name my nipple fetish website?

@scottalanmiller said:

We have had pretty good luck with VoicePulse over the years.

Yeah, wasn't it me who recommended them in the first place?

Fortinet has a serious learning curve versus even Cisco, given it's market share and such. You can't throw a rock out there without hitting someone who knows the basic IOS commands. Fortinet has unique ways of handling their configs, especially with regards to the CLI. Going into the GUI will let you easily take care of a lot of tasks, but its not as intuitive as one would expect. It took me about 4 hours to configure one for a VPN tunnel because their ipsec config was goofy compared to Cisco.

Taking six hours to configure, especially a 200D, could be easily explained as someone working on their first or second one ever.

@ajstringham said:

It was always dry for me.

Lots of the ways to recover a BIOS is based on floppies because they don't believe in ever updating the low level machine code. The reason for the recovery is to access the very basic of things in assembly, rather than bootstrapping up the rest of the BIOS to handle things like IRQ assignments and such.

That said, I'm guessing this laptop, being rugged, has lots of replaceable components on it. Best way to recover a BIOS is not to recover at all but to yank and replace. Takes all of a few minutes, and if you are really hard core, can recover the chip on the bench with tools. But you don't strike me as the type that has access to an EEPROM writer. And the other way would require that the company supply you with one.

Most companies have a method of recovering the BIOS. Lots of the generic ones usually don't apply because of the modifications they make to the code. Worth a shot, but not necessarily gonna work, for the floppy reason a lot of times.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/326954-case-you-kill-your-phoenix-bios-bios-recovery-methods.html

Extract the KCB.ROM from the KBC.EXE file in the original installer. Grab a USB floppy if you can, which should be able to access the low level FDD commands. That should do it.

Sh** older than crap, might be better to just cut your losses and get a new rugged laptop. Panasonic's stuff has gotten pretty good.

@StrongBad said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller Same I was like, Adobe still makes that...

Adobe made Flash I had no idea that they were making CF too. How did I miss that?

It came about when they bought Macromedia. Along with Dreamweaver and Flash.

@scottalanmiller said:

In the AD integration thread we were discussing the SMB protocol and how nice it would be to have it on mobile devices (iOS, Android, etc.) Not everyone wants it, but many do and the lack of it is confusing. So a couple of questions to discuss:

1. Why isn't there any SMB protocol support on any mobile platform? Seems easy enough to do.

Because that would take critical space in the kernel for something that isn't really isnt going to be used. Think about the morons who never update because they are afraid. Lest some SMB vulnerability comes up.

Do we actually want SMB support if it were available?

F**[moderated] yeah. Right now we have to use third party file browsers to do some basic SMB protocol stuff.

How would we want it to work?

Straight integration into the file browser. Just put it as a "Network Share" and all would be well.

Do you need it to ring a bell or to page folks?

The speaker you list will do the trick, but FreePBX can do it with current equipment. It's all about boosting the ring/tip voltage

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Loud+Enviroment+Ring+Bell+or+Siren

Another option:

http://www.algosolutions.com/products/Audible-and-Visual-Alerting/8180-sip-audio-alerter.html

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller Same I was like, Adobe still makes that...

Yes, yes they do.

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html

@scottalanmiller said:

New article on the Kano:

He finally got his license to practice cardiac medicine?

I think it's more along the lines of a certain four letter company that gives the rest of us a bad name. And considering the level of their screwups, its amazing that anyone still uses them.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

While in many of the SMB I have worked at, the owners did not give dick until asked/forced by the employee.

In the enterprise, raises are formal. In the SMB, raises are from moving between companies.

What do you mean by formal?

In February, the big V puts in their performance reviews and lines up our raises for the next year. A month later, bonuses are established based on what our raises were.

Formality, when you know when something is gonna happen.

Customer sends us a ticket, complaining that they can't browse the internet on their Citrix box, or apparently any other box in their environment.

This customer is well known for f** {moderated] things up so magically, it's beyond belief. They put in a group policy to prevent anyone from seeing the C:\ drive on any host, even as domain admin. But they forgot that if you just put C:\ in the run box it pops right up. We once caught their machines spewing Facebook spam, as in hundreds of thousands of connections to Facebook over just one box. Their bright idea to fix the problem? Put facebook.com in the host file as 0.0.0.0. Never mind that there was still something spewing sh** [moderated], it's fixed.

After a bit of research, a very little bit of research, I think I found their problem:

@garak0410 said:

it is worth watching both V and V: The Final Battle...the weekly 80's series, as mentioned, started strong but ended very badly (IE badly written and acted)...

What? Was this not good enough acting for ya?