Flu vaccine is only for the elderly, enfeebled, and others with compromised immune systems... If you're reasonably healthy, there is no reason to get a flu shot (unless you secretly want to get sick as fuck for no reason). I had one when I was 18, and you'd literally have to kill me to get me to take another one. Never been sicker in all my life (and that counts the times I had the flu before that BS shot).

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@jaredbusch Have you read any of L Ron Hubbard's books? A friend of mine was explaining how great he was as a science fiction author (if you just ignore Scientology). I was considering picking up some of his works to see what the deal was

L. Ron Hubbard is a failed sci-fi writer who had to found a cult to get people to keep reading his books. And if your friend is actually not trying to rope you into scientology, he has terrible taste. But he's probably trying to rope you into scientology...

@phil-commquotes said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"He watches."

It's true, but not as creepy as it sounds.

Hey man, nobody here is kink shaming you. Whatever you're into.

@bnrstnr said in How many of you...:

@scottalanmiller They should go ahead and remove all of your posts, including all 4,236 best answers, since they decided that you're no longer welcome.

I manually removed ALL my BA ans HP posts when I decided to leave them behind.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Without UAC, PS takes two seconds. Not horrible, but not all that fast. Better than I typically see, but I normally only see it with UAC as @momurda pointed out.

The fuck I'm gonna wait 2 whole seconds for anything!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the goddamned 21st century, for fuck's sake!!!!!!!!!! Everything should be instantly instant!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have zero milliseconds to spare while your OS horseshit gets sorted!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIMME MY MOTHERFUCKING POWERSHELL NOW, YOU FUCKING SLOW ASS BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/end sarcasm
/get a fucking life if you were seriously debating how long it takes fucking powershell to open
/I weep for your souls.... please find a fucking hobby
/try getting laid.... it might calm you down a bit

Got camp all set up, time for a bourbon drink while I listen to this Creek and lots of silence. See you guys Monday.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato Just tried that on a Server2012 and once restored i get a blue screen, so trying to work through it.

When I have gotten those on systems I P2V'ed, running the bootrec commands (fixboot, fixmbr, etc) usually sorted it.

Only 36?

Definitely take a change of clothes in your carry on in case they lose your checked bag. Also be sure to load up your device (local offline storage) with music/movies/TV so you don't have to buy wifi on the plane.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Houston to get first robot brothel in US, according to Dallas morning news.

That's about the same as the public fleshlight at Burning Man. Eww.

I'm kinda enjoying watching the dev manager squirm over some lost data... that was on an old tower server, a server that has had 2 bad drives (out of a 6 drive RAID10) for quite a while. All concerned parties were informed of the drive issue, my boss said "screw it, we're not replacing those old drives". No worries, but again, people were informed about the issue and told to grab any pertinent data they might need. Fast forward to this week, I was instructed to P2V the machine since development "still needed it", even after migrating that workload to a VM. The C drive vhd worked fine. Creating the D drive one put the final death blow on the machine. I was able to grab a little of the data first, and luckily it had the DB backup we needed, but hopefully this will be an eye opener and will make it easier for me to get a backup solution.

Ok, in all seriousness.... how many fucking times do you need to let a phone ring before you realize they are not at their desk????? 2 or 3 seems beyond plenty when the person would be within arm's length of the phone if they are at their desk. I keep hearing phones ring and ring and ring and ring and ring and then they fucking hang up and dial again and let it ring 5 more times.... What the actual fuck????? 3 rings, no answer = THEY HAVE STEPPED AWAY FROM THEIR FUCKING DESK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HANG UP THE FUCKING PHONE AND TRY AGAIN LATER!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR JUST STAND UP AND LOOK ACROSS THE 14 FUCKING FEET BETWEEN YOUR DESK AND THEIRS TO SEE IF YOU SEE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The "open office plan" needs to fuck off.

@WrCombs Here it's mostly our people on speaker with our hayseed customers. Either way. I don't need to hear it. And yes, I have headphones, but I also need to be able to hear when people approach my desk. Sneaking up on me is a good way to lose a tooth or 3.

@nadnerB Ivory straws should only be used to drink the tears of a PETA member.

@scottalanmiller said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

SonicWall does not "rule".

Was that the question? hahaha

Truth... Everyone knows that O'Doyle rules...

WOOHOOOO!!!!! Getting a quote from xByte for a new Hyper-V host for our infrastructure!!!! 40TB usable space in a RAID10!!!