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While the Windows H8 Metro vs. Ye old Start Button debacle has raged on I haven't really seen/heard much in the way of a why any of is was done/needed. Its really just been a lot of screw Vista Metro noise. But I ran across an article over at Neowin that actually made sense to me. Which was rather handy, as the only reason I'd gone to Neowin (which I generally never visit) was to try to make some semblance of sense out of all the waa waa waa I want my start button back screw Metro noise. So... What do you guys think of this article: Why the Start Menu needed to go

I rather liked it.

He should have assimilated them.

Dude seriously? It's a friggin McDonalds ... You start assimilating crap like that and the collective's IQ will drop like 20+ points.

People with pre-existing mental disorders naturally collect on the internet because in many cases the internet helps them be social in spite of their disorder.

No wonder I steer clear of FaceBook.....

+1 

Also, alt-tab switches between applications and not windows, which means that if you have more than one window of the same application open (think spreadsheets, or editors, for example), you'll have to use some other combination which switches between windows of the same application. I've been using Mac for over two years and I've resigned to the idea that I will *never* get used to that idiotic way of thinking.

So Mac has no equivalent to the Windows Ctrl+Tab MDI document navigation? Bummer.

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I'm leaning towards DFS, but I now have to learn how it works.

Not the way you want it to. The DFS root contains links to discontiguous shares in a single namespace. You don't want to be pulling and swapping drives with it, because as the drive letters change your data will be playing peek-A-boo (and with very little peek...).

I love DFS for a server for its flexibility in letting me modify storage access within a single drive mapping. But the targets really need to be static. Effecting redundancy via distributed DFS will take way more hardware that you want to/need to/should buy.

  You want dieting tips from the country with the highest percentage of overweight people on the planet ... Are you trying to figure out what not to do??

I don't know whether to alternate between A/C or D/C...

Watt's the problem?

Being to amp'd to pick one, he tried alternating DC and just ended up going back and forth.

This is a bit of a tangent, but it may be related so I'll toss it in.

I've got about 50 Dell T1500s running in the field in various offices. They're spec'ed virtually identical (by me) straight business machines with a (from Dell) ATi 2270 Radeon video card. 48 of them ran perfectly. 2 of them BSOD'ed often...and one of those BSOD'ed constantly.

What I found was that there was a video codec (don't recall which one) that the CCC just didn't like that would cause the machine to crash with a kernel-power event. This codec was/is popular with web video sites (like youtube), and oddly enough the machine crash pattern match the user video watching pattern perfectly.

Frequent BSOD = curious user with free time...
Constant BSOD = Doctor who spent all free time on youtube...
Never BSOD = Users with OpenDNS filtered connection that blocked access to youtube (and etc).

Uninstalling the CCC helped a bit (maybe 30%), but the problem continued until Dell finally came out with a driver update about 6 mo. ago.

Not to nit-pick, but actually Ctrl+Alt+Delete is the SAS (Security Attention Sequence) which does allow access to TaskMan, but is really a speed menu for user account related stuff. The (direct Windows) TaskMan shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+Escape ... Which is actually surprisingly close to Carol's Mac tip above.

The fact he can't sync gives me pause about demoting a DC to a member server since that suggests there's a problem somewhere in the AD. Or possibly DNS if somebody buggered adjusted the DNS configuration after the initial install.

True ntdsutil cleanups are not any fun if one gets stuck with an orphaned server object ... But that part was mainly probative as I was assuming a (classic misconfiguration involving ISP DNS servers) DNS issue.

[1]  Although they don't use the PDC/BDC terminology any more, it's still actually the way the domain operates internally. At any given time, one DC is still designated the Primary, and because that server isn't working right, I can't get it to surrender control to the new one. And the new one, since it can't sync changes to the old one, refuses to accept more domain members, etc.

Assuming the 2nd DC was joined to the 1st DC's domain, have you tried transfering/sezing the FSMO roles? Either that or just demote the 1st DC to a member server to force the issue. Assuming of course that AD is intact. I've had to deal with a few crunchy transfers ... It's usually save-able as long as DNS is working properly.

A comic version of a "Bear Scare" app could work very well. Not all apps need to be "rational" or "functional".

Bingo!!

Sound range is only an issue if one wants to create something that might actually work. However as a gag, it only needs to be heard by the user (e.g. Angry Birds game level sound quality). So if it just pops up a cartoon picture of a crazy old woman yelling woogie boogie boogie ... Well... That's all it really needs to do.

Avoid any hair pulling ... Consider the demographic ... And then cater to the lowest common denominator...

In keeping with the above theme...

For those that like to hike in the woods, how about an app that will scare bears away. Don't know what it would have to sound like, but I've asked around and haven't heard of one.

I really think he's on to something. Face it coming up with a game changing, useful, functional application is fraught with complications and subjectivity. Because they really have to do something very specific, very well, and in a fashion that doesn't annoy and/or confuse users with varying to zero skill levels. However... Small toys, that will get a few laughs at parties ... Are fairly easy to get people to throw a buck at. Ya know?


Abbot: Why are you wearing that hidious hat?
Costello: To scare the lions away!
Abbot: There isn't a lion within 100 miles of here.
Costello: See! It's working...


^Click^

imagine having ones testicle tattooed...would hurt...quite badly lol...Might try it one day...not anytime soon though rofl

Well - I've got about 20 tattoos - if you really want to know...


Not everything needs to be decorated.

What I really wish would happen is if a cultural shift made "the new hotness" to be Creative Commons licensing, then all this copyright stuff would be like wearing bell bottom pants (and not as a retro joke).

But I like bell bottoms, they fit much better over my engineer boots.

Besides, now is a bad time to blink on the IoE front. We need to keep pushing for a scorched earth solution that completely evaporates the **AA crowd.

All that futzing about with the document will most assuredly have an adverse effect on the the user experience/device performance. We get a laggy reading experience and they get to shove a flashlight up our asses.

There is no good use for this technology.

The pious and sanctimonious defenders of "good"/the children/pulchritude/whatever... should all be introduced to this Streisand effect by having it engraved on a cinderblock that is then dropped on their heads.  Maybe then they'd have enough sense to - take some of their own advice... - hold their tongues.

Signed.

[returned mail delivery errors]

Recently I have been getting returned mail delivery errors stating that "somerandomname(at)mydomainnamehere(dot)com" could not be delivered, because the recipient doesn't exist.

Critical point that appears to be getting missed here is a little something called NDR (Non Delivery Report) Spam. The point of which is two fold. Back before Mail Admins made a practice of throttling back on the events that warranted an NDR. Malicious types would send mail to a server that was intentionally addressed wrong, just to force the mail server to crash itself with a flood of (self generated) NDRs.

On the flip side, the practice is still used to bypass (server level) spam filters by tricking the server into delivering the mail to the target by way of a delivery failure notice. e.g. the phony from address (you) is actually the intended target...the to address is intentionally invalid which forces the server to "return" it to the (now intended) target.

This is why I severely limit the NDR reports that are allowed by our mail server.

One thing to try is to send an Email to an invalid address to see what your mail servers NDRs are supposed to look like. As it's entirely possible (they won't match) that the mail is getting (bank shotted) bounced a few times before it gets to you.

I would love to have a flying fuck, just so I could actually not give it.

 

They completely destroyed Megaupload. It's gone. It will NEVER recover. Other sites have been shutting down in mass numbers because they're all scared to shit of the same thing happening to them. Megaupload was the first summary execution.

Agreed. They never gave a damn if the charges would "stick" ... They just wanted to sit back and watch the Shock and Awe ripple effect. The Italians did the same type of thing in Chicago back in the 40s. But the Feds thought that was criminal.

They're just trying to cull out the last of the few people there left with an ounce of common sense so the rest can be quietly volunteeded (via EULA update) to participate in testing of their new Soylent Green line of products.

Thankyou for thinking of me...     

Hay if the South can spend the last 100+ years claiming it was going to rise again ... Then we can bring back the 70s.

You Damn Straight!

[The OP has now said the drive was dropped]

The OP has now said the drive was dropped, (it's like getting blood from a stone with some people ), if it was me, I wouldn't be using it any more - most likely the heads would have bounced which won't have done them any good.

...You gotta watch those pesky details. 

 

Driver updates. Don't you just love it when it's that easy?

He must have gotten a hold of the same screwed up version I did awhile back when my RAID5 array kept coming unwound. Driver I'd used for years had been fine, found an updated one...shit hit the fan, found yet another (even newer) one...and its been quiet ever since.