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Just how many children need to die before software gets properly regulated and licensed?-Renegade (August 12, 2013, 11:04 AM)
Christ on a stick ... Seriously? 
...I wasn't comparing it to the dangers of smoking while washing engine parts in gasoline on a hot summer day ... I was just making a joke about water not being flammable.
Hell, what do I care about lists... pretty sure I'm on most of 'em by now anyway!-J-Mac (August 10, 2013, 10:47 PM)
Any chance that you've made it onto the list of people that aren't on any lists?-Renegade (August 10, 2013, 11:09 PM)
put the cart in a shallow dish of water, just enough to soak the print heads.-Tinman57 (August 08, 2013, 08:25 PM)
A folded up wet paper towel works well for that also and is much harder to spill.-Stoic Joker (August 08, 2013, 10:57 PM)
I tried it with a paper towel, but you can't get the water/alcohol to cover the heads. I use paper towels to just clean the heads when they're visibly dirty.-Tinman57 (August 10, 2013, 03:49 PM)
I recently learned about this site: http://testmy.net/-Deozaan (August 09, 2013, 03:42 PM)
The Govt has succumbed to systemic abuses of power.-TaoPhoenix (August 09, 2013, 02:52 PM)
put the cart in a shallow dish of water, just enough to soak the print heads.-Tinman57 (August 08, 2013, 08:25 PM)
Bottom line is ... They can force you to show up, they can force you to sit in front of a computer ... But they can't force you to know anything. When applied correctly...ignorance truly is bliss.
The most dangerous game I like to play, is called micromanagement. You push to hard, I start doing exactly what I'm told. There is no warning when the transition happens. Scary part is...regardless of what I know about just how detrimentally dangerous your instructions are...I'll do exactly what I'm told...calmly, dutifully...you'll never see me laughing. I've never lost this game ... Ever.-Stoic Joker (August 08, 2013, 05:39 PM)
I've sorta done that a little, but with far less of a smirk and more of a "keep your head down and just pay the rent". I am no people-genius, I can't play a complicated meta-game with my jobs!-TaoPhoenix (August 08, 2013, 05:58 PM)
THE BOFH STILL RULEs!-40hz (August 07, 2013, 09:10 PM)
Hail to the Bastard!-Vurbal (August 08, 2013, 03:10 AM)
+1 - Point goes to Vurbal.^ Welcome to the world of system administration!It's not just a job, it's a psychosis.
It's not just a job...it's a...well...it's...ah screw it! It's a job.-40hz (August 07, 2013, 04:05 PM)-Vurbal (August 07, 2013, 05:03 PM)
All the bandwidth in the world isn't going to do you any good if the website your trying to connect to is bogged down from internet traffic. I also have some tools to look for bottlenecks if I should want to check a slow connection, but I find it's faster just to take a look at another website and see if there's a bandwidth problem from my end.-Tinman57 (August 07, 2013, 03:26 PM)
Besides, any phone that regularly drops off the grid and can't be reached by a backchannel ping - and then pops back for no apparent reason - becomes a dead giveaway that the owner is employing some shielding mechanism.-40hz (August 07, 2013, 03:26 PM)
^Brother had a trade-in deal not too long ago for one of their better all-in-ones. They gave you something like $50 on any printer traded in. Had a client bring in an old dot matrix NEC. They took it.-40hz (August 07, 2013, 04:47 PM)
HP has an ongoing trade-in program. What's eligible changes periodically so you'll have to check what you have against their list. Link to page here.-40hz (August 07, 2013, 04:47 PM)
This is somewhat from memory since I left the IT world in 2006, but IIRC P just means monochromatic (black) compared to CP which would indicated a color printer.-Vurbal (August 07, 2013, 09:28 AM)
The number should tell you the intended market which mostly indicates the expected number of pages per use, per month, and over the printer's lifetime.-Vurbal (August 07, 2013, 09:28 AM)
There's a variant of disk pooling available with Server 2012.-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2013, 12:04 PM)
Yes indeed. But that puppy is an entirely different breed of tech from what they had in WHS.
I've never done anything with pooling in a Windows server production environment. But I did get some (brief) hands-on with it in a lab setting. Looked impressive. But that's one of those things you need to have up long-term before you can say for real how well it works in contrast to something like tossing VMs back and forth. With that, you have immediate feedback if something isn't what they say it is.-40hz (August 06, 2013, 12:59 PM)
I've never encountered any real systemic faults with MS Server. Truth is, with Windows Server, most problems I've run into were caused by either a bad initial setup, or by somebody messing with things they were warned were best left alone.-40hz (August 06, 2013, 12:59 PM)
Is that for the WHS version, the new version, or both? I've never had occasion to play with it ... But I've got all my VMs on an 8 disk hardware RAID5 array.-Stoic Joker (August 05, 2013, 10:31 PM)
It was for the WHS version.-wraith808 (August 05, 2013, 11:29 PM)
Ah! Okay. I remember that debacle. But supposedly they got that all fixed...supposedly... They were pitching it as the best thing since sliced bread at the last MS show I went to. Guess we'll have to wait for 40 to chime in on the clarification then. Thanks.-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2013, 06:43 AM)
The first iterations worked ok as long as you didn't push it too much. Then something went terribly wrong a few updates later. Microsoft 'fixed' it by the simple expedient of removing the drive pooling feature from WHS.
But it's kinda moot now. Unless I missed something WHS has been officially discontinued. Microsoft is suggesting its very stripped down "Windows Server Essentials" server as the replacement.-40hz (August 06, 2013, 08:26 AM)
I'm more worried about the criminals at the Pentagon and similar, and not so much about the low-level criminals elsewhere. The local network access doesn't make much difference.
-Renegade (August 06, 2013, 09:26 AM)
Is that for the WHS version, the new version, or both? I've never had occasion to play with it ... But I've got all my VMs on an 8 disk hardware RAID5 array.-Stoic Joker (August 05, 2013, 10:31 PM)
It was for the WHS version.-wraith808 (August 05, 2013, 11:29 PM)
@Stoic Joker: Any idea of the kilowatt per hour usage of that unit?-skwire (August 05, 2013, 06:37 PM)
oh yeah...never used the pool feature in Windows server.-40hz (August 05, 2013, 06:48 PM)
I did... and I lived to regret it. I wouldn't trust it after that incident if they paid me to.-wraith808 (August 05, 2013, 07:48 PM)
