@scottalanmiller said:

Very few people do. Even in IT it is not well understood.

Yeah, I guess.

@Dashrender said:

Sounds like a new word is needed.

A few, I think. There are still different foci within the generalist ranks. There needs to be some amount of differentiation without getting crazy.

There's no benefit to my company to replace 100+ VGA monitors. As they die they can be replaced with whatever is usable at the time.

That said - the HP 800 G1 SFF comes with one on board VGA and a display port. So if you want to use DVI, you're stuck buying a Displayport to DVI convertor or installing a video card.

I would vote for Eaton as well.

I am yet to organise my stuff properly but I have a few things up on SW that I found useful and have stuff scattered on my work PC.

I set up a blog that I am hoping to transfer a lot of my stuff to so that I have an easily accessible platform that I can link to if necessary.

The How-To's and Script area of SW should probably be more useful but people expect you to answer them if they post a reply to your script/how-to. That looks like it can get out of hand quite quickly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Which blogs and forums don't paste as plain text? I'm sure all the ones I use do.

WordPress accepts full style.

WP since 3.0 has always had the paste as text option. You might have to click unhide kitchen sink, if I remember correctly.

So what we ended up deciding to do, thanks to all the fine suggestions here, is to enable the new policies for passwords for both admins and users in their respective OUs and we are just going to let user passwords expire naturally and over the next 12 months, everyone will be moved to the new password requirements. Obviously all new hires will have it from the start. Thanks to everyone for your help in this! I really appreciate it!

@nadnerB use a triple backslash to show a double \\

Bring out the ol' bocket-o-slap and apply liberal servings to the post-it bandits.

@Nic said:

You'd have to have levels. Like they do for electricians and other trade workers.

Absolutely, but unlike electricians or trade workers, it isn't a progression which makes it really hard.

@GregoryHall @Minion-Queen

Someone in the LinkedIn MAX RemoteManagement group had the answer I needed.

According to MS information on this website the correct way to call programs in the System32 folder is like this:

%windir%\Sysnative\name-of-file.exe, or for the Snipping Tool: %windir%\Sysnative\snippingtool.exe.

Once MAX RM pushed out the update to the client, it worked as expected.

I ended up changing the users Chrome password. I also recommended that she change all passwords. She had just started using LastPass and was adding sites as she went. Now she knows how to use the random password generator and is changing all passwords.

Maybe writing your own backup system is not a bad idea.

@scottalanmiller said:

NTG uses 7zip, PuTTY, Notepad++, VirtualBox too.

@scottalanmiller , you should check out KiTTY. Built from PuTTY but way nicer!

Aside from the form factor one of the things that is killing the Surface line of tabs is the app store. It's a running theme with Windows Phone. Internet loads of crapola.

BUT The surface 2&3 are by far a better fit into my workplace than the iPad and Android toys. If only for the ease of administration and getting them connected. Still horrendously expensive.

@IRJ said:

I found this after the fact, but I think this would be VERY helpful
http://kylgrn.com/2014/06/06/mcsa-office-365-test-70-346-70-347/

Awesome...thanks!

@scottalanmiller said:

@lance said:

@scottalanmiller

What is your opinion on Javascript and Node.js for backend web developers? I see a lot of back and forth on the topic throughout the internet.

It's making a lot of inroads on the backend but I don't see it lasting for forever. JS is a good language but not a great one. It just wasn't designed well for how it is being used. Once people start making Node.js-like engines for other languages, things will change rapidly.

Gotcha.

Have you looked into using an emulator so that the calculator runs on Windows rather than needing to attach to it?

http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/

Good info.

Any luck getting them to whitelist you?