Posts made by BRRABill

This is not IT to IT, but someone once put a hard boiled egg in my office. Hidden, where I couldn't find it.

After weeks and weeks of me complaining about a foul smell, they finally let me in on the "joke".

That was one disgusting moldy egg. Yuck.

I hate the Outlook pop-up.

It pops up, I read and delete the message. Then it pops up like 2 more times.

Grrrrr.

#threadhijackoff

@scottalanmiller said in Windows NT Release History:

Right, I wanted something that shows a far more complete picture. Once you have it all together, it is so much easier to visualize how far away something like XP is from today's releases.

Still love XP.

@bbigford said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@bbigford said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

Are there any printers installed on it?

I had server once that kept randomly crashing and it turns out it was a printer driver of all things.

No printers installed... but I had wondered the same thing as I found that on some forums.

It drove me nuts.

Kept rebooting the server in the middle of the day, randomly. It was awful.

Are you sure the spooler caused the reboot rather than a faulting driver not being isolated and caused the server to reboot because of a driver issue? I've witnessed print spoolers on servers crash many times and cause the whole list of printers to become unavailable, but that is about the extent of it.

Pretty sure it was the driver.

I think it was an older printer that maybe didn't have an updated driver.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Routine Monday morning meeting out of the way, on to coffee number 2.

That reminds me ... time to get coffee number 2.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Stop Windoes 10 Resolution Pop Up?:

It then gives options, but hitting either Apple OR Cancel

Freudian slip?

Oh, no you hate Apple, too.

@bbigford said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

Are there any printers installed on it?

I had server once that kept randomly crashing and it turns out it was a printer driver of all things.

No printers installed... but I had wondered the same thing as I found that on some forums.

It drove me nuts.

Kept rebooting the server in the middle of the day, randomly. It was awful.

Are there any printers installed on it?

I had server once that kept randomly crashing and it turns out it was a printer driver of all things.

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Where does everyone get Cat 6 patch cables these days? MonoPrice, Cables2Go, Amazon?

Amazon.

I get everything from Amazon.

I am Amazon.

@fuznutz04

I was having issues like that due to time issues.

I am also having a separate issue that is apparently a 2003 to 2012 bug that makes passwords not work, and bumps off my HV servers.

Ah, the Fedora mention above threw me off. (I see now it was mentioned purely as a repository.)

What OS requirements does the Veeam software have in that scenario?

@jaredbusch said in New York Kicks Out Charter / Spectrum!:

@scottalanmiller said in New York Kicks Out Charter / Spectrum!:

@dafyre said in New York Kicks Out Charter / Spectrum!:

I'll believe it when they actually are out of the state... If they do actually get das boot, what happens to all the Charter & TWC customers? they lose their internet or what?

Charter is kicked out, TWC can't leave.

First of all, TWC no longer exists. Charter purchased it.

Second, they have been ordered to sell the assets formerly belonging to TWC. This does not mean TWC suddenly beings to exist again. It means the assets must be sold to whoever will buy them.

Finally, Charter has been ordered to leave by the PSC, but it is far from certain if it will happen. The order will almost certainly be temporarily held up by an immediate court ordered injunction pending litigation.

you forgot ... [drops mike]

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why? Why, Why, Why does it seem that every month or so, the ability to manage my Hyper-V host via Hyper-V Manager vanishes, and I get an error message.

(closes eyes, shakes head slowly in disappointment and anger)

What error message.

Happens to me to.

Answer is:
computers,microsoft,computers,microsoft

@wirestyle22 said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

@kelly said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

First off, I do not want to have some kind of discussion about civility or point fingers. However, I have noticed from a number of threads that there is a general tendency in the community to find something about a post/topic/thread that is wrong/inaccurate/incomplete and focus on that item to the (to me) detriment of the overall thread.

Am I being too sensitive, or can this be a somewhat hostile place at times? (Telling me that I'm wrong here is not being hostile, btw.)

When I first came here I thought the need for absolute perfection (semantics as an example) was a negative, but I can honestly say that isn't the case. I have been much more accurate with what I am discussing on interviews and it's directly related to this community. At the same time a thread becomes naturally hostile when someone attacks the person instead of the concept being discussed, regardless of how wrong they are. I've been incorrect a lot of the time and when civil discourse occurs it's extremely beneficial for everyone.

It's a good point...

Learning to be more specific in the questions you are asking, and expecting results and answers based on your question.

@shybrsky said in Office 365 Manual Configuration:

@jackcpickup not sure with 2007 version ,,, but works with 2010 .

It did, but was getting harder with each time.

2007 isn't supported anymore, anyway, so no one would recommend being on it.

Seriously, how did not one respond to this immediately with snark?

I as recently as this year had Outlook 2007 working with Office365.

It definitely takes finagling and can often break with O365 updates.

One thing you can try is manually pointing the autodiscover to a local file. That made a huge difference in our setup. (But we also had a hybrid setup (in-house MDaemon server as well) that extra complicated things.)

If you click, it will take you to a page about the picture.

@jaredbusch No protein?