Best posts made by Carnival Boy

@scottalanmiller said:

Often these are my own quotes because I have a huge ego

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do - Steve Jobs

@RamblingBiped said:

Looking to brighten the light at the end of the tunnel. Any advice is appreciated...

Working full time in a challenging job and doing a degree is really, really hard! Once you've finished your degree things might look a lot clearer. I'd hang on in there until then.

Maybe you just need a holiday to recharge your batteries? At the very least, you need to take your foot of the gas for a month or two to prevent burnout and plan a few relaxing weekends with friends and family.

I wouldn't ask a parachuting question on Mango Lassi. By the time Scott and Dash are done arguing about some trivial point compleltey unconnected to my question I'd have hit the ground and died.

I wouldn't bother posting anything other than a very specific technical question on here, because so often you have to spend days justifying your entire career before some posters will even answer the question. If I have a Windows error, I don't want to have to write a 10,000 word dissertation justifying why I'm running Windows instead of Linux and why I'm not, actually, a complete idiot, I just want to fix my Windows error and move on with my life. I still enjoy reading other people's threads though

@DustinB3403 said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

So the Backup API's are magically installed if you upgrade your key from "ESXi Free" to "ESXi Essentials"? I thought they were completely removed from the installation.

Just not there, and to get them you had to install the Essentials ISO to your host.

I thought there was only one version installed and the licence key determines which features are unlocked. When you first install you get all features in a 60 day "evaluation" period, don't you?

I put everything in as I find it a useful log of my time. It's also useful to know that it's the 37th time Sue from Accounts has forgotten her password in the last 10 years.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:

Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

A good example of what's wrong with Teams. It's so complicated that even someone like you can't always figure it out. Bob the Sales Manager has no chance.

I've never understood how Microsoft manage to make products so convoluted. Then someone like Zoom comes along and shows how simple things can be.

On average, the older you are, the more experienced you are, and the more valuable you are. You can't deny that simple logic.

My fear now is age discrimination the other way: being considered too old for jobs. IT is generally seen as a young man's game.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Ever wanted to see Content from Youtube creators (as well as others) before they post it publicly.

Can't say that I have.

Ikea

On the plus size, in exactly half-an-hour I'll be meeting my wife and kids in the beer garden of our local pub and enjoying some real ale and sunshine.

@scottalanmiller said:

took @dominica on one of our first dates to a lecture from the NASA hypdroponic researchers at Cornell

and people say romance is dead

I'm clearly a typical user! I'll try again in a bit.

@scottalanmiller said:

Single spacing just seems sloppy, still.

Double spacing just seems weird.

Apart from anything, consider the wasted time. You've written over 2.8 million words on your blog, right? Let's say an average of 10 words per sentence. That's 280k extra spaces you've typed. Let's say an average of 120 spaces per minute and that's almost 40 hours of your life that you've wasted. 40 hours hitting the space bar, for no reason at all.

Life's too short!

In some places I've worked it's been the owner that is a bit too casual with licences. I've often come in and had to persuade them that being "mostly licenced" isn't really acceptable.

I'm the opposite - if a prospective employer expected me to provide my own IT equipment it would be a red flag and I probably wouldn't want to work for them.

I've never owned a PC during my 25+ year working life. I've always just been given company laptops.

I am passionate about my job, but I have other passions too - hobbies, friends, family. 40 odd hours a week devoted to IT in my job is enough. As it is, I don't have enough spare time to do all the other things I want to do with my life, like learning to play the guitar.

Yeah, which is basically what Dash says - a sabbatical costs the company money. But in a lot of cases, they will recover those costs because the employee will return refreshed and motivated and thus more productive.

I'm pretty much exactly mid-career. I've done 23 years, I've got 23 years to go. I could really do with a break. I'm feeling a bit stale. I may just need to change jobs, but a break to consider what kind of new job I want would be awesome.

Sadly, as already mentioned, mortgages, loans and kids get in the way.

Netscape Navigator FTW

The way I look at it, HP build PCs in Eastern Europe where they pay staff a pittance (at least they used to, I guess they might be assembled in China now), they have hugely beneficial agreements with Microsoft on the licencing, and massive buying power for all the components and yet they still can't sell them to me and make any money which is why they've been trying to sell their PC business for years. If they were making huge margins I might think I can get some of the action, but they're doing all this for me for pretty much no profit. I'm happy to leave them to it..

That video would be improved if the empty desk then became filled with six monitors a la AJ's setup.

@JaredBusch said:

If this was another user mailbox I know exactly where the setting is to grant sends permissions, but in the properties of a distribution group, I can find no place to set this permission.

It's in the security tab for the distribution within Active Directory Users & Computers, not the Exchange console. Add user there and tick 'Allow Send As'. You have to select View, Advanced Features to see this option.