Arjun Sud is now aware that using complex passwords and adding two-factor authentication can reduce security risks, but had not known about the option before.

I'll just leave this here.

I gazed upon her beauty from aclose.

I mean... slightly creepier but it would work.

Just did the update on my test system running OpenSUSE, Update went smooth as ever with ownCloud. However now I am not able to access the admin section. Will have to look into it.

Never, ever, ever... ever say that the marketing email is a follow up to a recent conversation. I rarely talk to sales people and when I get the "Hey how you doing we talked yesterday about this product, and you seemed interested." emails when I haven't talked to anyone on the phone for a week... that is very annoying. Seriously this gets you put on the spam list.

The other one I've gotten only once was, "Hey we talked to your boss and he wanted us to talk to you about purchasing our product." Don't do this either...

Someone should update the title with the actual date.

@IRJ said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I'm recruiting at the moment and the job ad asked for a covering letter. Despite this being a requirement in the ad, pretty much no-one included one, which has pissed me off. Basically, either people couldn't be bothered to write one, or they couldn't be bothered to read the ad properly.

My POV is I have tons of experience and this is a tech job not one that needs elegant writing. I don't need to beg for your particular job when I have others I am applying for. Look at my resume and interview me and you will see how valuable I am.

I agree whole heartily with this, we aren't English majors or people who's jobs rely on soft-skills (although those are helpful) we are entirely technical people with a technical job. Our resumes should cover almost everything that we have done and a cover letter really isn't going to add value to it. On top of that if you are interested in the resume then you could easily find out what a cover letter would go over in an interview which, I think, is a much more straight forward and honest means of determining if a person is right for the job.

People actually do any of those things on that list? Man Extroverts are a strange group of people...

Lost in a parking garage? Apparently I'm hanging out with the wrong people at Spiceworld.

@MattSpeller said:

I feel like we should all buy a lenovo right now to get in on the sweet lawsuit money

sweet, sweet lawsuit money. Just make sure it was shipped between october and december of last year.

@Minion-Queen said in What is the general opinion of non-standard business card formats?:

Ok being that the cards in question are from a marketing firm (these will be cards for ML/GS) do you expect to see a weird card or does the don't give me a weird shaped card thing still apply?

Don't give me a weird shaped card. I'm still going to bin it but at least it will make it home/to the office.

@johnhooks said:

@coliver I've done work for a few doctor's offices around here. They've switched to Medent for their medical records. They deploy on-site CentOS servers, but their clients are only Windows based. I haven't seen the back end, so it could possibly be just an Oracle or DB2 server, but why develop on Linux and then not have a Linux client?

I'm always more surprised that companies are still making OS specific apps. It seems like programming for the web has gotten to the point where this would be almost unnecessary... especially since you then don't have to worry about the underlying OS as much.

After 3 hours on the phone with a Microsoft rep... this time from India and California... it was determined that I will need to send the device back in (I just got it last Wednesday at 4:30) and wait 8 days for a replacement... oh joy...

@scottalanmiller said:

Nothing good is ever heard out of Australia. It seems like a constant stream of bad news.

I read that as America for some reason.

Just a general suggestion. Find an internship if you can. Most local communities and schools would be happy to have an intern if they can get one. Especially someone who shows a bit of drive. This will start to help you get contacts in the community and get you introduced to some techs in the area.

@MattSpeller said:

Came in to an empty parking lot after the staff xmas party. Whole IT department showed up but thats almost the entirety of our staff this morning. We're all searching our email to see if we missed a crucial memo

Oh man, I can't stop laughing... Sorry that is way too funny.

@dafyre said:

@MattSpeller said:

Someone forget to feed the hampster again?

They need to upgraid from a single hamster to a RAIHAM 10... Redundant Array of Inexpensive Hamsters 10.

Is that two wheels with two hamsters each?

@Kelly said:

It is an onboard SAS controller that I'm trying to install in XenServer during boot. I didn't go into the details because it was just an example of a current issue, and that detail I didn't feel was germane. The XS installer is not seeing the configured arrays, only the drives themselves. Perhaps I should start a new thread...

Sounds like FakeRAID. I think @DustinB3403 and @scottalanmiller have a guide to setup MD RAID in XenServer.

@thanksajdotcom It is odd... I've learned three things about you while on SW and ML.

1. You have a flare for the dramatic and as a result like being public
2. You are generally the goto printer guy
3. You have this infatuation with Taylor Swift

None of these things are bad things. Just thought I would mention them.

So, this really looks to me like they are going after the hybrid-cloud market. People who want to have some workloads locally but want to be able to seamlessly integrate with a public cloud.

Here's just a suggestion that may make your posts easier to read. Do a full return between paragraphs.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I'm thinking if I didn't care how the final product was I could make a lot of money as a SAN salesman right now.

Want to go into business selling SAM-SDs? I know a forum that has a ton of people recommending SANs right now.