@Dashrender said:

to bad you didn't have the Win 7 VL code they used to have (I'm assuming you can't find it on the VL website under their account?)

because if you can, I'd just use that, again calling if it won't activate with an MAK.

that's pretty attractive.

@Veet said in System Fonts: Installing when not an Admin:

@scottalanmiller

These vendors know, that over a period of time, the client becomes totally dependent on their product, that they (vendors) can dish out any bullshit, and be rest assured that the client would HAVE to lap it up .. To an extent, the client himself is to be blamed for this..

What's amazing, though, is that customers accept this crap the first time. Once the vendor "owns" them, sure, they feel trapped. But at some point, this insanity goes on and people make themselves trapped voluntarily!

@scottalanmiller said:

Isn't this a client who was fired? Problem fixed!

Yup... unfortuneatley the client refused to put in the hardware and required all updates to all machines be shut off, and requested all machines be rolled back from 10 that he hated....

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

In the US, 102 of the stores are convenient store style stores, not normal sized Walmarts

All the closings in the US are within 10 miles of another one. and it said they are all the smaller non SUper Walmarts style ones. aka older.

It was really more than that, not non super walmarts, they are closing down their experiment against Family Dollar like stores (the article specifically called them convenience stores). There were a handful of other versions as well, I'm guessing some that weren't making money.

That's what I felt like, a full decade!! I really did feel like it was brand new when I started at CitiGroup, just a couple weeks before that. I was managing OF systems then.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

How did I know you were going to trash my windows phone 😉

Because: Windows Phone?

Seriously, with the other two operating systems, the app wraps it up nicely. So. Never checked if AT&T made a version for WP.

The app has no ability to lock down on usage. that is a monthly "add on" youhave to pay for with AT&T and TMO

now they are just syphoning money - this should be a free add-on. But that's just my opinion.

As a father of two children that will have phones, I agree.

IT Communities at their finest!

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

As with any system, you should always swing back around and re-visit issues.

With the help of the group here, and other resources i hope to go over the GPP and see what I can clean up and improve.

LUKS will work great for that. We used it in big finance to deal with stuff like government bank account details.

@coliver
Superhero.. may have to look at that one....

Think at this point - going to mark this as Solved.

Awesome..

And nice having a job that you never have to worry about being on ML posting during the day 🙂

@gjacobse said:

@travisdh1

No - User accounts are 'left' so that is connection to the AD / DC is lost, then the user can still log on.

That's not totally true, all profiles files are left, that doesn't mean you can still login to it necessarily. There's no process for AD to talk to the local computer to tell it the user was removed. It is just a directory service, The local computer has to request to login to the account. There is no method AD to tell computers anything changed without them requesting.

@DustinB3403 said:

I don't know what I'd use OpenHAB for anything quite honestly.

I don't have a smart thermostat, or Smart Lights or what ever. 😞 😢 😞 😢

So I guess, can someone explain where I might find OpenHAB useful, I highly doubt that I'd program an app to work with a smart thermostat if I had one etc.

Ingredients for stupendously amazing shit:

Imagination / Problem to solve
Arduinos / RPi's
http://www.powerswitchtail.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://store.hackaday.com/collections/new/products/esp8266-07-module-with-u-fl-chip-antenna-fcc-ce-certified
https://www.adafruit.com/categories
http://www.openhab.org/features/introduction.html

One project I want to do is turn on the lights in my place when I get home from work and my phone joins the wifi.

Another is to automate my door lock with a system that would not require any permanent modification to my apartment door / deadlock.

I've also thought about making a really nice wall mounted lamp with LED strings embedded into a large slab of wood, possibly driftwood with a nice soft glass plate over them to diffuse the light

Yet another is to build my indoor hydroponic garden - this will happen in 2016 for sure. I'm going to use SMT LED lamps and mount them to a common ground / heatsink in the form of a huge aluminium box tube that I can put a fan in the middle of and create a heat pipe that will not only provide light and cooling for LED but also heat and breeze for plants

Still another is to get an OBDII BT module for my car and build a heads up display with an OLED screen so it shines up from the dash onto the windshield and display temp / pressures / coolant / gas / mileage / etc

Something else that's bugged me a bunch is to build a 3D dot matrix cage for my apartment with IR LED beacons so I can fly a mini quad copter around with a built in AI and use it to water plants / auto recharge it's self

For a commercial product I've long thought that something that monitored mains power usage from stove / major appliances and alerts you when they've been on for a while and can receive pokes to update power usage / status would be awesome because forgetting if you've turned off the oven is annoying as fk and useful to seniors and their children.

Another commercial product I've wanted to do is a real air guitar with sensors in a special pick and on your finger tips but I think this is years away from reality with sensor sizes. I think it could be built into a special Tshirt with sensors but dont care enough to chase it. My cousin did an air drum kit project and it's dope, sensors on tips of sticks and you drum away in mid air over a sensor pad.

Another commercial product I want to do is auto-tint windshield that will track eye position and dimm oncomming headlights. This is a dope idea and I think I can do it but with automated cars coming whats the point.

Something that's bugged me for a while is it's hard to get cameras to all turn on and record at the same time and it'd be cool if you could control them all simultaneously. Most high end ones have an IR input sensor for a remote and I'd like to suss out all their codes and build a big blaster to hit record all a the same time for easier / lower staffing on large many angle camera shoots. This will let smaller production teams do cooler shots.

Just putting it out there for the sake of it.

You can run the User State Migration Tool...
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824873.aspx

net time /domain:<domain here> /set /y

Does the PC get turned off overnight?
How old is it?

@gjacobse that would be a good feature request for the image plugin