I spend about 5 minutes a week adding a few domains to a blacklist. Not a big deal. My spam service is just fine, I'm talking about a few emails a week getting through. I would like to get it to 0 though I doubt that is possible. Gmail seems to be the best at spam blockage, wonder what they are doing.

This email address has existed since the mid 90's(company around since 1984) honestly every single spammer in the world probably has it. [email protected]. The fact that less than 10 spam messages/week get through mean the filters work well I think.

The big spam shops(NYC mostly as SAM says, if you believe their addresses in the sig) do send out emails with slightly different email address domains, all the time.
Had one that was always getting through, baddomain.com, I blacklisted it, two weeks later it was bad-domain.com

Just watched Moana. Was really good, great songs.

Reading/writing for NFS is in Enterprise Edition only for Windows 7 and Windows 10.

Apparently this has always been the case. I had thought it used to be an option to enable it in the Add Windows Features part of Win7 and earlier.
Why would they do that? It is a freaking file sharing protocol.

Is there even a reason to use MS for anything other than decades long vendor lock-in at this point?
I cant imagine a new company even considering them for any service.

@black3dynamite
"We want terrible tasting sauce loaded with hfcs instead of Szechuan sauce."

Your deductible is 5350? Doesn't that mean you pay everything out of pocket, essentially every year? Unless youre going in for major surgery or a couple of MRI/CT scans every year you are paying out of your pocket, plus youre also paying for insurance. Plus you put more money in an HSA?
Youre paying 8k/year for insurance out of pocket, plus what your company is paying the insurance company.
That seems a bit out of control/way too much. why have employer health insurance if youre paying more than your employer every month.

So, mule for Silk Road type sites?

Last week I was moving some things in the server room around after hours. Turned off a Dell SC430(last physical server here) circa 2004-5, moved the things, turned it back on. Just 1 and 2 lit up on the front and blinking. Bad powersupply. Replaced it. Things boots up, blue screens as Windows loads. Keeps doing that. Troubleshooting leads me to think mobo got damaged when powersupply died. I don't really care about fixing it. Luckily I had backups of the share it was still serving. and had transferred other roles to other servers the first 6 months i worked here. Just moved the share to new server and took care of some other things and all was good.
Thing lasted about 12 years in service as Windows Server 2003(not even R2) AD DNS DHCP File/print/http server for 11.5 of those years.

Cant decide if it deserves a place in Server HoF for years of good service or the Server PoS for dying days before retirement.

Testing out fiber connection finally

Gotta find out about those DL speeds.

Wow. What a scam. 700/month and that's about the worst health coverage ive ever seen.
edit: Just look at those deductible amounts! Might as well not have insurance and just pay Urgent Care a la carte

Sounds terrible, there no relation to things. Move 3 meters and youre listed as something unrelated to where you just were.
blue.crap.done
move 3 meters
flan.flap.dumb

Just use GPS, Lat and Long, problem solved forever, everywhere. Also more accurate.

How to get rid of this sidebar that blocks all relevant info on technet pages.

That one on the right, it just gets in the way of reading. Yes i know im supposed to use the anchor button and fiddle around with printing it to pdf according to ms, but i just want to red this webpage, not fiddle around with whatever halfassed thing ms is doing to technet.

Just scraped a 'new' pc together from leftovers. i72600k, 12GB ram, 160GB ssd.
windows 10, office 2013.
Just realizing how awful Office 2013 themes are. glad i never had to use it.
blinding white, less blinding white, white with some light gray bits.
Just atrocious. 2016 not much better but 'Gray' is actually gray in 2016, not white with a gray line across the screen.

Too bad I can only upvote this once.

Just replaced all my 2600K CFL lightbulbs in the apartment with 5000K LED bulbs. Wow what a difference! No more fake yellow lights.

You might get some useful info from the XenCenter. In one of the earlier posts you had a Screencap of your XC. There were 5700+ notifications listed. I imagine if you click on that and goto Errors and Alerts buttons you will get some useful info. Alerts can be useful for finding the cause, Errors get a bit spammy in XC though they are useful as well.
Generally, the local storage not being connected is probably the first i would look at. That is bad. Then once that is working you need to figure out why your multipathd setup is borked. You said you changed some ip addresses; this is probably a major reason why it isnt working.
Have you tried logging into the switch this is all connected to and seeing if it is ok?

Hit Ctrl Winkey C on accident while trying to copy some text. Didnt know what that combo did. Now i will never forget.

What storage do you have for the servers? Your san is dead; your xs cant connect to local. Right now the company is nonexistant except for incorporation papers at the state of incorporation.
I would try to do something with that san, power it off, pull it out of the rack and reseat the cards and drives.
Turn it on and watch post and bootup, login to the web interface and see if you actually have hardware failure going on. At least try to get it working long enough to get that data.

It comes with the Millenium Falcon Battle Chess game? And Lightsaber fighting? If there was ever a reason to abandon principles(not buying Lenovo), it is those 2 things.
Wow, that is stuff i dreamt about.

Was going to migrate all our shares to Server 2012 with fully indexed shares this weekend. Then i did some tests(have been doing them for awhile) with my workstation and some other Win10 machines.
Nope

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b72c763e-d029-4e65-a2dc-885a5aabf643/problem-creatingrenaming-a-folder-on-a-network-share-with-win10-anniversary-update-error?forum=win10itpronetworking

August is when that thread starts.
Ive been putting this project off for months now because of this.
Very nearly unbelievable. I am curious since this problem seems to not affect everyone(though it affects many), anybody here waiting for this fix?

@mlnews Why?
Because people would rather be directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people per year, and enable powerful black market cartels full of torturers and murderers, than actually help and treat drug addicts.
Putting someone in jail for a year for using drugs is more expensive than supplying that person with an entire lifetime of whatever drug they are addicted to.