@Lakshmana Congrats! Hope I can say "I start my new job today" soon!

This is like my friends that are in the South that refer to all Soda drinks as "Coke"

We need a post that lays out all the reasons why Lenovo is bad. Then we can just link to it. It comes up all the time it seems like.

@Lakshmana No I am not starting a new business. I still have my side business for a few clientele, but I am looking to leave my day job. I have went from having weekends off to being on call 24x7 52 weeks a year. I am not exaggerating. I got in trouble because on a Saturday I was working in my yard and I didn't have my phone on me (I was hot and sweaty, didn't have pockets, so my phone was inside) and I responded back to someone two and a half hours after they tried to contact me. ON MY DAY OFF, on a Saturday and was told that was unacceptable. They don't pay me enough for that type of support.

@Mike-Davis One thing to note, it will not let them pass the PBA(preboot authentication screen) if their password is expired. Took some teaching, and emails to my users to change passwords when they are prompted and don't let them expire. We push out email warnings the week before and day of their password expiring. Hasn't been too much of an issue. My users seemed to adapt to that fairly well.

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Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

I installed it yesterday

First Impressions?

User complaining about laptop overheating at home. Asked them where they were using it at home, bed, couch, etc thinking they are blocking the vents. They're reply was they leave it in their laptop bag until needed at home and then when she opens it, there is a message about overheating. I ask how do you power it off. Their reply was "Oh I just shut the lid and put it in the laptop bag"

@coliver Zentyal, Nethserver, SME Server are the SMB Linux servers that give you a Web Interface for setting up an AD Samba Domain, shares etc. These are just the three I know of off the top of my head.
SME Server: http://wiki.contribs.org
Netherver: https://www.nethserver.org/
Zentyal: http://www.zentyal.org/

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/you-can-now-run-linux-apps-on-chrome-os/

Finally! The only app I really needed was to be able to create my ssh keys, that was honestly a little frustrating not being able to create ssh keys on my Chromebook. I used a raspberry pi for that. Of course, now that I think about it, the VPN my work uses has a Debian client so technically now I could go full Chromebook again, not having a Windows box would be cool.

@coliver I firmly believe that the vast majority of cops are law abiding. It just takes a very small fraction though of bad cops to ruin it for the good cops.

I stay away from Toshiba Desktop Drives. I have had bad luck with them. I like WD , HGST or Seagate.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/softmaker-freeoffice-2018-download

Is this a better alternative than LibreOffice? What makes it a competitor in the market space?

They are known to be more compatible with Microsoft Office and interface is more modern.

I thought OnlyOffice had nailed the compatibility

Yeah, but not free.

What's not free?

Lunch.....Lunch is never free.

Contemplating the fact that the only real downside to being bald is I have no hair to pull out when I am frustrated.

I use Comodo one to do this for my clients. It has a patch management feature.

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EDIT 2: I MEAN COME ON THE MAYOR OF LONDON WANTS TO ENFORCE ROUNDING THE TIPS OF KITCHEN KNIVES TO CURB KNIFE CRIME!

Anyone with sandpaper or a grinding wheel could change this. . .

<sarcasm>Those need to be illegal too then </sarcasm>

@dbeato they put a 'soft cast' on it which was a interesting thing. They brought a rectangle piece of what looked cloth in. They ran water over it and formed it to my foot and calf to immobilize it. Then wrapped it.

Fog project can wipe drives. If they can pxe boot you could do that.

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@scottalanmiller The overarching point is more of "do you think rounding off kitchen knives will curb violent crime?"

If the issue is spur of the moment domestic crime, which I believe that it is, then I believe that it will curb the degree of damage done from violent crime, yes.

Is it good to regulate to that degree? That's a different matter. Do I think it will help the real world issue, yes I do. Do I think it's overstepping bounds for legitimate tools that people use for cooking, yes I do.

So it is a balance. How many "they just grabbed whatever was at hand" violent crimes do you want to curb vs. how annoying do you want it to be for normal people to gut fish? It also would likely reduce accidents in the kitchen. I know that having access to pointed knives in my own home is a problem. My wife swings them about wildly because she can't remember that she has a knife in her hand if she starts talking, the kids can't remember to stay out of the kitchen while other people are cooking, knives fall often, and no one but me will set one down anywhere but point out and at the edge of the counter.

I sure wish we only had rounded knives around here.

I have to disagree with your reasoning here. It sounds like in your household you might benefit from buying non-pointy kitchen knives. I don't have that problem. Have had pointy kitchen knives around me all my life and my children's lives and we are all fine. We should have the freedom to decide what is best for each of us. The London mayor wants to grind down knives is blaming knives for the increasing violent crime and not the actions of the person holding the knife. People will always find ways to kill, harm and maim their fellow man. Someone willing to stab someone with a knife is already breaking the law, a law saying you can't have pointy knives doesn't mean anything to them. They are criminals and disobey laws such as no pointy knives, or better yet do not assault your fellow man, period. I was a prison guard and I found a homemade semiauto pistol in the prison (illegal to have firearms inside a prison, but imagine that a criminal didn't obey that law either) that was made in the maintenance area. We tested it and it was a working pistol. Got about 5 shots off before it jammed. I am a licensed concealed carry holder. I walk around with a loaded 9mm on my hip all the time. The gun has yet to magically hurt someone. I hate to say it as much good as there is in my area and there are good things about St. Louis, crime is out of control. A house a few blocks from me was a drug house, this was in a nice sleepy suburban area. A home just a few miles from us had a violent robbery happen. I refuse to be a victim. Taking away weapons from law abiding citizens is never the answer.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Whew... Family kept me busy all weekend. Wedding, post-wedding revelry, and killing buts at my house. What fun!

killing buts? I am not familiar with that slang... please elaborate?

@Tim_G Give me a Sonicwall device and I will take it to my gun range for target practice. That's all they are good for. ESPECIALLY after Dell bought them. Sonicwall is awful. Nothing but issues.