@art_of_shred said:

Is the monitor plugged into a serial port?

That would be a feat. Serial is 9 pins, VGA is 15.

As long as I am certain some folks are not there, then I'm good. Either I take the Charger for a run or I fly up, don't know.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

C# is a good language but pretty limited in scope. I would save that as it is really the language of Windows only development, not where most development, especially the good stuff, happens.

I would disagree that it is limited in scope. It is the language of millions of Windows desktop applications. It will be decades before it is no longer used.

That's pretty limited in scope, is it not? Making "Windows desktop apps" is extremely limited compared to making "broadly used server apps", "Windows and other desktop apps", embedded apps, etc. C#'s primary focus is in a single use case and a single platform (actually two use cases, but its server side use has gone down a lot because of the limitations.)

What?

I've got tons of folks using C# for IIS applications. Not to mention that Sharepoint is built on it, which dominates the market. Although the C# work for Sharepoint is a lot less than the SQL work needed.

Plus the code is very portable, as long as you have access to the right .NET Framework, it will run. Soon to any platform:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-launches-its-net-distribution-for-linux-and-mac/#.q2qqlx:sy3J

There's a saying, down the throat, no kids to support!

That's my risk mitigation.

@scottalanmiller said:

That thing has been shipped around a bit. Could easily be loose memory.

Well why the hell didn't you say so?

D00d, gank and reseat everything!

Do we need to start making Ghostbuster's quotes? It's true, this man has no dick!

@johnhooks said:

Piggy backing on one of the other threads. If it was an insider, how do you think the FTC would have grounds to sue? I don't think there is a way to stop something like this unless no employees have access to the data.

Be kind of hard for the FTC to sue a Canadian company.

@Nic said:

@Dashrender said:

@Nic said:

Get an ASUS:
http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC66U-802-11ac-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC1750-Gigabit/dp/B008ABOJKS/
Put Tomato on it, and then crank up the power until you drown out your neighbors. At least that is what I do because I live in an apartment and can see 30+ wireless networks from my unit.

So you're the reason I can't get online.

There will be no flashing another firmware.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Only if you live next to me Actually the reason I started doing it was because someone else was drowning out my signal. I got a signal strength app on my phone and my own router wasn't the strongest signal in my own apartment.

You know, they have these things called "channels" that allow you to reside on another frequency to prevent this kind of crosstalk. I recommend channel 13.

See, this is what happens when you got non-techs on a tech board. N00b!

@Bill-Kindle said:

ML_Defectors?

Wouldn't that be SP_Defectors?

@MattSpeller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

The FCC is brutally efficient in sniffing out this kind of stuff.

Really? I'm not so sure about that. I've read about and done some very ... sketchy home brew stuff. Unless they have vans driving around town ala WW2 nazi hunter style I don't see them finding you. In fact, I'd put a strong argument up for that being the reason for this silly regulation.

They actually do have those vans. They take reports of unlicensed spectrum broadcasting very seriously, and radio operators will know when you are broadcasting where you shouldn't and report you very quickly. When I didn't have a license, I would do sketchy stuff. Ever since I got one back in 1997, I've never strayed from what I broadcast out unless I know I can get away with it. Channel 14 on 500mW won't get very far unless the FCC Party Van is parked right next to the house.

Keeping it under a watt should keep most people unaware, as at that power it won't get very far outside your own home. It's the fucknuts who blast at 5W+, which you can get close to with some of the third party firmware gear. And if they are not clean with their wave, it can spill into other channels and critical services. The 5Ghz is pretty narrow with a lot of licensed frequency next to it. That's what the FCC is trying to keep clean.

@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Probably better to zero it out rather than deleting. Just good practice if nothing else.

What do you mean zero it out?

Open it up and delete everything inside.

Here I was thinking you were gonna say this desktop.

@MattSpeller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

They actually do have those vans.

color me suprised I suppose

I know you are more used to the 4chan party van.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-party-van

That would be remote printers, printing locally has a completely different connotation.

I never let people create spoolers from the client. Usually because people are duplicating things over and over and over again with their printers and it gets to be a big mess. Cleaning up queues is my least favorite operator duty.

If you absolutely must setup something like that, better to use a PDF writer. Cleaner, less driver kludges, and you can spin up the spoolers to make it into one single queue instead of the goons spinning up 5 or more printers because they have tons of them at home.

Haven't checked yet, but you should be able to encapsulate the traffic over Pertino for that. Then it's just a matter of having something that will play man in the middle. Of course, popping open a telnet proxy would be easier still.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

You'll need to be worried about AJ Stringham over here

Haven't seen him in a few days.

welcome to the boards, I too have been wondering what happened to AJ

That's my fault. I took him to a strip club, he's still scrubbing off the glitter.

@Reid-Cooper said:

I would be happy to try using Power for projects, but I mostly look to hosted cloud products for computing resources these days when dealing with the Intel world, why would I move back to physical to work with Power?

Because PPC has always been available to "virtualize".

I work with iSeries boxes so this will be AS/400 specific, but they have a function called LPAR. If you need separate instances, all you have to do is partition the system and you have a "new" machine ready to go. This has existed in the AS/400 line for a long time, even before PPC, introduced in V4R4 back in 1998.

Yeah, it's not "virutalized" like you expect x86 to be, but it's effectively the same.

You do know that the console would have given you the answer you seek for the PS command?

The output seems to say that you already set the mailbox to 100MB. Check it before you wreck it with:

Get-Mailbox <identity> | fl MaxSendSize

@Bill-Kindle said:

@PSX_Defector He went out with you and that's all he had to scrub off? glitter?

There's no sex in the champagne room.

AFAIK, that's part of the whole architecture. Kind of hard to change course since these features existed within PPC well before OpenPOWER existed.

Can't seem to find the Redbook on it from IBM though, although keep in mind Rackspace is selling OpenPOWER stuff. I doubt they are buying hundreds of these things and letting the customer at it.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@Dashrender said:

The storage requirement is no joke! I'm currently sitting somewhere around 100 GB. You'll want to make sure you run the cleanup wizard on it monthly or more. The longer you wait to run it, the more it freezes your server and seems to be hung.

Yes to this and Jared's points. Run the cleanup wizard regularly. Not to worry though, you can script this with PowerShell of course.

Also only download updates for products actually in your environment. It will save a ton space if you do that.

That reminds me of an escalation I had from a person from a certain subcontinent.

Hits me up saying that he cannot complete a change, getting an error on install. So read over the notes but since I'm still shaking out my permissions to the environment I asked him to send me a screenshot of the error. He sends me the one for "This update does not apply to this version of Windows" error. He was attempting to install the IA64 version of a Server 2008 R2 patch on an x64 2008 Gold box.

Mind you, this change was supposed to take an hour. He was already on hour three at that point.

F****[moderated] morons.