Posts made by PSX_Defector

@JaredBusch said:

Here is the birthday card my 6 year old ( well she is 6 next week) gave me yesterday.

Are those ladies all in your what I would assume your bed?

Or if you swing that way, coffin.

@Nic said:

Reliable all-in-one printer. Military intelligence. Jumbo shrimp.

Oh, and...

@Nic said:

Reliable all-in-one printer. Military intelligence. Jumbo shrimp.

Lies we tell others.

Check's in the mail.

Just the tip baby.

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:

I wish I could do this for a few clients, but printing from an AS 400 locally won't work over that setup.

Wait, what?

Create spoolers to the local printer, point applications to the spoolers. Then it's just a matter of busting into the network, which can be accomplished via an stunnel.

@scottalanmiller said:

Hopefully you mean IBM System "i". AS/400 was killed off in the 1990s.

We still call it an AS/400. That's what happens when you ingrain a name.

System i, AS/400, it's all good when you call Rochester.

We have a few customers who use Sharepoint for their front end websites. One has cluster of Sharepoint servers, as in 5 or 6 sites a pop behind three servers in a load balancer with two or three SQL instances driving it. I've also worked for a guy who put in Sharepoint sites for lots of people and now he's effectively retired in Tijuana.

Sharepoint can be more than just a repository. As a matter of fact, it's usually a bad choice for a straight up file repository. When you have a large amount of data, the database gets wild and sprawling.

Administering Sharepoint is easy as [moderated]. There isn't much to it. It's the design element and workflow that makes it powerful. The more advanced stuff requires lots of SQL knowledge, as it's all driven through it. The only limit is your imagination.

@JaredBusch said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Anybody have anything fun planned?

Saturday will be at a client implementing trunking and a vlan for public wifi on their core switches.

So what ya gonna do with the other 23 hours of the day?

@Mike-Ralston said:

Widnows 8.1 doesn't support it. Windows 7 is supposed to, but doesn't. We know it worked on XP, but we don't have any liscenses for XP. With the support ending soon, will that be an issue?

I have never heard of any NICs not being supported in Windows. At all. Ever.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php

Considering they have NDIS drivers for the NICs, it's a safe bet it will work in any version of Windows you throw at it. For [moderated] sake, they have legacy drivers for Windows 95.

And the link has RPMs for both RedHat and SuSE.

@Hubtech said:

you're all gonna be jealous, i'm going to a craft beer festival

Big Texas Beer Fest was last weekend. Don't need another.

I'll just go to the brewery instead.

Yeah, kind of strange for a NIC to not be recognized by SuSE. The Realtek NICs are pretty well covered, as are the Intels.

What you got, and have you pulled over an RPM for the driver?

YaST has most of the drivers you would ever need, and some you will never use. Like an ATM adapter or ISDN modem.

If you need something really specific, e.g. Nvidia, you would best roll it into the installer via SuSE Studio.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Guess I should post more, lest all you think I am face down in a ditch covered in rum and stripper glitter.

Why wouldn't we just assume you are in a ditch with a charged phone?

Because the strippers stole it.

Guess I should post more, lest all you think I am face down in a ditch covered in rum and stripper glitter.

The only things I know about interns don't work with high school students.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Keeping it classy. Caddies only look good if they are black and have a little bit of chrome.

BTW, nice touch with the plate on the front. I'm sure some have that reaction when seeing it

That's actually the dealer promo plate.

http://www.jameswood.com

If we didn't require a front plate I would put on my Netherlands plate I got in US format.

She's a 2010 CTS. Would have bought a XTS V-Sport they had, but it's a $65K car and I have an aversion to having a car payment larger than my mortgage.

Oh yeah. A.J. loves it, and hates my truck because it doesn't handle worth a shit.

Bam a lam!

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ChrisJ no, only in the SMB. In the enterprise what you describe is completely unheard of. Jobs a rigidly cordoned off and a network admin touches nothing but routers and switches, unix admins never see windows or routers, desktop techs never touch printers, DBAs literally do nothing but database management, etc.

At what size do Desktop techs stop touching printers? When I worked for West Teleservices (a fortune 500 company) we were responsible for printers too.

I STILL work on printers and I'm not even local.

Damn that giant print server that serves out every single printer in one location.